Treat #68
: Completing in Gratitude
Yesterday morning I woke up with a raucous chorus of actions going through my head and for a few minutes had the thought: Please stop this incessant flow. Then I heard another inner voice speak up: No, don’t stop the flow. I laughed. I know the wise choice is to grab the pen and paper beside my bed and get it all written down. Sometimes though, in the half awake state, I don’t reach for the pen and I suffer the literal backing up of energy inside…otherwise known as pressure.
I was given a powerful view today of the releasing of inner pressure. My client started writing down all his incompletes. This process usually takes 5-10 minutes after which I read a Trigger List to see if there is anything else lurking in their mind that needs completing. That part usually produces a longer list. Today I watched in silence for one hour while my client lovingly downloaded his brain. He filled 11 pages of full-sized paper. We did not speak during this time. I watched in deep gratitude at his willingness to continue listening. He told me that several times he thought—I must be taking too much time to do this—but then he kept waiting to see if there was anything else. And each time more showed up.
I felt honored and moved being in his presence. He had told me at the beginning that he often feels like he has so much to do, but he can never figure out what to do next.
I don’t know of anything that honors one’s self more than to take the time to listen to ourselves all the way to completion.
He also had tears of gratitude experiencing the releasing of the pressure he has been placing on himself by keeping this all in his head. He said often he had started lists, but never had been willing to listen till the list was complete. As he wrote, he felt the pressure dissolving. He understood how he made it so difficult to take action before, there was too much pressure. Now he can look and decide what to choose to do.
His experience put my experience in perspective. Perhaps I won’t groan next time I feel like my mind is giving me too much. I could use a lot more gratitude. How could I not be grateful for a wonderful mind that is abundantly prolific sometimes!!! Gratitude is my new starting point for completing.
Completing in Gratitude might look like this:
1. Start by being grateful that you are receiving the deluge of actions in your head. Gratitude will start releasing the pressure.
2. Write down what your mind is focused on to the last little detail. Listen past the urgency to finish.
3. Then look at what you wrote one-by-one and either declare it complete, do something with it or simply express gratitude for seeing something not seen before (a new thought/revelation). Write down the actions that will take more than two minutes on your Next Action list.
4. Choose what to complete with these steps:
• Stop. Let go of all distraction and place your full attention on the Next Actions list.
• Look. Look with gratitude and acceptance at what is your current reality.
• Listen. Breathe, relax and listen using your intuition to what is aligned for you to do next.
• Act. Begin completing your actions one at a time and be grateful for your willingness to do.
I am deeply grateful for being shown today how to honor what I am being given to do.
Martha Invitations
1. Before you pick up the phone, begin reading emails, etc, bring in gratitude.
2. Thank yourself for being willing to do.
3. Listen as you choose and then listen a little longer before you select.
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