28/08/2024
It's been a busy past couple of weeks with clients, teaching classes, starting a poetry class at Kent State and doing homework. getting together with friends, and taking time to read.
The book I'm almost finished with is "The Well-Lived Life. A 102-year-old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness.
One chapter talks about letting go of thoese things not serving us. That being open to life sometimes means turning away things that no longer serve us. A simple no thank you to whatever it is.
She said her mother taught them how to let go with a hand gesture. She would make the gesture and say "Kutch par wa nay." It was Hindustani for "it doesn't matter." It enabled her to move through challenges releasing what wasn't working and refocus on what was important to her and move on.
So these are instructions for the hand gesture and an excercise to go with it that was in the book:
1. First start with movement in your body. As you move your body, think about something that feels stuck (or that no longer serves you). It could be a professional or personal endeavor, a way of thinking, a resentment, an identification, etc.
2. Now imagine you can hold this stuck thing in your hand and hold it.
3. While moving, hold your hand in front of you, palm up with fingers together. Then drop it down and back, opening your fingers slightly. Let the weight of your arm bring your hand down; let life itself move. As you do so, relelase the stuckness like "flowers to the water." Really let go. Then say "Kutch par wa nay" or any similar phrase you want to use.
4. Once you've let go, take a moment to appreciate the flow of life moving through you. This is your life force. Honor and cherish it.
"Kutch par wa nay"
