Make it happen, let it happen

Do you remember the Eastern idea of yin and Yang that we were all fascinated with in the 70’s? Well this idea of Make it happen, let it happen, comes out of that…sort of.

With the yin and yang thing, we are looking at the feminine and the masculine aspects in everything and many oracles use these 2 principles  to explain many usually unknowable events.

Make it happen, and let it happen are about the way we move through our lives. I’m mainly a let it happen man. By this I mean that I’m not particularly ambitious, and just allow myself to float along with much that is going on. But not everything. In my emotions, judgments of life and people around me, I have plenty of opinions and no one could say that in these aspects I am doing much letting it happen, at all.

So while it appears that descriptions of Making it happen, and  Letting it happen are very good at showing up the kind of energy you often use in every day life, it might be wrong to decide that you are strongly one way or the other at first glance. You have to think about it a bit.

There is even a meditation you can try. It’s a walking meditation where you decide if at the moment, you are pushing as you walk or just strolling along. You could try this on the stuff that is there in your thinking. I think it is quite hard to notice the way you make thoughts in your mind, as apposed to letting other thoughts come and go.

I found when I started doing this exercise years ago, that there seemed to be a rhythm in making it happen and letting it happen, that happened all by itself. And that all of life, if you were to pay attention to the moments, would do this dance for you.

Also and this is the point of it all, is this…we human beings are either making it happen or letting it happen, but out of balance. In fact sleeping might be a good example for us to think about, in that we mostly decide that we will go to sleep after TV, food, A good night out, whatever, rather than when we feel the urge to sleep.

We so often make things happen or let them happen around us according to some other human based activity. Tired? Well tough, you’ve got to go to work. Hugely active and engaged in your life, but have a slight feeling of wanting to put your feet up and disengage for a bit, but let it slide and then get stuck in…cause it’s important.

These urges and feelings of Make it happen, let it happen are often dismissed, or missed completely from sight, and they might lead in the extreme to “Things going wrong”, “Things entirely out of balance”, out of wack, huge disturbances and chaos of every kind.

We may even use  “Make it happen, let it happen” as an explanation for the environmental and economic crises that we are in the middle of. What if having plundering the world for a couple of hundred years [Make it happen], and not letting the Earth take a break [Let it happen] has let to the general weird scariness.

And now the balance is perhaps asserting itself again. Having too much of one aspect and not the other brings the other towards you, much like a stone just released from a sling shot. Remember those?

Health matters could be considered in this light…too much living one aspect. Today we do so much. We are so busy….Maybe? Only you can decide. If it’s too much or too little, you might come to know it by taking note of when a urge for the opposite has risen. It pays to pay attention. 

Paul