“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.”
―Sharon Salzberg
What resources for resilience have you discovered through giving up control?
3 thoughts on “Relinquishing Control”
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There is a desire by several worship planners to have more contemporary music during Sunday services. I let it happen and accept it even when I don’t know it. It pleases the group I can see and we need to move on musically whenever we can!
I’m a musician and often play in pit orchestras for musicals; currently I’m in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience” in Sacramento. With a large cast and orchestra, supertitles and filming, SOMETHING GOES WRONG WITH EVERY PERFORMANCE!!! So today I told the rest of the orchestra to think about the percentage of notes we might miss in a 2 1/2 hour show. It’s miniscule. And we can’t control anything that happens; we can only focus on our own part. When mistakes happen we concentrate on the next measure and contribute our best to the whole effort. What a great metaphor for life!
I can understand the way you express this idea, Kathryn, Last week, as pianist,I really got our group mixed up when singing a hymn but after, someone came up to me and said “I really liked singing that last hymn!” And so it goes…