Take your hand for a moment and pull it into a tight fist. It could be either hand, right or left, doesn't matter. Just take one of your hands and pull it into a tight fist. It could be either hand, right or left. Doesn't matter. Just take one of your hands

and pull it into a ball, holding your knuckles really tight. Your fingers are tightly curled into your

palm so that nothing can slip through your grasp. How does that feel? How long do you think you can hold your fist tightly? Now, relax that

hand that you had tightly clenched. Unfurl your fingers so that you can see your palm. First,

notice the feeling of this open palm,

just gently resting versus that clenched fist.

Now look at your palm.

Look at your hand.

And all that you can hold,

if only we won't cling to only what is.

Just as when we clinch our fists tightly, when we close our mind or let our mind race with our

well-intentioned goal of finding a solution to a problem we need to

solve, the actual solutions, what is really needed, cannot be grasped yet. What is needed isn't with us

at the moment, because if it were, there wouldn't be a problem to solve.

The solution lies outside of what already is and has been done.

We have yet to experience it, and the only way to be introduced is to let go of demanding

and searching, and instead pause. The pause creates the space for what is

needed. It creates room for the new ideas to enter, and they will do so on their own timeline.

So, in the meantime, we need to open our hands and relax into our present moment.

What we need to do is breathe deeply, and meditation teaches us how. We meditate not to find the answers,

but to practice being still and to disengage with our

thoughts. This holds our mind open to see them clearly, but not engage with them until we are ready

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