Letting go can be hard.

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We get used to something or someone being in our life.

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Their absence feels unnatural.

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As if there is now a hole in our life.

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Yet when we focus on the absence we miss what is actually happening in our lives.

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Which is making space for something or someone new to come in.

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Life is a constant flow of beginnings and endings.

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It is only when something has left that there is room for something new to come in.

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Like a bookcase that is full of books.

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If there is no room for another book, how can we add it to our collection?

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Yet if we give away a book or two to a friend, now we have room for another new book.

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It is the same with the people in our lives.

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We can only keep up a close friendship with so many people.

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It takes time and physical presence to create a strong connection.

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If our time is completely taken up with all of our existing friends, how can we make a new one?

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We will naturally spend less time with an old one in order to make room for the new one who just entered our life.

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It is a necessary balancing of our internal and external resources.

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So while we may feel the sting of someone's absence from our life, it is also an opportunity.

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Now that we have some space life can fill it with something new and unexpected.

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In that void is the potential of something greater to be born.

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Such as leaving one's job to start a new business.

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Or moving out of one's home to change one's environment, or town.

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What possibilities await us in what we used to consider a hole?

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Life abhors a vacuum, and will eventually fill that void.

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By keeping our hearts open to new possibilities we leave more room for life to surprise us with something amazing.

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Of course, we will always grieve our losses.

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And we will feel our pain and our heartbreak.

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Yet on the other side of that heartbreak is something new and different.

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Perhaps keeping our minds focused on that part will ease the feelings we are in.

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Do you have a loss in your life that is an opportunity for something new to come in?

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Can you move from the feeling of the loss to the feeling of new possibilities?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour