Recently, I dropped a glass and watched as it smashed all over my livingroom floor. As I swept up the mess I began ruminating on possible messages this incident could be giving me. I believe everything happens for a reason. Everything. The first thing that came to my head was, "My cup overfloweth." I remained confused for a few days about this. Normally when I think of this saying, I'm imagining my cup overflowing with love and goodness, which is a good thing right? It occured to me today that your cup can overflow with anything. Perhaps I've always seen the cup as half-full because my own cup has always seemed full to me - even if it was full of shit.
My life has been in super over-drive lately. Dealing with personal medical issues, family issues, relationship issues, children's medical issues, new ventures, education, financial difficulties, unemployment, running a household, spiritual development, trying to establish my community...it's a lot for one person to handle alone. We might say I've got a lot on my plate, or on my shoulders, but we don't usually refer to cups. I suppose the angels were improvising with what was available at that time. I was holding a cup, not a plate. They knew I'd get the message.
So, my question to you is, what does your cup look like? Is your life too full of responsibility? Or partying? Or drama? Or despair? What color do you see in your cup? A little color therapy can assist you with that. I see a kool-aid red in my cup which refers to root chakra issues and my sense of stability in this world, which is exactly what I'm going through at this time.
It's a process of sipping from our cup to empty out that which no longer serves us. When your cup has been full for so long, one has a difficult time adding new things to it because you cannot add to something that is already full. Choose one thing that you would like to empty from your cup and give that priority. It could be an unsatisfying job, desired weight loss, an emotional issue, addiction, any number of things. Work on your time management skills so that you're accomplishing your normal obligations, but giving yourself some daily time to empty this issue from your cup. I'm big on list making and schedules. There have been times in my life where I was so overwhelmed with my overflowing cup that I needed to schedule in showers and sleep. I think the most important thing to emptying your cup is by giving yourself some down-time. Whatever it is you enjoy doing whether it's playing a sport, reading, meditating, taking a hike through the forest, or swimming in the ocean or lake, down-time is essential to recharging. It's like putting your cup in the fridge to chill or reheating your tea. If you've got to drink up, you may as well enjoy doing it.
Once you've had a chance to start emptying your cup, you'll have a sense of having regained some control over your life. It's important not to try and refill our cup with new things once we've emptied some of it out. Many of us are afraid of what it will feel like to not have that drama, that issue, that feeling, that responsibility, so when we start emptying our cup we fill it back up with new things so we don't have to deal with what's at the bottom of that cup - our deepest issues. Naturally, liquids separate and the heavier substances settle at the bottom. It can be some hard stuff to swallow, but the feeling of freedom you experience after dealing with all that thick, heavy sediment is beyond what many of us can imagine. Your other option is to break, like my glass, all over the place. It's much more difficult to pick up a million pieces than it is to sit down and fill yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of what currently fills your cup and leave it empty so it can be filled with all the happy and wonderful things we're so deserving of.
Would you like to sit down and have a cup of tea with me?
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