Letting Go Is Harmony With Nature’s Principles

One of the things I do each week is volunteer as an Emergency Medical Technician in my town for two consecutive twelve hour shifts. This week I did three of them.

I am usually a crew chief for a four person crew consisting of two drivers and two EMTs. At the moment our squad has a surplus of drivers and the doubling up of them is a form of training.

When I began the Master Key Experience (MKE) last September/October, I was also breaking in a new crew. At first I missed the partner I had been with for nearly ten years. Working with him was a habit that felt comfortable and familiar.

But over time I grew in gratitude for my new female partner, who although she was almost a brand new EMT (and slightly my elder) was well-trained and gifted and confident in her skills, while I had nearly twenty years of experience.

I see my job as training her to do everything I do, because that is the kind of squad member we need. She has already been elected our squad Secretary. I can see she is a phenomenal addition to our membership. I love that she is willing to learn and do nearly everything.

As I mentioned, I have been on the squad for twenty years, with only the last two doing double shifts. Most of the time I have felt I was lacking something until this year since I have been working through the MKE.

I think I am a better EMT because of MKE and it’s because I have developed a better understanding of people and how they ought to be treated.

I’ve been noticing that over the last six months I have a new way of understanding the way life works and how to understand people. When a person’s role is as a team leader, it is important to notice each person including their qualities, their virtues, what they contribute and to the extent you are able to point out and recognize all these things.

We have been encouraged to look for qualities we admire in others, and in that awareness we learn that we also possess the virtues we are capable of noticing. The process of taking notice and communicating what we notice enhances the quality and the result is that everyone can grow because the first person noticed something. This principle has so much potential for change in a group.

At least once since the beginning of 2025 I felt my old blueprint beginning to take over and dictate my response to a crew situation, but those things resolved on their own, overriding my activated old blueprint, because I LET GO OF WHAT I NO LONGER NEEDED.

Wow. That’s one of the major things I am supposed to be figuring out: what is it that is holding me back? What am I holding on to which I no long need that is keeping me from my dream?

We don’t have what we want because we are holding onto things we don’t need and at various points in our journey we recognize that and must choose to leave them behind (although if we are lucky we may not notice it happening on its own as in my example).

In some cases, what we leave behind can be our old blueprint, the ineffective activities of our life that keep us from reaching our definite major purpose or goal.

We are to be like each of the trillions of seedlings whose first leaves naturally outgrow their usefulness to the plant and drop off thereby allowing all growth efforts to focus on the true leaves, flowers and fruit. We grow into our purpose in harmony with this principle of life.

See more about what I have learned in my Master Key Experience by clicking here.