You are probably wondering what I mean by letting go, and how can it benefit you.
This is a wonderful technique that allows us to let go of our negative feelings and let go of the blocks to feel positive ones.
What is letting go?
We tend to repress and surpress (un-consiouniss), and use escapism whit our feelings and emotions, mostly negative ones but sometimes even postitive ones.
We beliave that if we don’t look at it, it is not ours and it will not manifest. However this is far from the truth, when we refuse to own our emotions and feelings, those feelings take even more space in our life and manifest in our life and relationships, consiously or un-conciously.
If we instead own our emotion or feeling, and surrender to our emotions, look at them in the front, whitout any intention of changing or modifying it, and let them run it’s course, they will eventually be relinquished.
Let me give you an example:
Let’s say that you tend to disown your feelings of anger and resentment towards our boss. You repress and supress those feelings, and when you get home you directly turn on the TV and order Uber eats, anything so you don’t have have to confront those feelings or know what it feel’s like to be you whitout any distraction.
It’s evident that avoiding them will not make them disappear, in fact, you will find yourself getting angry and resentful more than ever when someone looks at you in a mean way, when the traffic light is red, etc. It’s clear that it’s not the traffic light that made you angry. That was simply the drop that made the cup overflow, and since you live constantly with our cup full, anything makes you angry.
The solution is to let go. After owing the feelings and letting go of them, we will see that our propensity to get angry will no longer be there, and our relationship with our boss might change, We might see a frightened boss, having a lot of worries and unable to think whit clarity, and we might have love for he instead.
How to let go?
The solution is to confront our feelings of anger and resentment, without any intention of changing or modifying them, and simply be with them, as long as needed, and eventually those feelings will vanish, all feelings are temporary.
David R. Hawkins in his book “Letting Go”, doesn’t give a clear answer about how to let go. The way I do it is I sit with myself and try to disengage my mind and thoughts and focus and the feelings and sensations that arise when I try to surrender to that emotion or blocking. I will simply be with them for a bit of a while without trying to change, manipulate, or repress them. Allowing myself to experience them fully, and they all vanish eventually. Contrary to our mind’s belief that our feelings are ours and permanent.
A feeling of lightness, freedom, and peace always comes after that. Sometimes there is still more to let go since we have been repressing and suppressing so much of it. So we let go little by little.
"Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it."
What are the benefits?
The benefits of letting go of negative feelings and our blocks to positive ones are more creativity, more freedom since we aren’t run by our feelings in our unconscious anymore, more joy, better relationships, and a more significant and effortless capacity to give and receive love.
I want to learn more, where can I do that?
If you want to learn more about letting go and this technique, I recommend reading the book “Letting Go – The Pathway of Surrender, by David R. Hawkins”, he explains in more detail what, how, and why letting go can have a wonderful impact.
Thank you for reading along with me, and hope you have a great rest of your day! 🙂
– Idris Moura.
