The Art of Letting Go |
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We all have anger, regret, resentments that continue to haunt us.
We mistakenly believe that letting go lies in changing these thoughts and emotions.
But it is our behaviors that keep these in place. Focus Instead on changing your behaviors in the present.
You have undoubtedly heard this before—from friends, family, or even yourself, who say: I just wish I could let it go! The “it” may be anger, resentment, or regret; things that erupt from the past, some emotional creature or situation that was never put to rest and continues to haunt them or you, creating obsessive thoughts and painful feelings that run like an undertow in their or your lives, steadily dragging their victims down.
We envision the process of letting go as being like a helium balloon we’ve been clutching for so long, and finally, somehow, we release our grip, and it floats away out of mind forever.
Or, if you think of letting go as a personal campaign you have to work out, make happen, the image is more like wrestling with some 400-pound creature that you need to shove out the........