What Does it Really Mean to Let Go?
Recognize and acknowledge how you might be holding yourself back.
It’s far too easy to hold onto negative intangibles. Hurts, fears, hatred, anger, distress, sadness, and on and on. Part of life is that shit happens, and you have no control over vast swaths of this.
There are lots of books, speakers, and articles about why you should let go. Letting go releases you from that pain and suffering. It’s a seemingly simple concept that is surprisingly difficult to work with.
There is also something of a challenge presented by the idea that you can let go but must also remember what you learned. While that’s great in a lot of respects, it also causes an unfortunate paradox that gets in the way of truly letting go.
I’ve struggled with this for a long time now. Despite several years of striving to work with greater mindfulness, self-awareness, and conscious reality creation, there’ve been lots of negative intangibles tied to events in my life that have remained clinging to my psyche. This has caused me a deep-seated sense of unease. I tried to let go, yet found it was still there when something happened connected to the past shit that triggered the negative intangible.
