If You Want To Let Go. Then STOP Trying TO. ( How To Let Go Of ANYTHING )

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Let’s say you are holding a remote to control and you’re holding it tight so tight that if you got pushed down the stairs it would still be in your hand now to actually hold this remote it takes effort correct that takes the energy and activity to hold onto it

In other words you have to try to hold the remote to hold the remote but what do you have to try to do to Let It Go nothing you don’t have to do anything to let it go because Letting Go isn’t something you can do what’s happening is you stop trying to

Hold on to it but to stop holding on to it that doesn’t take effort and what happens naturally from not trying to hold on is the letting go of the remote you see it takes no effort to let go it only takes effort and energy to hold on

And you can try this right now grab anything near you notice how in order to hold it you have to try and if I say Let It Go it takes no effort force or energy for the letting go of that object to be let go of You have to notice that experientially because the mind will try to spin it and say that it does take effort to let go or there is something you’re doing to let go but you’re not doing anything but no longer trying to hold on letting go is a natural result of not holding on

Anymore The falling of the remote didn’t come from you trying to let go it came from no longer trying to hold it so let’s take this analogy and apply it to thought and emotions and it works the same way for everything let’s say a negative thought arises it has your attention at your first

Instinct is now to try to get it to go away you begin to look for practices you may even try replacing that so-called negative thought with a positive one but for some reason it continues to arise and disturb you now what actually going on is you are holding on to it maybe you

Don’t even realize it but there actually may be a fear of letting that thought go because of the attachment you grew towards it maybe it’s a thought that is pretty common to you it’s maybe a narrative of the past that triggers guilt or shame or it may be a

Fear of the future that triggers fear anxiety worry or the loss of control and you have been holding on to this thought or narrative or belief for so long it can sometimes feel impossible to let go of but that’s obviously not true you can let go of anything I promise

But the only reason or I’ll say the main reason why you can’t seem to let it go is because you think letting go of it is something you have to do or maybe you don’t realize yet that holding on to whatever this is isn’t helping you

You have to be honest notice how the body feels when you’re holding on to something but to let go all that’s needed honestly is to realize that letting go is natural it’s 100 percent natural it’s always happening regardless if you want it to or not when a thought arises it goes

Away and another one Rises it’s born and then it dies simultaneously you can truly never hold on to it just like an experience when an experience arises it dies the moment you try to hold on to it it’s not there anymore and it can feel so difficult to allow

Letting go to happen actually because of how much we have the tendency to cling we think we have to hold on to certain things so that our future safer something but that’s doing nothing but making you resist the natural flow of life itself which causes suffering when you cling

You can feel it it has a sensation to it it’s not really a thought the sensation could be in the head or in the chest wherever it is for you you know the experience of clinging begin to notice that sensation the moment it arises notice how it doesn’t

Feel good in the body to cling to need to hold on toe and once again don’t force it to go anywhere don’t try to let go of it the letting go of it is already happening so instead of grabbing onto what’s naturally trying to flow be the

Flow that you already are see how letting go is always happening always five seconds ago is gone the moment is born and the moment it’s born it’s dead you can’t capture this moment and hold on to it unless you use take a picture or record it that’s what those are made

For to capture the moment but you can’t do that because it’s always flowing they actually isn’t a present moment here’s just presence and presence is a flow it’s not one particular moment even if you try to think about this moment you can’t because it’s gone the moment you think about it

You can only experience presence you can only go with the flow I’ll give another analogy one you may have heard of before but we are as like a river flowing Downstream it’s a flow now sometimes rocks fall into this River let’s call those Rocks Our attachments thoughts emotions Concepts identities Etc

And most times you want to hold on to those rocks we want to follow them to see where they’re going we want to figure out why it’s here and what to do with it we even identify as some of these rocks and this takes our attention off of what

We really are it takes our attention off of our natural flow and because we have made it a habit to pay so much attention to those rocks we forget about our nature as the flow we forgot so much that we think we have to do something to

Get back to being that flow because we aren’t having too much fun with these rocks anymore we think we have to throw these rocks out of the stream so that we can get back to just flowing with the stream again but you’re already and you never stopped being that flow

And that flow never stopped happening it’s always flowing you don’t have to do anything to flow because it’s always naturally happening you only have to do something to hold on even the attempt to push something away is still trying to do something it’s still a form of attachment

So when you want to let go of something first stop wanting because you don’t have to know that letting go is already happening and instead of being the Rocks stay as the flow and watch the Rocks pass there’s nothing wrong with them until you pick it up and hold on toe too

And try to figure out what it is and what to do and what it means let it go you are the flow of life itself be that focus and value that more than what appears and sometimes there will be rocks that want to stick around longer

Than other ones and that’s okay and it’s very understandable this whole process of Awakening and healing is energetic honestly so have patience build patience you have an opportunity to be patient every day and you may have to let go of the same thing 10 times before a true

Release of its energy goes away forever but it’s all worth it