The Habit of Letting Go
We all hold many things within ourselves whether it’s our anger, fear, hatred, love and so on. This may have been with us for too long, and it hits us in a way that triggers many past events and its accompanying emotions.
In my understanding, there might be some events that do not bring good experiences in many of us lives. We have probably experienced it in daily lives. We find ourselves between all the emotions, happenings that come to mind which we have been lived and want to repeat, or never forget.
Letting go?
It means anything that is hurtful or may restrict you in any way in your experiences. Letting go simply means that you want to be free of hurt feelings. Don’t we want?
Why our past and its memories come unexpectedly in our mind?
At the level of mind, there is always some painful experiences which comes in our observation and brings pain to us. Sometimes, we feel stuck in our past and all of that comes to our mind, with same pain, anger and fear arises. It’s as if the same story runs in our mind where we felt stuck last with the same emotions what we’ve already experienced.
We identify ourselves with our past and expect them that should have been happened or not. We clarify many things in our mind. Or may be satisfying ourselves by evaluating the facts which we only believe right according to us. By doing this, we always live our entire lives in the past. Don’t we?
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In short, we may say that the more you struggle with the past or its memories, emotions the stronger it becomes.
Then, how can we find a way to let go of past emotions, thoughts and pain?
There is need to acknowledge what you have gone through. In doing so, you may find out what you’re having trouble with.
Further, we take too seriously our bad experiences and their accompanying pain, emotions and anxiety without knowing that our past is actually dead and can’t be changed by going in the past.
Can’t we see ourselves from the present situation which has changed from our past.
We need to recognize and focus on the infinite possibilities of our existence. What can be done at present and how we can create our lives as we want and may be in some better way.
To have a great deal of intelligence in order to realise that anything enters to mind, including prior memories, occurrences, emotions and many other things, it’s just a thought. Knowing the fact that its just a thought in your mind can help you to let go of it completely.
It may be possible only acknowledging them rather finding ways to escape them.
The more you feel lighter about your past emotions or pain the more easily you will be able to let them go.
