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Notes on Letting
Go - by Lionheart
Labelling a feeling as unwanted or inappropriate, is resisting the feeling
and that tends to cause the feeling to persist. If there is one secret in
life, this is it!
Don't assign a feeling to hidden, unknown causes or label a feeling as
unwanted.
Enjoy, welcome feelings, allow them to just be there. Grief is wonderful
and is a blessing of the universe. Anger is an exciting fairground ride of
life!
There is no past. Memories of it are in the present, now.
There is no future and imaginings of it are only in the present.
There is only now. The present is a gift from the universe to you, a
present indeed. A miracle. You are truly alone in the now. Alone. Al-One.
All One! Perfect, present and nothing is amiss. There can therefore be no
mis-emotion, because you are present and gifted with life! When you want
to cry, allow it and all will be well, how could it be otherwise? There is
nothing we need to "handle" except the idea that we need to "handle"
something. Once we have the super realisation that there is nothing to
handle, then we've become free!
If we ever feel there is something to handle we can allow, release, let
go, or whatever it takes to realise that there is nothing to handle. Every
philosophy from Vedic teachings to Christ and Krishnamurti said the same
thing. It is no secret.
Suppose there is no past or future, just suppose there is only "Now" (as
per Eckhart Tolle).
"Now", I feel sad about the argument I had with someone. The argument
isn't here, the memory and feelings associated with it are now and that IS
all there is. There is no argument, just thoughts, images and feelings
about it. That's all there is. And this argument is troubling me NOW. I'm
holding onto it and can't release it.
Perhaps it helps me to hold onto it, or perhaps I'm resisting it and
therefore making it stay. Now and Now and Now. The person I argued with
isn't creating it now, I am.
Releasing it from Now is done by allowing the feelings to be there, or
letting them go or welcoming them or deciding I don't need to change how I
feel, or by realising the feeling is there because it satisfies a want or
need or desire and letting that want go.
If it releases, it isn't here now. So where is it? Really, seriously where
is it? It is nowhere, nowhen because there only is here and now, there is
no then or there.
"Ah, but it might come back," you say. So what? Let it go again. "Ah but
it keeps re-occurring and I'm sick of it, I want to erase it for good,
forever, permanently."
Well apart from the fact that there is no "permanent", there is no "for
good" - there is only now. There is still something you can do. If it
re-occurs and that bothers you, stop trying to stop it! Let it come back.
or ask what does that feeling satisfy? What are you lacking that it
fullfills?
The same releasing process will release it and one-now you realise it is
not there! It is rather ironic that letting go or releasing is perfectly
natural and we all do it dozens or hundreds of times a day. We just don't
notice it!
Handling anything that is not here now, is pointless, literally - there is
no point to handle! The more letting go you do, the less letting go there
is to do. Life provides you with plenty to allow and one glorious day you
are at one with life and all is well, just as it always was!
If you want more advice on how to let go, you can contact me through this
site or by email at
info@allowing.net
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