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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
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