We hear it everywhere, “just let it go.” Yet no one really tells us how to do that. We hold onto our pain and our suffering as if it were a life raft keeping us afloat. We do this mainly because we were never taught how to “let it go.” I mean, if something is causing us pain and we could drop it as easily as “let it go” sounds, don’t you think we’d have done that already?
The irony is that to let something go, we don’t get there by pushing it away or cutting it off. If letting it go is hard it’s because this emotion, this thought, this feeling that we cannot escape is part of us. Lobbing it off is like removing one of our appendages. To understand the pain, we must learn to listen instead of running away or trying to amputate it. Instead, letting it go is about leaning into it. Feeling it. Allowing it. Accepting it.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. ~Rumi
unfiltered from the heart 
It’s not easy at all but it is possible. Then again, nothing valuable or necessary is easy. ❤️
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Yes, so true all around Rita! The challenge I keep finding is remembering to lean into it instead of pushing away or running away. Love to you! ❤️
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But you keep trying and you keep moving. That’s a beautiful thing, T. Love right back ❤
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I do my best 😉 thank you! ❤️ it’s great to have friends like you to remind me!
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Your best is OUTSTANDING ❤️💋
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Thank you! It always looks good from the other side! Lol. ❤️😘
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This is so very true.
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Thank you! It was not an easy realization. Hope you are well!
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You’re welcome. x
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❤️
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I needed this today. Tank you for sharing.
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Glad you found it helpful and timely! The struggle is in the struggle….
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Wow, this so resonated with me Tiffany. You’re right, letting go is not easy at all, it takes time and we have to accept first before we can move forward. Hope you’re doing well my friend. xo
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Glad you like it, Miriam! Yes, I’m mostly well. Just been quiet. Xo
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Nice to hear from you Tiffany. Nothing wrong with quiet 💕
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Thank you. Sometimes I feel bad.
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You shouldn’t!
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I know… Still happens tho 🙂
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I have a theory here tiffany, bit reasoning stuffed but I hope I may make a point.
I think letting go is tough just because of our thinking. Our mind is a survival machine, it’s nature is like that.
So. Anything material or worldy becomes a cause for suffering, the reason being we start giving it energy through our thoughts, words and actions which go deep in our unconscious and create samskaras (Habits) these leads to ego buildup due to constant fixation on it and relating it to me, mine.
This ultimately leads to delusion, which is why we make it so hard to let it go.
Maybe smoking, alcohol, mobile all are same.
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Yes! I agree. The addiction is still addiction. The ego likes to create a false hierarchy so that we can say we’re better than someone else…
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