Let It Go…What?
For the longest time, I didn’t know what the phrase “let it go” actually meant or exactly how to do it. The kind of letting go that involves a conscious choice versus a physical action, can be extremely challenging and scary. Letting go is releasing all doubt, worry, and fear about a situation, person or outcome. It’s releasing anything that disrupts your happiness and no longer serves you on your journey. Letting go is a choice to decide that you will no longer ruminate on things that are out of your control, and focus on what you can control, instead. It’s an internal process that must happen for you to truly feel better and live in a healthy way.
Here are a few tips:
✨ Mind control — Having the power to let go starts in the mind. Making an intentional choice to no longer let certain issues control the mind is what can break the cycle of unhealthy rumination on these thoughts, ideas and feelings.The more we can simply watch our thoughts come and go without attaching our identity to them, the easier letting go becomes.
✨ Getting it all out — Having the ability to express your emotions in a healthy way is another step to processing things before deciding to let them go. A healthy outlet will serve as a form of catharsis and release.
✨ Acceptance — We all want to know why something happen. We believe that we deserve answers. The painful truth is, we don’t always get that “closure” we think we ought to have. Having to move on without closure is no fun, but it’s something many of us will have to do. Fully accepting the situation as it truly is - is the only way to be okay.
✨ Stay present — We must make an effort everyday allow ourselves to enjoy what is unfolding right in front of us. Life is full of many teachers and lessons. Sometimes you will be the teacher, and other times you will be forced to learn a lesson. Everyday we have a choice to keep holding on or chose today to finally let go. Honour where your are on your individual journeys of letting go and know that wherever you are right now, is okay.
🙏🏼 Namaste, K.
