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02-07-2013, 01:26 AM
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I need some insight on the concept "letting go"...
I suppose that the concept of "letting go" is for most of you here an elementary process, but I find it very difficult to understand in a spiritual context. The only idea I can correlate to is literally letting go of an object i.e. dropping it. How do you apply such things to experiences? I don't think I can let go because I feel that my seemingly inhuman ability to recollect and remember things precludes that, I would have thought that letting go is a way of saying that you forget about something. But what is letting go if it isn't forgetting something? Could someone explain this "letting go" concept in spirituality to me in simple, relatively logic-based terms?
Thank you for your time.
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02-07-2013, 03:51 AM
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I wouldn't say it is forgetting about it, at least that is not the crux of it. I would say that it is more about releasing your emotional attachment to it. If we use the same analogy as your letting go of an object, view that which is holding on to the "something" as your emotions. The emotions in this case would be your hand.
Now as far as I can see there are three ways of letting go of something. Maybe you forget about it and unconsciously you loosen your grip and it slips from your hand. Or someone or something knocks it from your hand forcing you to let go. Or you consciously make the decision to let go.
Consciously deciding to loosen your emotional grip (attachment) on something would, spiritually speaking, no doubt be the practice of "letting go" that you are inquiring about. Some think we do not have the ability to control our emotions in such a way be we most definitely do. To be able to do it most definitely takes time and practice and the particulars of it would make a books worth (or more) of discussion. :)
~Naddread~
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02-07-2013, 06:18 AM
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* Letting go * mean you need some place to breathe , a place to rest.
You can hear and and see so much in this world if you take everything at
the same time you would have what i call * An overflow *
When there is too much going on it's hard to concentrate and also hard
to get a clear picture of what is really going on .
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XShNSmaNGE
1:19:20 to 1:20:20
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02-07-2013, 08:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kangarus
I suppose that the concept of "letting go" is for most of you here an elementary process, but I find it very difficult to understand in a spiritual context. The only idea I can correlate to is literally letting go of an object i.e. dropping it. How do you apply such things to experiences? I don't think I can let go because I feel that my seemingly inhuman ability to recollect and remember things precludes that, I would have thought that letting go is a way of saying that you forget about something. But what is letting go if it isn't forgetting something? Could someone explain this "letting go" concept in spirituality to me in simple, relatively logic-based terms?
Thank you for your time.
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Letting go can mean covering a hurtful experience with a blanket of love n light or booze or drugs or deceptions, whatever works, and (try) to forget about it. Then it only festers and grows within, until it resurfaces again.
Maybe there's another way....decide that every experience we may have no matter how painful, might contain a valuable lesson, something we needed to learn in order to evolve spiritually. Now some experiences may be brutal...and maybe there's no caring God out there and maybe it's all **. And maybe it doesn't matter...and maybe what really matters is what WE decide to do with our lives. We can for example turn and face a wound and all the reasons it happened, heal it, and then move on, releasing from a point of love and understanding. Or we can pretend it doesn't exist and look the other way, until of course the wound causes more pain, because it was always there.
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02-07-2013, 10:22 AM
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letting go is simply dropping that which you carry through your life, be it something from the past, hatred, jealousy, resentment......its realizing that what you are dragging is holding you back from truly living.
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02-07-2013, 07:37 PM
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Some posts here resonate with my experience, the letting go - you don't forget what happened, you don't deny the existence or the results or how things are.
As Naddread says it is about releasing the "emotional attachment".
As soon as that goes, then you can hold onto the event and look at it as if it were - just as it is - just as it was - and is no more.
You give it as much importance or unimportance as you wish, it presses not a single raw nerve or a single button in your psyche. It is, as if you were watching a movie or a play about someone else and you can see the part that you play - as well as others - and the only reaction is "oh" and you then have your attention diverted by a fly or something of equal unimportance.
Or you can think about the event / person all day and may be smile and maybe frown, but the emotions do not linger.
There are lots of things you can do to help with the letting go - cord cutting is very effective, time is a healer, learning to take responsibility for one's own part in a situation is importance - and ultimately - acceptance. Acceptance that what happened - it just was as it was. And so it is.
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02-07-2013, 08:22 PM
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I agree with the idea brought up by a few people here that "letting go" is about emotional attachment though it surely means different things to different people.
How to do that imo is to truly love yourself unconditionally. When you are able to reach that place you don't need anything because you are whole and complete. It's not that you won't enjoy things but you don't need them because you are fulfilled. You can simply allow people, things etc to flow into and out of your life.
The catch is that it's a rare individual who truly does this at the current moment but I feel it's where we're all headed.
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02-07-2013, 09:33 PM
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I am going to agree with what has been said. I usually give it some thought sit on it sleep on it. Give it some times to breath. If you have not accepted it to let it go. Then it would be time for a change.
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03-07-2013, 04:32 AM
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Sometimes the inability to let go can make a person anxious and, ultimately, more attached to the issue.
As tealtwist says, breathe.
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03-07-2013, 09:51 AM
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Letting go can simply mean letting it be.
Simply stop controlling something going on, let it take it's own course.
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