All Metaphysics

Happiness is knowing when to let go! Ok, so maybe that isn’t a saying but I’m saying it! If I’ve learned anything over the years it’s that we cause ourselves great discomfort and undue pain by not being able to let go. Letting go of anything is what I’m referring to. Small stuff, big stuff, material stuff, emotional stuff, doesn’t matter. Knowing what it is that holds you in it’s grip and then learning how to let go, that’s power!

I decided to stop keeping crap. Just like that, one day I decided that I was married to old stuff I had around the house and garage and it really didn’t make me happy or feel any safer because I owned all of it. Actually, it made me feel a sense of responsibility and a nagging feeling of being unorganized. Once I started clearing it all out I felt so relieved and free! Granted there were a couple times I thought I had something to use only to remember that I no longer did, but I was able to borrow it from a friend and everything was just fine.

That’s on the material level but it was also on a big scale seeing as I had stuff from my home I’d had over 25 years ago, my parents old stuff and an accumulation of “cool” stuff that I just had to have at one time or another. What I learned the most out of this big change was the feeling of complete freedom that came from completing this project. I stopped saying yes to taking old stuff from my family, I stopped collecting “cool” stuff unless it had a place to go and I never looked back or felt burdened anymore by stuff.

Emotionally we can carry this same kind of “stuff” with us. Old stresses from that house you lived in as a kid, collections of behaviors and beliefs you got from your family and cool stuff you identify with but have certainly outgrown or is no longer cool! See how I did that? It resonated with me and I think many of you will feel that.

Letting go of the emotional baggage is something that seems super hard and like it will be way too much pain in exploring, however, it really doesn’t have to be. Let’s experiment and say you want to let go of that feeling you have for your worst enemy…maybe a past or current co-worker that was/is just a devil to deal with and to this day, maybe years later, you still have those same feelings rise up even when you just hear their name. Now feel that feeling and decide where in your body you feel it. Your chest? Throat? Gut? Find it and let it fester there a minute, then squeeze something in your hand like a rock or a small object that might feel uncomfortable to squeeze.

Squeeze the object really tight and imagine that represents that feeling in your body and as it becomes uncomfortable in your hand decide if you’re ready to release that feeling. Keep squeezing and answer, when are you ready to release it? Now? Once you are ready to release it then relax your hand and see if that feeling is gone from your body. This is a releasing method called the Sedona Method and it is very efficient in helping us release this kind of emotional baggage. This is just one tool of releasing, there are more.

Try this Sedona Method of release and see what happens for you, if you want more guidance in releasing and letting go, I would love to help with that! Don’t carry around anything that brings you misery. As we all know, we will have trials and tribulations all through our lives, let’s not bring old ones with us as we go.