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For the People Who Can’t Seem to Let Go
I am someone who loves to hold on. I have a hard time letting go of people and situations and ideas that are not meant for me. I will stubbornly attack a problem until it is completed even when I need a break. Let’s just say I have a lot of unrequited love stories and learning to rest is an ongoing process.
To that end, sometimes we bypass our emotional experience to avoid it, cultivating this flimsy, superficial version of happiness and well being BUT sometimes we dig in our heels and refuse to let go to be able to let in the joy, abundance and wellbeing that is available to us.
Letting go is hard, right? There’s safety in familiarity even when it hurts us and does not support the person we want to be and the life we want to live. While letting go is an embodied thing, where you have to first feel and be aware of what needs to be released it is also an actionable thing. You have to consciously give something up.
Which…to someone who struggles with exactly that, has always been really hard for me, but my perspective is slowly starting to shift because of one question posed by Manoj D. in his breathwork class, Letting Go, on the Open app:
“What would it feel like to let go?”
What would it feel like? That question turned the whole idea of letting go on its head for me, because…
