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Let Go and Let It Flow
Flowing water ensures a pond and its inhabitants, a fresh, clean living environment. A pond of water that does not let in new water either dries up or becomes stagnate. Anything that comes in contact with this stagnate water suffers, whether it is plants, animals or people. Just as the pond must allow in new water for a healthy survival of its surroundings, a person must let go of the bad things (bad water so to speak) in their life.
By letting go of the stagnate or toxic things in life, it allows us free hands to take hold of wonderful new things like opportunity, possibility, and positivity. We, humans can only handle so much, so why hold onto problems or unnecessary baggage of the past instead of the opportunities we are presented with each and every day? Tomorrow is done and there is no magic eraser to undo what has been done. Today is a new day.
Hanging onto a life full of chaos, to the past or even toxic people can be draining, not to mention can lead to illness and disease. Many studies have shown that anxiety, grief, worry, anger, fear and other negative emotions go hand in hand with things like high blood pressure, cancer, and heart disease. Someone holding on tightly to these emotions doesn’t have the energy or room in their life for anything new, especially if it has already manifested into an illness. Getting a grip on more positive healthy emotions has worked wonders. It renews not only the mind and spirit but the body as well.
To best describe what holding on in a physical sense, try this little Letting Go exercise I call “Hanging On”:
Here are a few items you need: a small object such as a rock or bottle cap, and a quarter or some other form of money.
Now, pick up the small object and place in the middle of your hand. Close your hand around it and squeeze tight. Hold onto it tightly and don’t let go of it just yet. The first thing you may notice is the pressure you feel. Soon you will see your knuckles turn white as the blood circulation is cut off. By holding on to this tiny item, you can feel the pressure, and possibly pain if you chose an irregular shaped object and gripped on too tightly. What you may not know is that because you have cut off the normal blood flow, your circulatory system is not working as it did before, running through your hand and fingers and back out as easily. Without letting go or loosing your hold of this item, try picking up, with the same hand, the money. Since you had your hand around the object, you probably found it difficult if not impossible to pick up any money.
If you constantly held onto this object day in and day out in this manner you would start to see some other issues arise. By not letting go, you basically lose use of your hand and fingers. Soon, your grip on the item would start causing other problems physically as well as how you go about your daily routines.
Now, open your hand, palms up, without dropping the object. Just by opening up your hand, you release the blood back into it and any pain and pressure that resulted is relieved. Even though at this point you wouldn’t have to put the object away to pick up the money with your fingers, it certainly would make it easier. Besides, by freeing your hand from the object you leave room in your hand for something else.
In this exercise, the small object represents the issues we have in our life that we hold onto while the money represents the things we want to add value to our life. It’s important to take a look at what object, emotion, or issue from the past that is being held too tightly, causing us pain, discomfort and little room for something more valuable.
Hanging onto the past, negative emotions, and toxic people have the essentially the same effect as holding onto the small object but on a much larger scale. By not letting go or changing things we cut off the ability to pick up other opportunities while creating other problems and pains as a result.
Learning to “let go” is so vital to survival and/or success of not only yourself but those who depend on you. If you have been going head to head with chaos during the day, then brought it home with you, it affects your mood and your time with your loved ones and anyone else you come in contact with along the way while you keep it. How often are you too tired or angry from the days events, from work or the commute to have quality time for what awaits you when you arrive home? What event in your past keeps you from partaking in today’s experience?
Telling my self or someone else to let go and how to do it is the easy part. The application of that counsel is where courage, self esteem, and discernment need to present themselves to succeed in the actual learning and acceptance of the message presented. It’s up to you what or who you pick up and hold onto or what you choose to let go in your life. I may have advised you to try the exercise above but ultimately you did or didn’t try it.
You are creating your life. You choose what you are going to pick up, hold on to and what to release. You also choose how much it affects you and those around you with your words, emotions and actions. Even if you can’t see your way to let certain things go right now, at least loosen your grip on them. Once you take a moment to recognize what you cling to and how firmly you hang on to it, you will be better able to decide if it needs to go and what can be of more value to you in its place. Value doesn’t just apply to money. You determine what has consequence, whether it is positive people, peace, happiness, love, belief, self confidence, or anything you regard are worth so much more to hold. Take an inventory of what you are carrying that is preventing you from flowing freely through your day or your tasks at hand.
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This is a very interesting article. I loved the exercise presented on “letting go”. I think this could be published in a woman’s magazine or health magazine. The only thing I would change, would be the allusion in the beginning to “the pond”. Although I understood it’s reference to stagnation, I felt since the whole article was about letting go, it was a bit out of place. Maybe if you mentioned it again later in the article it would seem more cohesive. Besides that, I really loved the entire article and felt as though I was reading something very unique.
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