Reader round-table — Letting go
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Letting go means to trust |
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Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 |
 Toby Wallace
The nature of the 'ego' is to desperately hold on, like a wild dog. People clutch at their sense of self, wanting vehemently to defend it, to justify themselves, their right to be respected, loved, to be valid... and yet all freedom lies in the opposite: letting go.
It's the hardest thing to do, and the most bountiful option on hand. It goes against every tendency of the egocentric self. We have been trained by society to gather things, collect objects, bind our marriages with commitments of law; we struggle to trust our children as individuals, we hold them in the nest quite tightly... it's a funny thing!
We hold on because there is very little in our worldly experience that suggests we shouldn't do that. People trust their instincts, and their empirical wisdom comes from the past. We only hold on because we fear to lose something. We think that to lose something is not as good as to keep it. We think that control works, because we know how familiar control feels. It gives us power, even though it actually disempowers us.
Letting go means to trust. There is no other way. It seems like a risk. Let go of control and start watching, start meditating. Wait, and you will see your whole life flow differently. Don't panic. Don't hold on to the result! Let go of the idea that you are real. Let go of the idea that this world is happening to you. It's not. It's just happening. Let go of every dualism. Because everything is already here. It doesn't need to be captured. It just needs to be realised.
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Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 |
 Chip Richards
I once read about an experiment by the founders of the Esalen Institute in their early days of human potential exploration. In efforts to increase their ability to focus intention, they developed a device that measured energy and translated it electromagnetically through a little needle on a scale. As they held their focus in a certain way, the needle would move along the scale. While the primary aim of the experiment was to expand their ability to focus energy, what they discovered was something quite extraordinary… They found that their conscious focus could in fact move the needle slightly along the scale for a time, but that the greatest movement (by far) came in the moment immediately following intense periods of focus when they simply could not concentrate any more and were forced to give up. In these precise moments of ‘Ahhh’ release, the needle would spring across the scale, maxing out the measurement.
Chip is an author, screenwriter, movie producer, workshop presenter, and is the facilitator and mentor of Writing the Story Within, a 28-day online writing program run regularly on LivingNow’s CWE site. http://www.livingnow.com.au/CWE/writing-the-story-within |
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Surrendering into who we actually are |
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Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 |
 Steve Ray
If we ‘try’ to let go on our own, we can’t do it and this is why over the years so much has been written about letting go. Why do we hold on... what is the pattern of behaviour in us that means we hold on to things that actually cause us pain? While it seems so logical that we should let go of things that are not serving our best interests, the trouble is, the tools we use to try to let go are the very ones that are making us hold on: it’s our will that is holding on – so using our will to let go just won’t work!
Because we want certain things in our life and believe we should have them so much, we continue to work against the current, the flow, which is simply trying to give us the best every moment. So when we don’t get something, that’s a gift! That thing is not going to be good for us OR the way we are going about it is not going to be good for us!
That is why surrendering is so powerful, but of course it is also so counter-intuitive too. To lose control of the plan of our lives... where would we be? What would happen to US? That's so scary! Haha! ‘Letting go’ is a process of letting go who we think we are or should be – an idea which is ultimately so limited. It’s a process of surrendering into who we actually are, which is unlimited and beyond our imagination.
So practically, what can we actually DO to break the addiction? We need to start trusting. So if we don’t get that thing we want, be it big like a job, or small like ‘winning’ an argument, just notice that part of you that is upset by that. Smile to that part of you (be kind to it) and make some time to relax and realise that a great gift has been given because when we let go of that thing we didn’t get, we take a step towards finding out that we have truly been given everything already.
Steve is a Reiki Master and Open Heart Instructor, Co-ordinator, Padmacahaya Victoria;
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Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 |
 Jenny Fitzgerald
I have been told I just need to let things go; to allow them to wash over me. In my experience this doesn’t work! When I allow things to wash over me, I am pretending everything is all right when in actual fact it isn’t. I’ve found the only way to really let go is to go through!
When I truly want to let go I have to allow myself to fully experience the emotion underlying whatever I am holding onto.
My first experience of this phenomenon was when I was sick in bed with a stomach bug. I decided to see what was happening in my body and be curious about it. As I found what I was holding onto emotionally something miraculous happened….the sickness immediately disappeared. I suddenly felt well again, I got out of bed and went and ate my dinner. I had let it go!
Jenny Fitzgerald is the founder of Creative Heart Connections. She facilitates healing the mind and body through Meditation, Life Coaching, Counselling, Divine Light Healing and workshops. She is the Vice President of the National Federation of Healers.
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Letting go can lead to discovering who we are |
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Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 |
 Gwen Jones
Letting go – two little words that can have a powerful effect on our lives if we could learn to do just that.
To let go and allow our lives to unfold in a natural way, without trying to control every step of the way, takes faith – faith in our self. It is not just the self of the personality I am referring to here – it is the expanded self. All the parts of us both physical and non-physical which go toward making up the whole of us. Your intuition, your feelings that prompt you to go a certain direction, the answer to a question that just comes to you although you do not know the subject, are all nudges from our expanded self.
Letting go is the first step to strengthening that connection to your expanded self – letting go and allowing life to be.
Gwen Jones and her business partner in Bridging Concepts, Irene Blanck, have a contract with The Monroe Institute in Virginia USA to bring their residential meditation programmes, with Hemi-Sync sound technology to Australia.
During the 1980s a thought came to her, “If being born, living till 80-odd and then dying was all there was, life would be pointless”. Knowing there had to be more she started on a conscious journey of “self discovery”. A journey that continues today still after 30 years.
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