2083: How to Let Go by David Cain of Raptitude on Tough Goodbyes and Life Transitions
Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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Letting Things Go
Letting things go is a skill we can learn, but it's easily confused with making things go. We tend to see present moment experiences as though they're more permanent than they really are. This demand for an impossible level of control over our experience is intrinsically stressful. All experiences arise and fad, and that can be observed in real time. There's no such thing as a permanent experience. Each one comes, is and goes. If we develop sharp enough attention, we can consciously gently refrain from pushing or pulling and let the experience go. Whether or not you take up meditation, you can practise letting experiences come, be and go in their own time.
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