"Letting go is looking back without regret, looking ahead without expectations and experiencing life in the here and now."


What is letting go?
And what would you like to let go? 

If that were possible at all…, can you can do it?

Would you like to let go of your fear? Or feelings of loneliness? Or your concerns... or feelings of frustration? 

What would you like to let go? 

And did it work out well when you tried to let go of all those nasty feelings and thoughts?

Did you succeed?

Or was it a fight? You just wanted to get rid of all those annoying feelings and thoughts?

In the past I have tried so many times to let go. For example, to let go of certain unpleasant thoughts... 
I said to myself: 'Well you stop it, it's been enough, you don't know how it will work out at all, so it has no use to be busy with it', and a little later I was occupied again with the same annoying thoughts. It didn't work, the so-called 'let it go'.

What is letting go? Is it 'letting go' when I say: 'Stop it, it's been enought'? 

Is it possible to let go by your effort, the effort of the ego?

My experience: 'No, it is not possible, it only happens when you realize at a deep level that you can't control life, then a process starts from the inside, a process of dismantling of the ego, then you grow in surrender, in trust and you experience that letting go is happening by itself.'

Life lives you…, if you (the ego) likes it or not… 

The journey is to discover at a deep level that you don't know what the day of tomorrow will bring, even though every day seems the same. 

You realize at a deep level that you have no control over the next minute, even if you think so. 

You realize that you can think of everything about the past (why things have gone the way they went) or about the future (how will it continue later), but you discover that thinking  makes no sense, because only the Now really exists, this moment. And the rest is all conceived, future music which we have no view of, even if we think so.

So what's the point of worrying about what can happen, if only this moment IS real. Life runs through your veins, just follow the stream.  

Do you dare to move with what Life demands from you... or do you stick to what your mind thinks? Do you hold on to a virtual world, a world of thoughts, that doesn't tell you anything about reality itself or are you willing to give up the fight, because you realize it has no use at all: thought and emotions will stick on you, day in day out, if you want to get rid of them. 

Maybe you recognize it..., that everything you had previously thought about a particular situation or encounter, in the moment itself, is very different, because what is conceived is not Life itself. 

It is easy to say, just follow the stream of Life itself, but not easy to live when you are a prisoner of the mind, a prisoner of your thoughts and emotions, a prisoner of past and future. But if you really want to get out of the misery of the psychological mind, it is possible. 

Surrender…, to the flow of Life itself…, I know…, you can't do it. It is a process…, an awakening process…, you have to look deep inside to discover who you really are: not your thought and feelings but that what perceives the thought and feelings. 

If you need support to come home in your Self, to live out of trust instead of fear, you can contact me for a consult.  


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