losyarreit in Oakland is doing 7 things including…

learn how to let go

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What it means "to let go" 15 months ago

To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To “let go” is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization I can’t control another.

To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To “let go” is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To “let go” is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.

To “let go” is not to care for, but to care about.

To “let go” is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To “let go” is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To “let go” is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To “let go” is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.

To “let go” is not to deny, but to accept.
I found this insightful text on the web. Hope it helps those who come across it. I will be meditating on this myself.

To “let go” is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To “let go” is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To “let go” is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To “let go” is to fear less and love more.



It is making more sense 15 months ago

Well, from time to time it is difficult for me to not take things to the heart. At this stage in my life I am gaining more and more awareness from every experience. I can see how my mind begins to react, my reactiveness, my discomfort with certain things. I am learning that thoughts are just thoughts.

Remembering that thoughts are just thoughts, and bringing back my focus to the origin of these thoughts has helped.

I have a long way to go.



Letting go 21 months ago

It is not an easy thing when one does not have the inner resources necessary to move on. When after several years of life on this planet you realize that there are things that have been coming back, when one day you open your eyes and realize the problem now comes from not grieving your past properly…

who would have thought that things had settled but not dissolved into the great mixture that one is.



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