Oracle of Consciousness
#138 - Letting Go
Letting go: To release, cease hanging on to, dismiss, or give something up.
As we have drifted away from our true Sovereign core, our infiniteness, we have become more engrossed in the solidity, separateness and lower vibrational frequencies that abound in this magnificent dualistic Multiverse.
And it should come as no surprise, for our world we inhabit is filled with wonderful landscapes, people, activities, food, cultures, you name it!
With all these amazing experiences at our fingertips, how could we NOT get immersed and identify with the beauty, excitement, drama, challenges, ups and downs of being human?
It is not the experiences per se that are the stumbling blocks, but the resultant identification and attachment to them, which produces the challenges we encounter in returning to our original, limitless power.
This is our individual and shared
destination-free journey!
So the question you may well ask is:
“Letting go of what?”
Well we could commence by releasing our erroneous identity, the persona we have developed, character traits, fear-based egoic false ideas, our pain body, and any tangible ideas about who you are beyond your true core, for a start!
They do exist in our self-created reality:
I am a baseball player
I am a husband
I am a wife
I am a mother
I am a father
I am a businesswoman
I am a traveller
These are more about the labels we attach to ourselves, but not about your authentic, unfathomable, infinite self.
Read more about 'The 'I' The doesn't Exist' here.
Letting Go, Where to Start?
The Pain Body, that invisible sheath of mental pain, emotional pain, and trauma, which sits outside the body but permeates through it, infecting the cells, affecting our body, is one of the major causes of dis-ease, ill health, and un-wellness.
We tend to hold on to these past pains, through our attachments to the story surrounding them.
This doesn't really serve us now, although at the time we do think it does, so that we can justify hanging on to it.
We also may be carrying pain and trauma from our parents, grandparents, and our ancestors, going back over countless years, from generation after generation.
As we expand into our Consciousness, these may arise also to be healed and released.
Attachments.
The end result of identification with someone, a place, books, a car, animal, whatever it is, we have formed an attachment.
In essence, it is not the identification that is troublesome, but our attachment to whoever or whatever it is.
When we become attached to people and there comes a point when they are no longer in our life, we have to let them go, but the mind-created attachment makes the process much more difficult.
However, if we have no attachment, but pure love, affinity and connection to them, the physical loss is greatly reduced. We will still need to grieve and heal, and we will miss them, but the pain of attachment is no longer present.
Someone who we are deeply attached to threatens to leave and we cry out:
“If you leave me, I will die!”
No you won’t, you may be upset, sad or ‘broken-hearted’, but these too shall pass, unless we choose to hang on to them!
Limiting Beliefs.
These apply diligent investigation through direct self-inquiry to look at what patterns and behaviours, what thought patterns, limiting beliefs we may be holding onto that no longer serve us.
When we're ready and this is in our time frame not anybody else’s, then we can release these old beliefs by letting go of them once and for all and replacing them with life-enhancing beliefs.
"I can do this!"
The Five Step Letting Go Process.
Able
The first step is to ask ourselves:
"Am I able to let this go"?
“Is it within my ability to let this go?”
Once we've answered in the affirmative, the positive that,
"Yes, I am able of letting this go. It doesn't have such a grip that I can't let it go".
Capable
The second question, asks:
“Am I capable of letting go of this that no longer serves me?”
Is there anything that would prevent you from proceeding with this process?
Do you have the ability to go ahead?
Willingness
The third question is to seek our willingness. As we know, whenever we're addressing any situation in life, if there is no willingness to change, to move on, or make differences in our lives, if the willingness is not there, then we haven't got to first base, we're wasting our time.
So, we ask ourselves,
"Am I willing to let it go"?
And where there is any hesitation, then we have to investigate?
"Well, if I'm not quite willing to let it go in now, how does it serve me to hang on to it"?
Then the answer will eventually come along that it doesn't serve you and it's time to let it go.
When
The fourth and final question is, when?
"When would I be willing to let this go"?
If the answer is “now”, go ahead and do it.
If there is some hesitation, some continuation of the attachment then resolve it there and then, or whenever it is appropriate to you.
Symbolically Letting Go
Finally, I have found that a physical gesture, such as putting all that painful story into a rock and throwing it away, or writing a letter and burning it, something that symbolises the finality of this attachment, and now it's gone.
This process is always followed by an extraordinary sense of liberation and freedom.
Do yourself a favour, explore what you are attached to in your life and severe the attachments.
Keep your visions and dreams alive, but disconnect the attachment to them.
Now you can have or not have the desired outcome, if it is meant to be, it is meant to be!
This is the freedom we are seeking in our life, and true freedom is to have or not have something.
The path to freedom is releasing all our past attachments, pains, traumas, ideas, limiting beliefs, etc., and living a richly fulfilling, expansive, beautiful and connected life.
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