In the modern world, letting go is a task that seems beyond the powers of most people, even if they understand the need for it. It's about letting go of our hold on things and people. This concerns the material realm, but also the emotional realm.
The situation that leads us to have to let go
The knight BAYARD was ‘Without fear or reproach’.
- What are we afraid of, if not the future?
- What do we blame ourselves for, if not the past?
- Those who are ‘fearless and unapologetic’ live in the moment, in the present.
- Those who are subject to fears from the past will be afraid of the future and will find it very difficult to live in the present in a calm, relaxed and happy way.
- So it's our fears, which cause us to tense up, that make us dread life.
As a result, we try to do everything we can to control the different aspects of our lives so that what we fear doesn't disrupt the apparent order we've built up. Of course, it never works out exactly the way we want it to! That's when it's time to think about letting go.
Letting go, but of what?
Fears always translate into physical tensions that have bodily locations that vary from one person to another. Letting go involves relaxing these tensions. But this is not enough. Because physical tensions correspond to mental tensions. It is then necessary to operate a conversion of thoughts: to pass from distrust to confidence; to confidence in Life.
To no longer want to control everything and to accept what comes with total confidence, to let go of the control of our life: both on the material and the emotional aspects of our life.
It is a vast program that requires a complete rethinking of ourselves, of the way we position ourselves in this life.
The conditions for letting go
For the Eastern extremes, an illness is always due to a disturbance of the energy system. And a tightness is a blockage of energy.
Relaxation, associated with a good recirculation of energy, is a prerequisite for real letting go. The essential condition to achieve this is a clear vision of the process and an unwavering will to succeed in this conversion.
By analogy, someone who wants to stop smoking, but who is not fully determined, will not succeed despite his or her apparent will.