Fighting what is

Do you ever feel like you are carrying a weight around? Or like you are holding everything together? For me, it feels like overwhelming tiredness and when I look at it I realise I'm tired of fighting how I feel. Once I let myself feel tired I often feel more awake — I've let go of fighting what is.

Letting go is one of the most freeing and healing things you can do. Letting go of needing things to be this way or that way and making your happiness dependent on it. Letting go of needing to fit yourself into a box that you or someone else created long ago that doesn't suit you at all. Letting go of needing someone else to be a particular way that they are never going to be. Letting go of needing to please or be liked, or needing to be seen in a particular light. Letting go of anger, resentment, envy, comparing. Letting go of all the thoughts and stories that limit who you are. Just imagine if you could let go of all of that, how would you feel? Just imagine, if you could let go of everything that weighs you down, who would you be?

Even letting go of material possessions can be freeing — this week I listened as a friend told me how he had been giving away more and more of the things that he had been collecting over the years and it felt like a great weight had been lifted.

So if you would like to try this, to begin ensure that you know that you don't need to let go of anything that you're not ready to let go of. If you want you can keep them for your whole life, even if they are very painful — there are no rules here, no shoulds. Letting go is a gift that, like forgiveness, comes in its own time for many things. But it's something that can be practised too — a little gift for yourself every day, a moment of freedom. What can you let go of today? Maybe it's just smiling at that thought of wanting the weather to be different and letting it go 😀

Image with thanks to Felix Russell Saw from Unsplash

Wishing you a week of happiness and letting go

Amrit Jiwan xx

Originally published Sep 29th