Yes you read it right, it’s an art not a skill. A skill can be perfected by practice. But art is beyond skill, it needs both mastery of the task as well as an emotional nuance of delivering the task with a definitive purpose. With this art of ‘let go’ the purpose is harmony. It is to setup boundaries for guarding your time, energy and love.
More often than not, it’s these resources that we take for granted. Exhausting ourselves by taking up every battle, signing up for every challenge and accepting all that is thrown out way. Once you learn to ‘let go’ you are more discerning and mastering how to choose between your reaction – to deal, to deflect or to delegate the matter at hand.
Sometimes you may let go of the situation. You can’t be the solver of all problems in earth. Let folks deal with it themselves while you distance yourself but still be a positive force in their lives. Let them do the fishing while you cheer for the shoreline. Often we get hooked upon a comment made by someone or judgment passed on us. By not acknowledging such words you are rising above it all. By not giving it your headspace you are protecting your sanity and conserving your energies towards more positive outcomes.
There are times when letting go of your ego, uprightness and guard rails is a boon. It lets you be vulnerable – fall when someone trustworthy is there to pick you up, moap when someone kind is there to wipe your tears and crumble when someone patient is there to just be. Letting go can also mean not being in the driving seat. Being the passenger for a change and enjoying the drive. Not fretting over perfection and optimization but going with the flow. It can open new neural pathways and egg your imagination in more ways then one.
And the hardest one is where you let go your loved ones. Folks who don’t vibe with you anymore. People who eye your moves but don’t cheer for you. That soul who isn’t responsive to your reaching out anymore, that person who has been defaulting on their promises, breaking your heart and trust multiple times over. The kid who no longer depends on you, that kid who wants to explore what is beyond your known world.
Inhale, exhale. Let go. Inhale, exhale.
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