Letting go feels so strange.
Unconsciously and unknowingly, we make these our own.
We hold onto them and allow them to define who we are.
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We actually use them to define who we are.
But how do we change something that defines us?
How do we change something through whichwehave come to define ourselves through?
Theyare notwho we are.
They belong to the others who unconsciously and unknowingly passed them on to us.
Throughexperiencewe can learn about ourselves, what we appreciate, and what we do not.
Throughexperience,we can learn to make choices that can change the course of our lives.
They are like quicksand; we want to escape but continually find ourselves sinking.
From this difficulty arises struggle.
We struggle to name our own struggle.
We do this to find reasons as to why we struggle.
We do find something in looking outside of ourselves for answers.
We find anger, we find hate, we find resentment, we find frustration.
If we escape this quicksand we almost always find another pit of quicksand and we begin sinking again.
We react to these events in life by pushing people away, both directly and indirectly.
We push everyone away.
We just need to find peace for ourselves.
We just need to heal.
We believe that having some time and space will allow us to heal.
But having pushed everyone away, we find no peace.
We find depths of despair we had never thought could be so dark.
We are afraid for our lives.
Until, one day comes, one moment presents itself, and we wake up.
We dont want to be removed from others.
We want to bring others closer.
They are not us.
And so, we begin to shed these stories, beliefs, values, and expectations.
The freedom to express ourselves.
Were ready to rewrite the stories, beliefs, values, and expectations that represent and reflect ourtrue self.
And so, we let go.
And what a strange feeling it is.
We had struggled to make them our own.
Letting go feelsso strange.
For years and decades of our life, they had beenwho we are.
So, without them, who are we?
The old stories, beliefs, values, and expectations framed our lives.
We had a sense of what lifes parameters were.
Without them there are no parameters.
And so, life expands.
And so, life is a journey of letting go.
Its a journey of continual letting go.
And in such a place, life expands and anything is possible.
What will you do within this new expansiveness you find yourself in?
