Letting Go

Letting Go

There’s a lot of trendy, click-baity “health and wellness” advice out there, but even the more superficial of such tenets are sometimes rooted in good overall practice (and sometimes even research).

Case-in-point: the gobs of listicles around the web that mostly just pull quotes and practices from spiritual leaders (past and present) often touch on good advice, even if you have to blur your vision a little to see it.

Someone sent me this piece the other day, and though it’s fluffed up with a lot of filler, the general thesis statement—that it’s useful to be capable of letting go of anger, resentment, self-doubt, frustration, past relationships, and other things that might otherwise weigh us down and make us feel horrible, long past their value as learning opportunities—is a solid one: https://tinybuddha.com/blog/40-ways-to-let-go-and-feel-less-pain/

I would also argue that some of the specifics on this list (and other such lists) can be useful, even if they mostly just serve as extra tools in our psychological tool boxes, providing us with different means of achieving our intended outcomes.

I personally find that even if I tend to use one approach for letting go of negative, purposeless stuff more than any other (for me it’s refocusing on the big picture that works most frequently), it’s empowering to know I have different options available—it reduces my reliance on a single tool, knowing there are others close at hand.

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