Letting out and letting go of feelings

Quieten yourself and stop doing other external activities. Relax your body and focus on where your strongest feelings are. Let those feeling come up. At first doing this may feel difficult and you may feel overcome by emotion. The more you let your feelings out the more it is important to actually let them out without feeling overwhelmed by them. Then intend to let them go. This takes a certain level of detachment that meditation can give you. Self-pity is not your friend here; neither is getting lost in feeling, or adopting victim mentality. The onus is on letting your feelings go so you can be clear of them rather than stay stuck inside them. If you get stuck within a lot of grief of hurt come back to noticing your breathing and, remind yourself that you are positively 'letting go'. This requires a lot of self-awareness, which requires constant cultivation. Practise makes it easier.

 

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