I have been contemplating the notion of “letting go” versus “let it be”. The idea of just “letting go” seems like something we should be able to do but more likely it’s a process that takes time and sometimes never comes. So maybe we should look at it more as “let it be” instead of “letting go”. As Jon Kabat-Zinn put it, “It’s not a matter of ‘letting go.’ You would if you could. Instead of ‘let it go’ we should probably say ‘let it be’.”
“Get Over It”
The problem with “letting go” or “let it go”, is that it really feels like “get over it’. And telling someone or yourself to just “get over it” is never helpful and completely impossible since, let’s be honest, anything that is not important to us, we can walk away from so we really don’t need to be told that. If we could, we would.
The mistake when we try to “get over it” is we end up only suppressing our feelings and burying them deeper in some attempt to “let it go” if we aren’t ready. If we think of the wounds we have through our lives, each …
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