~* Letting Go *~

The following is a post I had made to some military friends in
March of 2003.    Wow... nearly 5 years ago.      

~* Letting Go *~

Sitting at your computer...

RIGHT NOW, take both of your hands.
Turn them palms up, and make tight fists.
HOLD THOSE FISTS TIGHT.... TIGHTER !!!!!

KEEP HOLDING....

Your see your finger tips turning white....
You are feeling a painful feeling in your hands,
and the pain is now even being felt in the
muscles up your arms....   Keep holding,
your finger nails might even be digging into the
palms of your hands.

NOW ------->      ~* LET GO *~

Slowly open your hands....
Your fingers unravel as you extend and stretch them.

~* take a deep breath *~ and REALLY feel the letting GO.
Relax your shoulders and let go a little more,
a few more deep breaths.
Looking at your open hands, palms up
envision the letting go.....
See the built up 'THINGS'
(garbage - crap - anger - frustration - guilt - hurt )
All just running out of your finger tips.........

That is   ~* Letting GO *~

You can use this exercise MANY times
in a day to remind yourself to let go.
As you start out, you might have to physically
grip your hands, after awhile you can mentally
do the letting go.

I made up this ~* Letting Go *~ sometime within
the past few months while helping my
daughter Nicole through a difficult time.
She would stop in to see me, and in talking
to me of her life issues, I could see the
emotion and crap just building up inside of her.
She was like a tightly corked bottle ....
under pressure that at any second was ready
to explode.
One day as I was talking to her, I had my hands
extended palms up, raising them up and down
and saying....

"Honey, you just have to let this go" !!!!!!!!!!!!
At that moment... it came to me to show her
through my hands.... what she was doing to herself
IN HOLDING IT ALL INSIDE eating away at her
just like the pain you felt in the tight fist.
That was the ~*birthday*~ of ~* LETTING GO*~.

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This came back to me yesterday when my daughter (age 25) was
talking to me and telling me how she had shared to a
friend that they needed to let something go.....
She even used the hands in a fist to illustrate  ~*Letting Go*~

That....... is parental pay dirt.  !!!

Comments

[Charles Hamel]

Great exercise! Thanks, and I will add this to my practices when I am feeling overwhelmed or stress.
Stress is a common thing that we as human all experience, and it is a very un-healthy feeling at that, which can cause serious health issues.

Now I have a way of Letting it Go...

Great article

[Deb Estep]

HI Charles,

Thanks for dropping in. :)

I find when I am not being mindful, stress can
build up. The ~*Letting go*~ is like a volcano
venting rather than blowing up.
My youngest child is 11 and even he has
benefited from this.

[Debbie Angel]

Perfect...because I seem to always have fists balled up and try to remember to let them relax. Now each time I catch myself I will do this exercise! Deb, you've been a Godsend and you can't know how much I appreciate you being there.

I think I need to cut my tiny little finger nails though first LOL

[Patricia - Spiritual Journey of A Lightworker]

Deb, what a great idea to let go. I will definitely use it and send the email with this article in it to all of my family and friends. So simple to do and remember and so very effective. Genius at work. Have a glorious day.

[Deb Estep]

Hey Debbie & Patricia,

Thank you both for commenting and I'm happy to
know this simple something of ~*Letting Go*~
could be useful. :)

Come to think of it, it's a good thing I talk
with my hands or it would never have come to me
when it did. lol