Letting Go

Do you feel stuck? Is it challenging to make progress and to change habits?

Change can be so difficult, especially if you have held things inside or tried to change things for a long time and found it easier not to change. Still, the freedom we all seek only comes when we can hold something loosely! When you find yourself holding something tightly, just look at your hand as you open it slowly. Use the words “Let it Go” – naming your it, reframing it in a positive phrase. Then refocus on the new trait that you want. And remember it might take time to build your “Let it Go” anchor muscle.

There are many areas of our lives that we might need to let go. We each have between 50-70K thoughts per day, and 80% have a negative bias. Tomorrow 90% of our thoughts will be the same as today. So just letting go of our negative thoughts and creating new positive ones can make a huge difference in our daily performance and productivity. But much of how we know that we have changed is when we feel it. Our gremlins could be myriad of incidents, traumas, or happenings throughout our lives or developed in our childhood. Here are some areas to explore:

·       Be gentle with yourself – watch critical self-talk and engage in self-care.

·       Mindfully examine your negative thoughts.

·       Create physical distance from negative people or environments.

·       Surround yourself with people who fill you up.

·       Practice Mindfulness-Meditation.

Mindfulness-Meditation and its benefits are abundant for emotional regulation, reduced stress, anxiety, better memory, and health. 
 
Mindfulness - a state of moment-to-moment awareness of one's experience without judgment. A self-regulating practice that focuses on training our attention and awareness to bring our mental processes under greater voluntary control.
 
Meditation - is strength training for your brain. It is reflection and helps us to build equanimity — or clear and balanced seeing — so that we can choose how to respond, rather than react to all that life throws you. It is the quickest way you can calm your mind and quiet negative thoughts.
 
Being able to let go of your thoughts, words and past actions can happen with some Mindfulness-Meditation tools and practices. It is truly worth the effort!