This pandemic has been the ultimate exercise in letting go. Letting go of plans, letting go of expectations, letting go of hopes, wishes and desires and the hardest of all; letting go of people we love.
Why is letting go is so hard and is there any way to look at letting go as something other than down right terrifying? The second part of this sentence answers the first. Letting go is terrifying. We tend to equate letting go with loss and loss is painful. The great yogic sages as well as modern science explain that we are hardwired to avoid pain and seek pleasure, so it stands to reason that we would want to avoid loss like, well, the plague.
But, is it possible that letting go is the road to acceptance and acceptance is a bridge to comfort?
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