The Path to Release: Unveiling the Secrets of Clinging

If you find that you're having trouble letting go, it might help to explore the reasons for holding on. There is always a reason. It might not seem practical or rational to you, but in some way, it is still personally important and significant. Sometimes people can even be embarrassed about the reason, but it's only by visiting it and examining it that a reason that was perhaps relevant and useful in the past can be updated. You'll let go when you no longer need to hold on. In fact, we let go of the vast majority of life's events and episodes without even realizing we have. Therefore, letting go is not the problem. You're already a champion at letting go of the things that don't matter. Becoming aware of something you'd like to let go of but haven't yet, is a signal that, in some way, for some part of you, that particular something still matters. If you let your mind roam free in that place you'd rather not think of, the discoveries might surprise you. When you're ready to et go, it will go. It will slip away so quietly you might not even immediately notice that it's gone."