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Originally Posted by ratbastid
This isn't specific to this circumstance or anything, but in general..... How you let go of something is by letting go of it. I know that doesn't sound very helpful, but bear with me.
Right now you're working on letting go of it, or trying to let go of it, or wondering how to let go of it. Those are all very different from letting go of it. Those are all strategies for NOT letting go of it. Those are ways to hang onto it, while LOOKING like you want to let it go.
How you let it go is, you just let it go. You give up the right to be upset about it, to ever do anything about it. You surrender it to the universe, if those are terms that resonate with you.
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hmmm. well put. You know, Yoda said "there is no try; there is only do or do not". "They" usually make that sound like a motivator, some sort of tool to make you snap to, when really it is simplistic yet incredible insight. Try is nothing. It is simply the thought, the words. Letting it go is the act of letting it go. In the end, no matter how much therapy, and medications, and bottom's scraped, and etc, the only thing that can get past something is you.
It sucks that it took me 8 years of therapy to learn that; at the same time it doesn't suck at all.