Stage 04 · Turn it into wisdom · Lesson 3 of 3 Letting go
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  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

Stage 04 · Turn it into wisdom Lesson 3 of 3

Letting go

Release the weight while keeping the wisdom.

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Lesson three. Letting go. Release the weight while keeping the wisdom. Letting go means putting down the weight of something while keeping its lesson. You don't forget. You just stop carrying it as pain. The more you put down, the more present you become. And presence is a clean slate: from here you can choose, create and build. Why it matters. You can only tell your story clearly once it no longer hurts to tell. Letting go is what makes it shareable. For example. Writing the letter you never sent to an old business partner, then burning it. Or: Keeping the lesson "get it in writing", and dropping the resentment. Where this leads. It ends the healing half of the course. Lighter, you're ready to gather what's yours. Hold on to this. You can keep the lesson and still put down the load.

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Hold on to this

You can keep the lesson and still put down the load.

The lesson

Letting go means putting down the weight of something while keeping its lesson. You don't forget. You just stop carrying it as pain.

The more you put down, the more present you become. And presence is a clean slate: from here you can choose, create and build.

Why it matters

You can only tell your story clearly once it no longer hurts to tell. Letting go is what makes it shareable.

Where this leads

  1. See
  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

It ends the healing half of the course. Lighter, you're ready to gather what's yours.

For example

  • Writing the letter you never sent to an old business partner, then burning it.

  • Keeping the lesson "get it in writing", and dropping the resentment.

A line from RumiClose
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks

In plain words

Holding on keeps you hard. Softening, letting things break down, is what lets new life grow.

For this lesson

Letting go is the crumbling. What you'll build next is the wildflowers.

Your practice · about 10 min

Write a letter you'll never send. Say everything. End with the one lesson you're keeping. Then do the Release Breath.

Why it mattersSaying it all on paper is how you put it down.

01

A letter you'll never send, to the person or the situation.

To…

When it's writtenLet it go.

02

Need a nudge? Turn over a hint.