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Undoing the Knot of Emotional Attachments
Why letting go starts from within.
True letting go has a starting point, and it is within.
But if I want to let go of something, that means I’m holding onto it… but why?
I’m holding on because of an attachment.
So letting go means identifying and releasing mental and emotional attachments.
All tied up in knots
Attachments are like knots and resistance makes them tighter and more tangled.
Resistance is anything that activates the attachment. Something or someone leaving your life when you weren’t ready could trigger it. But it doesn’t always have to be extreme. Just the thought of change can be enough to rile up an attachment.
An attachment says, “I like this and it can never change!”. But change seems to be the only guarantee we get on this ride.
So at some point, my attachments will come up against change but my resistance to it will tighten the knot.
Letting go doesn’t mean deleting old photos or something like that (that comes later).
Letting go is first working to unwind the knot within and release it. The best way I have found to do…
