“Just as we cannot make a seed germinate faster by peeling the first green leaves out, or make a rose bloom sooner by unwrapping all the petals before they are ready, so too can we not FORCE our desire into existence by putting too much effort in, by being attached to the outcome, by becoming impatient or frustrated with the speed of creation.” -Marc de Bruin
Such is the description this man, Bruin, summed up about Deepak Chopra’s concept of letting go in his book, Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living From the Source of Lasting Happiness — and what a wonderful description it is.
What does it mean to let go, and how do we do so? I view the idea of letting go as surrendering to the present, allowing things to be without resistance. Many of us remain attached to things that transpire in our lives — by fretting and worrying over our mistakes, and by attempting to hold tightly to something “good” in our lives. Holding on to these things takes our faith out of our own integrity and hands us a skewed perspective in a world perpetuated by struggle. This ‘holding on’ sets us on a path of constant inner turmoil, struggling with the world and all of its material values, pondering whether we have enough, if we’re doing enough, if we’ll ever “get there,” if a relationship will last, and so on. And in this struggle, this fight with the good and bad, right and wrong, we’re never satisfied; we’re always under a constant pull of anxiety. But the question is, when you believe in Spirit, do you have any right to hold on and to be anxious about anything? When you let go of each moment as they occur, you’re telling the Universe, “I’m not afraid to surrender to your guidance”, and you’re allowing your resistance towards life to melt into the beauty of life. The Divine is here to guide us in the right direction- what need do we have to hold onto life, and to fight against its constant flow?
But how to let go?
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