Letting Go

We have been taught to believe that letting go means to push away
or suppress.  However, true letting go is a process of integration and
healing.

Letting go can be a misleading statement because it gives the
impression of separation.  By integrating a situation that involves you,
another person, or a circumstance in life, means to come to terms
with it.  We can only come to terms with something when we
understand it.  When we understand the purpose of our life
experiences, we are able to accept them, thereby releasing our
emotional attachment.  Learning to embrace our issues in this way
allows us to take them within ourselves and integrate them.

Once our emotions are understood and integrated, our judgments
about ourselves and others begin to dissolve.  Where there is clarity
and understanding, problems can not germinate.

What we see on the outside is a reflection of what is happening on
the inside.  Interacting with others is always a way of interacting with
ourself.  When interaction brings up feelings within use that we do
not like, we should search inside to see why this is occurring.  We
should view others in our lives as our mirrors.

Many people distance and isolate themselves from others, creating
emotional isolation.

Finding ourselves disoriented and disorganized, using the outside as
a reflection of the inside, shows we are feeling how on the inside?

Realizing that you are the only true problem in your life allows you to
realize the truth of who you are.  Only through self-examination can
emotions and feelings be healed and problems solved.

Our habits accepted beliefs and behaviors-our inner walls-all play a
part in who we are.  Take for example, the critical part of our self,
which loves to run rampant.  This part of self is continually judging
and criticizing self and others.  This behavior can become quite
destructive.  It often leads to an out-of-balance, superhuman,
perfectionist complex.  It has become the norm to single out what is
imperfect about another or oneself rather than identifying what is
unique and special.  This commonly lead to pettiness and
competition.

We find it is much easier to accept others when we like and accept
ourselves.  Being critical and judgmental are roadblocks in the path
of learning to love.

We can require that others honor us in the same way that we honor
our self by treating them as we wish to be treated.  As we become
honest with ourselves and reflect our own attitudes and actions, we
see the mirrors that others play in our life.
Reality vs Delusion