Letting go of your preconceived notions, self-limiting beliefs, and over-analyzing nature can lead to great freedom in your life both spiritually and otherwise. The act of letting go is far easier than most people believe it to be. This is in part due to the fact that most people tend to think rather than act upon this concept. Being intellectually aware and knowledgeable about letting go is not the same as actually doing said task. This was something I myself even after 16+ years of meditation have not always had the easiest time accomplishing. However, recently, this changed for the better.
To truly let go you must first understand what that is. In doing so one completely empties their mind of all the mundane chatter, creating a total stillness within no matter what the situation or circumstances one finds themselves in or subjected to externally. From this stillness one is able to simply observe what is going on both around them and within from the mind without actually grabbing hold of those thoughts and becoming inundated and bogged down by it.
It is within this silence that one truly let’s go. This is again far easier to do once one gets it. Most...