Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Corey mascara and in today's episode

I'm going to share three questions. You can ask yourself to facilitate the letting go process

More to come on that in a moment first. Let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay

Okay letting go so when we think of letting go I think one all of us are familiar with what it's like to want to let go of something

and to feel an inability to do so we're stuck we're holding on

We don't want to release and it can be

For a number of reasons across many different

Context and domains

person

Relationship friends work where you live

Childhood hurt someone betrayed you and you don't want to let go of the anger toward them whatever it could be and

a lot of times letting go has to do with

Actually like releasing something. Let's say like a job so that you transition to something else somewhere else

but

Most of the time I would say it more has to do with

What we could refer to as like a decoupling of an emotion from an idea or cognition

So like when we think of letting go of a past partnership

There's a decoupling of the emotional attachment from the idea of that person

So a lot of times when we're referring to letting go that's more of what we're referring to

It's not actually something that's being released much of the time we've already released it

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