I've been thinking about the idea of letting go from a different direction.

This direction of, you know, generally, I'm sorry, generally the direction we think of is like,

it's almost, people get it confused sometimes almost with like giving up in this weird way.

And it has this sense about it that it's something like passive.

That it's almost, I feel like people take it almost as if it's some form of submission.

Because in our culture, like we're taught to grasp and to control things, and by us being

in control of them, that that means that we're doing something like powerful that is forcing

the universe in some way to bend our will.

So therefore, by doing that, we are like leveling up our whatever,

our sense, our ability of self through like carving the world in a shape that resembles us in some way.

So the idea of letting go, like being a reductive act, can, I think think in some ways, give people the idea that it's almost like you're being defeated by the thing in whatever it is.

The feeling, the habit, the behavior, the relationship,

something that you've been trying to force,

but can't, and so you decide to go, you know what?

I'm done with that.

You're going to let it go.

And if you have some emotion that arises that's really tense,

creates tension or sadness or grief or something,

and it has to do with something you experienced in the past, you know, a person could just decide, okay, I am not going to carry that with me anymore.

I'm not going to let this dictate how I feel and how I think I'm going to let it go in terms of like

whenever it comes back, when the memory comes back, when the feeling comes back, I'm going to direct my attention elsewhere.

I'm going to put up this mental boundary to keep it from influencing my current experience

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