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 Miscara.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about a different way to think about letting go.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay. together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I want to start with a provocative statement.

And that statement is, if you want to let go, you must fall in love with the part of you that is holding on.

If you want to let go, you must fall in love with the part of you that is holding on. This is typically a hard

thing for us to understand, mainly because the part of us that is holding on, regardless of what it is,

a relationship, past identity, a job, just anything you want to transition from but feel stuck in a loop around.

We often feel like that part is hurting us, creating suffering, and in some cases ruining our life.

If only I could just let go, what's wrong with me? Why can I do this?

It should be easy. We try to will our way into release and anyone who's tried to do that knows it doesn't

really work too well.

Or you temporarily suppress the holding on or force yourself into like a pseudo form of release where you just put all of your

energy where you're trying to go but it's mainly a fighting the part of you that's holding on and

you're trying to block that out block that out but it's not a real letting go and this is where

you will often relapse into the holding on.

And so where does loving that part come in?

Well, we have to understand why the holding on is happening in the first place.

And the reason a part of us would hold on is because it's afraid it's going to lose something if it lets go.

That something can take a lot of different forms, but I am going to reduce it to love.

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