Stop Grasping: What Might Happen If You Just Let Go?
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
We're all guilty of it...
It's something we all do. For some, it's not a big deal, intruding on rare occasion. For others, though, it literally controls your life. It fills each day with what feels like an impenetrable level of suffering and it's often accompanied by a stifling level of hoarding, both emotional and physical. Especially when the that hoarding of things and states helps to delude you into desperately yearned for feelings of certainty and security.
What is it?
Grasping.
We hold mercilessly onto certain pain, rather than release into uncertain possibility.
Thing is, we don't often realize the suffering is coming from our own refusal to let go of our death grip on the very thing or relationship or experience that is causing unease until we've been metaphorically and, sometimes, physically hammered into letting go.
How this unfolds, why we do this and what to do about it is the focus of today's GLP Riff. And, along the way, you just might learn a thing or two about...waterskiing (you'll have to listen to find out what that's all about).
So, I'll leave you with a question...
What are you holding onto now that's smothering you under the weight of your own unrelenting grip?
Now, go listen now. And if you know anyone this might help, please feel free to share it around.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Camp GLP. |
| 0:09.8 | What is it? |
| 0:10.8 | Well, we're taking over an amazing sleep away camp about 90 minutes outside of New York |
| 0:15.5 | City. |
| 0:16.5 | At the end of August, it will be an incredible blend of about 350 entrepreneurs, makers, |
| 0:22.4 | world shakers, and just regular people looking to connect to hang out, to rejuvenate, to |
| 0:27.5 | restore and to learn together, literally from around the globe. |
| 0:32.2 | If that feels like a pretty cool place to be at the end of August, then go ahead and |
| 0:36.8 | check out the details at GoodLiveProject.com slash camp on to our show. |
| 0:48.1 | When I was a kid I grew up on the water, I mean literally, the beach was at the end of |
| 0:53.6 | my block. |
| 0:55.1 | So I'm kind of a water kid and we spent a lot of the summers just down hanging out on |
| 1:01.4 | the bay, running around, fishing some time, swimming, and sailing. |
| 1:07.6 | Sailing was huge in the town that I grew up and I actually grew up in the town which, |
| 1:11.4 | if you've ever read the Great Gatsby, is the actual original East Egg, so East Egg is |
| 1:15.9 | a town called Port Washington on Long Island which is just outside of New York City and |
| 1:21.1 | that was my town where I grew up. |
| 1:23.6 | So we spent a lot of time in the warm weather down by the water. |
| 1:26.9 | Now one of the other things we love to do was water skiing. |
| 1:29.7 | And we kind of all learned to do that pretty young and this was back when the water was |
| 1:33.4 | a lot cleaner also so it was more fun being in it. |
| 1:37.9 | There's an interesting thing that happens when you're learning to water ski that's kind |
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