Letting Go by Susie Health

When we are born, we know our own magnificence. There is no discord, bitterness or resentment. We are just little, whole and pure. The tiniest baby understands love, and expresses it through snuggling close to whoever is giving the love. As infants, we have twice as many brain connections as an adult, a vivid imagination, a creative mind and a sensitive personality. It takes years of training to change us from that open state to where we are now, years of training the happiness and spontaneity out of us. As newborns, we had only two fears - fear of falling and fear of loud noises. Now it seems we are afraid of almost everything. We make our lives so complicated and lose our intrinsic childlike sense of joy and wonder. How would it be if you can now let go of what you are not,

and just be who you really are?

Imagine how that would feel. Then you can have a wonderful open space in which to create your amazing new life. Like a magical spring-clean, it will give you much greater clarity, so you can focus on the wondrous things you really do desire. Open your mind and empty out the rubbish, all the ‘stuff’ that has accumulated over the years. Scrub it clean; yes, even the dusty murky corners. Clear away all the junk, all the lies you have been told about not being good enough, so you can reclaim who you really are and what you already know deep, deep within the recesses of your soul. We need to remove the barriers that block love from coming in, and from us expressing it.

So is this brainwashing? Oh yes, absolutely, in the truest sense of the word - washing out the brain. You can free it from all the negativity, conditioning and repetitive patterns of behaviour, worry and garbage that you have taken in throughout your life that keep you from being all that you can be as a real woman.

You’ve got an ego; we’ve all got an ego. We tend to think of our ego as the part of us that shows off, but our ego also has another side to it. Our ego hangs around with pain, guilt, fear, remorse and lots of ‘If only’s’ and ‘Yes but’s.’ It survives by the juice it gets from all these darker emotions – lots of complaining, comparing, blaming and wallowing in misery.

Although we may not choose the situations that happen to us, consciously or unconsciously we do choose our response to whatever situation we ?nd ourselves in.

Everything we do in life, whether positive or negative, has some sort of payoff. The good payoffs make us feel wanted, loved, appreciated, desired and cared for. The not so good ones mean we avoid taking responsibility for our own lives. We then get together with people who share the same pessimistic view as us which just reinforces

our negativity; we get sympathy, we apportion blame, we justify our misery, we have ready-made excuses as to why things don’t go according to plan and why we have got side-tracked from our life-purpose. If it wasn’t giving us some sort of pay-off, we wouldn’t do it! But it’s not who you really are!