September 25th – I Said Drop It!
“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.” – Ajahn Cha – Buddhist Monk
There is a very effective program called The Sedona Method that teaches you how to release your inner limitations and blocks aka – Letting Go. Hale Dwoskin, the author of The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being, uses a very simplistic analogy called Drop the Pen, to describe the process of letting go.
Drop the Pen – My Interpretation
Grab a pen or pencil and hold it as tightly as you can. View the pen as one of the “feelings, demons from the past, or “limiting factors” you are holding on to. View your hand as your heart and head holding on. After a short time, holding the pen tightly becomes uncomfortable. The uncomfortable feeling should be familiar as that feeling is similar to what you feel when you think about what you are holding on to. The tighter you hold it, the more familiar the feeling becomes. It’s the same as the sadness, anger, or depressed feelings you experience when you think about the situation you are holding on to.
Now release the kung fu grip on the pen and let it roll back and forth in your palm. You can clearly see the pen is free to move on its own. Like the pen, your feelings and limiting factors are not attached. Now flip your hand and watch the pen fall. Pretty easy to do isn’t it? There’s no magic, no big hoopla, or big deal. Gravity just takes over and pulls the pen away from you and to the floor. In its simplest form, you just stopped holding on to the pen and “let it go.”
Holding on to things keeps you tied to the things whether they be people or events. Your thoughts and feelings are running your life rather than “you” running your life. Letting go does not minimize the event or the people, or mean that it didn’t matter or you didn’t care. It just simply means just letting go. .” I like the way Marci says it: “You are not your thoughts or feelings.”
Action Item – Write down three things you are holding on to. You know them well as they are the top three that make you the most uncomfortable. And just so you know you are not alone, the most common one at the top of the list is self image and self worth which typically drive the other two on the list. After you have written them down, put that pen in your hand and do the Dropping the Pen exercise. Please note you may need to do it numerous times, and that is perfectly fine. Just do it till you feel you can let it go.
POSITIVE NEWS
+5
We have five new members to the group.
Jim’s wife Patricia is now part of the group. Welcome Patricia.
I also want to welcome Michael M. from Mississippi.
Linda L, from Dallas, also has a friend joining us, Jill B. Welcome aboard Jill.
Nikki comes to us from Florida. Welcome to the group, Nikki.
Carol P.’s son Shaun is also jumping on the TOD train. Welcome Shaun.
“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.” – Ajahn Cha – Buddhist Monk
There is a very effective program called The Sedona Method that teaches you how to release your inner limitations and blocks aka – Letting Go. Hale Dwoskin, the author of The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being, uses a very simplistic analogy called Drop the Pen, to describe the process of letting go.
Drop the Pen – My Interpretation
Grab a pen or pencil and hold it as tightly as you can. View the pen as one of the “feelings, demons from the past, or “limiting factors” you are holding on to. View your hand as your heart and head holding on. After a short time, holding the pen tightly becomes uncomfortable. The uncomfortable feeling should be familiar as that feeling is similar to what you feel when you think about what you are holding on to. The tighter you hold it, the more familiar the feeling becomes. It’s the same as the sadness, anger, or depressed feelings you experience when you think about the situation you are holding on to.
Now release the kung fu grip on the pen and let it roll back and forth in your palm. You can clearly see the pen is free to move on its own. Like the pen, your feelings and limiting factors are not attached. Now flip your hand and watch the pen fall. Pretty easy to do isn’t it? There’s no magic, no big hoopla, or big deal. Gravity just takes over and pulls the pen away from you and to the floor. In its simplest form, you just stopped holding on to the pen and “let it go.”
Holding on to things keeps you tied to the things whether they be people or events. Your thoughts and feelings are running your life rather than “you” running your life. Letting go does not minimize the event or the people, or mean that it didn’t matter or you didn’t care. It just simply means just letting go. .” I like the way Marci says it: “You are not your thoughts or feelings.”
Action Item – Write down three things you are holding on to. You know them well as they are the top three that make you the most uncomfortable. And just so you know you are not alone, the most common one at the top of the list is self image and self worth which typically drive the other two on the list. After you have written them down, put that pen in your hand and do the Dropping the Pen exercise. Please note you may need to do it numerous times, and that is perfectly fine. Just do it till you feel you can let it go.
POSITIVE NEWS
+5
We have five new members to the group.
Jim’s wife Patricia is now part of the group. Welcome Patricia.
I also want to welcome Michael M. from Mississippi.
Linda L, from Dallas, also has a friend joining us, Jill B. Welcome aboard Jill.
Nikki comes to us from Florida. Welcome to the group, Nikki.
Carol P.’s son Shaun is also jumping on the TOD train. Welcome Shaun.
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