Letting Go by David Hawkins contains a lot of good stuff. I’ll probably end up rereading it several times so I can get the most out of it. Here are some of the things that have resonated most strongly with me so far and given me a lot to think about.
- Thoughts don’t hurt; the emotions underneath them do.
- Depersonalizing thoughts, emotions, and opinions (such as saying “an opinion” rather than “my opinion”) makes it easier to let them go.
- Suppressing unwanted thoughts and emotions doesn’t make them go away, it just causes them to build up within us and results in a lot of problems, including physical ailments.
- Allowing ourselves to fully feel our emotions without resisting them is how we let go of them.
- Surrendering to a lower emotion allows us to move up to higher emotions.
- Through daily practice, we can overcome our conditioning and choose how to respond to whatever happens to us.
- Even with the best life hacks for handling emotions, pain, and other challenges in life, we can still suffer if we don’t practice them regularly.
- People project what they don’t like about themselves onto others.
- Regularly working on releasing the built-up negativity within us is essential for healing and being free from the past.
- Some things that we thought were healed actually require more work before we can fully move on from them.