My Ongoing Experiment

I first thought of and completed my letting go experiment a little over a month ago. There are a number of things I’d like to say about how it’s impacted my life since then. Before that, I’ll describe it in more detail than I did when I first wrote about it.

When I had a rare two days off in a row from work, I decided to spend a lot more time letting go than I usually do. The easiest way for me to do this was to set aside 15 minutes in each waking hour during which I would sit or lie down and become as physically still as possible. I did my best to focus on my breath and my body as I allowed whatever emotions wished to come up to do so. As best as I could, I avoided resisting anything, putting the feelings into thoughts or words, reframing them, or justifying anything I was thinking or feeling. That was all fairly easy as I’ve practiced it a lot.

This was already a regular practice of mine a few times a day so it was fairly easy to increase the frequency to 16 times a day. That additional time allowed me to reach some deep issues that I rarely ever addressed and spend enough time there to release a huge amount of negativity. Major results appeared before the end of the first day and grew even stronger before the end of the second. There was a feeling of deep peace within me for most of each day. Among other things, that peace made my voice much calmer and smoother than it was before, allowed me to know what to say and do in almost any situation with little to no effort, made it much easier to treat people well and communicate effectively with them, gave me a great deal of inner strength (as well as enough physical strength to move around a 500 lb barrel at my job by myself), and made everything seem easier overall as my problems melted away and I felt invincible.

I had spent some time in that peaceful state on many previous occasions but it never lasted very long. Since I’ve kept up this experiment each day to the best of my ability, I’ve been able to stay in that state almost all the time. When I lose it, which takes a huge amount of stress, I can get back to it with just one or two sessions. My main focus right now is on releasing as much fear as I can in each session. That’s what made the initial experiment so beneficial and it seems to give me the most bang for my buck. I still release anger, sadness, grief, guilt, shame, and other negative emotions as they come up, but releasing fear makes that process much easier by either getting rid of the other emotions or significantly reducing them. That fear shortcut is one of the greatest things I’ve found through this experiment.

Needless to say, I highly recommend you try some version of this for yourself. I did it in 15 minute sessions because that’s what I was already used to doing and I routinely have plenty of time to do it for that long. If you don’t have that kind of time flexibility, then 5 minute sessions will still be beneficial. As long as you’re doing for at at least a few minutes during each waking hour, you’ll get about an hour or more of healing every day and will most likely still have plenty of time for your regular tasks and routines. This may even save you time if your experience is anything like mine. Doing this has made my daily routines even more effective and efficient than before; my increased positive energy makes each task feel easier and I’ve learned how to be more efficient with the time I have when I’m not letting go. However much time you have to dedicate to this, I hope it works wonders for you and makes your life immeasurably better than before.