Owls and Orchids

The practice of the action of letting go can take anywhere from a blink of an eye to lifetimes.

Hearing someone saying ‘Just let go’ when you are battling within your stuff or your attachment to your stuff, often times leads to a reaction of anger or hopelessness.

The anger may initially be projected at the person who seems to think it’s so easy. Primarily the anger is towards the self for being unable to do something that ‘should’ be as easy as the phrase sounds.

Then seeps in the hopelessness of feeling like a failure that one cannot let go like one thinks one ‘should’.

What is that we cling onto when we don’t want to let go?

In my experience, I feel one tends to cling to reactions based on primary insecurities.

Our childhood fears float to the surface to be addressed.

• Fear of being alone on this…