43. She let go

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me here each week to find out how. This week, I've had a bit of a theme going on. I couldn't ordinarily tell you that I have

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a theme in my week, but this week has been conversation after conversation and coincidences of letting go. One of the significant

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conversations was with my friend, Sonia. She had asked me, how did I begin letting go? And it was a bigger question, but it

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was about lots of smaller subjects. It was about how I had begun to let go of alcohol, how I had begun to let go of other

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people's expectations about my behaviour and how I had made peace with that. A couple of days later, my friend Kirsty did

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a Facebook live, and on her Facebook live, she recorded the poem she let go by the Reverend Sapphire Rose. And this is a poem

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that had popped up on my Facebook memories, last week, because I'd posted it this time last year. It's one of my absolute

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favorites. I've got it saved as a photo on my phone, but I also regularly listen to it in the same way that Kirsty does, and

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that is the version of it that's on Insight Timer if that's an app that you use. Anyway, I'm going to read it to you now.

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She let go. She let go. She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments.

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She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She

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let go of all the right reasons wholly and completely without hesitation or worry. She just let go. She didn't ask anyone

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for advice. She didn't read a book on how to let go. She didn't search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all

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of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the

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planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right. She didn't promise to let go. She didn't journal about

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it. She didn't write the projected date in her day timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She

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didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope, she just let go. She didn't analyse whether she should let go.

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She didn't call her friends to discuss the matter. She didn't do a 5 step spiritual mind treatment. She didn't call the prayer

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line. She didn't utter one word. She just let go. No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations.

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No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go. There was no

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effort. There was no struggle. It wasn't good, and it wasn't bad. It was what it was, and it is just that. In the space of

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letting go she let it all be. A small smile came over her face, a light breeze blew through her, and the sun and the moon

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shone forevermore. Thank you for listening in to this episode of the podcast. Please listen in again next week. Thank you.

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And, PS, I believe in you.