How to let go of pain, 'suffering', 'anxiety,' et cetera
On the experience of transience: a transcript
This is the essence of the ‘Letting Go’ technique, described in
the book by the same name, and in numerous lectures and talks by Dr David Hawkins.
The book is incredibly helpful, by the way, if clearing spiritual,
emotional and physical blocks appeals to you. It may not ‘appeal’
as much as become a pressing need and one might then decide
to give it a try.
Really simple advice, but it might take a lifetime or two to master.
Save this one for a rainy day.
“Don’t call it anything,
don’t label it anything.
Keep your mind silent.
You stay in touch with whatever
you are experiencing, and you
let go of resisting it.
You are going to experience it,
you are going to decompress it.
You can do that with pain
and any kind of suffering.
The suffering is due to the resistance.
If you keep surrendering to it you will undo it.
You let go of resisting the depression.
You’ve got to sit down and go through it.
You’re holding a baggage of it.
The way to let go of a thing is to sit down
and completely surrender to the energy of it.
Don’t label it depression. You don’t have ‘depression’
Don’t label it lower feelings or any euphemism.
Go into the phenomena itself.
Don’t resist the phenomena, because there is only so much of it.
It’s like a compressed energy thing.
And as you stay in touch with it
and experience it out, it will come to
an end. Because it is not unlimited.”
— Dr. David Hawkins
Found with gratitude at
https://jonathankalman.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-favorite-dr-david-r-hawkins-quotes.html