{"id":23618,"date":"2020-09-08T06:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/08\/let-it-go-or-let-it-be-but-dont-cling-to-it-a-yogis-guide-to-authentic-living\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T06:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:20:59","slug":"let-it-go-or-let-it-be-but-dont-cling-to-it-a-yogis-guide-to-authentic-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/08\/let-it-go-or-let-it-be-but-dont-cling-to-it-a-yogis-guide-to-authentic-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Let It Go or Let It Be But Don\u2019t Cling to It: A Yogi\u2019s Guide to Authentic Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s sometimes a misconception in the yoga community that yogis transcend all the messiness of life. Early in our practice, we\u2019re often taught to let it go<\/a><\/em>, as one of my teachers pointed out recently. But she wasn\u2019t pointing that out to encourage it necessarily. She was pointing it out to dispel the myth that it\u2019s always a simple matter to let things go. In some situations, let it go<\/em> doesn\u2019t apply.<\/p>\n

There is real pain and struggle in life, and we\u2019re often confronted with experiences that cause a kind pain, even if it\u2019s temporary, that is beyond our human ability to let go. An obvious example is the loss of a loved one. For most of us, while that kind of pain eases, it\u2019s not something we can ever let go of completely. And we don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

So, what do we do instead? We can let it be. We can even let
\nit exist right alongside of other emotions. All emotions are allowed, even if they
\nseem to contradict each other. It\u2019s clinging to emotions, not having them, that
\ncauses harm and can shut down our ability to function and thrive.<\/p>\n

A friend explained this concept well when she described learning to hold our truth\u2014in other words, our individual experiences\u2014with an open palm instead of a clenched fist. While she wasn\u2019t referring to emotional challenges, I think what she said applies to emotions as well. <\/p>\n

When we feel intense emotions, like grief or anger<\/a>, we can allow them to pass through us rather than try to block them out or let them overwhelm us to the point that we can\u2019t loosen our grasp on what we feel.<\/p>\n

When To Let It Go And When To Let It Be<\/strong><\/h3>\n

No one can tell you when to let something go and when to let
\nit be. There\u2019s no formula that will determine how long to sit with something, but
\ngetting the mind out of the way may be the key. Yoga teaches us to be in the
\nmoment without grasping. It teaches us to quite the mind so we can access our
\ntrue Self, a Self that knows contentment and bliss. When we learn to be still
\nand let things be (it takes practice), we get better at turning difficult
\nemotions over to a higher power that knows what to do with them. <\/p>\n

As my yoga teacher pointed out, we are always held. Another
\nway to look at it to realize that when get in tune with our true Self, things unfold
\nas they are meant to unfold. That means we can process every experience in due
\ntime. We just need to be willing to let Source operate through us and for us. <\/p>\n

If all of this sounds a bit \u201cout there,\u201d I get it. Just realize that you don\u2019t have to force yourself to feel or not feel anything. Yoga offers many tools<\/a> we can use to expand our perspective, and when we operate from a more expansive place, we notice more and more that we\u2019re always where we need to be. <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s sometimes a misconception in the yoga community that yogis transcend all the messiness of life. Early in our practice, we\u2019re often taught to let it go, as one of my teachers pointed out recently. But she wasn\u2019t pointing that out to encourage it necessarily. She was pointing it out to dispel the myth that … [Read more…]
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There\u2019s sometimes a misconception in the yoga community that yogis transcend all the messiness of life. Early in our practice, we\u2019re often taught to let it go, as one of my teachers pointed out recently. But she wasn\u2019t pointing that out to encourage it necessarily. She was pointing it out to dispel the myth that it\u2019s always a simple matter to let things go. In some situations, let it go doesn\u2019t apply. There is real pain and struggle in life, and we\u2019re often confronted with experiences that cause a kind pain, even if it\u2019s temporary, that is beyond our human ability to let go. An obvious example is the loss of a loved one. For most of us, while that kind of pain eases, it\u2019s not something we can ever let go of completely. And we don\u2019t have to. So, what do we do instead? We can let it be. We can even let it exist right alongside of other emotions. All emotions are allowed, even if they seem to contradict each other. It\u2019s clinging to emotions, not having them, that causes harm and can shut down our ability to function and thrive. A friend explained this concept well when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sayloveyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}