{"id":132474,"date":"2024-10-03T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/?p=132474"},"modified":"2024-10-03T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:08:05","slug":"the-practice-of-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/the-practice-of-letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/leobabauta.com\">Leo Babauta<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Most of our stresses and frustrations come from our unwillingness to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me out: think about something you\u2019re stressing about, or someone you\u2019re frustrated about. What thought do you have about that person or situation that causes the frustration? It\u2019s often an invisible thought, that we don\u2019t realize we have, but if you were to speak it out loud, it would feel really true.<\/p>\n<p>Try writing it out with one of these prompts:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shouldn\u2019t \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I fail, it will mean \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish things weren\u2019t so \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then fill in the blank.<\/p>\n<p>What thought or belief do you have that\u2019s causing your stress or frustration? If you can identify that, you are halfway there.<\/p>\n<p>Now think about how true that thought or belief feels to you. It probably feels like absolute truth. This is the part that we\u2019re unwilling to let go of \u2014 the truth of that thought\/belief.<\/p>\n<p>What if you could recognize it as a thought or belief, and not as an absolute truth?<\/p>\n<p>Could you see ways that the opposite might be true? For example, if you think of ways that someone \u201calways\u201d acts in a certain way, can you see any times when they didn\u2019t? If it feels like you can\u2019t catch a break, can you see times when life gave you a gift?<\/p>\n<p>What would your life be like if you didn\u2019t have this belief?<\/p>\n<p>In the moment when you considered that question, you let go.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how that works: you imagine life without the belief, and suddenly you have peace.<\/p>\n<p>What if you could practice it every time you had frustration or stress?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\/letgo-practice\/\">The Practice of Letting Go<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/zenhabits.net\">zen habits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leo Babauta Most of our stresses and frustrations come from our unwillingness to let go. Hear me out: think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,177],"tags":[179,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132475,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132474\/revisions\/132475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yorbestlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}