The Spiritual Tool of Letting Go

We are like the serpent, removing old skins as well as old habits and discarding old ways of relating. What comes out of this process is yet unknown. This process, like that of the serpent has to happen slowly and fully. It has to respect our psychic openness. If we let go a little, we can only receive a little and the process will be stifled and we will experience ourself in fits and starts and this will depend on the degree of our openness and letting go, to allow for the new us to enter. For sure, if we make the commitment with ourself to change and put in the effort, it will happen and we will receive. However, if during this process of receiving we put up blockages, that which we receive might upset us.

Primarily we have to do the process of letting go which has to be a smooth one that respects our rate of progress. For some, letting go sometimes happens in times of crisis, but do we have to go there? The spirituality of letting go is the spirituality of humility – of acknowledging. The way we experience the Divine is the way we shape our path.

We need courage to let go of some of the spiritual ideas we have which might have been instilled in us when we were young and for which we might not have been psychologically prepared. We have to know ourselves so well that we take steps in our life that are respectful of our psychology. Spirituality has always got to be open to life and respectful to who we are. Like this, our spiritual process is faster because it is totally respectful of who we are.

Our discernment on our experiences in life will form our spirituality and stabilise us. If our spirituality is always pulling the carpet from under our feet it is of no use to us. We have to integrate our spirituality with our personal experience. This will teach us how to let go. The spirituality that places us in a box with one set of rules is not respectful to the evolvement of our own spiritual experience. Our spirituality grows from our reflective experience which we test with the spiritual tools that we have learnt, thus becoming a source of growth in our spiritual life, helping us to experience the love of the Divine which is expansion and our experiences are always new which then work to build us up. The experience of Life is not the same , so we cannot stick to the same ways of dealing with it. The more we allow and the more we let go, the more we will experience things in a different way.