When you’re ready, let the feeling go and snap out of it.Thoughts might come up, but do not to think, focus on the feeling and the sensations instead.You will face resistance to let go, sit with it without resisting the resistance Do not resist it, do not judge it, do not try to change it.Letting Go never really goes through the exact steps of how to let go.īut here is the process I teased out for you: Once we are able to feel the emotion and then release it, we also release all the negative influence it has over us. It’s an internal feeling, and it must be dealt with by releasing it. The stress and anger caused by our unpleasant feelings cannot be coped with escapism or suppression. The negative states are the garbage in, and the decisions that are based on them are the garbage out. Your decision-making abilities are also impaired because you based your decisions on negative feelings and distorted reality.ĭavid Hawkins uses a computer phraseology to explain it: It has negative consequences for your mental health, physical health, mood, and level of happiness. Simply put, bottling up negativity poisons you. Projection is an internal psychological mechanism by which we try to maintain our self-esteem by “blaming others” for our internal troubles.īut since we project all our negativity onto others, it’s responsible for aggression, hatred, and even wars. The author says that projection is the most common way of dealing with unpleasant feelings. It includes drugs, alcohol, risk-seeking, and workaholism Escape: getting ourselves too busy -or high- to think about it.Denial and projection of our bad feelings into others are both examples Suppression and repression: they are two sides of the same coin with suppression being conscious and repression being unconscious.Most people handle unpleasant feelings in one of the following three ways: Needless to say, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, so let’s dissect this book. There is not so much information about him and when I Googled his name and “SpiritualWiki” came up instead of Wikipedia.

David Hawkins (1927-2012) was a psychiatrist, author and “spiritual teacher”.

Letting Go In Bergamo by Daniel Hansen