Let It Go?

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Here's a framework for letting it go (whatever “it” is) - SoCurious

So place your attention on feeling the emotion, and check whether your mind is holding on to a grievance pattern such as blame, self-pity, or resentment that is feeding the emotion. If that is the case, it means that you haven’t forgiven. Non-forgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or

Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The way to move past an emotion is to first allow yourself to fully feel it.

Only then can you let it go.

Simple to understand. But hard to do.

Much of our mind, and most of our culture, is designed to distract from feeling of emotions (h/t Alice Miller)