"We Can Let Go of the Past, and of the Future"

This week's blog is a follow up to last week's blog; "Let Go of Control" and learn to trust the journey. This week, I am sharing exercises that when practiced regularly, can help you to get "unstuck" from your need to have control all the time.
Please leave a comment regarding your experience with these exercises!

Ilissa

The difference between theory and experience generally lies in practice, and this is certainly true of Attitudinal Healing. Try to do one of the following personal practice exercises each day (but not more than once per waking hour). Most are five-minute exercises, but you may extend them to 15 minutes if you are comfortable with them. Try not to judge yourself for failing, or for doing them imperfectly, or for being distracted while doing them. Nevertheless, be willing to make an effort, and give them enough priority in your day to make the practice effective. In fact, it is your own "little willingness" that sparks the changes we come to know as "healing".

Practice Exercises:

"We Can Let Go of the Past, and of the Future"
• Individual Exercise:

As a tool for organizing our life, "control" is a useful thing. But when we use the past to "control" our life, we often block our own healthful growth. "Letting go" is the antidote to unhealthful control, and hence we get the principle: "We can let go of the past, and of the future." For five minutes at the beginning of your day, sit quietly in a quiet place. Read More>>>