18/12/2025
Hope is mental. When we stick to hope, we are trapped in the mental, and we are not Present in the here and now. That’s why suffering arise.
The good news is that when we are fully Present with what is, without judging it, just witnessing that it is there, the very Light of the Presence transform things energetically, and allow the right intuition to what to do or not do, to arrive to consciouness
THE JOY OF LOSING HOPE
Hope can be a beautiful thing.
But hope can also keep us stuck in cycles of anger and despair.
Hope can even keep us stuck in abusive or harmful situations.
Hope that things could still change.
Hope that someone might finally understand.
Hope that a relationship might become what we always longed for.
Hope that someone might eventually open their heart, change their mind, or truly start to listen.
As long as that hope stays alive, frustration and anger can keep burning inside us.
It can feel as though the hope itself is the fuel.
Anger keeps saying, I want things to change. It shouldn’t be like this. Why can’t they change. Why did they do that. What did I do wrong. Why can’t they just see the truth. If only…
On a nervous system level, this keeps us locked onto a future outcome. The stress response never fully switches off. The body stays stuck in a state of anxious waiting.
But when hope finally dies, anger can soften.
It is no longer needed.
It can go off duty.
We stop fighting reality.
We stop arguing with what is.
We begin to accept people and circumstances as they actually are.
That doesn’t mean we agree with them. It just means we call off the war.
What’s left underneath the anger is sadness.
The death of a dream.
The loss of a long held fantasy.
And then we have space.
Space to grieve.
Space to let go.
Space to move on.
Sometimes the most peaceful thing we can do is to stop hoping for what will never happen. To stop hoping for what was never really there in the first place. To stop hoping for what was never truly possible.
Losing hope is not weakness or giving up. It can be an act of deep self love, one that brings us back to presence, clarity, and peace.
- Jeff Foster