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10/29/2025

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10/10/2025

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09/10/2025

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09/10/2025

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09/05/2025

In the last chapters of Letting Go by David R. Hawkins, he focuses on the practical application of the letting go technique across different areas of life, including health, spirituality, relationships, and mental wellness. The tone becomes more reflective and healing, encouraging deep inner peace.

🧠 1. Healing the Mind and Emotions
Hawkins emphasizes that most emotional pain stems from resistance—from holding on to fear, anger, guilt, or sadness.
The key is to surrender those feelings as they arise, rather than suppressing or analyzing them.
When you allow yourself to feel fully, without judgment or the urge to fix, the emotion often dissolves on its own.
“Suffering is not caused by the external world, but by what we hold on to inside.”

💜 2. Letting Go as Self-Compassion
Letting go is not forceful. It’s not about “getting rid” of feelings.
Instead, it's like gently opening your hand and allowing the emotion to pass through you.
This practice becomes an act of self-kindness, particularly when you're struggling mentally or emotionally.

🌱 3. Growth Through Surrender
Hawkins discusses how surrender leads to inner strength, not weakness.
You begin to notice that peace, not anxiety, becomes your baseline.
Even if fear or depression resurfaces, you're more equipped to sit with it and let it move through.
“There is a profound inner security that arises when you no longer resist your own inner world.”

🌄 4. Spiritual Integration
The book closes on a spiritual note, inviting readers to connect with a higher awareness—not necessarily religious, but a sense of trust in life.
Through surrender, you begin to experience freedom from the ego's demands, leading to deeper joy and purpose.

✨ Encouragement for Those Struggling
If you're going through anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm:
You don't have to “fix” everything.
Letting go doesn’t mean you don’t care—it means you’re choosing inner peace over inner struggle.
Start small. Even releasing a tiny bit of fear or anger can bring relief.
“Just for now, I choose to let go of needing to control this.”

We loved the overall message of surrender being a moment-by-moment choice, and each moment being a fresh chance to begin again.

We hope you enjoyed and found strength in reading along with us!

08/24/2025

This week’s reading highlights!

🌱 Letting Go by Dr. David Hawkins — Key Takeaways for Mental Health (3rd Quarter of the Book)

This section of the book focuses on how different emotional states affect us — and how letting go of those emotions can create real healing. If you're working on improving your mental health, these insights can help you understand your emotions and start creating inner peace.

1. 🌀 Desire Creates Inner Tension
Constant wanting — whether it's love, approval, success, or even healing — keeps your mind in a loop of “not enough.”
Mental health improves when you shift from chasing outcomes to accepting the present moment as it is.
Letting go of desire doesn’t mean giving up — it means releasing the emotional pressure behind the want.

2. 🔥 Anger Isn’t Bad — It’s a Step Forward
Anger often gets a bad rap, but it’s actually more empowering than depression, guilt, or fear.
When handled with awareness (instead of being acted out or suppressed), it becomes fuel for change.
Mental health grows when you learn to feel anger without shame and let it move through you.

3. 💪 Courage is the Turning Point
Real change in mental health starts when you face life instead of avoiding it.
Courage is about showing up — to therapy, to hard conversations, to your feelings.
When you let go of fear, you naturally build emotional resilience and confidence.

4. ☁️ Acceptance Lowers Anxiety
Resistance (to pain, past mistakes, or uncertainty) keeps your nervous system activated.
Acceptance helps calm your mind by saying: “This is how it is right now — and that’s okay.”
It doesn’t mean giving up — it means stopping the inner fight, which creates space for healing.

5. 🌿 Willingness Opens the Door to Healing
Willingness is about being open to growth, help, and new ways of thinking — even if they feel uncomfortable at first.
Mental health improves when you stop clinging to being “right” and open up to being free.
Letting go of pride and fear makes it easier to ask for support or try new approaches.

6. 🧘‍♂️ Letting Go Is a Mental Cleanse
Letting go isn’t suppression — it’s the conscious release of emotional energy.
You don’t need to fix every thought or story — just allow the underlying emotion to pass through you.
This process helps reduce overthinking, emotional overload, and mood swings.

7. 🔁 Emotional Patterns Repeat Until Released
If you keep finding yourself in the same emotional loops, it’s a sign there's something unprocessed beneath the surface.
Letting go helps you break free from old trauma responses and negative self-beliefs.
This inner work leads to more consistent emotional balance over time.

8. 🤝 Healthier Relationships Start Within
Emotional baggage affects how you connect with others — often through neediness, defensiveness, or people-pleasing.
As you release inner pressure, relationships become more authentic, respectful, and stable.
You start to relate from love and presence, not fear and past wounds.

🔑 Final Insight for Mental Health:
Letting go isn’t about controlling emotions — it’s about freeing yourself from their grip.g

08/12/2025

This week in Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by Dr. David R. Hawkins we are reflecting on the second quarter of the book (roughly chapters 5–9). We notice an emphasis on emotional safety, self-compassion, and agency.

Here are the biggest takeaways from that section:

🧠 1. You Don’t Have to “Fix” Every Feeling
One of the most powerful ideas is: you don’t have to suppress, avoid, or fix your emotions.
Letting go is about allowing yourself to feel safely, without judgment, and letting the emotion pass on its own.

🪨 2. Emotional Pain Is Not Permanent
Feelings like anxiety, sadness, or anger aren’t who you are — they’re emotional energies moving through you.
The more you allow them to exist without resisting or analyzing, the faster they release.

🌀 3. Recurring Mental Health Struggles Have Emotional Roots
Chronic symptoms (like panic attacks, low mood, or self-sabotage) often stem from deep, unprocessed emotional layers.
Letting go helps you release the emotional charge behind those symptoms, which can reduce their intensity over time.

🫂 4. You Are Not Your Thoughts or Emotions
Mental health symptoms often come with harsh self-talk or shame.
Hawkins emphasizes that your true self is not the voice in your head, nor the emotions you feel — you are the observer behind them.

🧘‍♀️ 5. Surrendering Doesn’t Mean Giving Up — It Means Inner Strength
Surrender means letting go of resistance — not giving in to despair or avoiding responsibility.
It’s an act of emotional courage, allowing you to stop fighting your inner world and start healing.

💬 6. It’s Safe to Feel – Even the “Bad” Emotions
Many clients believe they’ll be overwhelmed if they face their feelings.
Hawkins shows that when you stop pushing emotions away, they pass more quickly and leave you feeling lighter, not worse.

🔁 7. Progress Isn’t Linear — and That’s OK
You might have to let go of the same fear, anger, or grief multiple times.
This is normal and part of the healing process. Each round brings more clarity, peace, and resilience.

🕊️ 8. You Deserve Inner Peace — Without Earning It
Emotional healing doesn’t require you to be perfect or to “figure everything out.”
Peace comes as a byproduct of letting go, not from solving or fixing every part of your life.

08/08/2025

Some Takeaways From the Reading (chapters 1&2)

1. What is Letting Go?

Letting go is a way to release feelings that cause stress, pain, or negative experiences. Instead of pushing these feelings away or trying to fight them, you allow yourself to fully feel them without judgment or resistance. This helps the feelings fade naturally.

2. Why Do We Hold Onto Emotions?
Usually, we try to avoid uncomfortable emotions like anger, fear, sadness, or guilt. We might distract ourselves or push these feelings deep down inside. But holding on to emotions actually keeps us stuck and can create more suffering.

3. How Does Letting Go Work?
The process works because when you stop resisting a feeling and just let it be, it loses its energy. Emotions are like waves; if you try to hold them back, they crash harder, but if you let them flow, they pass by.

4. Awareness is Key
The first step is noticing the feeling as it arises. Instead of ignoring it or getting lost in thoughts about it, you simply become aware of the emotion in your body or mind.

5. Acceptance Without Judgment
Next, accept the feeling exactly as it is, without labeling it “good” or “bad.” Don’t try to change it or make it go away forcefully. Just allow it to exist fully.

6. Don’t Resist or Suppress
Resistance is the opposite of letting go. When you resist feelings, they become stronger and last longer. When you suppress feelings, they get trapped inside and cause problems later. Letting go means not fighting the feeling.

7. Surrendering Control
Surrender doesn’t mean giving up or being weak. It means giving up the struggle to control your feelings. By surrendering, you let the feelings flow out naturally instead of holding them inside.

8. Practical Tips for Letting Go

When a feeling comes up, pause and observe it.

Breathe into the feeling and allow yourself to experience it fully.

Don’t analyze or try to fix it—just be with it.

Repeat this practice regularly with all kinds of emotions.

9. Emotional Energy Scale (Introduction)
Hawkins mentions that emotions have different levels of energy. Negative emotions like guilt, shame, and fear have low energy and keep us trapped. Positive emotions like love, joy, and peace have high energy and free us. Letting go helps us move from low-energy emotions to higher ones.

In summary:

Letting go is a gentle, natural way to release painful emotions by fully feeling and accepting them without fighting or judging. This allows emotional energy to flow freely, leading to healing and inner peace.r

08/06/2025

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08/03/2025

Read along with Turn Leaf Wellness!!

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by Dr. David Hawkins, MD, PhD.

An amazing resource! We will be reading this throughout the month of August! Check in weekly for highlighted points! Click the link below to access in YouTube… no account required!

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