A Michael Singer Teaching That Will Help You Let Go When Your Ego Gets Poked
It’ll help you remain calm in those critical first seconds.
I know I sound like a broken record on this ‘letting go’ thing. And I don’t apologize for it. Because letting go is the central activity required for liberation.
Put another way. When my wife and any of her friends ask me for advice about tennis – I’ve played since I was eight and was a four-year varsity letterman at Princeton – I tell them, again and again, that job number one is to be loose. Be fluid. That is central to playing good tennis.
The point is that the fundamentals of any endeavor – writing, piano, golf – need to be stressed, over and over and over, in furtherance of mastering said endeavor.
Letting go leads to liberation
Well, no endeavor is more important and yields more benefit than liberating ourselves from ourselves. And, as Michael Singer teaches, the root of liberation lies in letting go.
Why is that so? You’ve heard it before, but here it is again.
Starting in our youngest years, we had experiences that we either really liked, so we clung to them and want them to repeat, or, much more common, really didn’t like, so we resisted them, thinking that would protect us. In both of those scenarios, we held onto those experiences.
That holding on manifests inside as energy. Stuck energy, unfortunately. Because that stuck energy, which collectively comprises the ego, runs and ruins our lives. How?
