LETTING GO is more than just letting go...

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

Albert Einstein, (there are many variations of the wording of this quote, perhaps it was translated)

One of the base ideas that is out there now is that visualizing a desire as graphically as possible is a first step in attaining a goal or desire. The next would be holding that visualization until it feels real, then letting it go in order to not focus on it directly and thus allowing the Universe to come up with the means to the end regardless of what we think the means may be. Nice idea, and roughly correct. While this, all on it's own may work for some I really think that letting go needs to be done long before framing any particular goal or desire and with a different approach than we typically may apply now, or more accurately, have applied in the past.

If I alter the quote by replacing, "...solve our problems...", with, "...change ourselves...", it takes on a new context while still holding it's inherent truth.

"We cannot change ourselves with the same thinking we used when we created ourselves".

Consider that everything that IS and how we interacted, reacted and created our past makes us who we are, all of it by choice even if the choice was not apparent at the time. Everything that IS has already happened and everything from this moment and past, is immutable and needs to be let go.

Given this, letting go is more a matter of accepting what IS and disassociating from all that IS which requires different thinking than we have been employing up to now. We need to accept that we cannot change ourselves by interacting, reacting and making choices as we have in the past.

This is hard, no two ways about it. This old thinking has been going on from birth and is not going to change on a dime. There is no easy and quick methodology to do so, nor is there likely to be one that will work for everyone.

To use the overused business phrase, "on a going forward basis" our thinking will need to be incrementally altered as each new circumstance offers us a choice to make. Each choice will need to be deliberated upon until such time as our unconscious selves are re-programmed or re-trained to accept the new paradigm of thinking and eventually these choices will become automatic and intuitive.

This sums up where I am at now, on the road to unconscious re-programming. I started by attacking my procrastinative tendencies first figuring that everything else will fall into place much more easily once I stop putting it all off for some other time.

Jeff.