Letting go is not a method for suppressing emotions?

[Western Buddha]

Whats the diffrence between letting go of something and suppressing an emotion?

I saw leo's video but it seems to me that letting go can become a way to supress emotions, am I wrong?

Edited August 30, 2019 by Western Buddha

[Lowerplanedweller]

Be yourself, emotions are a part of your makeup, enjoy it's benefits, We were not created to be robots.

[Western Buddha]

38 minutes ago, Lowerplanedweller said:

Be yourself, emotions are a part of your makeup, enjoy it's benefits, We were not created to be robots.

So what's your opinion on letting go?

[Eliska]

I have actually been trying to figure that out myself for sometime, and this is what I think so far:

Suppressing and letting go of an emotion are two very different things. If you suppress an emotion, you resist it, you hold it in and dont allow it to be expressed.

Letting go is usualy when you come to terms with a certain situation or an emotion and you truly feel at peace. It is however a lot harder to do that. Of course, if youre not present, you can mask suppresing an emotion as letting go. But if you just focus for a bit I think its easy to tell the difference.

Im my experience, strong suppressed emotions have to be in some way expressed or released so that you can "let go".

There are various techniques for releasing emotional blocks. Dramatotherapy is really good for this but if you dont want to go to a therapist I suggest the method where you simply write a letter to a person that youre angry at and you really try to tap into that anger. The letter doesnt have to be written nicely. It doesnt even have to be coherent. Just "vommit" your thoughts out onto the page. Crying also helps. Once its done, you can burn the letter and let it go. Hope it helps.

 

[Fishy]

When you let go of an emotion you feel thru the emotion completely without resisting it. Stay present with it and it will run out and dissipate by itself, that is "Letting go". If you resist it and push it away you are suppressing it. 

[zeroISinfinity]

Letting go is quite actually fully experiencing emotions. Sounds paradoxical does it. 

It is your perspective on sensations That creates emotions. 

You feel contracting sensations in chest area and You label it fear for example. Then You resist "negative emotion' and You create your own suffering. 

[Shadowraix]

3 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

Letting go is quite actually fully experiencing emotions. Sounds paradoxical does it. 

It is your perspective on sensations That creates emotions. 

You feel contracting sensations in chest area and You label it fear for example. Then You resist "negative emotion' and You create your own suffering. 

Bingo!!!

The body is going to experience what it needs to one way or another. Letting go is fully letting the body experience and accepting it.

[Aakash]

I had an experience of non dual being just one hour ago. Nearly shedded tears because I realised a lamp post was being itself. 

Then I realised my thoughts were apart of being. I wondered to myself am I still attached to my human as to influence it’s thoughts for better use? Or was it too appearing out of nowhere. It’s identifying with the thoughts that gave them value, otherwise they were just form flying out of nowhere. 

Letting go gives you space to just detach from the thoughts 

[zeroISinfinity]

@Aakash Yes! You do not have to beleive their content. Try to see them as pathetic small veil That hides ACTUALITY/MYSELF 

That lamp is You. 

Edited August 30, 2019 by zeroISinfinity

[Aakash]

@zeroISinfinity yes there was a deep connection to the lamp, which is why it felt emotional. Almost like it was so beautiful that it was full of emptiness. The type of form didn’t actually matter. 

Maybe it was actually a glimpse of love ?

Edited August 30, 2019 by Aakash

[Aakash]

I also noticed as what could possibly hurt you or could you fear because you are immortal and the very present moment itself. Even if a human is hurt, nothing ever happens to being. It is experiencing what it is like to get hurt. But doesn’t actually get hurt. 

[zeroISinfinity]

@Aakash Do you notice That This forum is actually You. Can You make That radical 180 degree shift. From some guy in Reality to BEING. 

YOU are everything. All of the sensations. 

There is nothing to do or understand. It's already True. 

Fuck the egoic mind Just laugh at how fake and Empty and small veil is. 

Edited August 30, 2019 by zeroISinfinity

[Bill W]

If you let the feeling go, what feeling is left to repress? 

[Aakash]

12 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

sh Do you notice That This forum is actually You. Can You make That radical 180 degree shift. From some guy in Reality to BEING. 

Yes actually I now realise how I can see that is true 

YOU are everything. All of the sensations. 

By sensations do you mean the connected feeling of being as opposed to the sensations of emotions from a thought 

There is nothing to do or understand. It's already True. 

Not sure what you mean by this 

but I did sit there thinking what is there to do when everything is already being. What could I possibly do. I thought I could offer maybe some helpful words of advice to a family member who was suffering but It didn’t actually seem like being was suffering. It was just being who was experiencing suffering. 

Fuck the egoic mind Just laugh at how fake and Empty and small veil is. 

Yeah but that emptiness didn’t feel right. It just felt like all words, all actions were pointless in a sense

 

[zeroISinfinity]

@Aakash @zeroISinfinity

Hope you'll make transition to good, Selfless side. 

See You never left the Home, You always were it. 

See Truth has nothing with philosophies, paradigm self and others etc. 

It's pure, Loving compassionate all encompassing and good without any fear. 

[zeroISinfinity]

@Aakash That Love Will Come do not doubt it. 

You are healing that's it. Make transition and live from That place. 

[Aakash]

10 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

See Truth has nothing with philosophies, paradigm self and others etc. 

 

Let’s continue this in another thread I have something to say about this 

[Truth Addict]

 

[Shadowraix]

59 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

@Aakash Do you notice That This forum is actually You. Can You make That radical 180 degree shift. From some guy in Reality to BEING. 

YOU are everything. All of the sensations. 

There is nothing to do or understand. It's already True. 

Fuck the egoic mind Just laugh at how fake and Empty and small veil is. 

I can when the forum says it to me 

[FocusOnTruth]

@Western Buddha To put in simple terms, suppression is unconscious while letting go is conscious. 

An example of suppression: You want to watch some porn, but you have a rule in your head, "Porn = bad. Don't watch." You follow by compulsively following the rule without any real insight or investigation, cutting off the behavior in an unconscious fashion, not applying much self-awareness.

An example of letting go:  You want to watch some porn, but you're conscious of the drawbacks, conscious of making better use of your time, conscious of your compulsion, the emotions behind it. You notice the unconsciousness in the impulse. You're mindful of your perception of it having some inherent ability to satisfy and see how that's just a fabrication of your own mind. You don't do this merely intellectually and/or forcefully. Instead, you gently let go of the impulse and do something else. 

To put in concisely in another way, it's done with insight and as much awareness/mindfulness as you can muster so that the insight is seen and felt and it's done gently, not forcing yourself to follow some rule.