Letting go technique

[lfvd95]

I´ve been reading David Hawkins book letting go and practicing the technique for every day, but I´m not sure if I´m doing it right, if its working or if this technique is legit. I haven´t read the whole book yet, but I had some expereince with the technique a few years ago. I remember someone telling me about blockages in the energatic body , and just having to feel the tension in the body in order to release them. So I gave this thing a try and I rmember feeling a lot of tension, in my chest and throat. I tried to focus my attention on it and it seemed to move, change and transform; at some point, the energy liberated in a huge release, similar to an awakening experience, and left me feeling high and in a state of no mind for like 30 minutes.
Fast forward to the present, my ex broke up with me, and following the explination Hawkins gives at the begining of the book about how wmotions get stuck as tension and influence our thoughts and behaviour until they are let go of by releasing them, I thought maybe the anxiety and insecurity, along with some of the disfunctional behavior I displayed in my past relationships could be healed or fixed by letting go of the hidden emotions stuck in my. So I sit and after a few moments of silence I notice a point of presure in my upper chest, somethimes in my throat, third eye, stomach etc. I´ve been practicing the technique at least 30 minutes every day, and while the sensations move, change, and sometimes even feel like they are released, they only feel partly so. However, instead of minutes, it can sometimes take up to two hours if not more time - at a time- to get the release - which is nothing like the experience described above, but a slight momentary feeling of less preasure in the part of the body, before the general tension moves somewhere else or goes back. As I said, I sit alone with no distractions and try to  put the focus of my attention on the specific point in my body where I feel some sort of energy or tension; there are times when it simply feels like tension, at others, the sensation takes an emotional flavour, and some others I´ve gotten flashbacks into my past - memories I had forgoten come baack up. There are times when I have felt a lot better, yet, I´m not sure if this is working properly, since the same thoughts and emotions are still there, and the actual changes in my state and mood could be attributed, not to the technique itself, but simply to time and the natural course of thing - take into account I´m getting over a break up, so I hoped this thing would make the nasty expereince go away somwehat faster.
I guess I want to know some of you guys´ opinions, commentaries and experiences with the letting go technique, perhaps some pointers, insights and or alternatives so that I can heal, not only my broken heart, but the rest of my emotional issues.
Thanks!

Edited January 12, 2023 by lfvd95
I accidentaly posted the text before I finished typing it.

[Cathal]

yes you're doing it right. understand letting go just happens, it's not something you actively do or really have much control over. as you noticed, those sensations are just changing on there own accord and they will realese on there own accord, so if you accept that then you won't suffer your own doubt towards the method, dislike towards the sensation and impatience to get to some point faster than the point will actually arrive.

another thing to reflect on is we often give these sensations certain labels, we cognize feeling instead of just feeling as feeling, we give them almost little entities like 'here is the pain from my ex-gf, it's in my throat' but these are most often really delusional as to why you have tension in specific points in your body, it may provide intellectual satisfaction but the best way to go about it is to understand how intricate those sensations may actually be, so you just let go and just feel them as feeling. 

the point is to reduce the suffering we create for ourselves through unpleasant feelings and just experience them. all our suffering is our own perception of what we're experiencing, so just experience things as they are, things will let go when they let go, the grass grows when the grass grows

[lfvd95]

@Cathal Thanks mate. That´s really helpful! 

[at_anchor]

What is this technique of letting go? You identify where the feeling is in your body, you relax the body? 

You actually have to be in a pretty good circumstances of abundance to let go, and id you're not enlightened, the way you're gonna let go is with letting go of your life. 

[Aiwass]

May I ask what you are letting go of? Is "letting go" a literal happening or a metaphoric understanding? If "letting go" means "forgetting about" then this technique may not be suitable. Awareness is self-remembrance.

[Giulio Bevilacqua]

On 12/1/2023 at 3:26 PM, lfvd95 said:

I´ve been reading David Hawkins book letting go and practicing the technique for every day, but I´m not sure if I´m doing it right, if its working or if this technique is legit. I haven´t read the whole book yet, but I had some expereince with the technique a few years ago. I remember someone telling me about blockages in the energatic body , and just having to feel the tension in the body in order to release them. So I gave this thing a try and I rmember feeling a lot of tension, in my chest and throat. I tried to focus my attention on it and it seemed to move, change and transform; at some point, the energy liberated in a huge release, similar to an awakening experience, and left me feeling high and in a state of no mind for like 30 minutes.
Fast forward to the present, my ex broke up with me, and following the explination Hawkins gives at the begining of the book about how wmotions get stuck as tension and influence our thoughts and behaviour until they are let go of by releasing them, I thought maybe the anxiety and insecurity, along with some of the disfunctional behavior I displayed in my past relationships could be healed or fixed by letting go of the hidden emotions stuck in my. So I sit and after a few moments of silence I notice a point of presure in my upper chest, somethimes in my throat, third eye, stomach etc. I´ve been practicing the technique at least 30 minutes every day, and while the sensations move, change, and sometimes even feel like they are released, they only feel partly so. However, instead of minutes, it can sometimes take up to two hours if not more time - at a time- to get the release - which is nothing like the experience described above, but a slight momentary feeling of less preasure in the part of the body, before the general tension moves somewhere else or goes back. As I said, I sit alone with no distractions and try to  put the focus of my attention on the specific point in my body where I feel some sort of energy or tension; there are times when it simply feels like tension, at others, the sensation takes an emotional flavour, and some others I´ve gotten flashbacks into my past - memories I had forgoten come baack up. There are times when I have felt a lot better, yet, I´m not sure if this is working properly, since the same thoughts and emotions are still there, and the actual changes in my state and mood could be attributed, not to the technique itself, but simply to time and the natural course of thing - take into account I´m getting over a break up, so I hoped this thing would make the nasty expereince go away somwehat faster.
I guess I want to know some of you guys´ opinions, commentaries and experiences with the letting go technique, perhaps some pointers, insights and or alternatives so that I can heal, not only my broken heart, but the rest of my emotional issues.
Thanks!

Letting go is not a technique. 

Every technique requires a doer/effort and therefore tension.

Let go of letting go also.

Edited January 15, 2023 by Giulio Bevilacqua
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