Letting go Technique

My favourite practice that will help you feel calmer and happier is the ‘Letting Go’ technique.

This is based on mindfulness and whenever you begin to feel stress or anxiety about anything, then immediately respond with this simple and very powerful one minute practice.

1. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.

2. Inhale to a count of five, hold to a count of five and exhale to a count of five

3. When you exhale, imagine exhaling your stress or anxious thought. Just feel and visualize it leaving your body.

4. Repeat aloud or silently “Let it go”.

5. Just feel the stress disappear.

Never hold onto negative thoughts. Just let them go. When you take a minute to do this you will be amazed at how calm and relaxed you will feel. If you are a visual person, it may help to picture yourself at your favourite place. It could be a beach, a mountain or your garden.

I know that this practice works really well from extensive studies from meditation, mindfulness and yoga. Whenever you pay attention to your breathing, you begin to feel better. This is the antidote to all that thinking and all that activity that traps us in a ‘doing’ mode. Spend more time just ‘being’. There is nothing more powerful to raise your mood and get you back on track. This is truly a marvelous minute!

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