Full course - Learning the art of letting go

In this lesson we will dive into the How of letting go.
We will start with some explanation what FLOW is and how it works. How some experiences we go through cast a shadow on our original state of happiness. Whenever energy cannot flow freely in our body, energetic blockages form.

We will do a practical exercise together to discover where there is a contraction or a form of tension. And a second one, the left foot exercise.

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In this lesson we do 2 practical release exercises together.

You will experience that you cannot ‘do’ the letting go …

To let go is rather to ‘stop doing’. It is to stop resisting the natural movement of the energy flow.

It is a LETTING GO not a DOING …

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In this training we will use the term ‘subconscious’ as a synonym for everything that we unconsciously hold in our body …

You will learn a simple but very effective release technique which is called ‘active imagination’ (a Jungian technique).

Active imagination is the simplest method to distinguish ourselves from our subconscious.

~C.G. Jung

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Maybe – like me – you are not very visual and in that case you might have difficulty visualizing the door, the window or the hands in the previous lesson … So let’s experiment with another version of this technique for those of us who are more kinesthetic (more focused on feeling and movement).

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In this lesson we will dive deeper in unprocessed emotions. Unprocessed (unreleased) emotions also cause the repetition of old patterns in relationships. This results in even more feelings of powerlessness, grief, disappointment and anger.

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Learning to recognize the various forms of resistance is the first step in our learning process …

(As we have seen before, letting go happens through insight, through awareness … It is not a doing.)

Resistance always refers to

‘SHOULD’ and ‘SHOULD NOT’.

Or ‘MUST’ and ‘CANNOT’…

Or “HAVE TO’ and ‘MUST NOT’

Resistance contains ‘forcing’ things …

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In this lesson we are going to handle theory and do a practical exercise for releasing resistance. I will guide you through the exercise.

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In this lesson we will train our ability to feel deeper and deeper into the body and we will also learn about ‘the optimal release state’.

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In this lesson we will handle the scale of consciousness. We will dive into the states of power versus force or expanded versus contracted. In POWER we live from our potential and we have freedom of choice. The survival imperative moves us into FORCE.

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In this lesson you will focus through a practical exercise on one of the contractions you have previously found in your body. Or choose something else that you feel resistance to or just scan your body to discover a tension …

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All processes in man are part of the processes of Nature. Man distinguishes himself from the rest of the organisms by not flowing with the flow … In this lesson we will learn to surrender with the help of a practical exercise.

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In this lesson we will go trough the stress response. We will handle the parasympathetic nerves (Rest and digest) and sympathetic nerves (Fight or flight). Emotions are part of our survival system: they encourage certain types of ‘reactive’ or ‘automatic’ behavior (fight, flight, hide, faint).

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When anger or rage are suppressed for a long time, the energy turns against us in the form of psycho-somatic complaints and eventually also depression. Understanding how anger weakens our energy, erodes our relationships, and how it can make us sick, can help us to become more willing to let it go, even if it is totally justified.

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The meridians run throughout the entire body but they can also be contacted in the ears, feet and hands. We will now learn a Japanese technique called Jin Shin Jyutsu. This technique uses the hands. A practical exercise where we will release anger through the Jin Shin Jyutsu method. 

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Yoga Nidra – also known as the ’yogi sleep’ – is a way to deeply relax without sleeping. One hour of Yoga Nidra practice supposedly gives the body as much rest as 4 hours of sleep. (For those familiar with yoga postures, Yoga Nidra is a kind of longer version of Savasana). In the context of this training we will learn a Yoga Nidra breathing technique, for deep relaxation. We will do the exercise sitting upright on a chair or if you prefer, on the floor on a pillow. If you have trouble sitting, of course you can do it laying down.

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Fear is self-affirming and therefore can keep us trapped in a vicious circle …
Fear and toxic shame are the two main destroyers of human lives.
So let’s practice how we can let go of fear and find more strength within ourselves!

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The index finger stands for ‘fear’ and the thumb for ‘anxiety’ (worry). ‘Fear’ has a clear cause, like an approaching exam for which you do not feel ready. ‘Anxiety’ is a continuous background state with no clear cause. It is the activation of old fears and traumas. It feels like ‘something will go wrong’. A practical exercise where we will release fear through the Jin Shin Jyutsu method.

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