What Are You Afraid Will Disappear?
I have been custodian for a collection of buttons that belonged to my favorite aunt who died in 1961. She was a dress designer in New York in the 1930s and 1940s and was probably responsible for my 40-year passion for sewing and design.
It’s a passion that faded about the time my first book was published. I haven’t used any of the buttons for my own projects in years but would occasionally enjoy looking at the beautiful and unusual pieces.
Yesterday I let them go. I gave them to a friend who is a jewelry maker and craftswoman who makes beautiful things out of found objects. I discovered that while I was delighted that they have a new home and won’t be discarded when I am gone, I still regretted that I no longer have them.
When I said the three sentences I teach you to use in LETTING IT GO, I discovered that the buttons represented the time in my life when I loved to sew. Images of some of the beautiful things I made and of me paging through huge pattern books marched through my mind. Then I felt relaxed and appreciative of that younger version of myself.
That’s who I was and the foundation for who I am now.
This is the same process I use to help clients release objects they know need new homes. You can use it yourself. Find peace in the few minutes it takes to complete the process.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 99 revised edition, Page 111 original of Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®). You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of this book. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.