What Keeps You From Relaxing in Peace?
What simple scene from your childhood still can make you feel ashamed or guilty now?
I have a clear memory of happily reading with my feet draped over one arm of a soft chair and my head resting on the other. Then my mother came into the room and said, “Get up and do something.”
She meant no harm. I was a very sedentary kid, and she probably was telling me to move my body for a change, but for a very long time I had trouble relaxing and reading during the daytime because I still could hear her voice telling me to “Get up and do something.” Reading at bedtime was perfectly OK.
When I started learning about the process I teach in LETTING IT GO, I realized that I could release the power of that memory.
I said each of the three sentences, inserting “this memory of my mother” into each. When I said the words, I remembered the scene vividly. By the time I was finished I realized that my mother was not really trying to make me feel guilty for enjoying my book. Ever since I did the process I feel free to relax and read whenever I choose to. I no longer hear her voice telling me to get up.
If you feel guilty or ashamed about some ordinary activity, examine how it’s tied to your past. Then use the sentences to free yourself from this unnecessary restriction. Read the book and learn how.
This post is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 31 revised edition, Page 33 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.