I mastered letting go when I learnt to hold on

I’ve been trying to let go of a lot of things

To move on from the past.

To position myself like the sun

And to create the me I want.

I know you’ve been there too

And sometimes you feel like you’ve failed.

It doesn’t make sense how wanting to be better can be so complicated.

You’ve found yourself slipping…falling

It’s 10 steps forwards and 10 steps backwards

Why are you still stuck in the same place?

Is it because you haven’t tried hard enough?

Or maybe you are just not doing it right?

The universe is governed by 1 very fundamental force.

It’s called balance.

The chaos in the universe is responsible for the peace…

Did I lose you there?

I’ll say it again…

The chaos in the universe is responsible for the peace.

But how?

How can two completely contrasting things be responsible for one another?

…it’s called BALANCE

Now Focus.

What does this have to do with you letting go and moving on?

What does it mean when you are down, broken and afraid?

When you feel chained and enslaved?

The fastest way to let go is to hold on.

Picture this:

You are climbing a mountain.

Now you’ve reached a point where you want to go sideways instead of up.

Read this slowly….

You need to let go of whatever you are holding on to

BUT you can’t let go completely, because let’s face it, you will fall.

And in the scare of the fall, you’ll attempt to save yourself by holding to where you just let go.

Which won’t take you where you want to go.

Keep reading slowly…

The best thing to do is to move one hand at a time in the direction you wish to go.

This is a transition.

Remember when we agreed that life was about processes? Well, this is one of them.

Eventually moving one hand leads to moving the other hand and in the end your whole body

Simple, right?

Well, not really...

What we really want is the "fast, instant, I lost 5kgs overnight" kind of life

But we find ourselves gaining 10kgs in the coming week.

Then we wonder why…

You cannot leave gaps, voids and holes.

The universe isn’t made that way.

If you want to get over a bad relationship, you need to acknowledge that it was bad.

Then you let go by holding on.

It’s called replacing.

The time you would have spent with that person, use it to get to know yourself.

If you want to watch less TV,

Replace that time with reading books.

We need to be deliberate to avoid falling back into the pit of old habits.

The trick to letting go, is holding on.

And the trick to holding on, is letting go.

Let go of the old and deliberately hold on to the new.

Hold on to the new by deliberately letting go of the old

~Nala👑