More on the Energy from Letting Go of Baggage

Letting go of emotional and mental baggage releases energy into our system.

This energy is experienced in a number of ways (usually a combination of several)

as feelings (uncomfortable or disturbing and both 'good' and 'bad')

as physical sensations or compulsions,

as mental thoughts/ruminations/obsessions

as an eruption of instincts (like fight, flight, fear)

This energy, however it manifests can trigger similar responses to our initial reaction to the original experience.

This original experience was in some way overwhelming or overpowering.

It threatened our balance and/or our existence.

This threat (whether real or perceived) is why it became part of our baggage.  

Otherwise it would have been just a memory, not a hidden formula for running our life.

We were not able to process it, resolve it or understand it then.

We can now. 

Letting go 

Resolving

Healing

Becoming our True Self

Is now possible—Is now probable

Now, by picking up and using the Tools , is how we put this released energy to good use.

Support tools for letting go what no longer serves us, AND for learning to serve in Truth:1) Gathering with a few others to review the scene before any action (just be sure they aren’t enablers)2) Praying (remember the running out the door prayer-that is enough )3) Contemplating  (which means watching and listening and hearing)4) Receiving help (as gracefully as currently possible)5) Taking a ‘do-over’ and humbly beginning again (as many times as needed

Self Reflection:  Take time to list the ways each of these tools has serves your life and supports you in serving in the world.