Are you ready to let go of pain, remove negative blocks and fully surrender to life?

It sounds like a lot to take on, but it's easier than you think.

Letting go is considered to be one of the highest spiritual paths in life. It's also one of the keys to experiencing more happiness, love, and joy in life.

Today I am going to share with you some of the powerful principles of Michael A. Singer. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself.

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Everything in this Universe is comprised of energy.

Within each of our bodies, there is a chakra system that is always flowing. The chakra system is a complex network of energy channels that exist throughout the whole body, much like a spiritual nervous system.

That energy flow is pure love, happiness, and bliss. Unfortunately, we go through experiences in our lives that create pain, trauma, grief, and shame. These negative emotions create blocks inside of us because of the meaning that we ascribe to our experiences. If the energy in your body is stuck, so too will you.

When negative events happen in your life, don't cling to them or resist them. Most often, when you're hurt or upset, it's because you have expectations and beliefs that aren't being met. I hate to break it to you, but things aren't always going to happen the way that you want them to. Sometimes life has a different plan from your own.

Letting go of the need to control your destiny is key. Michael Singer teaches people how to surrender and let go so that they can remove the negative blocks that reside inside of them. By doing this, positive emotions, like joy and happiness can flow through us with grace and ease.

Rather, learn how to be present with these experiences without creating meaning or attaching yourself to them. The ultimate freedom is being able to surrender to the moment and trust that everything in life happens for a reason.

You need to learn how to relax and release.

The moment that you get caught in negative emotions, you create a block in the flow of positive energy. This is the moment at which you need to observe your thoughts. Instead of getting attached to them, you need to become an observer of them.

Experts estimate that the mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts a day. If the majority of those thoughts are negative, how do you think your day is going to go? When you don't cling to your thoughts, negative experiences will merely pass by. By doing so, you allow the next moment to emerge. Mastering this peocess will require that you practice it every single day.

One of the best ways to surrender and let go is by harnessing the power of the breath. You can do this through yoga, meditation or spiritual practices, like Ayahuasca. These mindfulness-based processes will allow you to drop out of your head and into your heart and spirit.

Ready to let go of pain and fully surrender to life?

Make this your new daily mantra – “Relax, release, surrender.” The more that you can do this, the more that you are allowing energy to flow through your body freely. Eventually, you will get to a point where you feel good about your life without even knowing why!

If you resonate with what I've spoken about in this blog, I encourage you to go deeper with the work of Michael Singer. His online course, Loving From a Place of Surrender changed my life in so many ways. Give your body, mind, and spirit the medicine that it's asking for.

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Are you ready to let go and release yourself from the past so that you can move forward with your life?

A toxic relationship, a painful memory, a bad experience… these are all things that people struggle to let go of. Have you ever wondered what the payoff is of dwelling on situations that are long gone?

In many ways, there is a comfort in holding onto past hurt. Unfortunately, not letting go of the past has no real benefit to your life.

Today is the day to get unstuck and break free from all of the baggage that is limiting you.

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A lot of people don't know how to let go of the past.

Do you find yourself talking a lot about your past? You may not even be consciously aware that you are doing it. I hate to break it to you, but there is a strong likelihood that your current limitations in life are the direct result of past stories that you are still attached to. What is your story that is keeping you stuck? Consider these statements that some people make on a daily basis:

“I can’t get close to someone new because my heart has been broken too many times…”

“It's impossible to pursue my dreams because I've failed too many times in the past…”

“I can't trust people because I've been betrayed…”

If you've ever fallen victim to these limiting beliefs, you aren't alone. The stories that you tell yourself filter your reality, meaning that what you believe, you create. For example, if you think that you aren't smart enough to build an online business, you won't. You will constantly find reasons for why you can't succeed. The times that you were hurt, the times that you failed, and the times that you felt small and unworthy of success… they do not exist at this moment.

If you keep running these disempowering thoughts on autopilot, it will take up all of your mental space. When you speak about your past as if it was still a part of who you are, it's hard for a more empowering version of your best self to shine through. In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see.”

In my work, I see a lot of people use their past experiences as rationalizations for their current behaviors.

They end up going in circles and ruminating about what happened. They become powerless to their own thoughts. Not surprisingly, they don't end up moving forward. Psychological studies state that rumination seems to be correlated to “cognitive consciousness.”

These types of people are aware of their negative thoughts, but think about past experiences over and over again, to a point where their thoughts create their own reality. The more you invest energy into the past, the less energy that you have to devote to the present moment.

In his book, Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender, David R. Hawkins says that “It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses.” 

Look, we've all got baggage. Even the people that say they don't, usually, do. It's not comfortable to admit that you are holding onto past hurts. However, sometimes the only way to get back to the present moment is to get real with yourself so that you can make better choices in life.

If you've ever let something go, you know how amazing it feels. If letting go is so good for you, then why do so many people struggle to do it? Letting go means having the courage to come face-to-face with painful emotions that you have purposefully hidden. It means that you've got to be willing to challenge your beliefs, face your greatest fears, and change your life. That's a lot to take on.

If you can't stop ruminating about your past experiences, it's time to recognize these behavioral patterns and take action to change them. Here are 4 ways that you can let go of the past.

1. Allow Yourself To Feel Negative Emotions

A lot of people don't allow themselves to feel anything. Instead of facing their deepest wounds, they approach them with resistance. They think that, if they ignore them, they will magically go away. Unfortunately, this couldn't be farther from true. 

Nobody wants to feel pain. If you've been hurt in the past, it's normal to want to run away from anything or anyone that triggers similar emotions. Here's the reality… letting yourself feel bad is critical to feeling better. As someone once said, “The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.” 

Negative emotions aren't negative. Rather, it's merely your perception of emotions, like anger, sadness or fear, that make you feel bad. How you were conditioned to express your emotions as a child can color your behaviors in adulthood. Maybe you were taught not to express sadness when you were young or were told that vulnerability was a weakness. If so, you need to realize that these are just stories. They aren't based in reality, even though your mind may tell you that they are.

Your emotions, both good and bad, exist to teach you something. You have to be willing to listen to what they are trying to tell you if you want to release them. Give yourself permission to feel the emotional intensity of everything. Don't hide behind a mask of your true self.

Be vulnerable and allow yourself to sit with difficult emotions. Cry, punch a pillow, dance, go to therapy… whatever it takes to get clarity around why you feel the way that you do so that you feel empowered to let go of toxic energy.

2. Forgive Yourself And Others

Forgiveness is a choice. It's a choice to both give and receive it. If someone has wronged you, of course, it will cause you pain. However, it's up to you how long you want that pain to linger. A lot of people hold onto anger for too long and refuse to let go. Instead, they let past misfortunes negatively affect their future relationships.

As a result, they fall into victimhood and blame the world and others for their problems, when in actuality, they haven't healed themselves. How would it feel if you were able to forgive someone that has hurt you?

Forgiving doesn't mean that you have to forget what happened to you, nor that you have to be friends with someone again. Rather, it's something that you need to do for your own well-being and happiness. Forgiveness is the best way to finally release yourself from the weight of everything. As Catherine Ponder says, “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

When it comes to forgiving yourself, this is the ultimate form of self-love.

It takes courage to look at yourself in the mirror, drop your ego and say, “It's okay. You are human and made a mistake. I forgive you.” Whatever you've been holding onto that's causing you to have a heavy heart, it's time to let it go.

You don't need to feel guilty anymore. Instead, you need to believe that what is in front of you is far greater than what is behind you. If you never learn how to forgive, you cannot live fully in your power. A life of is suffering is no life at all. Right your wrongs and move forward. End of story.

3. Accept What You Cannot Change 

Have you ever been in a situation where you wondered how you were ever going to get over something and move forward with your life? We've all been here at some point in our lives. In my opinion, it comes down to acceptance. There is freedom in surrendering to what is. By doing so, you make room for what could be, instead of staying stuck in an old story that is getting you nowhere.

In Deepak Chopra’s book, The 7 Laws of Spiritual Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams, he explains that, although we might want things to be different in the future, in the present moment we need to accept things as they are. It's only when we resist change that we end up creating a lot of pain in our lives.

After years of feeling frustrated with things that I couldn't change, I finally realized that nothing was going to get better if I didn't change my thinking. Over time, I developed the habit of looking at whatever happened to me through a positive lens, instead of a negative one. This speaks to the power of positive affirmations. I encourage you to incorporate this ritual into your daily life as a reminder to always talk to yourself in a loving way. 

If you can change your mind, you can change anything.

The only thing that you have control over is your emotional response to life's experiences. You cannot change people, situations, or circumstances. What's done is done. The past is over. All that you can do is reframe your attitude.

True fulfillment only comes when you are willing to accept what is with an open heart. This doesn't mean that you are giving up. Rather, it means that you are choosing to make peace with what has happened to you. Look to the future with hope. That is the truest form of inner power.

4. Re-write Your Story 

Your story is what makes you who you are. How you interpret your life experiences determines the type of life that you live. If you cannot let go of the past, that means that you are stuck in a story that no longer serves you. You choose the beliefs that you hold onto.

The beauty of life is that, at any given moment, you have the power to choose a different narrative. If you don't like your current story, you can re-write it because you are the author. Don't ever allow someone else to have that much power over your choices in life.

The question is, “How do you reprogram a lifetime of stories and repressed memories that drive your actions?” It starts with reframing your story in the positive and taking responsibility for the role that you've played in every circumstance you've faced. 

Think about all of the beautiful gifts that have unfolded in your life as a direct result of things not going as you planned. Life has a funny way of supporting you, even when it doesn't feel like it. Trust the process and look for the silver lining in everything.

Today is the day to let go of the past.

You are never going to live out your true potential in life if you hold onto past hurt. You've already finished those chapters. Now is the time to re-write your story, one that is empowering and uplifting. As someone once said, “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” 

Honor the past for what it was. Be grateful for it. However, also have the courage to let it go so that you can move forward with your life. Everything in life has to lead you to this very moment.

What are you ready to let go of?

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Rock bottom can be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Sometimes you need to hit your emotional threshold before you are truly ready to change your life. Research shows that bottoming out as a result of job loss can be necessary before finding the radical solution that will lead to a new work identity.

Sometimes you need to know what it feels like to lose everything so that you can let go of what no longer serves you and start fresh.

In the words of Pattie Mallette, “When you hit rock bottom, there is nowhere to go but up.” Are you ready to learn why rock bottom can be the foundation upon which you rebuild your life?

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Rock bottom isn't a place that anybody is proud of being in.

Let's face it… life can be a tough teacher and it doesn't always care about your master plan. Because of this, you need to adapt and be flexible. All of us fall down at some point in our lives. All that matters is how you respond and put the pieces in your life back together.

Have you ever hit rock bottom? Are you already there? Everyone has a different “bottom.” Maybe your relationship has fallen apart. Maybe your business has failed, or maybe you just aren't happy with your life. For whatever reason, sometimes you will find yourself in a place you could have never imagined.

However, nobody has to stay in a dark hole forever. Giving up is a choice, and it's one that you don't have to make.

I know what rock bottom feels like. When I hit it, it felt like a blow to my face. I was in my early 20's when I was at my lowest. I suffered crippling anxiety, extreme shyness, and depression. There is a stigma towards failing in life. It's considered a bad thing so nobody wants to talk about it, nor do they even know how to deal with it.

I soon realized that the only person that was going to save me was myself. It took me a while to accept this reality. For a while, I took zero action. I continued the repetitive cycle of self-sabotage because I believed that my failures were proof that there was no way out of my hole. I was wrong.

The one thing that kept me going was my willpower.

I was ready to try anything if it meant that it would get me one step closer to achieving my goals in life. The focus became approaching everything with an attitude of curiosity instead of self-judgment.

I realized that struggling in life is a choice. At any given moment, you have the power to change your life. One of my favorite rock bottom quotes is – “Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.” – Justin Kanayurak

Life's greatest lessons afford you opportunities to grow, learn, and become more. You only improve when you encounter experiences that stretch you beyond your limits. That is exactly what rock bottom offers you the chance to do. The challenges that shake you to your very core are the ones that have the power to change your life for the better.

Here are 8 reasons why hitting rock bottom is the foundation upon which you can rebuild your life.

1. Your Disempowering Beliefs Become Apparent

Everyone struggles with limiting beliefs at some point in their lives. Your disempowering beliefs are there to keep you safe. They do this by keeping you locked inside your comfort zone. However, you only grow by finding your edge and risking everything.

When you hit rock bottom, your limiting beliefs come to the surface. If you don't face difficult emotions and decide to ignore them, you will only feel worse.

The only way that you can rise above your circumstances in life is by acknowledging the parts of yourself that you need to work on. This is when you start to become aware that you haven't been moving ahead in life because you've been repeating the same disempowering behaviors.

It’s not until you break the negative cycle and start the journey back to your authentic self that you start creating a new chapter in your life, one that is more empowering.

2. You Start To Question Everything

When your entire world is turned upside down you start to question anything and everything about your life as you've known it. This allows you to get a much more vivid image of the reality that you have been living.

What many people fail to recognize is that a lot of what we learn and do are based on others' assumptions about the world and how we should operate in it.

The reason why people choose to not question things is that they are afraid to hear the truth. They don't want to know what might come, so they stay in the dark and assume that they have all the answers. This repetitive pattern of thinking makes it difficult to cope when adversity strikes.

When you learn to embrace new ways of thinking, you stretch yourself. In doing so, you are ready for whatever life may throw your way. In the words of Bryant McGill, “Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything.” From this place, you are able to rebuild your life and start anew.

3. You Realize That Failure Isn't Fatal

One of the most difficult parts of hitting rock bottom isn't failing. Rather, it's finding the strength to pick yourself back off the floor and keep going.

Your mind is the most powerful asset that you will ever have. If you can change your perspective of what failure is, you will become empowered to get yourself out of the funk that you are in. When you take time to learn from your mistakes, you start to recognize that the bad times are designed to make you a stronger person.

There are countless stories of successful business leaders and sports stars who have hit rock bottom and climbed their way back to success again. It's how they chose to approach the darkest times in their lives that gave them the resilience to thrive through challenges instead of merely survive.

In the words of Stephanie Moir, licensed mental health counselor and self-care coach,“Use your fear to help you pursue your future and do not let it defeat you.” Fail your way towards success.

4. You Take Responsibility For Your Life 

Everything in life happens for a reason. If your life is falling apart, you've got to hold yourself accountable for why this is happening. When bad things happen it's easy to blame others or the world for your problems. You are where you are today because of the choices that you've made.

A lot of people struggle to accept this fact of life. However, when you hit rock bottom it forces you to accept full responsibility for everything that has happened in your life, to date.

In the book, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, Eric Greitens says, “The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life… the essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences — good and bad — of your actions.”

You realize that making excuses doesn't get you anywhere in life so you become more focused on being a solution-focused thinker. Doing so puts you in the driver's seat of your life and gives you back a sense of control that allows you to get out of the hole that you dug for yourself.

5. You Let Go Of The Past

Have you ever held onto something in your life because you didn't think that life would ever be the same if you gave it up? When nothing is working there is no better time to let go of all of the things that make you feel heavy.

Letting go of disempowering things creates space for new opportunities, beliefs, and values from which you can build your life around.

Rock bottom offers you the chance to start fresh and create a new chapter in your life, on your terms. It allows you to refill your cup of life. As J.K Rowling once said, “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

6. You Find Your Purpose 

Before you hit rock bottom you naturally assume that where you are is where you are supposed to be in life. However, once you lose everything you are faced with a new reality.

This moment provides you with a unique opportunity to go inward and discover what is most important to you. This is because your soul has been stripped bare. You become more vulnerable, which makes you more open to feeling and receiving.

You decide that you never again want to make regret part of your life, so you become more aware of what it is that makes you come alive inside and live from that place. As a result, you surrender to your higher self and live in alignment with your purpose in life.

7. You Become Insanely Grateful 

Difficult moments teach you to be grateful for what you already have, instead of dwelling on what you don't have. I am grateful for all of the challenges that I've gone through in my life. They have shaped me into the person that I am today.

Rock bottom was the place for which my life truly began. When you are in pain, the little things become big things. You start to notice places, people, or things that you didn't pay attention to before.

When you are at rock bottom, everything feels like it's moving slower. Sometimes that is exactly what you need in order to stay in the present moment and have gratitude for your life.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, said about the sudden death of her husband, “It's very counterintuitive to try to recover from tragedy by thinking about an even worse tragedy, but it's a very powerful lesson because it gets us to gratitude for what is still good in our lives.”

8. You Learn The Art of Humility 

Sometimes it takes reaching rock-bottom to finally learn the true value of humility. Humility is about having an open mind and becoming a learner for life.

This is where people get into trouble. They assume that they've got it all figured out. However, when adversity strikes, they fall apart because nothing makes sense.

Humility can be an ego-killer, but it also makes you realize that life isn't black and white and nothing is really permanent. In the words of Marianne Williamson, “Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.”

Life is so unpredictable. You don't know what could happen from one moment to the next. By constantly growing and learning, you will thrive through challenges.

If you hit rock bottom, the only way you should go is up.

Keep in mind that, how you deal with rock-bottom ends up determining how you live your life. You have two choices – you can either build a strong foundation from it or do nothing and dwell in self-pity.

Challenges are a guarantee in life so the best thing that you can do is embrace them. When you do, you become unbreakable.

As someone once said, “Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.” You are stronger than you think. Never forget it.

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I would like to share with you some reasons why you should meditate every day. This is a practice that has greatly impacted my life. Meditation is one of the most effective ways to cope with stress and find a sense of inner calmness and peace from the daily pressures that life brings.

In AsapScience’s, “The Scientific Power of Meditation,” Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown explain that meditation yields a number of benefits, including the ability to fight (not cure) diseases, increase empathy, and even leads to physical changes in the brain (Borreli, 2015).

How would it feel to start your day feeling calm and grounded? Let the power of meditation help you achieve this peaceful state of being. In the words of Ram Dass, “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” There is no greater reason for why you should meditate every day.

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I am not a master of meditation, but it is something that I have committed to going deeper with over the last six months. Intellectually I always knew that meditation was good for me, but I never did it because I didn’t associate to it on an emotional level.

Once I forced myself to meditate over a period of time and started to notice the benefits that it had on my emotional, mental, and spiritual state, then I believed in its potential to change my life. So much so, that meditation is now a part of my daily morning ritual.

Sometimes in life you need to do something that you don’t necessarily want to do, in order to see the long-term benefits of it. Just like going to the gym every day and committing to exercise your body. When you first start exercising, you may experience discomfort and soreness, and you might think, “What is the benefit of this?”

However, when you start seeing changes in your body and energy levels, you realize why you took the time to exercise in the first place. The same thing goes with meditation. There is nothing better that you can do than to learn how to calm your strongest muscle – your mind. Once you start seeing the benefits of meditation, it will motivate you to go even deeper, because you will start seeing the purpose of it.

The trigger that got me into meditation was a pattern that I started noticing, which was negatively affecting my life. I realized that I had an addiction. Let me be clear that an addiction can be to anything – to shopping, food, video games, pornography, information, etc. It doesn’t have to be something drastic, like drug or alcohol abuse.

Here is the test to know whether or not you have an addiction to something – try taking time away from a pattern of behaviour that you consistently find yourself doing. If you have cravings or temptations to bring it back into your life, that’s when you know it is a problem.

I had an addiction to technology. I found that every time that I felt uncomfortable or experienced a negative emotion, I would take out my phone and look through my social media. I found myself spending way too much time online. All addiction stems from a fear of emptiness and being alone.

Human beings are so terrified of being present and doing NOTHING, that oftentimes uncomfortable feeling emerge within them. They use things in order to distract themselves. What are you distracting yourself from? For a lot of people, it means distracting themselves from something that needs to be healed or resolved internally.

When we feel like we have no control over our lives, we tend to resist or avoid what is going on inside our body, mind, and soul. Through meditation, I learned that the way to overcome my addiction was to practice being present and experience nothing for a short period of time.

Always remember that whatever you resist will persist. If thoughts come up, merely observe them. Let them come into your mind, accept them, and then let them go. Since I started meditating, I feel more empowered and complete on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level. I have more control over my mind and my thoughts.

When you master your mind, you become less reactive. Today, I find that I am more present and in the moment when I am interacting with people, both in my work and in my personal life. I meditate for 20 minutes twice a day, usually in the afternoons and then before bed. I’ve experimented with all kinds of meditation.

I’ve learned that, as with any industry or school of thought, ultimately you need to find what works for you. If you think you are too busy to meditate, think again. Studies have shown that meditating just ten minutes a day reduces stress, lowers cortisol levels, and improves your outlook on life (Sarich, 2015). These are some reasons why you should meditate every day.

We all lead busy lives, but if we want to achieve life mastery, it is important that we feel a sense of balance, in our body, mind, and soul. Take the time to invest in yourself. Go deeper and embrace the power of meditation. You don’t have to be a guru in order to enjoy the benefits that meditation provides.

In the words of Eckhart Tolle, “One conscious breath – in and out – is a meditation.” Your mind will thank you for it.

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