It’s time to stop carrying what’s been weighing you down!! 🙂
You’re going to learn how to let things go, release negative emotions, and walk away with 3 practical steps and 15 powerful quotes that actually help you let go!!
Let’s get started! 🙂
3 practical steps to let things go!
Step 1: Name it to tame It!
Notice the exact negative emotion you’re feeling, is it guilt? Anger? Embarrassment?
Say it out loud or write it down. (Yes, even if it feels silly…!)
Naming the feeling helps your brain stop spinning and start releasing! 🙂
Step 2: Snip the story!
Catch the story you keep telling yourself: “They shouldn’t have…” or “I always mess things up…”
Ask: Is this helpful or just hurtful?
Gently cut the mental replay. You don’t have to believe every thought just because it shows up!!
Step 3: Choose to let it float!!
Letting go isn’t forgetting, it’s choosing not to carry it! 🙂
Imagine the emotion like a balloon. Can you loosen your grip… just a little?
Say to yourself: “I’m allowed to let this go.” (Because you are!!)
I like how Giovanni from Live & Dare showed that holding on can do more damages than letting go… Right?
How to let it go Quotes!
Letting go is never easy!!
However, it is necessary if we want to move forward happy and confident! 🙂
Here are 15 quotes to help you with the process of letting go.
- “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah
- “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling
- “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” – Tony Schwartz
- “Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” – Steve Maraboli
- “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Lander
- “The day I understood everything was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” – Alyson Noel
- “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.” -Catherine Ponder
- “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.”– Fridtjof Nansen
- “To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” – Jack Kornfield
- “You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.” – Sarah
- “Pain will leave you, when you let go” Jeremy Aldana
Let go and personal growth, stop trying!
Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs happen when you stop trying so hard and simply let something go! 🙂
Whether you’re working with a therapist or a life coach, real growth often begins the moment you stop forcing change and start allowing space. Letting go isn’t giving up, it’s making room for something better! 🙂
To sum up!
Some things you cannot change, what happened, what they said, or the choices you could’ve made differently!
But holding on keeps you stuck…
If you want to let go and move forward, it starts with giving yourself permission to let them go.
As Psychology Today often points out, acceptance is a powerful tool for healing and growth! 🙂
