Today I welcomed John Purkiss to the podcast

After our initial exchange, I asked John to share about his personal journey of letting go. He described how, in his mid-twenties after recovering from clinical depression, he wrote the bestselling book "The Power of Letting Go" in Hindi and Spanish. His experience was that the key is to identify the root feeling that troubles you, such as not feeling good enough. For me, that earliest memory was being told at age 6 that I was not worth getting flowers for. 

John explained that the first step is to intensely re-live the episode where that core feeling originated. For me, it was being told at age 6 that I was not worth getting flowers for. By intensely re-living that episode multiple times, the pain can eventually be released. John has done this process repeatedly, going back to the age of 1, to find and resolve his deepest root feelings.

He walked me through an example using my memory of being told I wasn't worth flowers. John instructed me to close my eyes, revert to being 6 years old again, and vividly re-experience that moment of concluding I was not good enough. By allowing the emotions to surface and leave my body through this re-living process, the pain diminishes over time. John has methodically worked through his own root patterns this way, all the way back to age 1.

The goal is to uproot and liberate ourselves from these deep core beliefs that drive so much of our suffering and dysfunctional patterns, like eating disorders. His new book on this completion process will be published next year, after the success of "The Power of Letting Go" in multiple languages.

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