Episode 7: Moving on and letting go - Part 1

Moving on and letting go: Part 1

Music: “Just A Blip” by Andy G. CohenFrom the Free Music ArchiveReleased under a Creative Commons Attribution International License

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles R. Swindoll

5 stages of grief:https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

- The phrase letting go tends to be more associated with relationships and associations with other people, but it actually applies to everything in life.- People start off idealistic and energetic. However, the more they go through in life, the more they get weighted down by the disappointments and failures that inevitably comes with life. - Previous episodes have talked about the need to go through challenges, face changes and generally; overcome obstacles that life places in front of us. One of the key lessons that have to be learnt is how do we deal with situations without causing harm to ourselves. The key to that is in moving on and letting go.- We tend to put to much emphasis on our situations without care/concern for our own self. Which is ironic because we believe that we need something; even though it could cause more hurt/grief to your own self, because we believe we will lose more without it. - You need to treat what has happened as a loss, introduction to the 5 stages of grief.People often think of the stages as lasting weeks or months. The stages are responses to feelings that can last for minutes or hours as we flip in and out of one and then another. We do not enter and leave each individual stage in a linear fashion. We may feel one, then another and back again to the first one. Some phases also have the possibility of being repeated. - You can't truly move on in life without letting go. You can however, pretend to move on; but it'll just suck you back in eventually. - It's important to use the steps mentioned to deal with grief, as it ends with acceptance. This is important to prevent bitterness, which has the ability to eat you inside and consume you; if you don't have acceptance.