20/05/2024
Some colleague ditched you in office politics ?
Some relative back bit you and tarnished your image ?
A friend you have trusted always has conspired against you ?
All of us have been through similar situations and sometimes we carry it like a baggage with us. The emotional baggage is there on our minds and in our hearts.
We are unable to trust people after that, we have opinions about similar kind of people because of what we have gone through. We all know the solution.
i.e - Let go !!
Is it some simple to let go of these incidents and evolve as a person. Can you just sit some day and decide that okay I am letting this situation go now and I will not think about it.
Answer is absolutely not, Neither it is simple nor this is the right way to let go of situation.
Every situation comes in our life because of some reason, we may not see it on the face of it but that is the absolute fact. Letting go can happen only in three steps.
1. Accepting the situation - You can’t let go something by just ignoring it. That’s not letting go, that is just turning your face the other way. Step one is to accept that something as happened. Completely understand each emotion and character involved and accept what has happened, there is no need to run away.
2. Pick the learning - Step two is to understand why something has happened from your own point of view. What is that you could have done differently to avoid the situation. What did you learn from it so that you can avoid such situation. Make a mental note of learning or write it down so that you never face it again, because now your response will be different which will bring a different result from previous one.
3. Let go - Once you accept the situation ( don’t accept the person ) , and get your learning , now let go of the situation.
This is the most effective way of letting go of a situation or incident. Spend sometime with yourself , pick up a quiet spot and a situation which has happened and is disturbing you, follow the steps to let go of it.