Advance Lessons In Letting Go

By Guy Finley
excerpted from
Let Go and Live in the Now

  
 
KEY LESSONS ON LETTING GO
IN REVIEW

1. There is nothing in the universe with the power to hold the human mind in painful captivity except for the cage it builds for itself out of its own mistaken thinking.

2. Detect and deliberately drop all fearful thoughts about what may be your future and you release yourself from a present torment whose unseen driving force is, in fact, your own consent to dwell on darkly imagined tomorrows.

3. Remember that all dark thoughts and feelings require our consent to punish us and that these negative states are, in themselves, literally nothing without the powers we grant them. Then, in this same bright moment of recalling the truth of ourselves, we are made the conqueror of what would overcome us!

4. Spiritually speaking, the cost of starting over is not what we pay to achieve some distant desire, but it is in our willingness to let go of—to dare to live without—any desire we may have whose promise of fulfillment drives us to search for it in yet another tomorrow.

5. Once we understand how to use them, life’s many unwanted twists and turns are no longer seen as isolated, disjointed experiences under whose yoke we are born to be burdened, but instead are realized as unique opportunities, whose rewards are the lessons that can lead us, if we will follow them, up to and through the successful education of the soul.

Director of the non-profit Life of Learning Foundation, Guy Finley is the best-selling author of more than 24 books and tape albums on self-realization and higher success. His works have sold over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into twelve languages. 

For information about Guy Finley’s books, booklets, audio albums and on-going study groups call 541-476-1200 or visit www.guyfinley.com where you can also sign up to receive a free, weekly Key Lesson. Guy’ program “Wisdom’s Way with Guy Finley” airs Sundays worldwide on Wisdom Television. 

He is also the host of “Letting Go with Guy Finley” on the Healthy Life and Wisdom Radio networks.