365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life
By Guy Finley
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In 365 Days to Let Go, author Guy Finley reveals two of the most beautiful and elegant of these principles: the Law of Seasons and the Law of Scale. In four stirring chapters, one for each season, readers will learn how to harness the immense hidden powers found in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall to lift their lives into a whole new level.
Meditations to change your life one day at a time.
Each chapter begins with a penetrating explanation of the purpose of that particular season, and continues with deep meditative insights specifically written to help a person find the power and the peace hidden within that particular day of the year.
Readers can use this special book every day for one season, one year, or for the rest of their lives, and watch as the mind grows sharper, days grow brighter, creativity takes on a fresh new spirit, and the heart becomes whole.
Guy Finley
Guy Finley, founder and director of the nonprofit Life of Learning Foundation, has been showing people how to find a life of uncompromised freedom and enduring fulfillment for 30 years. He is the bestselling author of more than 40 books and audio programs that have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. Some of his popular titles include: The Courage to Be Free, The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, The Secret of Letting Go, and Let Go and Live in the Now. Guy Finley lives and teaches in Oregon. Visit him online at www.guyfinley.org and subscribe to his free weekly e-newsletter.
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365 Days to Let Go - Guy Finley
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Introduction
Solving the Mystery
of Letting Go
Sometimes the greatest truths are laid right before our eyes, in the simplest of things, and yet we just can’t see them. Take for instance our own hands: what a miracle they are. If we consider for even a moment all they are capable of doing, we realize that a great wisdom sits hidden behind their incomparable design.But, with this thought in mind, permit me to add one more idea to help us see another part of their special purpose that lies hid-den
in plain sight.
What good would our hands be to us or, for that matter, to the world they are made to help shape, if all they could do was close down around something and cling to it? How stale and old everything would soon be for us if the act of holding on
to things were all our hands had the power to do? Just imagine what life would be like if we were unable to touch anything new.Here’s the point: to be able to touch and appreciate what is new,our hands are also created to open up and, as needed, to let go of whatever is no longer useful.
This same basic truth applies, even more so, when it comes to our need to release those old feelings and worn out thoughts that first clog up, and then compromise, our hearts and minds.These tiresome states of ourselves have become stuck
within us because we haven’t learned how to release them. But we can,and we will!
Once we understand that letting go is the missing half of the whole happiness our heart longs for—that it is a necessary and full partner in the power to discover and complete our True Self—everything about our life grows easier.
Old regrets dry up and blow away. We awaken to a quiet faith that fears nothing. New possibilities for us appear almost moment to moment because we’ve hung an open for business
sign on the door of our life. And, as our contentment grows with who we are—within ourselves—we stop compromising ourselves and trying to win the approval of the world around us.
Best of all, as a result of our growing discoveries about the secret of letting go, we find ourselves on the threshold of solving the greatest mysteries: who are we? Why are we here? And what is our true role in this world? For, as we start to see reality—as it is—in its timeless expression of creating life, perfecting it, and then letting it go, only to start all over again, we realize that we ourselves are an integral part of this Great Endless Story.And if the whole of life is being made new in each and every moment—and we ourselves are a part of its never-ending process of perfection—then letting go isn’t some distant and difficult faculty to be acquired. On the contrary, letting go is an effortless state of our own consciousness; it is a natural power of ours needing only to be actualized in order for us to realize the freedom that it alone can grant.
Welcome into your mind the following images and insights.Taken together they help illustrate and illuminate a grand design in which we first see the wholeness of life—and then, as our awareness grows about this unfolding story, we enter into its native freedom.We are about to discover that more than being just a part of life’s plan, letting go solves the mystery of it. We are about to see how the act of letting go completes the cycle of life itself. Now let’s witness the truth of this beautiful idea in action.
Imagine: cold, stormy skies break open, and the dark clouds shed their coat of winter snow or let loose their soaking rains.
Soon after come the bright days of spring; the earth lets go its frosty grip on countless seeds buried within her—giving birth to new grasses, flowers, and trees.
Time passes, bringing warm summer days and nights; sweet fruits fall from the trees that can no longer hold onto them.
Now, carried along by gusting fall winds, helpless leaves rush in no direction until released by a stillness as sudden as their flight. There they rest until driven on again into the shelter of some unknown refuge.
Each of the four seasons, their countless stages, all the actors appearing there: clouds, rain, earth, grasses, sunlight, trees, fruit,seeds,winds,and dancing leaves—all serve to reveal a great,silent,and unseen story called Letting Go.
This story is a mysterious one, for it is played out upon a stage that is itself contained within a greater stage hidden just behind it—much in the same way as a single sound stage operates within the larger motion picture studio that oversees its shooting schedule. And, to help complete the picture, this studio complex is, itself, but one part of a still larger entertainment corporation. The point here is as follows: each of these stages upon which we see life unfolding holds another stage and is, in turn, held by a still greater stage, infinitely.
The only thing that changes (and everything does!) on these stages of life—from sub-atomic levels all the way up to and through the expansive cosmos itself—is the size of and character of the actors moving upon and through them, the endless cast of creatures playing out the act of letting go. Again, let’s see!
As summer trees must cast off their ripened fruits, so the whole summer season must submit itself to the coming cooler days of fall.And,accordingly,as the earth turns,each season must let go and allow the coming season its time and place—even as the earth itself must yield to the sun’s influence over the whole of her body. But neither has the sun any choice when it comes to releasing the fruit of its abundant radiant energy. For in letting go the sun not only provides life-giving forces for all created to receive them, but also lights up all the stages upon which life has been made possible because of it. As little, but wise Yoda of Star Wars fame would say: Grand, it is!
Now we have come to the most important question of all:where is our place in this extraordinary life? What is our role