Useless Advice

Difficult, Yet Simple

For many many years, as I was looking for ways to improve my life, I kept finding the same useless advice popping up here, there and everywhere. The useless advice was, " Let it Go". This was exceptionally useless advice, as I found out, because it's exceptionally difficult. No, that's not quite true, it's also very very simple to let go of things but if you don't know how then it's almost impossible. I did searches on the internet to find out how to let go, and they kept giving me the same platitudes. The advice they gave seemed circular. It was almost as if they were saying Let it Go by letting go.

It's like a Physics Question

Imagine you went to your physics teacher, or your math teacher and you asked them “how can I calculate or measure the distance to the Moon?” And their answer was, “use trigonometry”. But at the same time they did not tell you what trigonometry was, nor did they tell you how to use it. That's the feeling I get when people say Let it Go.

Deeper Effects

I've been searching for years and years for the way to let things go. After years of searching for the right approach, I finally stumbled upon the sweeping breath technique that helped me let go. As I discussed in Keep the Memories, Release the Pain: A Guide to Letting Go, this method allowed me to refresh my memory of the feelings and release them with my breathing. This technique helped me refresh my memory of the feelings and let go of them with my breathing. As I recall the event and review the memory, I refresh my memory of the feelings and I can let go of the feelings with my breathing. The breathing is magic. With repeated breaths in and out, the feelings slowly dissipate. My memory grows stronger. This experience is also closely related to what I discussed in How Letting Go of Attachments Creates Lasting Inner Peace. As I wrote about this, the process of letting go has a profound impact on one's sense of connection to their life and past. It's a fascinating experience that has helped me grow as a person. And yet at the same time my emotional baggage grows lighter.

The only problem is that this is a slower approach. As I wrote in my previous post on the burrs of life, you can only remove one at a time. As I explored further in my research and discussed in detail in Breaking Free: Why Your Attachments Are Holding You Back in 2025, the process of letting go is more complex than initially meets the eye. Building on ideas from this related post, it's clear that it requires a gentle and repeated approach. It requires a gentle and repeated approach, like using the sweeping breath, to release attachments one by one.

I suppose it's for the better. Like anything else, things that have a deer cost have much more value than things that you can get cheap and easy.