Letting Go in Relationships
Summary
- Holding on seems like it’s necessary; But why?
- To forgive means to let go of the anger or resentment you feel to a person or situation
- A step towards breaking the cycle of the past is to forgive, is to move through the anger.
- Anger is instrumental in understanding yourself.
- Forgiveness (the act of letting go the anger) changes your relationship.
- Forgiveness involves letting go of the anger towards yourself as well.
- Anger tells us what we don’t want (in relationships).
- Letting go of anger (forgiveness) opens us to a more challenging questions: What is it do we want?
- Notice that it’s easy to say “I don’t want this” but it’s harder to determine what we want in our relationships.
- As long as we hold onto to anger we don’t have room to find out what it is we want and direct us towards that change.
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Tara Rama 