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    Seven Ways to Let Go (of a Person Place or Thing)

    Buddhism asserts that attachment is the primary source of suffering. So then detachment or "non-attachment" would be our ticket out of that pain. Except that it's not so easy... letting go of a person, place, or thing that has our heart temporarily held hostage.

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    You may be grieving the death of a loved one, or the end of a friendship you had hoped would be more, or merely the realization that your father will never be able to give you what you need from that relationship. It seems as though every moment of this life is about letting go, of something or someone that is renting far too much space in our heads.

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    And while there is no way I'd call myself a "let go" expert, I have done a considerable amount of research in this area. So the following are some techniques that... well... will at least get us started.

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      Trust the Process
      So much of letting go is finding the right timing. You let go too prematurely, and your process is going to be harder and more time-consuming than it needs to be. You wait too long and things spoil … the relationship or the project. In Dennis Merritt Jones's book The Art of Uncertainty, he includes this great quote about timing by Gary Zukav: "Fruit drops from the tree when it is ready. Staying too long, ... more 
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      Trust the Process
      So much of letting go is finding the right timing. You let go too prematurely, and your process is going to be harder and more time-consuming than it needs to be. You wait too long and things spoil … the relationship or the project. In Dennis Merritt Jones's book The Art of Uncertainty, he includes this great quote about timing by Gary Zukav: "Fruit drops from the tree when it is ready. Staying too long, or moving too early, misses the mark. The mark is the appropriateness that causes the fruit to fall when it's ready... The process has its own timing, and it creates changes in your life when those changes need to happen."

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