Classroom Talk: 7/18/2003 - Work consciously to deliberately drop the names of your pains and you will also learn to let go of all the reasons you have for experiencing them.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that in an unwanted moment, we have the choice to be actively aware of the burning reaction, or we can be passive and allow the reaction to dictate our actions. The awareness of the consciousness that has the reaction is the beginning of our freedom from it, and there is no other freedom than that.

Topics explored in this dialogue: When it comes to letting go, we need to start seeing what we're holding onto; Resistance is an automatic, natural, necessary feature which is for our development -- but it becomes a hindrance when it's rejected; The moment you envision being free once you get this or do that, you put yourself in a time capsule of captivity; Real freedom is the freedom to grow...

Classroom Talk: 10/28/2004 - No one lets go who refuses to see that what is hurting him and what he is holding onto are one and the same.

If fall signals the retreat of nature -- as when the last leaves fall from the trees and countless creatures crawl into nooks and crannies to pass through the bone-chilling days to come -- then the first day of winter, December 21, is when nature -- having gradually withdrawn her forces -- reaches a resting point. Now comes a three-month period of time that represents a pause in the activity o...

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2019 - Part 1: Unconscious negative reactions feel intelligent because they are inseparable from some equally unconscious judgment that lends them their temporary "life." So that, in this manner, the more stress, anger, or pain we feel -- born of having identified with one of these dark reactions...

Being able to let go of any negative state takes place naturally as you see that the only thing binding you to it, and its misery, is your own attention.

If I ever needed higher help, I really need it now. When I came home yesterday from work I found that my wife had moved out and emptied the house. She and the children left without leaving a note or even letting me know where they are. This has been the worst year of my life, with money and children problems. Please help me. I am going crazy because I know I always did the right thing while we...

I am convinced that I was somehow "urged" to pick up "The Secret of Letting Go." It was all so simple, yet to me it was absolutely profound. Since then, I have listened to many of your talks. I began trying to meditate, and over the years life slowly began to open up before my eyes.... Naturally, there is still much growing to be done, but thanks to your work and others like you, I have experi...

Each person is created with the tools it takes to master his or her own life. But self-mastery remains the ultimate mystery until that day dawns when -- weary of struggling to overcome what he blames for his conflicted self -- he lets go and enters into this darkened nature by becoming completely still. And by this stillness, he tames its wildness; and through this stillness he is given domini...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.

In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the necessity of seeing truths about ourselves that the majority of us does not want to see. The "self" that fights with life, in order to get what it wants, does not want to fade away. It exists to desire, then expire its desires, and then imagine new desires. See the pain inherent in trying to keep that circle of "self" in place...