Developing Resilience - Day 2 - Letting Go

Over 15 days, I walk you through specific practices that will support you in dealing with the stress of unpredictability and isolation in these times. They will help you wind down, build immunity and create a state from which you are more resilient with whatever life throws at you. Resilience doesn’t mean that you’ll be happy all the time, but it does mean you have the energy, the mindset, and the spiritual support to weather the storm.

Transcript

Welcome to session two on developing resilience.

Today's session is practicing the art of letting go.

Even letting go of the things we have strived for all our lives to attain.

Meditation training is more about letting go than it's about attaining levels of absorption.

Let's start with a shoulder roll.

Breathing in as you're raising your shoulders and breathing out as you let them down.

Take slow rolls until your shoulders touch your ears and then let them drop as far down as possible.

I invite you to relinquish all that binds you.

Whether that is your cherished fantasies,

Destructive attitudes,

Assumptions,

Views,

Or treasured roles,

Beliefs,

Or ideals.

Let it all go.

Become completely free and still.

It's not necessarily one more task to perform.

It is simply what occurs when you're not clinging.

It's a direct expression of wisdom arising in a moment of experience.

It's simple.

When you're being dragged,

Let go of the leash.

When you feel the pain of grasping and understand the holding on as the cause of your suffering,

The solution is obvious.

This invites a profound reflection.

What can you authentically claim as your own?

What can you authentically claim as your own?

As you discern the impermanent,

Conditioned character of all material and mental processes,

You eliminate perceptions,

Sensory experience,

And material things as fields for possession.

On the surface,

It may seem like you're being asked to give up everything,

But you will simultaneously realize that there is actually nothing possessed and consequently that there can actually be no giving up.

The great abandonment is to let go of the concept of ownership.

Letting go in meditation is a relinquishment that involves no loss.

Recognizing impermanence leads to the realization of the pure and ungraspable nature of things.

Seeing this basic fact of things,

One has nothing to fear.

Notice the feeling that is arising in you.

It may be an extraordinary delight that surpasses all temporary pleasures,

Softening any residual fear that may want to grasp again what can never actually be possessed.

Now ask yourself this question,

What do I really want in life?

What do I really want in life?

Once you have an answer,

There is clarity.

With this clarity,

You have the power to manifest that which you want most.

Be sure to make a note of it after you're done here.

Notice how you feel right now.

New t Thank you.

Join me tomorrow for a session on using breath for enhancing your state of well-being.

Until then,

Be well.

Reviews

Thank you I choose peace

Jay I share your words with family that’s near and dear to me because of their struggles and I know they will benefit immensely from your words because they help me to stay true to myself . Thank you

That was liberating, swimming naked in the ocean comes to mind. Thank you

Beautiful Meditation, we are just visitors on earth nothing here is owned from us and being able to let go of every materialistic believe is really relieving and gets you to focus on your own health , longevity and the people that stay with you on your limited time . So ownership is not the right term. We don’t lose ,we don’t posses we only gain something , rather a lesson or or win in life. Namaste🙏🏼

This meditation is so helpful and calming. Helping me to clarify what is actually important. I hope to carry it with me throughout the day. Thank you.

Thank you for this clear guidance about letting go and posessing. It's such a helpful reminder as I prepare to move to a smaller home. I am peaceful in the face of a mountain of accumulated stuff.

In deepest gratitude. What I really want: The Freedom to Love and Live Fully.

Liberating 💗
I felt I was floating in space, free without burdens. Blissful peace
Thank you for creating this series 🙏
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“If you’re being dragged, let go of the leash.” Profound statement!

Loved this! Short, sweet and insightful. Jay is a such a pro. Great audio quality too. 🧡

Very simple yet thought-provoking. Thanks. Thanks 🙏🏻

It changes everything when you practice letting go by this perspective. It sure makes since. I couldn't find what I really want to do, but I will. Thank you.

Thank you, when you let go of all there is only Spirit left! Be well! 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for sharing this helpful, calming practice - feeling lighter 🙏

I really liked this one. If you are being dragged by the leash, let go. So simple yet profound. I did find the quiet time at the end was a bit long for me and my mind started wandering. I guess I need more practice :-)

”When you let go in meditation, you lose nothing”
My immediate response was profound. Thank you. Looking forward to more.

Always good to recall how we create our own suffering, even as somehow it’s always hard to believe 🙏🏻

Beyond grateful. That was how I felt at the end. 💛

Very calming and grounding. I look forward to tomorrow. Thank you so much. 🙏

“If you are being dragged, let go of the leash” so simple and profound.