COURSE

Letting Go Of Attachment

In this course you will begin to master essential techniques for letting go of attachment. As you move through a set of 10 lessons with David, you will learn how to let go of ruminating thought patterns that no longer serve you, how to have amusement with what makes you feel stuck, and how to call your attention and energy back into the present moment so you can create your life from awareness and acceptance.

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Meet your Teacher

David Gandelman

Boulder, CO, USA

David Gandelman is the founder of GroundedMind, host of the Energy Matters Podcast, and teaches meditation at Cornell University. When David was 16 he had a radical spiritual awakening and began meditating deeply. He went on to study a variety of spiritual traditions from the Himalayas to Hawaii, where he served as the director of an intuitive healing center. With over 10 years of teaching experience David has cultivated a program where he connects energy awareness, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor, to create a safe atmosphere for learning meditation. At the core of David's teaching is the idea that in order to live a happy and fulfilled life, it's important to have a sense of humor with our situations on Earth, and let go of the energy and attachments that keep us lost in expectation instead of grounding into reality.

10 Days

33.8k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

The Gravity of Attachment

In this session we will learn about the core teaching of non-attachment that many meditation traditions have been born from, and reflect on what we find ourselves most attached to. Here, we are simply taking inventory, a pulse if you will, of where our energy and attention tends to go. Attachments can have their own center of gravity - almost like a pull. If we don't recognize that pull, then it becomes difficult to break free of an attachment's orbit, and our energy isn't free to create.

Lesson 2

Tools for Letting Go - Getting Grounded

In this session we will be exploring the concept of letting go - which involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, and staying with it. During meditation we will also learn a tool that grounds us and creates a channel of release. It's important to be able to see what we need to let go of and have a place to release it. Otherwise the energy of what we are working on may just recycle through our space but never fully flush out.

Lesson 3

Releasing the Energy of Control & Perfection

In this session as we step back into meditation we recognize places in ourselves where we try and control outcomes, and on some level need everything to be perfect -including ourselves. The need to control situations or feelings can sometimes be an unconscious reaction stress, anxiety, or excessive expectations. To find that deep calm and inner-peace, we approach our needs for perfection with self-compassion, and even a dose of humor.

Lesson 4

Laughing Out of Stuckness & Attachment

In this session we explore one of the main culprits of feeling stuck, seriousness - and learn to use amusement to release it with a new meditation tool. Of course it's important to take our challenges seriously so we can address them, but sometimes we can take them too seriously and get stuck in a lower vibration that can't see a way out. Let us allow Einstein to remind us that, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it". Let's begin today by moderating our seriousness, raise our joy, and expand our consciousness.

Lesson 5

Tools for Ruminating Thoughts

In this session we'll be exploring how to deal with the rumination of thought patterns. If you live in the modern world you almost definitely suffer from thoughts that loop - they pass through your consciousness over and over but don't lead anywhere. In this meditation we examine one of those patterns for ourselves, find the message hidden within them, and let go.

Lesson 6

Back to The Present

In this session we will begin explore what it means to be attached to the past and future, and how that dynamic can trap our energy in a mental state that doesn't serve our true goals of being present and happy. As we step into meditation today we reorient our energy by releasing an image from the past, and one from the future, so that we can ground into the present.

Lesson 7

Exploring a Major Attachment

In this session we revisit a few of the attachments that came up in our fist meditation, and approach them with the tools and awareness we've gained over the past 6 lessons. It's important in meditation to slow down and not try to tackle every energy at once. Allow yourself to be present, sit still for longer periods of time, and have patience as you create space in your consciousness from your attachments.

Lesson 8

The Return of Energy

In this session we will return to the major attachment we were working on in our last meditation, and learn a tool that will bring our energy back from the attachment, and learn how to give it space to shift. So often we become so invested in something unfolding a certain way that we almost hold it hostage with our energy from unfolding naturally. The question today is can we give this attachment space and call our energy back from it so it can breathe and shift.

Lesson 9

Seeing Your Next Step

In this session we return one last time to a major attachment and explore the tool of learning to 'see' our next step with it. As we deepen into meditation we awaken to the difference between over-analyzing something vs seeing our true next step with it. There is a natural state of fluidity in meditation that changes our attitude and opens up new possibilities in our consciousness.

Lesson 10

Everything is Ending & Beginning

To finish the course we review everything we have learned throughout the series. We awaken to the awareness that everything is constantly changing, ending, and beginning. Through the acceptance of that awareness we can begin to live deeper in the moment free from attachment, to love ourselves, to be present, awake, and have to allow experiences to arise and then subside. In letting go we start to learn how to truly live.

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This course includes 598 community questions and 36 audio replies from David Gandelman. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Laura

February 4, 2026

This is so helpful. David is kind and a wonderful guide on the journey. I am grateful for his wisdom and guidance.

Karen

January 31, 2026

Really excellent course. This is one to do more than once for sure :-) thank you!

Thomas

January 27, 2026

This is a moving and beautiful course. It will need to be revisited because the true nature of being has been carefully condensed into 10 brief lessons. It was difficult for me to complete because David really nails down the impermanence of life. I hope you will give it a try and take the time to set even a small portion of yourself free. It will be worth it.

Diné

January 9, 2026

I found these step by step approaches to releasing attachments super powerful! I’m going to use the methods again and again. 💜

Sai

January 7, 2026

Thank you so much it help me a lot ! I feel ready for what’s next :-) Life is beautiful, thanks to help people realize that

Gerry

December 29, 2025

David all I can say is thank you. This course has helped and opened my eyes to why I have to let go.

Lizzie

December 5, 2025

Thank you for this beautiful course 😌 The cycle of life, of things, seasons, days, of attachments. I feel like I'm letting go of the trauma that suddenly showed itself a year ago. It's been a very painful & distressing journey this year, but I'm coming out the other side, starting anew, and I'm at a beginning 🥰 Thank you for this course David I shall return to it, again 💞

kate

November 23, 2025

Great perspectives on all of life’s perceived issues.

Timothy

November 6, 2025

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Olivia

November 3, 2025

Great course! Full of wisdom. 🙏

Suzie

October 14, 2025

Absolutely loved this course, so helpful. I understand the theory and guidance but keep re listening as it will take time and patience to ‘let go’ but I want to get there, as I truly believe it is the answer to a fufilled life,

Tim

October 7, 2025

I really enjoyed that course, a nice blend of humour, depth, sincerity and authenticity woven together with your knowledge and experience in a really nice gentle way… Particularly like the final lesson and that realisation that attachment is really linked to wanting things to not end, and how it’s really important to just accept that things live and things die; things come and things go, all things must pass! But something always takes its place, this really resonated with me and was a really nice way to pull together everything that you were talking about throughout the course. Thank you for creating this and sharing this with the World man, good work ✨🫶🏼🌍🌱🙏🏼✨

Katie

September 21, 2025

I have found this course so helpful and enjoyable! I have just finished the last day and feel a deep sense of peace and contentment. I particularly liked the last day on beginnings and endings. It reminds me of the monkey with his hand in the jar of goodies, and he has to let go of them to take his hand out of the jar 🐵 Also the closed fist and open hand practice in tai chi. Meditation feels like the softness of the open hand allowing me to let go of attachment. A wonderful course David, and the first one I have done with you. Namaste 🙏 and thank you 🌷

Desiree

September 8, 2025

The results and impact of this course on my life are phenomenal. I managed to release the grip of a very, very painful shock event. Give it a go, I think it's life changing!

Carol

August 12, 2025

I love the explanation about where your energy is being placed or going. Thank you for creating this course. Very helpful.

Athena

July 5, 2025

David, thank you. This has been my favorite teaching of yours. As someone who has been a student of yours for a few years now, this series nourished my soul in ways previously unknown. Profound gratitude. Deep bow.

Brian

April 12, 2025

I found the content and style of presentation to be so calming, opening, and effective. I wasn't sure what to expect from this course, and I found it to be so relevant and cathartic. I feel very grateful for having come across it, having completed it, And for being available to us. Thank you so very much.

Tracy

April 11, 2025

Awesome thank you able to let go more now

Adrian

March 30, 2025

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