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Letting Go With Ease - 3 Principles Path To Emotional Freedom

Letting go sounds simple but for many, it feels elusive. You might be tired of overthinking, trying to fix your feelings, or managing stress through constant effort. What if peace wasn’t something to earn but something to notice? This course offers a gentle reframe: letting go is not a task. It’s the natural consequence of insight. You’ll explore what really causes emotional tension and discover a quieter, kinder way to relate to thought, sensation, and your inner world. Together, we’ll look at where suffering really comes from, why resistance makes things worse, and how calm emerges, not through control, but through understanding. You’ll be invited to see the intelligence of your emotions, the safety of the present moment, and the profound simplicity of your true nature. This is especially supportive if you’re navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, or the pressure to perform. If you’ve tried other methods and still feel stuck, this course offers something different, an inside-out path that doesn’t ask you to work on yourself, but to see what’s already true. You’ll be guided with compassion and clarity. There’s no effort required, no performance expected, just a willingness to pause, notice, and reconnect. Each session stands on its own yet builds gently toward a deeper remembering of who you are beneath the noise. If something in you is ready to let go but not by force. This is a space where you’ll be met, not managed. Let’s begin.

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Meet your Teacher

Clare Downham

West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Clare helps driven professionals and business owners break free from the inner critic, overthinking, and the relentless pressure to do more. Through her courses, live sessions, and one-to-one mentoring, she helps them move from stress and self-doubt into clarity, confidence, and ease. Unlike traditional self-help strategies that rely on endless tools and techniques, Clare’s approach is rooted in the Three Principles understanding. It isn’t about fixing yourself or silencing your inner critic. Instead, she helps you see thought differently, so it no longer runs your life. This simple shift creates lasting calm and confidence without the need for constant effort or self-management. Clare also works with coaches, healers, and entrepreneurs who want to grow a well-run, good-feeling business. She brings together clarity and practical tools so that success becomes easier, decisions feel more aligned, and growth happens without the strain of hustle. Those who work with Clare experience real, lasting transformation. They: • Trust themselves deeply, making clear decisions without second-guessing. • Break free from overthinking, moving forward with ease. • Set boundaries without guilt, creating space for fulfilment and balance. • Lead with confidence, whether in their business, their career, or their personal life. If you’re ready for calm, clarity, confidence, and a business that feels good to run, Clare can guide the way.

10 Days

158 students

4.9 stars

7 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Letting Go Is Not A Task

We often approach letting go as another item on our to-do list. But from a 3 Principles understanding, true letting go isn’t something you do, it’s something that happens when you see clearly. In this opening lesson, we begin to dissolve the myth of effort and explore a more peaceful, natural path to emotional freedom.

Lesson 2

You Are Not Your Thoughts

If you're not your thoughts, who are you? In this lesson, we look beyond the mental noise and uncover the quiet presence that always remains. This simple yet profound realisation can soften stress, dissolve identification, and reconnect you with your deeper self.

Lesson 3

Suffering Comes From Identification

It’s not the presence of a thought that causes suffering; it’s how believable it seems. This lesson helps you explore the link between identification and distress, and gently invites a different relationship with painful emotions.

Lesson 4

The Body Knows When To Let Go

Your body is wise. Long before your mind ‘figures things out,’ the body offers gentle signals that something is off or easing. In this lesson, you’ll learn to trust your physiology as a helpful guide to insight and letting go.

Lesson 5

Thought Trains And Hot Stones

Imagine boarding every thought like a train or holding onto it like a burning stone. This playful metaphor reveals why we suffer and how insight alone leads to letting go. You’ll discover that presence is always one stop, or one drop away.

Lesson 6

The More You Resist, The Louder It Gets

Have you ever tried to silence your inner critic, only to feel more overwhelmed? This lesson reveals the paradox of resistance and how attempting to manage our minds only adds to the noise. Letting go is not achieved through control. It arises when we stop feeding the fire.

Lesson 7

The Illusion Of Control

So much suffering comes from trying to control what was never ours to control. In this quiet lesson, you’ll be invited to see that letting go is not weakness or passivity, it’s clarity, and from that clarity, wiser choices naturally emerge.

Lesson 8

You Don’t Have To Do Presence

Presence isn’t a performance; it’s your natural state. This lesson dissolves the myth that presence requires effort, silence, or stillness. You’ll learn that you are already present even when your mind is busy, and that presence deepens the moment you stop chasing it.

Lesson 9

Trusting The Intelligence Behind Life

There’s something deeper holding you. A calm intelligence behind your emotions, your thoughts, your experience. In this gentle lesson, we explore how trust, not control, is what allows letting go to become effortless and safe.

Lesson 10

The Letting Go That Lets You Go

What if it’s not you who lets go, but something in you that lets you go? In this final lesson, we return to the simple truth: letting go isn’t a task, it’s a consequence of insight. The more clearly you see, the more naturally you release. And even that… is not up to you.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 14 community questions and 13 audio replies from Clare Downham. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

January 12, 2026

Anotherful wonderfully useful course, thank you! I had several lightbulb moments when you explained things so well & I could then see my actions & thoughts differently. The metaphors & your own experiences were really useful too. Highly recommended, thank you!

Julie

November 18, 2025

Excellent course. Glad to have found it.

Ann

November 8, 2025

What an incredible and life changing course! Thank you so much for sharing the 3 principles on letting go. The thing that really struck me was when you said that it doesn’t make sense to keep on a thought train when the thinking is the cause of my suffering. Wow! I’ve already put this into practice. I caught myself in a moment of suffering and I asked myself if it made sense to continue on with this thought pattern and it was easy for me to see that it made no sense and the letting go came naturally. What a powerful insight. I can’t wait to dive into your other courses. I love your authenticity and how real and genuine you present your experiences. Many thanks!

John

September 29, 2025

Thank you Claire!

Lars

September 22, 2025

This course has made me feel better about the journey that I am on. I need to see that I can stop the suffering through out my day by just letting go. Thank You Teacher, lots of love

Jessica

September 19, 2025

Great course with so many practical examples of how to apply it!

Randall

September 18, 2025

Claire makes her journey accessible and identifiable, so even when the circumstances aren’t aligned perfectly, she has strategies to meet the complexity of feelings and reactions different life events bring big or small. Claire’s courses have helped me center through grief and loss, job transitions, and making peace with who I was, who I was “supposed to be” and who I am. 🤍 “Lots of love”

Steve

September 15, 2025

Wonderful course that I will do over probably many times

LYNETTE

September 12, 2025

Fantastic, I really enjoyed and benefited this course, thankyou Clare. Light n peace 💜🥀👌

Muriel

September 11, 2025

Another wonderful insightful and creative way Clare has shared the transformational truth of the 3 principles. I have whizzed through all 10 lessons in 24 h and now I look forward to savouring each one slowly, one insight at a time. Thank you Clare 🙏🏼

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