21 Ways to Let Go To Get Control of Your Life

All relationships involve issues of control.

The other person's approval or disapproval is important within a relationship.

Each party to the relationship maneuvers to be in control and this control is fluid in a healthy relationship.

1. "Let go" does not mean stop caring. It means "I won't do it for someone else because I want them to learn from the experience.
2. "Letting go" is not cutting myself off; it is realizing that I cannot control another person.

???3." Letting go" is to recognize the power in another to control his or her life situation and to live with the consequences of his or her behavior.

1. "Letting go" means I will not try to change or blame another.
2. "Letting go" means I will focus on what I can control, my own behavior.
3. "Letting go" means I will be supportive.
4. "Letting go" is not being protective but allowing another to face the reality of life.
5. "Letting go" does not deny the behavior of another but accepts it.
6. "Letting go" means dealing with the present to create a useful future and not clinging to the past.
7. "Letting go" means fearing less and loving more.
8. "Letting go" means I will search for my own shortcoming and correct them.
9. "Letting go" means I have given myself and you permission to make mistakes and be wrong.
10. "Letting go" means I will not try to adjust everything to fit my desires, but rather take each moment as it comes.
11. "Letting go" means growth and living for the future.
12. " Letting go" is not scolding, arguing, or nagging.
13. "Letting go" means I will be there for support, advice, and love, but the decisions you make will be your own.
14. "Letting go" is the realization that words like should, must, ought to, need and demandingness is symptoms of my own feeling of being out of control.
15. "Letting go" is the realization that life is a process and that at any moment everything could change.
16. "Letting go" is knowing the difference between the things I cannot change and those that I can.
17. "Letting go" is the recognition that people are whole and complete and capable of doing whatever they want to do to get what they want.
18. "Letting go" is the true expression of unconditional positive regard.

The pandemic, the economy, working from home, world chaos, the anxiety of dealing with all this, how do we let go of the worry, concern, and anxiety?

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