Let Go Now by Karen Casey

Author:Karen Casey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609251604
Publisher: Mango Media

Loving the moment we are living right now is the kindest way to spend our life. It will teach us everything we need to know and will give us every opportunity we need to dance the dance that is ours and only ours.

97 Detachment is no longer needing to assuage anyone else’s anger.

BECAUSE I GREW UP IN A HOUSEHOLD WHERE ANGER WAS a dominant theme, I learned to slip away, emotionally and physically, so that I didn’t become the brunt of it. I also became very practiced at trying to relieve the aftereffects. Although I did come to understand the physic impetus for the anger, my education didn’t come soon enough. Thus, for far too many years I practiced anger myself. We do learn how to be by what we see.

It became second nature to me to either be angry or to try to alleviate someone else’s anger. Either way, the underlying fear I had about living, day to day, was overwhelming. The fireball of anxiety I experienced from childhood until my forties prompted many reactions from me in all my primary relationships, and few of those reactions were pretty. My relationships were fraught with struggle because of my attempts to fix situations, to change a person, or to plead for forgiveness and acceptance. My fear of rejection was all-consuming at times, so I used all these responses interchangeably. As I recount these things from my past, I stand amazed that who I was has become who I now am. That’s the very good news for all of us: we all are works in progress.

Being able to let others have their feelings, regardless of what those feelings are, is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer ourselves on a daily basis. While it’s true that some feelings expressed by others are easier to walk away from than anger, all feelings can be equally accepted if we remember what our real job is: detachment.

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