The Lightness of Letting Go

The gravity or weight of a situation can feel heavy, like stones in your pocket or a lead vest, but when it becomes part of you, you often don’t notice you’re carrying it until it’s gone. Whether it’s the burden of caring for something or someone, or an emotion you buried long ago, you won’t feel the airiness or levity of your own being until it is lifted or removed.

Have you ever stood in a doorway and pressed your arms against the frame for a period of time, and when you release them, they float upward? Your physical arms aren’t any lighter, but the tension you were exerting creates a buoyancy once released, as if they were pinned in place before.

Releasing old emotions, habits, or even ancestral wounds you’ve never uncovered, discovered, or explored will feel the same within your being. It will be as if you’re floating on air—smiling because the corners of your mouth naturally rise rather than being dragged down by the weight of residual karmic debris.

Your soul—the light of you, your true self—is free, is light, and only needs to be allowed to shine to melt away the heaviness. Without excavating every wound, simply by shining light, all is cleared away like opening the windows on a warm spring day.

Allow your breath, with its light of love, to dissolve the hidden baggage buried in your recesses. Release the weight of worries you’re not even aware you’ve been carrying. Feel the lightness of a bird in flight, and the freedom that only that kind of joy can bring.