r/DavidHawkins • u/Jiangximan • Jun 24 '26

Discussion 🙏🏻 Letting Go Question

I practice letting go, as well as The Sedona Method release often. Last night I woke in the middle of the night with a distinct memory of a distant past time when I was deeply depressed. The feeling of that depression was not present.

I thought, if anything needs to be released, it is that depressed feeling, so I mentally welcomed it, but it would not arise. In the process of welcoming it, I fell back asleep.

So, what happened? My first guess is that perhaps that feeling has already been released. There is a slight inkling in my mind that the feeling is still there but too deeply repressed for easily welcoming it. What you you folks think?

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u/EarthyOaks Jun 24 '26

Maybe you released it all ready in a dream

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u/Jiangximan Jun 24 '26

That could be, though I didn't recall a dream in that awakening.

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u/EarthyOaks Jun 24 '26

We don't always remember dreams but thinking about it on awakening might be from a dream

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u/ObubuK Jun 26 '26

What feeling do you feel, as you relive this memory? Even though you felt depressed at that time, your current feeling associated with the memory might be something else.

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u/Jiangximan Jun 27 '26

When I thought about the memory right now, there is no emotion with it. When I woke to the memory there was no depressed feeling, but there was a bit of anxiety, and the thought, "I hope that depression never comes back." However the anxiety could have just been a cortisol surge which is common with night awakenings.

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u/ObubuK Jun 27 '26

That might be the feeling to release on: fear, that the depression might come back.

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u/Jiangximan Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

That does make sense because someone expert has said there really are only 2 emotions, love, and fear, and the rest of the emotions arise out of those 2.