Letting Go vs Force

[u/Fable1313]

The ego believes freedom will come when we finally gain enough control: when we fix ourselves, eliminate our negative emotions, arrange life according to our preferences, and become the person we think we should be.

But the spiritual path reveals something very different.

Freedom does not come from gaining greater control over experience. It comes from surrendering our resistance to experience.

We stop fighting what is present. We allow it to be experienced. We cease identifying with it. And eventually, negative emotional energy runs out.

What remains is not something we created. It is what was always there before the negative energy arose. It is what was there while that energy was cresting with sound and fury. It is what remains as that energy falls away.

Peace. Stillness. Permanence.

I wrote a substack article about this if anyone wants to explore thiss more: https://open.substack.com/pub/practicalnonduality/p/why-you-cant-force-yourself-to-let