Letting Go Technique Explained in 5 Easy Steps (MUST TRY) | David Hawkins

the technique i'm about to share with you i feel personally has been over complicated a lot okay and we did a video on this um going over it comes from this book letting go okay and that's literally the technique right there in the title letting go two words so how hard can it be right but i think that there's a lot of resistance for people around this technique because again it's over complicated you look at blog posts and it's like okay what what is the technique again or you watch youtube videos that are 50 minutes

long talking about this right now yeah it's important to go into details but you don't need all the details to make this effective okay so this video's goal is one thing i'm gonna tell you about those two words the technique letting go how to do it how i have found it's worked best for me and then that you can actually use it by the end to let go of something now a first question comes up before we get to this technique which i will give you you have to understand that emotions are one of the

most primitive forms that our brain uses think of emotions as like a file on a computer okay you know you can drag like thousands or hundreds of pictures into that file you can drag uh documents into that file you can drag all kinds of things into that one singular file what happens if you change the file you can't find it anymore and you freak out you're like oh where'd that file go you feel disorganized because that has all your stuff in there right what happens if you delete the file all those things go away with

it so emotions represent that file system of yourself okay now what are the actual things inside the file those are thoughts okay now how cool is this because emotions are a much more primitive form when you look at how the brain has developed over what millions of years depending on how far back you go evolutionarily right your neocortex right your prefrontal cortex all this stuff the like gray matter right here that's the newest part of the brain and that's why a lot of animals don't have that but they have instincts right like a reptile the

eagle goes over and watching it on a golf course right or like the eagles and the hawks go in and they scurry away into a hole because they know instinctually that's danger right but they're not intellectualizing it after like oh man was that eagle out to get me maybe he was a nice guy did i overreact there right but we do because we're so developed your superpower can also be your detriment now here's the thing why that's important is because yes thoughts are they affect you they do create emotions but it's almost the other way

around a lot of the emotions create the thoughts what this book says is that it's not the thoughts that are causing the emotions but it's the emotions that are causing your negative thoughts pretty cool right if we have the emotional files on our hardware right here and we change it all of a sudden a thousand thoughts change tens of thousands of thoughts change you're no longer thinking in that loop famously tony robbins i love him to death but you know he calls this changing your state get out of a state right you look at depressed

people and they're hunched over like this right they're in that emotional state how bad things are right their physiology is there so he's like change your state and then you feel better his techniques rely on more like physiology and movement on getting out there and doing something because yeah you feel better when you are that and then you don't have those same thoughts you see how that works now you're like okay well what are some emotions to look out for what are good emotions what are bad emotions give me some verbage here einstein i told

you we'd simplify this so this is called the hawkins chart again by david hawkins people call this the the vibration chart right without getting into the details of how this was developed and i know that's a bit controversial with muscle testing but i think looking at this chart it's pretty intuitive so we have probably a dozen emotions here that you will feel at any point during your life i want you to think of this like a stoplight green that's supposed to be yellow i didn't have yellow so it's blue or yellow and then red red

is bad blue is okay and green is good now i know what you're thinking like i wanna how do i stay in green all day every day and that that's not really the point like you'll always be fluctuating somewhere along this right i don't ever think you'll get to this place of where everything's just 24 7. like the world's gonna keep bringing it down the people you can't control that stuff but you can control your reactions to it which is what we're talking about these are like warning signs right here you know if you're in

red or yellow and you're not in green especially if you're in red that's just a call to action that's a call to change something so a little bit more about this chart and how it can help you right if you know that emotions are the filing system and they can changing one emotion can change dozens if not thousands of thoughts doesn't it make sense then to recognize where you are yeah if you're gonna let go the first thing you need is something to let go of right and so here in the red emotions these are

what most people feel on like a day-to-day life right these calibrate very low on the vibration chart right shame guilt grief fear anger i left out a few just for simplicity but even saying those you know fear grief guilt shame how good of a life do you feel like that is we've all been there at times but i wouldn't want to stay there and so you recognize where you are then you have the medium emotions which are more of like pride courage neutrality willingness acceptance acceptance of what things are the willingness to change the neutral

state of like i could go there i could stay put i could go down courage and pride those are more like egoic desires which again they're not bad they're just a lower form ultimately you get into reason love joy and peace so now that you know you're changing the emotions not the thoughts now that you know these are kind of the emotions we're looking for categorized by a stoplight system red blue green you're probably like okay well what is the technique how do i use it this is where we're getting into it now that you

know this so it's five steps the very first step ask yourself what am i feeling catch yourself feeling some of this stuff maybe it's uh shame or fear what are people gonna think of me you know if i if i go on that zoom and totally botch it right oh i'm afraid of that or i'm afraid to go up to that person or i'm afraid to text back my boss or you know all the fear of scripts running your life choose your example maybe it's grief in grief i was reading that a lot of abandonment

or nostalgia feelings are there like the best times are behind me if only i'd said that differently you know or heartbrokenness right a lot of relationship pain is actually the form of grief so that's the first step what am i trying to let go of now the second step is you're going to sit okay you're just going to chill out for give yourself 10 minutes here you don't even have to say 10 minutes just one minute right so you're more willing to do this instead of 10 like oh i don't want to do this for

10 minutes just see what comes up identify it okay boom there it is what i do when this comes up right or i i've accumulated a lot of stuff throughout the day this is typically when i do it you know like midday or something i had a really stressful day at work well if i don't let go of this stuff you know i'm gonna take it home i'm gonna take it out on the people around me i'm gonna ruin the next 12 hours of my day i'm just going to kind of stay stuck in there

replaying things in my head so here's what doesn't help what most people do right and what i used to do a lot is i would find that stuff come up and you know i'd go to my phone and i would just like go through social media and just really like waste a lot of time right and not address the issue that's going on not address the emotion without getting into suppression repression that's how most people go about these emotions it's unpleasant so they distract themselves with something else it could come in the form of getting

high of drinking of video games any distraction that you have social media instead of actually recognizing that emotion so the first step is to recognize it the second step is to run to it not from it the third step is ask yourself can i allow this feeling can you allow it as soon as you ask that question you're jumping up into willingness to change it to let go of it to drop it and what you'll notice here is just like allowing this feeling right allowing the grief to come up and you're sitting with it right

and you're just feeling it you're not getting into the details here about who did what about replaying the loop over and over they shouldn't have done that right this judgment you're just sitting there you're breathing with it and you're just trying to allow it even that right there gives the possibility of letting go the next question could i let this go again willingness neutrality right here instantly just sitting with it and the last step is asking would i let this go can i could i would i now a couple points before we close this out

because i know what you're thinking right now you're like clark a that is way too simple there's no way my complex feelings that i've been feeling for a month or a week or whatever that's too simple but that's the resistance right there coming up thinking that it has to be hard to make a change that you know real change lasting change takes tons of work and force effort struggle that you don't get anything you don't work for in life right but so many people like intellectualize their problems to death to the point of where it

becomes a story for them and stories are way harder to change than emotions right it's kind of like actions emotions beliefs stories and then your identity at the level most people are running on like five to ten core stories in their life and that's really it that's kind of scary and so as soon as something becomes a story for you i was the one who was cheated on i was the one who didn't have uh good money issues growing up so now i spend everything i'm the person who doesn't trust anyone i'm the person who

can't lose weight right whatever your story is your whole identity conforms to it too and it's like yeah good luck making change but to even change that story you have to have the willingness and acceptance of it to even make start making the steps and so maybe letting go for you is letting go of the story right which we have tons of videos talking about that deeper the first one is like this is too simple yeah it's kind of supposed to be you know running a marathon is very simple you run 20 is it 24

26 point something miles i don't know i've never done it right you run that you don't stop it doesn't mean it's easy a lot of these practices meditation that's very simple sit focus on the breath do nothing right observe your thoughts for 10 minutes 12 minutes a day it doesn't mean it's easy just taking time to chill out to see what's coming up to check in with yourself right and to let go yeah it sounds simple but are we actually doing it are you actually doing that when it stuff comes up that's like the first

thing to do again it's like the warning signs red light yellow light green light remember that the only way to get rid of the program that's running in your mind the repetitive thoughts right and this is where i disagree with the law of attraction because it says hey you're attracting those thoughts to you you know even the negative ones all the toxic stuff about yourself you attract you manifested it so just hey have you ever thought about not thinking about that and people think like okay i'm not supposed to think about that no no no

no no and then it's kind of like don't think of a pink elephant right and you think of it more and more and more and then you feel guilty about thinking of it no i suck i i just think that's a toxic narrative out there floating around okay it's okay to recognize when things are bad when things aren't going the way you want when you have these feelings you're not suppressing or repressing them like a lot of those people in like the loa hardcore camp are telling you and a lot of people i talked to

you know on the phone have said that and i'm like ah that's that's just like missing the whole mark here is you recognize them that is a positive act in and of itself recognizing a negative feeling because then you have the ability to change it right recognize it you sit with it you try to let go and you work through it you don't work around it you don't ignore it you don't lie to yourself and say it's not that bad it's so i'm gonna manifest all this stuff right that's really how you raise your vibration

quote unquote right and that's how you attract better things better people to you when you become a different person from the inside out when you're vibing high when you're a different person when you're coming from that energy level of like life's good i'm at the top here right you're going to attract people at the top too you're going to attract the opportunities to you're going to attract the things to you but if you're coming from here like attracts like right and if you find a lot of negativity in your life or not a lot of

negative people sometimes it's unavoidable right it doesn't necessarily mean you're here but at the end of the day once you start working on yourself you're just going to attract a different caliber of person to you so that is letting go that is a bit of why we do that how to do it in a technique that you can do that is very simple give yourself the gift of it just try to work through it again it comes from this book if you want to know more i'll link up our book summary down below go a

bit deeper into that and give you some examples as well thanks so much for being here i'll see in the next video till then stop settling start living see ya