![]() ![]() It doesn’t mean it never happened or it never hurt. Therefore, consciously placing in a safe place will allow us to be at peace with it. The past does not provide the answers if we ask. We place it in a loving place we can visit whenever we feel we need to… whether joyous, sad, or desperate. Just like we bury our loved ones and never forget them, so it is with our past. You can even place a rose (or three) on top before the burial is final. You can choose to gently place your past into the hole and lower it in as you bid farewell. You can either throw yourself into the hole or you can choose something better. So how do you learn to let go? Make Your Peace Or Dig Forever Dig deep in frustration and all you are doing is burying yourself. These actions come from the root of knowing you can’t let go of this person, yet it becomes unconscious when it feels like you can’t stop reaching out. So, if someone has ended a relationship with you, there is a tendency to keep going back for more, to keep calling and to leave hundreds of messages. And yet, even though part of us keeps digging, another part of us may know there is no reason to continue. The reason is that we feel so close to what we are looking for that we don’t stop. The digging becomes an automatic movement where we don’t even recognize how we continue to dig deeper. Simultaneously and unconsciously these frustrations encourage us to keep digging without realizing when we must stop. We Don't Know When We Have To Stopįor example, in desperation and anxieties our minds tumble around our many thoughts. We may not even know the depth of our emotions, yet we can measure it by taking a look at our trenches. Let’s take a look at the digging, whether we do it with a shovel or down on our knees with our hands. Whether we’re digging a hole in the sand or in the dirt, in the end what we make is a hole in the ground. Has anyone ever told you to dig deeper? Did you ever feel so close to something but you had to keep digging? There are times when we must keep going while at other times we have to face the fact that enough is enough. All About Happiness – A column by Sandy Galiano. ![]()
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