The Power of Letting Go: How to drop everything that's holding you back

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Analyze these reasons - usually they'll be irrational beliefs like "I'm not good at xxx", "If I couldn't do it before, why would I be able to do it now", etc. Let go of your need to be perfect. Nobody is perfect. Let go of your need to be perfect and accept yourself for who you are. Let go of your expectations. When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Instead, focus on the present moment and what you can control.

Another point he emphasizes is that you as a person is not a fixed entity. There is no quality about you that is fixed - you are not a nice person, a selfish person, a dependable person etc. No one is always nice. No one is always selfish. No one is always angry. No one is always kind. This was a fast easy read and is a positive way to frame up opportunity for us be happier and more successful taking away stuff that detracts from where we are going. These ten ideas are from notes found while reading about the book … we can divide desires into 3 categories :those come from ego, borrowed desires( part of our social and cultural conditioning), those arise naturally. us being only consciousness. no we are not. just as we are not only mind and body. this things work in a triad - taking away at least one of this elements, we cannot be considered as humans at all. person can go all consciousness and mind, but what will happen to the body? or if one neglects consciousness, all the work with mind and body will be useless. and in neglecting mind - ultimately, what that person will be good for? nothing. balance between everything is a key, you cannot just throw away one element and expect everything will be all right. people who accept themselves as they are do not feel the need to hide qualities which some people may not like.The Power of Letting Go brings together a number of key principles that come up for anyone who is on the journey of self-enquiry and development. At some point, the choice becomes clear, whether to hold on or let go. His teachings around mindfulness are generally oversimplified and cover only a subset of known mindfulness techniques used in buddhist practices and in mindfulness psychology. The former he seems to not really like even though he reuses the classical anchor meditation in different versions in his exercises (selling each as different or not understanding the common denominator). The latter he obviously has no clue about. He seems to be largely into a very spiritual and traditional hinduism Vedic practice and transcendental meditation. His explanations for why those practices and classic meditation techniques work are largely useless and oversimplified. we manifest our beliefs, not our desires. Once you are complete, your beliefs and desires become one. Then your desires start to become reality. relationships develop naturally when we no longer feel the need to fix ourselves and everyone around us.

I had been roughing it up in my life for a few years so when i saw this at the library, thought I'd give it a read. It's very hard to stop thinking. It's better to give your mind something to do. Sit and relax, and bring your attention to your breath. Written in a conversational tone, it was like a fireside chat with Mr Purkiss. He wrote mainly from his own life experiences and also from some friends who were happy to share their journey with him. I found a lot of simple truths in what he shared but the doing is so much harder because most of us are messed up inside ...but we can try, why not ?

Let go of your need to control everything. You can't control everything that happens in life, so don't try. Let go and trust that things will work out the way they are supposed to.