FLOW PSYCHOLOGY

I have been interested in the psychology of “letting go” most of my life…I was introduced to it when becoming familiar with Oriental Philosophy as a young man…and found it one of the most valuable skills I’ve learned in life…it is primarily concerned with the letting go of our unnecessary left brain clutter which can open the door to a freer right brain.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.~ Havelock Ellis

We are taught much about holding on but very little about letting go.~Sid

As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break.~ Julia Butterfly Hill

Rigidity is a form of extreme holding on to the dominant left brain.~Sid

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.~ Lao Tzu

The underlying message of major religions and spiritual movements is the healing power of surrender to a higher power found in the right brain.~Sid

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.~ Joseph Campbell

What is waiting for us may simply be in front of our nose if we dare to look beyond the left brain.~Sid

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.~ Anon

“Can we find the wisdom of the right brain to change what needs be changed and accept that which can’t be changed?”~Sid

Stand up and walk out of your history.~Phil McGraw

Our inner child’s freedom and joy comes out of a lack of preoccupation with our history.~Sid

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.~John Seely Brown

There is gold deeply hidden in the right brain by a profound letting go experience.~Sid

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.~ Karen Casey

To fully accept someone by letting go of the left brain’s judgements can bring about the full acceptance of ourself and others,~Sid

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.~ Author Unknown