Quotes About Release

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

A crocodile has caught me and I cannot be saved until you give me permission to become a sanyasin.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

She had the look of a woman whose bra had just been snapped open.

Human emotional attachment can make animal companions cling to a torturous existence when they would normally prepare themselves for their transitions peacefully.

Piangendo [...] ci si pulisce meglio che tuffandosi nel lago più puro. Si posa il fardello sul marciapiede del binario d'arrivo.

That which redeems consumes.

God brings his presence 'into the house', and we are called to release it back out into the world or the blessing will die.

As much as I can forgive myself, that much can I forgive others. What I often forgive in others is an old pain of mine, released from the disgust of self-hate. It is an old vulnerability of mine that I now love and welcome like a bird with a broken wing. Shame and self-hate did not start with me, but with all my heart, I deign that they will stop with me. I will do unto myself as I would have others do unto me.

Stress is also the painful internal pressure of accumulated emotional energy. Grieving, explored at length herein, is the most effective stress-release mechanism that human beings have. Grieving is a safe, healthy release valve for our internal pressure cookers of emotion.

Feelings and emotions are energetic states that do not magically dissipate when they are ignored. Much of our unnecessary emotional pain is the distressing pressure that comes from not releasing emotional energy. When we do not attend to our feelings, they accumulate inside us and create a mounting anxiety that we commonly dismiss as stress.

Pain is excess energy crying out for release." – Gerald Heard

Grieving is necessary to help us release and work through our pain about the terrible losses of our childhoods. These losses are like deaths of parts of our selves, and grieving can often initiate their rebirth.

angering, crying, verbal ventilating and feeling.

We can learn to be emotional in benign ways. We can have our emotions without holding onto them. We can soften and relax into our feelings without exiling or enshrining them. We can let our feelings pass through us when they have fully served their function.

Holotropic Rebirthing and Reichian therapy employ special breathing techniques to help free stuck emotions.

The answer lies in the particular type of spontaneous shaking, trembling, and breathing that I described earlier.

If they have not trembled and breathed that way before they are released, they will not survive. They will die.

The key to completing this uncompleted immobility response lies in uncoupling our fear from the response itself. This allows the stuck energy to be freed up for use wherever it is needed within the body.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Lord, help me let go of control. Help me die. Help me trust.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

We've got to get in to get out.

It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It's about letting go.