Little Book of Letting Go: 30 Days to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit, and Replenish Your Soul - Softcover

Prather, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642504726 ISBN 13: 9781642504729

Publisher: Conari Press, 2021

Synopsis

Let It Go and Find Happiness

“Letting go—particularly of fear—has been my desire and goal for years. With the help of this book, I am finally beginning to do it!” —M. J. Ryan, author of Attitudes of Gratitude

2021 International Book Awards finalist in Spirituality: Inspiration

Life does not have to be as complicated as we often make it. Little Book of Letting Go shows us how to let go of the blocks that interfere with experiencing our natural state of wholeness, joy, and peace.

Let it go and shed what weighs you down. From long-harbored guilt to deep-rooted prejudices, many of us bear the weight of harmful tendencies in our daily lives. Whether we realize it or not, these things are actively holding us back from the happiness we long to attain. In this inspirational book, minister and counselor Hugh Prather provides a guide for mental cleansing. It is only in ridding our minds of the fear and judgments we cling to that we open the door for happiness.

Embrace opportunities as they come. The more we hold on to, the less room we have to take on more. If our minds are clouded by negativity, then we aren’t facing each day with the openness that it deserves. By facing each moment with enthusiasm, we pave the path for positive thinking and make the most out of every opportunity that comes our way.

Practical exercises and lasting tools. Changing how we think takes practice. This is why Prather doesn’t just tell us that it’s important to let go—he shares with us simple steps for how to go about letting go of things that hold us back. Through learning from Prather’s shared experiences and adopting the practices he offers, we can find happiness, peace, and a chance at spiritual renewal.

Inside discover:

• A simple 3-step process for letting go
• A 30-day plan for spiritual renewal
• Personal stories from Prather

Readers of Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, It’s All Under Control, The Art of Happiness, or Love is Letting Go of Fear, will love Little Book of Letting Go.

About this title

About the Authors

Hugh Prather was the author of more than 14 books, which have sold over 1.5 million copies. He lived with Gayle, his wife of more than 30 years, in Tucson, Arizona, where he was the resident minister at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church. He died in 2010.

Gerald Jampolsky, MD, author of Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All, is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Jampolsky is a child and adult psychiatrist, a graduate of Stanford Medical School, an author, and an inspirational speaker.

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Maggie

A woman named Maggie emailed Gayle and said that about six months ago she began noticing that she was sad after her weekly phone conversation with her mother. Gayle asked her if this had ever happened before. Maggie said no, and that furthermore her mother was very healthy and nothing unusual had happened recently in her mother's life.

Gayle told Maggie that for the next two weeks she wanted her to sit down with paper and pen immediately after each call, and, while concentrating on her feeling of sadness, to write down every thought in her mind.

Two weeks later, Maggie emailed back that the words loser and You're a loser kept recurring in her mind. “But,” she said, “my mother is not a loser. She's a very popular schoolteacher who has won an award. And I have a great career as a physical therapist and don't consider myself a loser either.”

Gayle told Maggie to sit quietly once or twice in the next few days and trace back all her memories surrounding the word loser. She also told her to write down her thoughts after one more phone conversation with her mother.

The next week Maggie emailed Gayle again, this time very excited about what she had discovered. Six months before, her father, who had divorced her mother when Maggie was ten, had come into town and they had had lunch together. At that time her father told her that he had divorced her mother because “she was such a loser,” having no career goal higher than to be a schoolteacher. Maggie's father was a doctor and had run off with another doctor.

Gayle asked Maggie if there was any aspect of her own life that had not been successful. Maggie replied that she was thirty-seven and had never been able to form a permanent relationship. She said that the man she was dating now wanted to get married but that something was holding her back. He was a wonderful man but she felt very reluctant.

Again Gayle advised Maggie to sit in the middle of the emotion and write down all her thoughts, this time whenever she felt this familiar reluctance.

In their next-to-last exchange, Maggie told Gayle that the thought she uncovered was quite crazy. “It was, ‘If I get married, I will become a loser.’ How could I have such a thought?” Gayle replied, “Because you lived for many years in a house where your father held the deep conviction that your own mother was a loser. You are half your dad and half your mother, so naturally you are going to internalize this loser thought―which proved powerful enough to break apart your home.”

In her last email, Maggie told Gayle that she and her boyfriend had discussed the work she had been doing and he was very supportive. Although they had not yet decided to get married, she had invited him to move in. They were going to see how it went.

Edition details

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642504726
• ISBN 13: 9781642504729
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 286