Holding On
The person who is punished the most when I can't let go is me. If I am angry, frustrated or disappointed the person, persons or entity that has caused this reaction continues on completely unaware of their affect.
Letting go of these feelings and allowing myself a clean slate gives me back what I let someone else take away from me.
A song by my favorite band Tool speaks about this in the song The Grudge. Lyrics below:
The Grudge
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.
Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.
Defining, confining, controlling, and we're sinking deeper.
Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.
Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you choose to let this go.
Give away the stone.
Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
Give away the stone.
Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.
Let go.
posted by Know Won Nose at 11:02 AM
5 Comments:
What a wonderful practice, John. Letting go of the pain and the heavier stuff leaves space for more of the "feel good" stuff to flow to and through us.
Love the picture that you used to depict this. Wonderful. *KISS*
Oh yes..and that is an amazing song. Thank you for sharing that music with me.
My pleasure.
Anybody who hasn't given Tool a listen should. And if they don't understand the lyrics they should look them up.
"Letting go of these feelings and allowing myself a clean slate gives me back what I let someone else take away from me."
That is good medicine for all of us. Me included. My word is simplify.... I am trying.
I'd like to personally thank you for introducing me to Tool (albeit second hand). Thank you, John.
BTW: Wonderfully evocative image. I empathize.
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