The Letting Go Technique, The ABC's and Five C's

The practices shared below offer a simple and profoundly effective way to bring greater awareness into daily life by allowing energy to move rather than remain held within the body and nervous system. Inspired by the work of David R. Hawkins and his teachings on emotional surrender from Letting Go, these tools support a direct relationship with felt experience, where awareness, breath, and conscious choice work together to dissolve habitual patterns. When feelings are fully met with presence, energy naturally completes its cycle and reveals clarity, insight, and renewed vitality. Over time, this gentle process refines perception, deepens self-trust, and cultivates an inner atmosphere of ease, compassion, and creative responsiveness. Each moment of practice becomes an invitation to release stored tension, expand conscious choice, and align more fully with the state of well-being that already lives within.

The Letting Go Technique

Dr David Hawkins “The Mechanics of Letting Go.” from his book “Letting Go”. 

“Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it for more than 90 seconds and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply allowing the feeling to be and letting out the energy behind it.”

The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it or moralizing it. It means to drop judgement and see that it is just a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and to surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps it going. A feeling will disappear when the energy behind it dissipates.” As the Letting Go process is repeated over and over, energy is released, revealing new feelings and new opportunities to let go of resistance. Once again. We are not letting go of the feelings… we are letting go of resistance to them. What we resist persists. 

Resistance Definition - An instinctive reaction, the act of opposing or withstanding something, whether it be a force, an idea, or a change. 

To find the feeling, bring your attention to the feeling, not the thought. Feel into where it is located in the body. You may notice a tension or restriction in the body. After feeling that, allow it to be felt deeply while relaxing the area of the body where there is restriction, and energy is being held. Breathe slowly and deeply for several breaths and proceed with “the first step” above. 

The A,B,C's

A) Awareness to thoughts and feelings which are not constructive 

B) Breath... once that awareness arises, let yourself feel what you are feeling for a few breaths instead of denying it or bypassing it. Part of the integration work you are doing for lasting change requires these feelings to come up and for you to allow tge feelings to be there momentarily without resistance. You may gently ask, what is this feeling in my body asking for? And softly inquire where did this come from? Again, resistance is what keeps these dense energies strong and alive. 

C) Choose... after doing the letting go technique above, remember letting go is letting go of resistance... then choose how you prefer to feel and a more aligned thought which will inform right action.

Five C's

After awareness of a destructive or limiting beliefs or feeling, do the five c's.

Calm - Return to center through breath. Resist blaming the outside... this is an inside game.

Compassion - Meet the experience with kindness. Be with your suffering without definitive judgement or resistance.

Curiosity - Open to intuitive insight. Be curious and ask your intuition why this is arising and, "What may be another way of looking at things that feels better and is more empowering, constructive, and true?"

Choice - Respond consciously, choose how to respond vs habitual, close minded, judgmental reaction. 

Create - Embody a new pattern of being. Create a new thought pattern through higher conscious response and creation... 

Repetition of these practices is necessary to transform deeply entrenched patterns, programming, judgement, and destructive feelings like anger, shame, fear etc. thankfully, opportunities will keep coming up in life, inviting you to become more aware and present, and to heal, to choose, and bring a new way of being and seeing that feels better and changes what appears on the outside of one's waking reality.