Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

This book describes a mechanism that unlocks our innate abilities to achieve happiness, success, health, well-being, intuition, unconditional love, beauty, inner peace, and creativity. It may seem to contradict common sense that somewhere you need to “let go,” but Dr. Hawkins confirms through both clinical and personal experience that letting go is the surest path to full self-actualization. Many of us were raised to associate worldly—and even spiritual—achievements with “hard work,” with the idea that you need to “work like a horse,” “earn by sweat and blood,” and other self-limiting axioms inherited from a culture steeped in Protestant ethics. According to this view, success demands suffering, difficulty, and effort: “no pain, no achievement.” But where do all these efforts and this pain take us? Are we truly deeply calm? No. There is still an inner guilt, vulnerability to someone’s criticism, a desire for guarantees, and resentments that torment us. “Letting go of uncomfortable feelings: The Path to Acceptance” provides a roadmap to a freer life for everyone willing to take this journey. Your life will be changed for the better if you accept the principles described in this book.

In this very pragmatic book, a technique is presented with which we can overcome the little “self” and break through to the freedom we long for. This state of inner freedom and genuine happiness is our “birthright,” says Dr. Hawkins. When we read, we receive encouragement and inspiration from real clinical examples he shares from decades of psychiatric practice. Example after example shows us that the power of letting go can be applied to almost every area of life: relationships, physical health, working conditions, rest, spiritual process, family life, sexuality, emotional healing, and freeing ourselves from addictions.