Comments on: Letting Go

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:42:40 +0000

I have a co-worker, friend , we work at a daycare center in the same room. She was accused of spanking a child and a cps complaint was filed. after investigation by the center’s commitee and cps, she was cleared. the center gave her the person’s name who did this to her. she was off for 2 months during this investigation. now she refuses to be any where around the person so they moved this person to a different part of the building. She is fine at work as long as me or someone else is around her and is refusing to be left alone for even 2 minutes, says she is uncomfortable. Since she works later till closing , this is hard to arrange without moving the children aound or another staff person when i leave. help us out. i think she is letting this other person win the situation, and she needs to find a way to move on. what can i say to help her.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:47:00 +0000

thanks for my wake up call!!!

By: Craig Harper

Craig Harper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Hi Anon – over the last two weeks I have written articles on Life Purpose – take a peek. I also wrote an article called ‘Emotional Investment’ (May 19) check that out too – … cheers

By: Craig Harper

Craig Harper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:06:00 +0000

Thanks for dropping by KK… x

By: Craig Harper

Craig Harper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:05:00 +0000

Thanks for the URL Anon…

By: Craig Harper

Craig Harper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:04:00 +0000

You’re welcome Annie…

Cheers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:22:00 +0000

I’m reading this post(late) and really want to thank you Craig for bringing a breath of fresh air my way. It would be nice not to let things bother me.
However, every day I feel that the emotional baggage that I carry around is like a heavy iron coat.. maybe I just got used to it and this is the way I have forever chosen to live my life…Every time something negative happens, I just add it to the heap!! How do I change? Can I learn to let go and start to live a happy life? (my life purpose) Whatever that means?

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:04:00 +0000

Hey CH….
I work in a field where I get to see people’s emotional baggage manifested into aches and pains (or worse) in their bodies.
By letting go of the baggage, we can sometimes also let go of physical pain!!!
KK XXX

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:24:00 +0000

Unless one can get Marty McFly and Doc Brown to bring the Delorean around, one can never physically change one's past. Craig is right on the money about one being able to change how one allows themeslf to react and feel about the past.

I used to tote the heavy luggage about my upbringing and that bought me nothing but a one way ticket to "Bummedoutville".

Once I let that luggage go for good. it was a huge weight off my shoulders and life became much more enjoyable. Occasionally a light backup of the emotional baggage slips onto my shoulders, but that bad boy gets flung very far away.

It's a cliche but being a father has made me a better person - because it's given me many reasons to leave that baggage well and truly behind.

I've never experienced the grind of third world poverty first hand, but I know that we Australians have it pretty good and we need to express more gratitude about living where we live.

Cheers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:31:00 +0000

Hi again Craig,

Here's a link you (or anyone else who's interested) can check out to find out a bit more about the book "Radical Gratitude".
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741754223

I couldn't work out how to make it an active link so maybe you can copy and paste it into your browser?