Question: How does one let things go? Things still haunt me from when I was very young.  Counseling has not helped.  What has helped you let things go?  Do you have a process?

Answer: I had a lot of difficult issues to deal with.  One thing that helped a LOT was journalling about them, then analyzing what I wrote to identify the key emotions that were triggered...(fear, helplessness...etc)  I wrote those emotions on pieces of wood (like flat paint sticks), then ritually burned them in a bonfire.\n\nBelieve it or not, it helped...a LOT.  Not that I am no longer plagued by those emotions, whenever they start back up, I imagine the fire, and watching those emotions burn up and float away as smoke.\n\nOther people have done similar things, such as writing the emotions/feelings on a stone, and throwing it into a deep body of water....anything that helps you physically release them is the key, I think.
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