The Art of Letting Go: How Non-Resistance Can Ignite Your Growth

Colton Swabb
Curious
Published in
9 min readMar 24, 2023

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The surprising truth about how letting go can accelerate your transformation.

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Every person knows what it feels like to hold on for too long.

Maybe to something that was never theirs, maybe to something that was but was lost…

We know the feeling of holding a white knuckle grip, the tension in every muscle—heavy thoughts that become a heavy load.

We all know we should let go, but letting go can feel like trying to fall asleep harder.

You just end up more tired.

So, we carry the things we cannot let go of with us on our journeys…

We don’t know any other way.

They walk aside us into boardrooms with us…

They are there with us after we undress in bedrooms…

What we can’t let go of goes everywhere with us.

This baggage makes the inevitable challenges we face just a little harder to surmount.

A little harder than they need to be.

These challenges that impede our progress can be external and they can be internal.

We feel them as resistance.

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Colton Swabb
Curious

Entrepreneur Advisor & Wisdom lover. You can read more and get my Notion Wisdom Planner for free here: https://www.wisdomwell.co