{"id":3667,"date":"2014-10-21T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2014-10-19T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T00:35:11","slug":"practice-getting-out-of-your-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2014\/10\/practice-getting-out-of-your-own-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Practice Getting Out of Your Own Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear someone say, \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of it,\u201d what they are really saying without realizing it is that they\u2019re sick and tired of suffering from their own lack of understanding. This all becomes clear once we understand that unhappiness does not come at us, it comes from us. For instance, impatience with our level of understanding is the very level of understanding we are impatient with. The understanding of this spiritual principle allows us to disconnect ourselves from our impatience. Life becomes instantly better. For one thing, the frustration fades. In its place, learning flowers. And the more we inwardly grow, the easier our whole life flows.<\/p>\n<p>This new idea of acting to deliberately disconnect ourselves from whatever we think has us blocked leads us to true self-liberation because we have never been trapped by anything outside of our own lack of understanding. This is why even the attempt to disconnect ourselves from the limitations of our present life-level already belongs to a higher level of understanding. This conscious action on your part \u201cworks\u201d by gradually breaking down the painful circle-of-self that is repeatedly formed by asking the problem for the solution. Barriers begin to crumble and disappear, because you have stopped creating them. In the truest meaning of the words, you are getting out of your own way! Practice self-disconnect as often as you can. The more you work at this special kind of letting go, the freer your days will flow and the higher your life will go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear someone say, \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of it,\u201d what they are really saying without realizing it is that they\u2019re sick and tired of suffering from their own lack of understanding. This all becomes clear once we understand that unhappiness does not come at us, it comes from us. 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