The Power of Letting Go: How to drop everything that's holding you back

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The methods to achieve goals you want was doable, but the author could have gone into more detail as to how your thoughts can change your life. I genuinely do feel and think about everything this book mentions and I am actually really grateful to have felt how calming this book sounds.

Purkiss oversimplifies things dramatically. I think this is a great book for people who have been through therapy, namely CBT, and already have an idea of "how to let go," but in my opinion Purkiss expects a lot out of his readers and their ability to therapize themselves.All these reasons why it can't happen are incompletions /pain patterns. Do the completion exercise, identity the incident when each pain pattern started. What happened? Write it down. Relive each incident at least 5 times. Allow everything that makes you powerless to come to the surface and leave your system. Analyze these reasons - usually they'll be irrational beliefs like "I'm not good at xxx", "If I couldn't do it before, why would I be able to do it now", etc. For instance, he tells you to "just keep telling yourself your painful story until you get bored with it" and then doesn't tell you what to do if you don't get bored with it... if it's still just as painful every time you think about it. Granted, that's what therapy is for and he DOES have a disclaimer to discuss this with your healthcare or mental health provider... but if I'm going to do that, why do I need your book, Purkiss?

I liked the ideas in this book, even if it had a lot of "And I learnt this from an esteemed Indian spiritual guide" going on. The exercises could have been fleshed out more with concrete examples. One of the exercises I found useful was the one about thinking what about a goal you want to achieve: Let go of your need to judge others. Everyone is on their own journey. Let go of your need to judge others and focus on your own path. If an opportunity passed you by, it didn’t really want to stop at your station, if someone let you go, they didn’t really want to stay, if someone else got what you were praying for, this blessing was not written for you to begin with and you will be blessed in another” there are many reasons why people could disagree with you and still be rational : their values might be different from yours, you and they could have different assumptions,they might have had a different experience to you, they might have information that you don't have or that you have chosen to ignore. pain patterns or incompletions are based on suppressed emotions which can rule our lives for decades.Many of us have tried to fix other people - it doesn't work. When we focus on what we don't like, we usually get more of it. On the other hand, if we focus on what we appreciate in other people it can transform our relationships.

Let go of your need to be right. It's okay to be wrong sometimes. In fact, it's often a good thing. Let go of your need to be right and be open to learning new things.The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.” In The Power of Letting Go, John Purkiss explains why we should let go and how we can do it, using proven techniques to make things happen.