Dr. Emmett Miller compares letting go to swimming: if you've never learned, falling off a boat is terrifying, but a trained swimmer handles it. Everyone falls off the boat in life. Practicing letting go builds emotional resilience.
Where is it that we ever learn how to let go and feel better because we have let go? And it's just a skill, like swimming. And if you've never learned to swim, just think of what happens if you fall off of a rowboat or something like that. Whereas if you have learned to swim, how much better equipped you are to deal with the situation. Well, we've all fallen off the boat. It's time for us to learn how How to swim, how to let go.
