Let the impossible go

Sharon Salzberg writes:

…the conflict and frustration we feel when we can’t control the world doesn’t come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable.”

So see if you can have some kindness and compassion for yourself—give yourself permission to let go of trying to solve or change the impossible.

When you find yourself going over and over an unfixable problem in your mind, return your awareness to the present moment. Notice your breath, the sensations present in your body, the things around you that you see, smell or hear. For those few moments, let go of trying to fix things you don’t like.

You’ll be amazed how liberating it is to let go of unsolvable problems!