{"id":10457,"date":"2026-08-02T00:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:33:03","slug":"loslassen-oder-dranbleiben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/loslassen-oder-dranbleiben\/","title":{"rendered":"Let go or stick with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msaxvxq3-4c93c48e8b580d718c98598f93bc52e0\">\n.avia-section.av-msaxvxq3-4c93c48e8b580d718c98598f93bc52e0{\nbackground-color:#f0fff0;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-msaxvxq3-4c93c48e8b580d718c98598f93bc52e0 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-10457'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-a2cef933b0a555f25d1e39b22a8e9dae av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_three_fifth-538dd737667e19053994a94b9156413b av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-msaxzjwi-b1b8e9be8c12895416045b86abb175c9'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><strong>The wound is the place where the light enters you.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nRumi (1207\u20131273)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-538dd737667e19053994a94b9156413b av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_image  flex_column_div'     ><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-msaxxtx6-1a23e8be2d1490654fb3986f6adf68be\">\n.avia-image-container.av-msaxxtx6-1a23e8be2d1490654fb3986f6adf68be img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-msaxxtx6-1a23e8be2d1490654fb3986f6adf68be .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-msaxxtx6-1a23e8be2d1490654fb3986f6adf68be av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-10445 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-10445 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joao-tzanno-1NacmxqfPZA-unsplash-3Affen-1210x423.jpg\" alt='' title='joao-tzanno-1NacmxqfPZA-unsplash 3Monkeys'  height=\"423\" width=\"1210\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-a2cef933b0a555f25d1e39b22a8e9dae av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_three_fifth  first flex_column_div'     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_three_fifth-538dd737667e19053994a94b9156413b av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-msaxx4db-9a955301442744d0a2a604c277d14824'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Let go or stick with it?<\/h3>\n<p>\u201e&quot;Don&#039;t be such a baby!&quot; I used to hear that so often. I was supposed to get rid of the pain from whatever it was\u2014a perceived injustice, or something I experienced as harmful.<br \/>\n\u201eThe motto was actually &quot;DON&#039;T FEEL!&quot;, and it also meant: it&#039;s embarrassing if you listen to your feelings, you&#039;re not worth being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feeling liberated<\/strong><br \/>\nIt took a great deal of strength, and sometimes still does, to free myself from the consequences of that old phrase and to take my everyday feelings seriously. To allow myself to name injustice and demand accountability.<br \/>\nMy feelings are important!<br \/>\nThe fact that I was valuable &quot;on the side&quot; in the depths of my soul was something I thankfully learned from the Jesus stories of my childhood, and it left no damage, at least in the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let go of the pain?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I feel suffering or injustice today, am angry or sad, don&#039;t want to simply accept something and want to do something, then I often hear sentences like:<br \/>\n\u201e&quot;You have to let go of that!&quot; or &quot;Don&#039;t cling to it!&quot; &quot;Don&#039;t burden yourself with these negative energies! Don&#039;t get involved! You&#039;re on a spiritual path!&quot; &quot;Aren&#039;t you above all that?&quot;\u201c<br \/>\n\u201a&#039;Just let go&#039; sounds Buddhist \u2013 wise.<br \/>\nSo I&#039;m tempted to feel guilty when I investigate wrongdoing, or when I&#039;m truly saddened and moved by the drought here and the forest fires in Southern Europe. Am I not taking good care of myself? I&#039;m supposed to surround myself with positive thoughts!<br \/>\nIt&#039;s back through the back door, the unspoken commandment &quot;DON&#039;T FEEL!&quot; It&#039;s currently disguised as spirituality, and the effect is even worse, because &quot;Just let go&quot; not only conveys that feelings like grief or pain could harm me or are immature, but also that my involvement is superfluous and harmful to me.<br \/>\nYet it is deeply human and a wonderful unifying force to allow oneself to be moved, to stand by others, to grieve together.<br \/>\n\u201eJust let it go!\u201c is isolating and creates a lack of solidarity.<br \/>\nAs if an injustice weren&#039;t worth naming, as if the suffering of the victims shouldn&#039;t be felt! &quot;Just let it go!&quot; really means: &quot;Don&#039;t feel it, don&#039;t listen closely, don&#039;t look closely, it will harm you.&quot;\u201e<br \/>\nAnd indirectly, this protects the perpetrators!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fury of love<\/strong><br \/>\nFeeling things doesn&#039;t hurt me! That&#039;s what people say, but it&#039;s not true.<br \/>\nYes, of course I am more than my bad feelings! But if I suppress them, I become shallow and lonely.<br \/>\nIn many indigenous traditions, grief and pain are an inner sacred space that is protected, supported, and nurtured by the community until the transformative power within it manifests. Something new can then be born.<br \/>\nJesus was deeply moved by the pain and suffering of the people; it inspired him to act and heal.<br \/>\nWe will not be broken by the demands of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And so I want to remain vulnerable! I want to feel the power of anger and defiance inherent in life, creating unimagined possibilities for change and healing, again and again.<br \/>\nIt fosters community.<br \/>\nIt makes us feel that we humans belong together and are all equally valuable.<br \/>\nI want to fight against injustice wherever I encounter it, using the wild power of life.<br \/>\nEvery pain is worth seeing.<br \/>\nEvery person deserves to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m letting go of the seemingly spiritual phrase: &#039;Just let go!&#039; and will remain \u2013 spiritually grounded \u2013 human.<\/p>\n<p>It is the eyes of love that linger.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-538dd737667e19053994a94b9156413b av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div'     ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let go or stick with it?<br \/>\n    Sometimes &quot;Let go&quot; sounds like spiritual advice \u2013 light, wise, liberating.<br \/>\n    But often hidden within it is the old &quot;Don&#039;t feel it!&quot;\u201e<br \/>\n    Silencing.<br \/>\n    The belittling.<\/p>\n<p>My text is about why genuine feeling doesn&#039;t weaken, but connects.<br \/>\nWhy grief, anger, and pain can be sacred spaces.<br \/>\nAnd why &quot;letting go&quot; sometimes divides rather than heals \u2013 especially when it makes suffering invisible and leaves injustice unnamed.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":10445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weg-impulse-fuer-dich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gottimalltag.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}