Self Identification & Letting Go

The speaker adds to the previous discussion on self-identification. They mention that it is important to recognize when certain behaviors are learned and how we respond to situations. Once identified, it is beneficial to not associate ourselves with those behaviors and take the next step of letting go of them. This can apply to behaviors learned as children or as young adults that no longer serve us. It may require understanding the reasons behind these behaviors and consciously deciding to release them from our lives. I just wanted to add quickly to the previous chat about self-identification because there is one further key part to it and that is where we know that the behaviour in us, a learned behaviour, has arisen or there's a particular way we respond to situations. Once it's identified, yes it's very good to realise we don't want to identify with that behaviour and say that's a part of us. I suppose that the next step in certain cases might be an actual, almost a formal letting go of that behaviour. So particularly things we learned as children that no longer serve us as adults or maybe we learn them as young women or men and they no longer serve us. As well as not identifying with that behaviour, sometimes it might be useful to just go that extra step and say, you know what, this behaviour pattern I've got, it's not me nor does it serve me anymore and I want to let that go. It might be using drugs or being sexually promiscuous, it might be getting angry with people, whatever it is. Sometimes the final step in it might be an actual process of really digging that up, understanding why you do behave like that and saying, look this no longer serves my life anymore and formally sort of letting it go.