Thursday, June 26, 2025

THE DANGER OF “LETTING ONESELF GO” – A MISGUIDED PATH TO HEALING

 

 

 

In recent times, especially on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, we witness growing expressions of what some call inner child healing where individuals, often in dramatic fashion, pour liquids on themselves, break social norms intentionally, or behave childishly as an act of symbolic freedom. These acts are often framed as therapeutic, as ways of “letting oneself go” in order to reclaim authenticity, reject self-imposed rules, societal repression, or process past trauma.

 

But as with all things human, discernment is crucial.

 

Some branches of psychoanalysis, particularly those leaning heavily on emotional catharsis, promote the idea that “letting oneself go” leads to liberation and maturity. The reasoning is that by shedding inhibitions, one connects with buried emotions, suppressed desires, or a neglected self. However, as the Grail Message insightfully warns, this principle when misunderstood or taken too far does not heal, but harms.

 

The Message states:

“To achieve this destruction not a little is contributed by the principle of ‘letting oneself go’, which follows as a natural consequence of the principle of temptation.”

Let us pause to consider the weight of this. What is being described here is not authentic spiritual healing, but rather a dangerous counterfeit. When a soul “lets go” without anchoring itself in truth, conscience, or higher striving, it opens the door to a slide, not into healing, but into darkness. The message continues by explaining how this principle, widely accepted in the regions of Darkness, now infiltrates earthly life through certain psychological practices.

And what is the result?

“… numerous victims of similar therapies wandering about today without any hold on life… Their little bit of self-reliance and, on the whole, all their individual thinking have been completely picked to pieces and destroyed…”

This is not an abstract warning. Look around: many today are left emotionally naked, spiritually disoriented, and morally unanchored not because they never sought help, but because the help they found tore them down without building them back up.

 

The Message continues:

“Through the systematic intrusion into their most intimate affairs and rights they have gradually lost the sense of shame which is an integral part of personal self-respect… On such uprooted soil no new, solid building can then be erected.”

 

And this is the great tragedy: healing is not found in dismantling every boundary, defying every social code, or casting off restraint. True healing strengthens what is noble in us. It awakens the dormant good, stirs us to responsibility, and orients us toward what is higher.

 

Yes, some rules in life are artificial and should be questioned. But many more are protective, moral, and purposeful. Rebellion for its own sake is not freedom. And self-expression without self-mastery leads not to growth, but to chaos.

 

Even Lucifer, the Message tells us, is contemptuous of how humans debase his own principle of temptation. In human hands, the principle of “letting oneself go” becomes a pathway to shame, self-destruction, and spiritual confusion. As the Message warns, this is the direct spreading of the Lucifer principle.

 

A Better Path

The true physician of the soul, the Message affirms, does not need to tear down. He recognises the slumbering good within, awakens it gently, and builds upon it. He doesn’t encourage recklessness in the name of healing, but transformation through spiritual recognition.

 

And so, let us exercise great care. Let us honour the inner child not by descending into childishness, but by rising into childlike purity, wonder, and clarity anchored in self-respect, humility, and the living Laws of Creation. Let us reject trendy therapy that flatters pride and ego, and instead seek truth, conviction, and the noble striving that alone can bring true freedom.

 

In these chaotic times, the world needs not more “letting go” but more standing upright spiritually alert, morally clear, and inwardly alive.

 

Let those who seek, find.

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