10 Leaving Luggage

What a valley teaches you is to let go of any luggage that you can’t carry any longer—simply because you have no strength left to carry it. Later, when you have moved on and are about to leave the valley, you realize that it never made sense to carry this luggage in the first place. Luggage mainly comes in the form of beliefs and thoughts that hurt you. Nervous system luggage comes in the form of looking for hurtful thoughts or situations. Luggage comes in the form of expecting life to turn out against you, in the form of you betting against yourself. Luggage is the thought between the thoughts, a nuance that colors your thoughts with a flavor of “powerless victim.” All luggage comes in the form of judging yourself, even for small things like staying in bed one minute too long. This seemingly tiny judgment alone weakens your state of feeling good. Luggage comes in the form of believing that you are excluded from all the good that life has to offer, that you are excluded from experiencing the adventures you desire. Luggage comes in the form of believing that the lives of others are better. Luggage comes in the form of not trusting yourself, not believing in yourself, not claiming your power, not knowing that you are the one who can change your life. Luggage comes in the form of giving responsibility away. Luggage comes in the form of feeling small, feeling prey to some unknown forces, never knowing if you have acted in their favor.

There is a barometer built within the system of each human being, and this barometer tells if you are aligned with the forces. If you feel happy, chances are you are, and if not, you are not. There is this weird belief that if I feel heavy, someone or something will come to my rescue; translation: make it easy for me to change (a magic pill as a reward for feeling heavy and burdened). And yes, it often happens when you hit the ground that something helps you get up and get going again. When you are lying in bed in the morning and don’t feel like getting up, the reality is that you don’t want to get up as the version you used to be the days before. You don’t want to get up to the version of life you have created. Kyle Cease once said in a video: it is not you who wants to die (or get up) - it is the pattern (luggage) that wants to die.

This perspective gives a lot of freedom: to let the luggage go, luggage that belongs to the old version of you. Luggage you can’t bring into the new life.

The point is you do not need to carry any of your old luggage—beliefs, habitual thoughts and feelings, expectations, and anticipations. Sometimes it takes a valley, a crisis, that makes you feel so weak that you can’t carry them even if you wanted to. Weird, why would we even want to carry all of these? Maybe because when we felt okay, we still had enough strength to carry the luggage. Not wanting to open it or even realizing it was a possibility to just drop it. So: it is great to be in a valley—because you realize you don’t need any luggage if you want to climb.