text: how does one let things go? things still haunt me from when i was very young.  counseling has not helped.  what has helped you let things go?  do you have a process? i had a lot of difficult issues to deal with.  one thing that helped a lot was journalling about them, then analyzing what i wrote to identify the key emotions that were triggered...(fear, helplessness...etc)  i wrote those emotions on pieces of wood (like flat paint sticks), then ritually burned them in a bonfire.  believe it or not, it helped...a lot.  not that i am no longer plagued by those emotions, whenever they start back up, i imagine the fire, and watching those emotions burn up and float away as smoke.  other people have done similar things, such as writing the emotions/feelings on a stone, and throwing it into a deep body of water....anything that helps you physically release them is the key, i think.