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Just Letting It Go
July 16, 2026
For those of you who would like to contact to contribute to the Medical expenses of Sherryl Lin and family, we’ve just realized we gave a nonfunctional link in the last two articles. Here is their GoFundMe link that you can use instead. This allows you to give even a very small amount and not need to contact me or anyone else.
A few weeks previous to her passing, my friend Sherryl Lin became bed-ridden, having to adjust to performing all body functions in bed and needing help with doing most things.
Observing her as she faced these big changes, I asked, “You seem to be adjusting to all this quite patiently, is that how it feels for you?”
Her reply reminded me so much of the tone of all the practical and frank wisdom that fills her book, Wise Beyond Your Fears. She said, “Well, part of me doesn’t want to accept these changes with patience AT ALL. But then I think about fussing about it or fighting it and I remember how that feels… which is not good at all. Plus it’s so much work! Remember how that feels, I have such a huge sense of just wanting to make it a lot easier on myself because it’s so much harder when you fight things. So I let it all go and then it oddly becomes easy to handle.”
Through all the large changes and small indignities—even when everything became draining and hard and uncomfortable—she remained calm and patient. And grateful. It’s unusual and a bit amazing.
It’s a lesson for us all about resistance and a study in letting things go. And—as it is for all of us—turning things over and letting things go has been a life-long practice. She said, “Why do we ever think it’s so confusing or hard? I wish everyone could see how simple, how easy, it actually is! And what a relief!”
She asked me if I’d like to pass that on to my readers, “… just tell them I know it doesn’t seem like it, but releasing things is oddly incredible easy! Maybe they’ll be able to feel what I mean.”
What a great thing to share, I can feel the invitation of it, can’t you? It’s worth giving it a try, just walking away from the old familiar stories, once and for all.
What a blessed time this has been; how grateful I am to have spent spring and early summer in this way.
Sending you some of those blessings,
and love,
💗 Mayet
PS –The family incurred many expenses not covered by insurance and some of you may want to make a financial gift to them. Here is their GoFundMe link. Alternatively, you can email me for assistance with your donation. I know it would be gratefully accepted.
Mystics Mayet and Stewart Pearce explore - and sink into - the Stillness in unexpected ways.