Letting Go to Receive More: Why Creating Space Unlocks Abundance
Most people think abundance means having more—more things, more memories, more proof that life has been good.
But I want you to imagine two homes.
One home has something on every shelf. Trinkets. Devices. Remote controls. Old toys. Sentimental clothes from decades ago. Gear you use once a year. Cabinets so full you can barely open them.
The other home has open space. Clean counters. A few meaningful objects. Light. Breath. Room.
Which home feels abundant?
And which home feels like it's holding on from fear?
Almost everyone comments that the emptier home feels more abundant. Why?
Because abundance isn’t the amount of things you have—it’s the relationship you have with things. When we hold on tightly, we communicate to life that we don’t trust the flow. We don’t trust that new experiences will come. We don’t trust that new joy will arrive. We store instead of circulate.
And the same thing happens inside our mind.
Your Inner House Reflects Your Outer House
Just like a cluttered room creates a heavy feeling, a cluttered mind creates a heavy state of being. Many people hoard mentally—old emotions, old memories, old stories, old identities. We treat thoughts like fragile collectibles that must be protected.
But whatever we cling to becomes stagnant.
When we mentally hoard:
We stop receiving new insights
We block new relationships
We shut down new opportunities
We close the flow of life and energy that’s trying to move through us
Your psyche: your inner home, works exactly like a physical house. When it’s packed, nothing can circulate. No new energy can come in. No new abundance can flow.
The paradox is this:
The more you cling, the less you have.
The more you release, the more you receive.
It might sound philosophical, but it’s actually energetic physics.
The universe is constantly sending energy your way. If you store everything you’re given, the flow slows down. If you let energy move through you, the universe keeps sending more.
Letting Go Isn’t Loss. It’s Permission.
Here’s something personal.
We just moved. And I’m going through boxes filled with old hockey jackets—team patches, my number, my name. These jackets meant everything to me at a certain time in life.
But holding onto them now doesn’t recreate that joy.
If anything, holding onto them traps that joy in the past.
When I let them go, someone else gets to create a new memory with them. And I get to create new memories now. The joy wasn’t inside the jacket, it was inside me the whole time.
Letting go doesn’t erase meaning.
Letting go frees you to experience meaning again in the present moment.
Why Clinging Leads to Poverty (Even Mentally)
There’s a reason ancient traditions warned about gluttony—not just food gluttony, but emotional and mental gluttony. Proverbs says:
“The glutton and the drunkard will come to poverty.”
Why?
Because consuming without releasing creates stagnation.
And stagnation always leads to poverty:
Poverty of inspiration
Poverty of passion
Poverty of health
Poverty of opportunities
Poverty of freedom
The more you accumulate, the less any of it means. When everything is “precious,” nothing actually is.
Letting go makes your life light again.
How This Shows Up in the Body
A tangled mind becomes a tangled body.
Your fascia, your posture, your breath: all of it reflects your inner world.
When you hold on mentally, your physiology mirrors it:
Tight chest
Restricted breath
Knotted fascia
Stress hormones circulating endlessly
This is why in SelfExpansion.app, we paired a psychological letting-go lecture with an embodied letting-go practice. We grabbed above our head, built pressure, and then released it with the breath. When the fascia lets go, the psyche follows.
Letting go works both ways:
Physical release invites mental release.
Mental release invites physical freedom.
Letting Go Creates Contribution
People often ask, “How do I contribute to society? How do I help?”
Start with the simplest thing:
Let something go that could help someone else.
Give away the gear you never use. Donate the clothes sitting in the back of the closet. Sell something that deserves a second life. Release the sentimental item that someone else could actively enjoy.
Contribution is not always grand.
Sometimes it’s simply circulating the energy you’ve been holding.
A Practice You Can Do Today
Right now, choose one thought and one object to release.
1. Release a thought
Pick something you’ve been clinging to:
a worry, a regret, a past relationship, an identity, a memory.
Visualize your inner house filling with that thought until it’s overwhelming.
Then take a deep inhale…
and with a full exhale, let it leave your system.
2. Release an object
Pick something in your home with stagnant energy.
Give it away, sell it, donate it, or throw it out.
Feel the space that appears.
That space is freedom.
That space is permission.
That space is the energetic signal that tells the universe:
“I am ready for more.”
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