There’s something you can’t shake.You already know what it is.
Everyone tells you to let it go. Nobody tells you how.
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What this is
A way to actually let it go.
Most people have something they’ve tried to think their way out of. Therapy, journaling, meditation, affirmations. Some of it helps. None of it gives you a direct mechanism: a way to locate a specific thing, work on it, and know when it’s gone.
This is going to sound out there. It did to me too. I’m not asking you to believe it, I’m asking you to try one session and notice what happens in your body.
Your first session
Four things, about twenty minutes.
You’ll start by learning a muscle test. It’s a way of asking your body a yes or no question and getting back an answer you can feel, instead of one you think your way to. It’s how you check whether something actually let go rather than guessing.
More on muscle testingThen four things, one at a time. You hold a question in your mind and repeat it until something gives, then test it.
The first is the method itself, so that it works for you going forward. Then a tension your body is holding, a food you can’t stand the taste of, and an emotion that’s been bothering you.
The food one is the strangest and the easiest to check. Try that food again in a few days.
The mechanism
A statement argues with you. A question doesn’t.
Tell yourself something that isn’t true and your mind is going to argue with you. Say “I am fearless” and it will pull up every time you were afraid. It has the evidence and it will use it. The thing is, you can’t win that argument, which is why affirmations usually leave you feeling further away than when you started.
“What if I completely released this?” doesn’t claim anything. It only asks you to consider it, and considering is cheap. There’s nothing in it to prove and nothing to defend against.
But to consider it at all, even for a second, your mind has to loosen its grip enough to picture life without the thing. For that second, it isn’t being held as tightly as it was.
That loosening is an opening. Ask once and it closes again right away. Keep asking and it stays open, and while it’s open the thing isn’t being actively held. At some point it goes.
That opening is what this is named after.
An Openpoint is the moment your mind stops defending something long enough for it to let go. It isn’t the release. It’s the opening the release moves through.
None of this is new. The same sequence turns up in meditation traditions that never had contact with each other, each under a different name. What’s new here is a name for it in plain English and a way of getting there on purpose.
Why I built this
I spent two and a half years testing this on myself.
I kept running into the instruction to let it go, in books, from therapists, all over Instagram, and I genuinely could not work out what it meant. Not conceptually. Mechanically. So I put something together from what I’d been studying and started practicing it on myself.
The knee
Same route. Same weighted vest. Ten minutes faster.
A knee injury had been slowing me down on a walk I did regularly, in a weighted vest. I ran one session on it. The next day I walked the same route in ten minutes less than it had been taking me. I didn’t feel anything dramatic during the session, I just noticed it wasn’t there when it would normally have shown up.
The fear
I was calm the whole time. That had never been me.
I couldn’t think about death without panic rising in my chest. I had to shut it down the moment it came up. That fear was what I worked on. Later I went through a cancer scare, and I was calm through it, where panic would have been my response before. What changed was how I met it.
I’m telling you my experience, in my words. Openpoint is a practice, not medical treatment, and nothing here is a claim about what it will do for anyone else.
Where it goes
A tension and a food aversion are the shallow end.
The same question works on bigger things. Most of what people bring eventually lands in one of five places.
Identity
Who you think you have to be.
Money
What you learned at home about there being enough.
Body
Pain, injury, and stress the body kept.
Spirit
The sense of being separate from everything else, and the fear under that.
Relationships
Needing approval, holding resentment, and the fear of being left.
Try it once.
Twenty minutes, four things, no account, nothing to sign up for. If nothing moves, you’ve lost twenty minutes. If something does, you’ll know in a few days when you try that food again.
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