Releasement (Gelassenheit)Gelassenheit

Meister Eckhart, and later Heidegger, speak of a state of letting-be in which resistance comes to an end. Releasement is not passive helplessness but the letting go of the effort to control, like a clenched fist loosening. Some things that do not open through force open only through this loosening. The concept says that the need to manage everything is sometimes the blockage itself.