Moving on from one emotional state to another is often healthy and beneficial, especially when you have been suffering from a sense of loss. However, letting go in this way is not always easy because we often want things to stay as they are or – more accurately – to revert back to how they were. As such, to let go is – in many senses – to accept the current state of affairs. This is why it is so often difficult because, even when we know it is probably the best thing to do, it means acceptance of the past for what it truly is – something that has gone.