From Jack Kornfield: "To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion [and curiosity], things come and go on their own." As the Bhagavad Gita advises: The secret of human freedom is to act well, without attachment to results
What's the difference in your body, mind and heart between refusing to acknowledge or "making go away", and "letting go" by engaging, leaning in, allowing, and getting curious and "kindful". As one experiment, you might explore how the breath offers us a model of how letting go might happen...