The phrase "abandoning himself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is letting go of their inhibitions or surrendering to a feeling or experience.
Example: "In that moment of pure joy, he found himself abandoning himself to the music and dancing freely."
Alternatives: "surrendering himself" or "letting himself go".
He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by pre-emptively abandoning himself.
Each time he tried to abandon Miaomiao, he felt as though he were, in fact, abandoning himself, and the future that had been fated for him.
He does not want to wrestle for his blessing, but to experience it, abandoning himself, devoid of will, to what spells salvation and bliss".
Shivering and delirious, on the verge of abandoning himself to the sea, Daniel sees the figure of a young man gently beckoning him forward.
Culbard and Edginton are now hard at work on The Sign of Four, in which Holmes, bored and restless, is in danger of abandoning himself entirely to his cocaine solution.
An insecure braggart who often ends up being humiliated, Sattouf's portrait of him is at once biting and touching; there is pathos in his disillusionments, and the way he tries to paper over them, but we also see him slowly abandoning himself to the superstitions and cultural traditions he once so loudly claimed to disdain.
When he sits, he collapses into himself, and, at times, abandons himself to sleep, head back, mouth open.
James, though tempted, chose not to abandon himself to his unreasoning passion.
The Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues, in his book "On Belief," that when God abandoned Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane he abandoned himself.
Dafoe is in Spoleto for a rehearsal with one of those strong directors to whom he loves to abandon himself.
The more cracked the artist's ideas, the more they reveal the desperate seriousness of a man who abandoned himself to utopian raptures.
