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The Relief of Surrender
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Greetings from Learning To Flow!
I learned of a concept early on in the Self-Mastery process called, “Surrendering to my Higher Powers in Prayer.” Early on, I considered the prayer to be the most important aspect of this, but now I know that the act of surrender is actually what is important.
I learned in “Conversations with God – Book I” that words are simply expressions of the energy of my emotions. Just feeling the emotions themselves simplifies this process. When I stop and realize that who I truly am…my soul…is a form of energy and God is the Divine source from which I am formed, then I can more easily attain my desires by focusing on the energetic connection between God and I through my feelings than I can through words alone.
When I focus on what my ego wants out of a situation, I am typically not purely focused on the feeling of having what I desire. I am typically resisting that feeling and more focused on the feeling of not having it. I am unconsciously focused on the feeling of fear, embarrassment, shame, hurt or disappointment of not having what I want.
I have found that when I get to the point of being so tired of the fight and the struggle, that I reach the point where I am willing to just let it go and let God take care of it.
For some of us, it takes a lot for us to get to that point. Because it typically takes SO much, this point is often called, “the dark night of the soul.”
And yet, it is always darkest right before the dawn.
Explore the concept of surrender this week and in doing so, find the light within you yearning to be let out.
Namaste
Jeff Scholl
Quote of the Week:
“Do you want to be right…or do you want to be happy?” – A Course in Miracles
The Relief of Surrender
When I was introduced to the concept of surrender, I was taught several affirmations to remind me of the benefits of letting go. Some of my favorites are as follows.
Surrendering in prayer:
- Allows me to detach from my EGO-mind when it says, “I don’t need help. I can do it alone.”
- Frees me to leave the details to God as to how and when what I desire will manifest
- Helps me to detach from the models of how life “should be”
- Allows God to chauffeur around instead of trying to carry the world on my shoulders
- Helps me to understand that “I can’t steer the river.”
- Helps me to detach from my friends and family in order to allow them to learn from the natural consequences of their actoins
When I read these and the others in the Self-Mastery book, I am reminded that quite often I am making my life more difficult than it has to be by trying to live my life by DOING rather than allowing God to take care of the “heavy lifting.”
As I have grown, I have gradually turned over more and more of my life to God through the process of surrender. In doing so, my life has become much easier. I no longer worry about how everything is going to turn out. I do occasionally have something come up that concerns me and it may take me awhile to surrender it, but once I do any actions I take are guided by peace, love, compassion and understanding…rather than by fear.
The act of surrender is primarily a vibrational one. When I finally stop and just feel how I feel about a situation that has been causing me some amount of frustration, I realize how stressed I feel about it. I realize that this feeling I am feeling is manifesting more of what I don’t want and that if I want the situation to change, I have to change that vibration.
My ego mind tells me that I need to have someone else change in order for me to feel different, but my soul which is the primary guiding force in my life these days reminds me that the peace I seek will never be found by “thinking more.” It will always be found through seeking the tranquil peace that can only be found within.
Namaste
Jeff
Spiritual / Emotional Application
Praying to God has value because it gets me to start tapping into the very emotions that I need to release. I tell God what I am feeling and why and once I finish that, quite often I realize that I am ready to release it and let God handle it.
All too often, I am amazed how long I have held onto a fear or a hurt that I could have easily given to God to work out. At some point though, the need to feel relieved of this problem won out over the need to feel right.
These days, I rarely keep a problem for very long because I feel good most of the time and I know quickly when I have something that brings up worry or fear. I have no need to feel embarrassed because I have found that it feels better to let go of any need to be “perfect” and by openly surrendering this with others. I just tell people what I am afraid of instead of repressing my fear and thinking that I shouldn’t feel it.
I say to God, “I surrender and I now allow you to take this from me. I allow you to show me a solution. If I need to DO something, I ask that you make that obvious to me. I am going to assume that if it isn’t obvious that you are taking care of all of it and my job is just to be happy.”
Use this process, play with it and change it to whatever feels right to you. Simply saying over and over, “I surrender, I surrender, I surrender this to you” is sometimes all I need to let go.
Physical Application
To focus on surrender this week, allow your body to sleep as much as it needs to. Quite often, we feel the need to push ourselves. We think that we have all of these other people that we are responsible to serve and we forget about what WE need.
This week, take some time for yourself. Ask your body what it needs from you. If you need to sleep, don’t wait until your immune system becomes so weak that it becomes susceptible to illness. Take that time now!
- Sleep in until you can’t sleep any more.
- Sit in a hot bubble bath and relax.
- Get a relaxing massage and allow there to be complete silence between you and the therapist…even if you normally talk in the session.
- Spend some time in nature just being silent.
Be willing to surrender your normal stream of consciousness and allow the peacefulness of Spirit to fill your life!
© Jeffrey L. Scholl 2009. All rights reserved.
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LTF Weekly Newsletter – June 27th, 2009
Posted by learning | Filed under Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Enlightenment, Law of Attraction, Physical Healing, Spiritual Growth, Vibrational Being
“When you have felt the silent, yet all-pervading joy of simply being with yourself, you will know that is is what you’ve been looking for all along.”- Pamela Kribbe “The Jeshua Channelings: Christ Consciousness in a New Era”
Where are We Going?
In learning how to heal myself and teaching others to do the same, I have come to understand that there is really nothing to heal. As long as we believe that there is something to heal, there will be. As long as we think we need to DO something in order to heal, there will ALWAYS be something else to do.
We heal fully and completely when we give up all of our struggle about what to do next and simply allow ourselves to truly BE who we are. When we give up, we relax.
This is the same way we achieve goals actually. As someone that has been called a “neurotic overachiever,” I was never satisfied with where I was. Unconsciously, I was always trying to prove that I was worthy of something…abundance, love, appreciation, etc. I was never at peace with where I was. My eyes were always to the future, hence my title of “where are we going?”
When I hear people talk today, they are always worried about where the world is going, what is happening and not realizing that it is our collective past fears that have created what we are experiencing today. If we want to create a different world, we must start accepting responsibility for all that we have created and THAT responsibility starts with each and every one of us.
So this is my “coming out of the closet” article…so to speak. I have been living in the closet of denial for most of my life. I have blamed everyone in my life for my life being the way it was. I blamed my parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife, her family, my family, my co-workers, my managers, my community leaders, my government, other governments, my ancestors…all because I did not truly understand and embrace who I am.
Who I am is an immortal and constantly evolving soul. I did not come into this life as a blank slate as I once believed. I brought in a perception that had evolved to a certain point. I picked parents, soul mates, lovers and friends to be with in this lifetime in order for my soul to continue to evolve. In my other lifetimes, I only worked on a few karmic issues. But this lifetime, I chose to resolve ALL OF IT. So I chose the most difficult path I could in order to evolve quickly.
MANY of us that have had not only some tremendous challenges in this lifetime, but a LOT of them . Many of us made the same choice. We wanted to transform the negative energy we held in our energy patterns into positive, loving energy.
When we came into this life, we looked out at the world and through the perception we already had as a constantly evolving soul, we created NEW perceptions. The perceptions we formed early in life formed the basis of our belief systems. Now while we can certainly transform those beliefs, it is also possible to simply transcend them.
But that requires us to live from a heart consciousness instead of a “mind” consciousness. We have a consciousness in our heart…and when we start feeling for every experience there instead of our head, our lives will start to slow down and make more sense. We start to understand that our mind is not designed to be the mechanism that runs our lives. This is our heart’s job. Our mind’s job is to use the energy that comes from your heart to plan, to create, to write. Our body’s job is to take the plans and physically carry them out. It all starts with the heart though.
When we try to start from the mind first, we fail because the mind (without the loving, peaceful energy from the heart) looks for all the things that could go wrong. When we initially get our loving intention from the heart, we already know it will work out so we aren’t wasting energy worrying and fearing what might happen. We focus all of our energy on what we know will happen.
At this point where you are isn’t right or wrong. You are not “wrong” for being where you are. Where you are is just where you are. Once you accept this, you will not even consider what other people think about you…because it does not need to have any bearing on WHO you are being in this lifetime, what you intend to accomplish and what you want.
Realize that your desires to be more, have more, do more don’t come from your mind. They come from your soul! This is what the soul does. It is constantly expanding, constantly growing, constantly desiring for more, More, MORE! It wants to experience itself as JOY in every way possible and then it wants to expand THAT version of itself.
The problem is that we let the mind get in the way instead of just reconnecting with our heart for the source of our desire. When we are connected, the mind quiets. It starts to understand that raising the warning bells is not needed.
Once we transcend our own negative energy, we can actually help the world heal by transmuting others’ energy. As enough of us are able to do this, we are able to help the world heal.
This is the role of the Lightworker. This is the path many of us are on in this lifetime. This is the reason that our souls are pulling many of us forward.
It’s time to let go, to relax, to tune into our hearts and to finally just LOVE ourselves as we are…today…right now.
Namaste
Jeff
Exercise of the Week:
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Start at the top of your head and move down to your feet, breathing in every area of your body. Allow each area to relax.
There’s no need to think about it. Juat allow it. Allow yourself to relax.
Breathe into your heart area and notice any tightness or tension there. Notice if when you breathe into it, you feel tightness or tension anywhere else in your body. Realize that it is your connection to Love or your resistance to this connection that manifests lack of abundance, health, love, peace…in your life.
When you establish this connection through your heart to these aspects of your soul and you maintain it through meditation, this energy will flow freely into your life.
Any area of your life that is not working the way you desire it to be is simply cut off from your Higher Self. So be still, be present and breathe into your heart. Allow yourself to connect with Peace, Love, Joy, Happiness, Safety, Abundance, Excitement…whatever you want and just FEEL it.
All you have to do is breathe and feel it. Your world will start to reflect experiences to you to match this new vibration you are practicing.
Once this happens for awhile, you will realize that you have not been creating your world. You have simply spent your life reacting to what has shown up in response to your unconscious vibration.
Connect to your heart. Feel the Love that is waiting for you and allow it to flow!
Fifteen minutes a day is all it takes!
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