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.
www.learningtoflow.com
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