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How Does Surrender Work?
Surrender has always been a challenge for me
For much of my life, I have been something of a control freak. Over the years, that has grown much more subtle, largely because I’ve been working on being more mindful, present and aware in the here-and-now.
Yet I still prefer to be in control. I like to be the one driving, I choose to take less-than-well-traveled paths, and I prefer to be in control of my own destiny.
Unsurprisingly, conscious reality creation is rife with paradox. How? Because while I’m making the choices and decisions about how I desire my life to be, I also have to let go of too many specifics.
Mindfulness and surrender as one
This boils down to your practice of mindfulness. It’s a matter of striking the right balance between taking your thought, empowering it with feeling and then taking intentional action — and then just letting it happen. Surrender to the Universe, and let it be done.
Thus I need to focus on what I desire to manifest, but then, at the same time, surrender to it happening. I need to have an idea of how I desire the goal to be — yet surrender to it being close but possibly better. Choose and decide to make choices and decisions, but once I have done that, let them go.
