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What is Surrender And How Does it Work?
Surrender has always been a challenge for me.
For much of my life, I’ve been something of a control freak. Over the years that has grown much more subtle, largely because I’ve been working on being more present and aware in the here and now.
However, I still prefer to be in control. I prefer to do the driving, I choose to take less-than-well-traveled paths for my life, and I prefer to be in control of my own destiny.
Unsurprisingly, conscious reality creation is rife with paradox. Why? 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 of the specifics involved.
This boils down to striking the right balance between taking your thought, empowering it with feeling, working out your intentions, then taking intentional action — and then just letting it happen. After you’ve performed the action you surrender to the Universe, and let it be done.
The paradox here can be especially challenging. Focus on what I desire to manifest, but then, at the same time, surrender to it happening. I have an idea of how I desire the goal to be, but I surrender to the reality that what I get in the end might be exact, or close, and possibly better. Choose and decide to make choices and decisions, but…
