Sweet Surrender

The concept of surrendering has been coming up for me lately.  I have been dealing with a huge personal challenge.  No, the voice of God/dess didn’t come through and say: “surrender!”, but it may as well have.  You know when you just know you are being guided to do something?  Well, I knew.

Then suddenly I realized I had absolutely no idea how to do that.  I had this vague idea that I’ve done it before, I must have known how at some point, and I do subscribe to the idea that we all know everything anyway.  (We just don’t know that we know.)  So I asked my friends for help remembering. Lucky for me, I have some very wise friends.  Here are some surrendering tips for you, in case you find yourself in the same boat:

1.  The art of surrendering can be a lifelong goal, not something most people will master in their lifetime.

2.  Surrendering is a part of the feminine essence.  It is the opposite of taking charge (masculine).  It is allowing.

3.  Try saying a prayer that goes something like this: “I don’t care what it looks like.  Bring it.” (Whoops, maybe my masculine tendencies got back in there with the “bring it” part, but you get the point.)

4. Think of surrendering like giving birth.  What if you just allowed the experience, stopped trying to control it, wouldn’t it be a lot less painful?

5.  Tell Source your truth:  This simply seems too hard for you, but you know He/She/It has a way for you to accomplish it anyway.  Ask to be shown the way.

6.  Put your two hands together in front of you as if you are trying to hold water in your hands.  Imagine all your pain is in your hands.  Offer it up.

7.  Let go of whatever it is you are holding onto so tightly.

8.  Know that no matter what happens, everything will be okay in the end, because there is only one place to go from here, and that is home.  Or, as God said in Conversations With God by Neal Donald Walsh: “Hitler Went to Heaven”.

9. Realize that your High Self chose this experience, and that because you are not insane, your High Self must know what it is doing.  (Note, if you think you might be insane, just ignore this one, lol.)

What about you?  Have you had times in your life when you realized what you most needed to do was surrender?  How did you accomplish it?  What was helpful? What wasn’t?  What did you learn?