Question: I know I need to let go and surrender, to let life do the heavy lifting for me…but it’s hard to do because I have so much to do, so much that needs my attention, and it has to be done right and in a time manner. How do I surrender?

Breathe in, breathe out…breathe in, breathe out.

Let the tempo of breath take over for a while. Allow your body to settle into another rhythm, one that is not born of the mind’s need to do or make happen or even create, but of a gentle current of energy that flows beneath it all. 

Surrender does not mean you are not thinking or that you are not moving or doing or fulfilling the objectives of your life. Surrender means you have let go of the need to control it all. In surrender you recognize that your actions are a part of something greater that is unfolding through you, yet of which you are a part. And a crucial part indeed! It is this that often escapes your notice, that you are acting within a system, a matrix of consciousness that is itself a creative field. And your role, like that of every individual, is crucial to the optimal functioning of the whole. 

So what part are you playing when you are caught up in control, in the need to hold so tightly to that which you are busy with, that which you are creating? It’s like a blockage in the energy of the whole. Life continues whether or not you are flowing with it, but in those moments when you have lost your way, when you are out of the flow, you are like a blockage in the system, a clog in the artery, so to speak. 

Do not worry about life, it will carry on, and you will too. But when you surrender, you release the blockage that you have become in the matrix of consciousness. You again become a full participant in the creative outworking of the matrix of life.

And you will notice it in yourself as well. You relax, you slow down, you breathe and enjoy the moments of your day more. You do what you can do, and then you let the rest take its course. 

How life on earth would be so different if each of us was to surrender to the flow of life, on its terms, not ours. The general sigh of relief would be felt through the ages to come. “Whew, they decided to take their foot off the gas. Whew, they have seen the futility of racing into the future for no reason other than it seemed the right thing to do because everyone was doing it.”

You always have the right to pursue perfection, to strive to make everything you do match some ideal you hold in your mind. Just notice the cost of that on your life and well-being. Notice what you have chosen to value when you do.

For in the end this is all a reflection of what you have chosen to value, and to declare to the world what your life truly stands for.