Victory is in the Surrender
Life moves at a fast pace; we’ve been conditioned to think we have to constantly work, achieve and prove ourselves. Many of us think we must control our lives. When we try to control our life, we easily become stressed.
However, when you stop controlling and forcing life, you’ll find that life flows easier. Life has its own intelligence and natural cycles, including your own life. When you can act in harmony with what is occurring in your life, you can become more relaxed. This is the victory in the surrender! Certainly, it’s important to acknowledge any upsets you may have with what’s happening – don’t stuff them – and then move on by feeling and processing the emotions.
To cultivate surrender requires having courage to trust what’s happening and to believe that life/universe/God is here supporting you always.
Recently I’ve been reminded how beneficial it is to live my life from a place of surrender, and to flow with what my life is organically offering. This doesn’t mean I live passively, nor that I don’t take action. It does mean:
- To live your life consciously and mindfully
- Taking a pause before taking action as needed, to assess what’s going on and then take action
- Discern what you have control over and what you don’t
- Take action on what you do have control over
- Stop resisting what is; what’s happened, happened, regardless of how you feel about it
- Accept what is happening, including that which you have no control over
- Assess the gift and lesson you’re receiving as a result of the experience or person
When you can live your life in more of a surrendered, trusting state, you will find that your life flows easier. Alan Watts, who is credited to have brought eastern philosophy to the west, shared that true transformation is when you stop resisting and instead, surrender to what is trying to emerge within you, this creates space for life to emerge. He also said: “Life is not a battle to be won but a mystery to be lived”.
You’re invited to live your life more consciously and mindfully, to cultivate a trust that life is supporting you and to go with the flow as often as you can. It takes practice, but it’s possible. I know, I’m living proof of this!
Many blessings to each of you always,
Kate Heartsong