Positive Energy Guide

“The only pain we can spare ourselves is the pain of our resistance.”         ~Source Unknown

Aligning with Life Purpose through inner Guidance requires a special type of active participation. This participation can be called Spiritual Surrender.

Spiritual Surrender is not capitulation (giving up), giving over, or giving in. It is an active and willing decision to participate with grace.

Spiritual Surrender is an internal ACTION. It is not passive. It requires intention. It requires will.

Many associate surrender with being forced by a situation to give up. The point of Spiritual Surrender is that it is voluntary. This means that we are in no way diminished by doing it. It is a powerful act, like being able to float instead of thrashing and struggling. Spiritual Surrender leads to release; a form of freedom. It is about freeing ourselves to pursue what we know to be of the greatest importance.

What do you need to give up to do it?

Spiritual Surrender requires relaxing any and all resistance to What Actually Is. Relaxing resistance allows us to be Present with a situation without making anything up about it. We enter willingly into the unknown, fully open to Guidance, free to respond.

What we are surrendering is resistance based on personal problems. Resistance is futile. Resisting resistance strengthens it. Surrendering resistance magically evaporates futility.

What we are surrendering TO is actuality/reality–without assumptions and resistance. We are also surrendering to positive influence.

In Surrender we release denial. Releasing denial means giving up a chunk of ignorance to receive information about how things really are and how they can work. Surrendering ignorance for enlightenment begins right where we are NOW, as we ARE, in our current circumstances.

Spiritual Surrender is an antidote for vanity and other forms of egotism. This type of surrender is not associated with shame. Shame is one more thing to surrender. Humility means we do not have to feel better or worse than anyone and remain open to discovery. This undefended, natural and balanced state invites compassionate insight and Guidance.

Spiritual Surrender is also a method of purification. Releasing resistance, denial, shame, and assumptions cleans up our energy considerably.

On the third day of a spiritual camp I noticed that I felt uneasy around those who were just arriving. They were dragging along their street selves and were less present and clear than those who had been with us from the start. I did not like this feeling. That night I dreamed I was washing the feet of the late arrivals, wholeheartedly. Bringing them into the camp clean and ready instead of resisting or judging them evoked a powerful and very beautiful feeling of Spiritual Surrender. I was fully embracing the situation and finding a way to create grace. This dream shattered the notions that created a sense of separation with the newcomers, who I then readily welcomed. This attitude felt so much better!

Receiving Guidance requires unbiased receptivity. In the realm of Guidance, Spiritual Surrender is a tremendous asset. Practicing it allows us to get opinions, beliefs, judgements, reactions, and other obstructions to pure Guidance out of the way so we can allow new information to reach us.

What do YOU resist?

How does this resistance impact your ability to receive Guidance?

Have you ever practiced Spiritual Surrender?

What have you discovered by learning to get out of the way?