The advantage of surrender and how to do it

Sometimes what is best for us is not allowing our feelings to dictate our reactions.  Sometimes what is best for us is not allowing our inherent likes or dislikes to take the lead.  They are often rooted in the ego and the ego does everything it can to distract us from the truth.  And the truth is that we are absolutely divine beings having a human experience.  And when we truly understand our divinity, we also understand that everything on this earth is temporary and here to teach us and point us back to our oneness with the Holy Spirit.  This makes surrendering a little easier because we realize that only our divinity really matters and that everything that is alive here is divine and will live on no matter what happens on this earthly plane.

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Jacqueline's content and her uplifting Spirit helped guide me in a positive light and I cannot thank her enough for her hard work and dedication to put her content into the world. Oh, my gosh, I feel like I'm gonna bawl my eyes out. So thank you so much a Hinzman i Oh, I just can't thank you enough. That feedback is amazing. So thank you. I need a reset breath. I'm going to get right into it. The book this month is the surrender experiment by Michael singer. And in it he writes. And actually before I share this quote, a couple of things I'm sitting outside I just need to be outside right now. It's beautiful here. So if you hear any birds or background noise, that's what it is. And then also, this episode, though I'm not preaching. It is laid out a lot little bit like a preacher would like preach from the Bible, like read a verse and then talk about it, read a verse and then talk about it. I found with the topic of surrender, I needed some, like rooted pieces from the book to really go off of because I felt like it hit so much deeper. Doing it that way. So the format today is just a little bit different. All right, here we go. Michael singer in the surrender experiment, says, How can I possibly explain the great freedom that comes from realizing to the depths of your being, that life knows what it's doing? The advantage here, and this is now me speaking, the advantage here is giving up the pretend belief that we are in charge, and the pressure that comes with it, it's a lot of pressure to feel like we're in charge all the time, especially in charge of our whole lives. And I often say that you are the author of your life, and you will are, but you only have authorship over you. You don't have authorship over other people, or animals or world circumstances. The fastest way to shift our lives is to shift our inner lives. Does that make sense? And surrendering to the fact that there is a divine plan at play, and that all you have to do is surrender to it in order to live your fullest expression of life is freedom. Michael singer also writes, I just kept letting go. Practicing non resistance, whether I liked what was happening or not. Is this easy? No. Anybody who has lived more than 10 seconds knows that this is not easy, though it does get easier with time. But practicing non resistance does several things. First, it keeps us in the moment, which is always good to be present. It allows us to feel our feelings, but also feel past them into that soul level space that the best choices come from. And it also reinforces our faith that everything is happening for our highest good and the highest good of those around us. Non resistance preserves our energy for higher vibrational things. And that's pretty awesome because where attention flows, energy goes. And non resistance brings about a lot of inner peace. 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The advantage of surrender, my beautiful friends and listeners is that you preserve so much golden energy for things that are important. By surrendering to what is let me bring this back into the heart of my current experience. Okay. So I've shared this month that I lost my dog, my precious dog Pippin at the end of March. And it's fresh for me. Do I want her back? Of course I do. I'd like to say a swear word and yes after it. But non resistance asks me to come to terms with the fact that she isn't coming back to me in the physical form I know her to be in. That doesn't mean her soul doesn't live on. Or that I won't see her again, I know I will see her again. I without a doubt believe that. But in this lifetime, that 12 year chapter with Pippin, as I have known her has shifted. It's changed. It's ended. Pippin is living on the other side of the veil. And surrendering to that not only gives me a sense of peace, because it helps me to come to terms with reality. But it frees up energy for me to actually feel her presence and speak to her and know that she can hear me this surrender this non resistance. It's been a portal to the Divine for me, it's a portal to the other side, the eternal perfect all knowing all powerful heavenly side that we will all return to someday. If we rail against what has happened, and I'm not saying you can't feel angry, or you shouldn't feel angry, you shouldn't feel all the things. We should feel all the things. But at some point when we are ready and we start practicing non attachment, it frees up so much space that like I just mentioned, it's a portal to the divine. Is surrender hard. Yeah. But does it have some serious advantages? Most definitely. Yes. So now the question is, how do we surrender? And I've touched on this, but Michael singer writes it beautifully. He says, By that stage of growth, I could see that the practice of surrender was actually done in two very distinct steps. First, you let go The personal reactions of like and dislike that form inside your mind and heart. And second, with the resultant sense of clarity, you simply look to see what is being asked of you by the situation unfolding in front of you. What would you be doing if you weren't being influenced by the reactions of like or dislike, following that deeper guidance will take your life in a very different direction from where your preferences would have led you. That is the clearest, I can explain my surrender experiment. And it became the foundation of both my spiritual and worldly life. I'm going to read part of that again, because I think it's so important, I could see that the practice of surrender was actually done in two very distinct steps. First, he let go of the personal reactions of like and dislike that form inside your mind and heart. And second, with the resultant sense of clarity, you simply look to see what is being asked of you by the situation and unfolding in front of you. What would you be doing if you weren't being influenced by the reactions of like or dislike following that deeper guidance will take your life in a very different direction from where your preferences would have led you. That is the clearest, I can explain my surrender experiment. And it became the foundation of both my spiritual and worldly life, friends. So this is what I'm learning. And this is what I want to bring you in on as I'm learning it partially in real time. But sometimes what is best for us is not allowing our feelings to dictate our reactions. Though, it's important to know what we are feeling we don't need to let our feelings dictate our reactions. Sometimes what is best for us is not allowing our inherent likes or dislikes to take the lead. They are often rooted in the ego and the ego does everything it can to distract us from the truth. And the truth is that we are absolutely divine beings having a human experience. And when we truly understand our divinity, we also understand that everything on this earth is temporary. And here to teach us and point us back to our oneness with the holy spirit with God with our Creator. This makes surrendering a little easier because we realize that only our divinity really matters, and that everything that is alive here, is divine, and will live on no matter what happens on this earthly plane. You cannot mess up your divinity. You cannot lose your divinity. No matter what. We all end up in heaven. That's the ending. I just spoiled it for you. You are going to be reunited with your Creator and it's going to be beyond spectacular. This is the way of surrender my friends. This path of non resistance leads us home a little faster because we aren't fully billing for wobbling Verbling over the things we never had control over in the first place. I love you all so much. And I want to end this month and the theme of the month surrender with this question. What can you surrender to today? And what about surrendering to that will shift your life for the better. Thank you so much for listening. And I'll connect with you next week. Y'all. I don't know what I was thinking we still have one more week this month. Again, I'm kind of not myself as I'm writing and recording these episodes because of just everything that's happening in my life. So please forgive me we do have one more episode and I look so forward to sharing with you because it's some really juicy information. Okay, for real this time. Love you guys. Hope you have an awesome day and we'll connect next week.