How to Take Control of Your Life

Posted on December 13, 2007 in Laws Of Attraction by byronb

The End of Suffering or What Surrender Really Means

In a crisis we don’t have time to think; we’re all emotionand instinct. We are totally and absolutely present. This is why we hear somany stories of people thrust into a sudden emergency achieving incrediblefeats that seem, by normal human standards, impossible. When we are trulypresent, we are in direct and unfettered contact with our core essence, thesource of all power. And when we are in this state, we can do anything.

Some people, in fact, are only ever present when in thethroes of an emergency, which explains why those people seem beset by onecrisis after another in their lives: to be present. Thankfully, it doesn’trequire a crisis to become fully present, but when those sudden tragedies andother unwanted life situations do invariably occur, the way to free yourself of your pain and suffering, and to transmute theundesirable situation into an opportunity to attract a desirable one, isthrough presence. And in a negative situation, the way to be present is tosurrender.

Now let’s pause a moment to examine that word: ’surrender’.Does it make you think of ‘giving up’? And if it does, what do you think you’regiving up. Too often we take surrender to mean giving up caring about asituation or giving up trying to make things better. But that’s not surrender.

That’s hopelessness and despair; that’s resignation,abandonment of your purpose in life: to actively participate in the joyousmanifestation of your desires. That kind of surrender cuts you off from thewell-being that is your natural state (or rather, reinforces and perpetuatesthe illusion that you’re cut off from it). That kind of surrender is just morepain and suffering.

All pain and suffering is resistance to what is. So to relieve your pain andsuffering in any given moment, surrender - or give up - your resistance to whatyou believe is causing it. You do this in two ways:

Accept the situation as it is - that is,acknowledge that this is the situation right now, and you can’t change thiscurrent moment; you can only change how you respond to it. And in changing howyou respond to this moment, you call to you a new and different moment more inline with this changes you’ve made to yourself in this moment.
Allow yourself to feel your emotions and you areinstantly taken out of your head, out of your thoughts, and into your body,into the present. When you are present to your emotions, allowing yourself tofeel them, you are not conscious of the story behind why you supposedly feel thatway; you only feel the way you do. And when you are present to your feelings,the process of their transmutation towards your natural state of peace, has already begun.

Accept and allow. From this place of surrender, of acceptingthe Now as it is, and allowingyourself to feel your feelings, you can consciously, deliberately choose thethoughts that next occupy your mind. Choose ones that feel good and, throughthe Law of Attraction, evidence to justify those good feelings will crop upeverywhere around you.

The way out is through; and the way through is in. Surrenderis not giving up; it is giving in.Accept and allow. Accept and allow.