Surrender, or as Abraham would name it, allow...
Sounds awful to most of us thinkers out there. Surrender, letting go, allowing, all sounds like complacency to us, right?
I'm coming to find out that it's where the real juice is. So you focus on what you what so hard and then it doesn't come, doesn't come, doesn't come. Then you're like this visualizing shit doesn't work, it's a bunch of crap.
Ever think you've thought about it so much that you've gone into the feeling place of not having it rather than the feeling place of having it? The feeling place is where you want to be, and when it feels good that's the direction you want to move in in your life, when it doesn't feel so good, maybe not.
I'm told by my therapist I'm an INTJ, the T standing for thinking. And you can't be a thinker and a feeler. But lately I'm moving into a place of feeling. Abraham teaches to notice how you feel and when you get that, what were you thinking about? If you were feeling good and thinking about something you're looking forward to, then great. If you were feeling bad and thinking about it, you're in the place of lack of it and it ain't coming your way, period. So think a thought that makes you feel better, and then another one and another one...and so on.
So how does this all apply to surrender? I have no fucking clue, other than that allowing, letting go of your attachment to the outcome of a situation, or surrendering to whatever the universe has in store for you is the way Abraham says to manifest those things.
I'm talking almost daily to my friend who is already in India, practicing at the shala, having experiences that I'm excited to start having myself and it seems the whole theme of Mysore, maybe of all of India, is surrender. I'm like what?!? I have to deal with this there too, wtf!!! lol, of course I'm being a bit dramatic for the humour of it. Yes I like to spell humour the British way, they spoke English first I figure they got it down.
So, surrender. India will take you and give you all the experiences you long for, BUT they will never be in the way you're attached to them happening. Sounds awful right? Nah, I'm getting used to this, since fall I've been getting good at allowing the universe to deliver things to me as it will, rather than being upset because it happened to come some other way, that maybe caused me a little extra growth and expansion as a spiritual being having a human experience. Maybe even more than a little.
Wow, so chilling out, allowing things the way they are and even making peace with it is the way to go? Yeah, it would seem so, sorry if you're attached to having things the way you would have them. Me, I'd rather have them come whatever way they get here and see how the contrast of their delivery affects me. I think of it as a fine tuning of self, or Self.
Now, I say all this and sound like I'm so well adjusted and blah, blah, blah, but it will happen and I'll act like someone shot me in the heart with an arrow and whine and moan about it. Or not, lately anyway, not so much.
How do you deal with stuff?
