SURRENDER
Being Willing to Release Struggle

            Don't nurse curse and rehearse your problems, let go and start to grow.

            For some reason, many people seem to make surrender much more difficult than it has to be  – like climbing a mountain. Quite the contrary is true.  Surrender is simple.  It’s only a matter of choosing whom you shall serve.

            You see, there are two ways of doing life, there is the way of the mind, which is what I call “process” because the mind has to process lots of information.  And then there is the way of the heart, which I call “grace” as you allow the desires of your heart to lead you.  The mind serves a major function in your life, and that is to keep you safe.  The mind views the world as a threat – so the mind interprets all experience from that place and layers your life with beliefs and behaviors based on fear and limitation.

            The heart is your energetic connection to spirit, to God.  The heart knows that you are safe, that the world was given to each of us so that we may prosper it.  The heart is connected to truth which is unlimited and truly abundant.

            One way is not better than another, it is simply your choice as to how you decide you want to live your life.  I teach the way of the heart because when people shift from letting their head run the show, to allowing their heart to run the show, their lives unfold with more grace and less drama.

            When we can surrendered to following our heart, we no longer have to struggle to make things happen, we move into the space of allowing things to happen because we trust that only those things will happen that are good for us and those we love.  This is called sweet surrender.  When we surrender to our hearts, to the truth, we move beyond limitations and into the realm of all possibility.
 
            In the simplest of terms, when I say that I am surrendering, for me this means that I am shifting from thinking to feeling.  I am willing to allow my intuition to be my guide.  I am willing to move beyond my logic and into what feels right for me.  What feels right is my truth.  What I think about my truth can become my limitations.

            There is a difference between your emotions and your feelings.  I’m talking about surrendering to what “feels” right for you in any given moment.  An emotion is a response to something happening outside of yourself.  Anger is an emotion, it comes up as a last attempt to control a situation you can’t control, so the result is anger.  This is an emotion to an outside stimuli.  Emotions can change with the wind.  Feelings are the intuitive impulses you get when you just know something is right.  When you get a gut feeling about something you should pay attention, your truth is trying to reveal itself.  Listen up! 

            When we are not surrendering, we are struggling.  It’s that simple.  So in our journey toward inner peace, the question becomes why do we so often choose struggle over surrender? Because that’s what we have been programed to do?  We have been taught to struggle so that we can deserve our blessings.  I say, it’s time for a new model, it’s time to learn to surrender and allow for our blessings to be here for us right now.

            One of the greatest gifts of surrender is inner peace.  Once you are free from the struggle, there is an overwhelming sense of inner peace, like a breath of fresh air.

            Some people are so addicted to their drama that they don’t even believe it’s possible to get out of it. Here is how you will know if you are addicted to your drama. You are always in it, you are always talking about it, yours is more important that anybody else’s, and your fundamental belief is that life’s a “you know what” and then you die.  I have compassion for those people for they really don’t understand that there is process and there is grace, and they get to choose.  I hope that as you learn to surrender to a life of more grace, that you too will have compassion and share your insights with others to help educate them rather than judge them. 

Inner Peace & Blessings,

Wanda Marie

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