Surrender
This word got written, ink to tiny notepad, midway through yesterday. I am sitting here staring at the letters on the page, and I feel pushing, pulling, and resistance to the moment I am supposed to be living in. I know I am supposed to live in the now, but moments and possibilities grip me.
What does surrender mean to you?
Surrender. This single word holds so much weight and meaning, yet it’s often misunderstood. To some, it may conjure images of waving the white flag, giving up, or admitting defeat. However, the kind of surrender I’m referring to has nothing to do with quitting. Instead, it’s about letting go of the need to control every aspect of your life and making peace with the present moment.
True surrender isn’t about being passive or resigned. It’s an active choice to release the tension from constantly fighting against the flow of life. It’s an acknowledgment that some things are simply out of your control, and rather than exhausting yourself by resisting, you choose to accept what is graceful.
Surrender means having the courage to relinquish your tight grip on how you think things should be and opening yourself up to how things are. It’s about trading your need for certainty for a stance of curiosity and trust in the unfolding journey. When you surrender, you create space for new possibilities that your fixation on creating specific outcomes may have obscured.
Of course, this doesn’t mean becoming complacent or abandoning your goals and aspirations—quite the opposite. Surrender allows you to channel your energy more efficiently without the constant pressure of pushing against life's currents. It empowers you to respond with tremendous poise and clarity to the ever-changing circumstances around you.
Stop waiting for something to happen. It will happen. You waste time each moment you wait. True surrender isn’t a weakness—it’s a profound strength that unlocks a deeper sense of flow, presence, and alignment with the universal forces at play. It’s a brave letting go that paradoxically creates space for something far greater to emerge.
Surrender is synonymous with living.
Are you ready to live?
This practice of surrender is intricately linked to self-awareness and emotional intelligence — core components of being a genuinely whole human being. Without self-awareness, we remain trapped in our egos, desperately clinging to archaic beliefs, habits, and narratives that no longer serve us. Emotional intelligence allows us to explore our inner landscape with honesty and compassion, surfacing the fears and resistances that prevent us from fully surrendering to life’s flow.
Surrender requires humility — the ability to let go of our need to be correct, have all the answers, and project an image of control and perfection. It means embracing our vulnerability, our not-knowing, and being open to having our perspectives shifted by life’s great mysteries. This humility births the self-awareness to recognize when we are out of alignment and pushing against currents instead of flowing with them.
Emotional intelligence deepens this self-awareness, allowing us to navigate the waves of feelings that inevitably arise when we release our grip on how we think things should be. It’s the emotional agility to honor our disappointments, fears, and griefs without becoming engulfed by them. It creates the spaciousness to feel our emotions fully and then surrender to what is rather than resisting and compounding our suffering.
Ultimately, the path of surrender cultivates wholeness — it integrates our minds, bodies, and spirits into a state of profound presence and alignment. When we let go of the exhausting struggle to control the uncontrollable, we conserve vast reserves of energy that can instead be directed towards our highest aims and most profound nourishment.
Without this wholeness, this unity of being, we remain fractured — constantly leaking energy into resistance, continually scrambling to manage our anxiety and insecurity instead of living from a place of unshakable presence. Surrender returns us to our inherent wholeness, connecting us with the truth that we are never alone but part of a grand orchestration unfolding beyond our limited perceptions.
So, to truly surrender and open ourselves to its profound gifts, we must gently inwardly cultivate self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and humility to release our vice-like grip on how we think life should be. For it’s only when we empty our clenched fists, that we can open our palms to receive life’s boundless treasures and know the peace that passes all understanding.
I firmly believe that you must have wholeness in life to be happy, at peace, and in full alignment with your brain and your heart. The path of surrender allows us to integrate all aspects of our being and operate from a state of profound presence.
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Jo
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