Secrets of Mind and Reality

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

Some people, in fact, are only ever present when in the throes of an emergency, which explains why those people seem beset by one crisis after another in their lives: to be present. Thankfully, it doesn’t require a crisis to become fully present, but when those sudden tragedies and other unwanted life situations do invariably occur, the way to free yourself of your pain and suffering, and to transmute the undesirable situation into an opportunity to attract a desirable one, is through presence. And in a negative situation, the way to be present is to surrender.

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’re giving up. Too often we take surrender to mean giving up caring about a situation 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 joyous manifestation of your desires. That kind of surrender cuts you off from the well-being that is your natural state (or rather, reinforces and perpetuates the illusion that you’re cut off from it). That kind of surrender is just more pain and suffering.

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

1. Accept the situation as it is – that is, acknowledge that this is the situation right now, and you can’t change this current moment; you can only change how you respond to it. And in changing how you respond to this moment, you call to you a new and different moment more in line with this changes you’ve made to yourself in this moment.

2. Allow yourself to feel your emotions and you are instantly 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 to feel them, you are not conscious of the story behind why you supposedly feel that way; 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 accepting the Now as it is, and allowing yourself to feel your feelings, you can consciously, deliberately choose the thoughts that next occupy your mind. Choose ones that feel good and, through the Law of Attraction, evidence to justify those good feelings will crop up everywhere around you.

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