So today we wish to speak
about going with the flow;
going with the flow.
Because this notion of
going with the flow goes hand in hand,
if you will,
with the notion of surrender.
What are you surrendering to?
You're surrendering to the flow.
And in order to experience
such a flow,
you have to recognize and admit
that life, your life experience does
not always go according to plan;
does not always go
according to your expectation
or even your desire of how you wish
for things to unfold.
And so this notion of surrender
means that instead
of clinging to your expectation
of how you think
things should go,
that instead you begin to align with
and harmonize with things
as they are unfolding,
especially when it doesn't go
according to your expectation
or according to your plan.
The reason that we bring this
message to you
today is because there is so much
joy and bliss and inner peace
in living
in a way
where you're just letting things unfold
instead of trying to control
what unfolds.
The part of you
that is trying to control
what unfolds or seeking
to control or seeking to
dictate
how things are supposed to happen
according to your little self’s
idea,
your little human mind's
idea of how things should unfold -
that part of you that is seeking to do
that is often the part of you
that is deeply afraid.
And so to deal with the fear of life,
you try to control the unfoldment
so that you control what happens.
And so you are not exposed to something
that perhaps has frightened
you in the past.
When you decide
to live
this life of surrender
and live this life of
going with the flow,
what happens
is that all of your fear and all of the
the parts of you
that are seeking control
in an attempt
to suppress your fear,
all of that starts
to come to the surface.
And so only as as
we have mentioned before,
only when something comes to the surface
are you able to release it
and work with it and let it go.
But if you're just trying to suppress
energy, suppress fear energy
by controlling the external
and not surrendering to the flow of life
as it occurs,
then what's true
is that
you're still living from a place of fear,
and that is in direct conflict
with how your soul wishes to live,
which is in alignment
with your higher self,
with the energy of love.
And so when you find yourself -
when you notice that you're afraid,
one of the things that we suggest
that you do is take a pause,
because what you'll notice in your system
is when that fear starts to come up,
your busyness or your activity,
either the activity of your mind
or the activity
of actually
doing things in your external reality
starts to increase.
Meaning there's an attempt
to suppress the fear through busyness.
I'm going to stay busy
externally by doing lots of things
or in my mind is very busy.
I'm going to think lots of things.
Either way, it's the same thing.
I'm trying to suppress
fear energy through busyness.
And this is very common.
And it's one of the reasons
why in your society
things are very busy
and very chaotic - it’s
because everybody is seeking
to suppress their fear energy
through this busyness all the time.
So it's very
difficult, actually, to take these pauses
and take these intermissions,
because in doing so,
when you allow that to happen,
the fear energy comes up.
And the truth is that most of you
don't know what to do with that
fear energy.
That's why you seek to suppress it.
And it is a very difficult,
energetic vibration to feel.
So what is the suggestion?
How do you deal with the fear energy
as it surfaces?
And the answer is it's
the same
as any other energetic
emotional vibration
in the sense
that you just let it be there
with the energy of mindfulness
or with the energy of compassion
or with the energy of presence,
all those are the same thing.
You just allow the fear to be there
and you just breathe
with full mindfulness, full attention.
You just let
that fear be
there until it starts
to dissipate on its own.
You don't
follow that
survival mechanism
of busyness and trying to stay busy.
You do the opposite.
You create stillness
and you let the fear come up
and you breathe into it.
And then in doing so,
your body has a chance to
feel into the charge of that fear
and then release it.
One thing that will really help you with
this process is to think of yourself
as one who is sitting in a movie theater
watching the story
of your life on the screen.
You're this observer
sitting back
within the seat of your consciousness,
watching your life unfold
in the same way
that you're watching the movie
unfold on the screen.
You don't necessarily know
what's going to happen next.
Isn't that exciting?
I wonder; I'm curious.
I wonder what's going to happen
next in this story
and realize that
as much as your little self
thinks knows
how it's going to go
and wants to control the storyline.
Notice how that's not really accurate.
There is something bigger at work,
and so why not just
sit back in the theater
and enjoy the movie
and watch the movie
and experience the movie
and let things unfold?
Why not just enjoy it
instead of trying to control it?
If you were in a movie theater
and you were trying to control
the unfoldment of the movie,
and you're in the theater
and you decide to stand up and start
shouting at the screen
because it was not the way
that you thought the movie should go.
Can you sense how ridiculous that is?
But many of you do that in your own life
when things do not go
according to your expectation.
You start shouting at the screen.
Don't shout at the screen.
Surrender to the screen.
Let it unfold.
Know that something higher is unfolding.
Start to enjoy the process.
Start to enjoy the wonder of it.
This is the process of surrendering
and going with the flow.
If you do that practice,
if you surrender to life
will bring you great surprises
all along the way.
And of course,
there will be some challenges too.
But what we wish for you
is to start to notice that
within every challenge
or within every struggle
or within every situation
that is not unfolding the way you wish,
there is always a benefit
hidden within that situation.
And of course, there's
always an opportunity
for growth and for greater alignment
with your higher self.