Whenever an unwanted situation shows up in my life, I usually start with witnessing the feelings and thoughts. Sometimes they move right through me and sometimes they do not. When the same problem keeps showing up in my life, I recognize that perhaps I am not fully accepting the thoughts and feelings and allowing the energy to pass through me.
Adyashanti talks about a woman who was depressed for years until she decided to stop, stop trying to push it away. When she did this she found a sense of well-being existing alongside the depression and eventually the depression stopped. Adya says that the "phenomena of finding well-being amidst the difficult isn't something that most people have experienced, because they haven't really ever stopped trying to grasp at or push away a certain quality of thinking and feeling." (Falling into Grace, p. 69)
But when you fully immerse yourself in the feelings/thoughts and surrender to them you will receive an "invitation to wake up from your idea of yourself and the whole emotional environment with which you identify....The truth is that a whole new state of consciousness already exists, that every part of your experience that's unfolding right now is already enclosed within absolute stillness, absolute ease." (Falling into Grace, p. 70).
The invitation is to move beyond the mind...remember the thoughts in our head are the thoughts of the neurotic roommate. Instead of listening to that crazy babble, completely surrender into the experience that is happening to you in that moment. By resisting what is, you will be holding on, not letting go. Surrender into what is in order to find your true nature.
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