A beautiful way to surrender is to do so by choosing the path of unconditional happiness. Michael Singer talks about this on his CD "The Journey Within: Love is inside...Go find it." This path is about letting go of how we think things should be or how we want things to be, accepting what is, and choosing to be happy (no matter what is showing up in our lives). We can either spend lots of energy and effort trying to get the world to be what we want it to be so that we can be happy, or, we can simply choose to be happy since we know that our source of joy is from within. (In some moments choosing joy is too difficult, in which case you can choose gratitude since there is something to be grateful about in any situation).
Michael suggests that when something shows up that you don't like start with saying "I can handle this" and then play with your thoughts about it. It is all a matter of attitude and perception...(e.g., if someone is driving really slowly in front of you ask yourself "They're going 10 mph, I wonder if they could go 5 mph?")
Michael suggests that when something shows up that you don't like start with saying "I can handle this" and then play with your thoughts about it. It is all a matter of attitude and perception...(e.g., if someone is driving really slowly in front of you ask yourself "They're going 10 mph, I wonder if they could go 5 mph?")
I have focused on this during the past week. Lots of irritants have come up. Instead of putting energy into what was irritating me I found that choosing joy no matter what brings a lighter attitude and a healing energy to my life.
The ego will never be happy. Even if we were to get everything that we wanted, at some point the ego would become dissatisfied and start to complain. We can let all of that go and choose to be happy no matter what.
There is an ocean of joy (and a mountain of love) inside of each of us. All that we need to do is dive in.
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