I am half way through Michael Singer's new book, The Surrender Experiment and I cannot say enough about the book. It tells the story of Michael's spiritual journey, which involves his surrendering all personal preferences and saying "Yes" to life. Michael refused to listen to the voice in his head which tried telling him what he liked and didn't like and to base his decisions on these personal preferences. Instead, Michael decided to say "Yes" to what life was asking him to do. As a result he has had an amazing journey filled with miraculous events and situations falling in to place with little effort on his part.
"I could see that it was these mental preferences that were creating much of the ongoing dialogue about how to control everything in my life. In a bold attempt to free myself from all that I decided to just stop listening to all the chatter about my personal preferences, and instead, start the willful practice of accepting what the flow of life was presenting me." (The Surrender Experiment, p. 53)
He started with the weather...accepting whatever was happening with the weather. "Look how beautiful it's raining."
"The rules of the experiment were very simple: If life brought events in front of me, I would treat them as if they came to take me beyond myself. If my personal self complained, I would use each opportunity to simply let him go and surrender to what life was presenting me." (p. 54)
As you will see if you read the book, Michael had great success with letting go of personal preference and letting life lead him.
I am going to give it a try and let go of personal preferences as often as possible and allow life to take the lead. Stay tuned for more about letting life be in charge.
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