Let Go
“Letting go of resistance is easier said than done. I still don’t see clearly how to let go. If you say it is by surrendering, the question remains: How?”
Start by acknowledging that there is resistance. Be there when it happens, when the resistance arises. Observe how your mind creates it, how it labels the situation, yourself or others. Look at the thought process involved. Feel the energy of the emotion. By witnessing the resistance, you will see that it serves no purpose. By focusing all your attention on the Now, the unconscious resistance is made conscious, and that is the end of it. You cannot be conscious and unhappy, conscious and in negativity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever form means that there is a resistance, and resistance is always unconscious.
You say that you are conscious of your unhappy feelings, but the truth is that you are identified with them and keep the process alive through compulsive thinking. All that is unconscious. If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence. You keep your unhappiness alive by giving it time. Remove time through intense present-moment awareness and it dies.
Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in – or don’t, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy that you emanate and which then runs your life is of much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs our world, the politics, economic structure, education, media. Through surrender, spiritual energy comes into this world.
Unlike mind energy, it does not pollute the earth, and it not subject to the law of polarities, which dictates that nothing can exist without its opposite that there can be no good without bad. Those who run on mind energy, which is still the vast majority of Earth’s population, remain unaware of the existence of spiritual energy. It belongs to a different order of reality and will create a different world when a sufficient number of humans enter the surrendered state and so become totally free of negativity. If the Earth is to survive, this will be the energy of those who inhabit it.
It is a silent but intense presence that dissolves the unconscious patterns of the mind. The external conditions that were being resisted also tend to shift or dissolve quickly through surrender. It is a powerful transformer of situations and people. If conditions don’t shift immediately, your acceptance of the Now enables you to rise above them. Either way, you are free.
