The Healing Power of Surrender
Hello You!
As a space-holder for your unfolding and evolution, I'm here to remind you of something deeply, deeply personal and poignant.
I'm here to remind you that you are on purpose; that everything that has ever unfolded in your life, big and small, has had a Divine Purpose. There have been no mistakes made and no one has dropped the ball on your life.
We find it easy to meet that sentiment when everything is going swimmingly, don't we? But we shrink back from it when we're being deeply challenged. I'm here to remind you that it's ALL Divine. The whole shooting match. Right down to the freckle on your left thigh.
There is no space within the manifest Universe that Consciousness is not. The Organizing Intelligence that IS this Universe and all of its manifestations is literally ALL THAT IS. There is no place that it is not.
When we can embrace this, how can we look at anything within our lives, whether it's a relationship, a loss, an illness, a divorce, an injury...and say, that shouldn't have happened.
There are no mistakes.
For a long time...lifetimes...we have fought our reality and we've fought it hard. We've tried to bend the laws of physics to our personal wills and we've experienced over and over again that it simply doesn't work.
And let's make something really clear.
We are not separate from Consciousness or Source. But the ego believes that it is. It believes it is an island, operating outside of the Organizing Intelligence we call this Universe. But because we're not yet fully aware of our Divinity we believe the incessant ramblings of the ego that, if we don't do it this way it will all fall apart!!!
There is another way.
There is another way that changes everything. I've had personal, deep and profound experience here. I know this other way and it has changed the depth of joy in my being and it has also healed a once very, very sick body.
That way is Surrender.
Surrender, of course, conjures up all kinds of images of us abdicating our power to something or someone outside of us. When we conceptualize surrender in this way, of course it feels suspicious. We want to run like hell from anything that we believe will take our control away from us.
Here is what Spiritual Surrender truly is: Alignment.
It is alignment with the deepest part of our own Being. It is in no way giving up our power. In fact, it is an ignition of the power that we've always had in our deepest hearts. Alignment is moving with the natural unfolding of our own Soul; a Soul that IS Divine.
When we can get on board with what Surrender is, what becomes deeply compelling is how Surrender actually unfolds and operates.
Think of how the nervous system responds to a body-mind that is open, accepting, humble, curious and relaxed; even when a challenge has walked in to stay awhile. Imagine being with yourself and being with the challenge in this surrendered way. In the knowing that all is on purpose, all is unfolding exactly as it needs to. It's so much easier to sit in this open, curious and accepting space.
When the nervous system is relaxed or in its parasympathetic state, our body functions optimally, our immune system responds to this optimal functioning, our minds are open and our intuition can actually come online. The body-mind is open and flowing.
This sets the stage on a physiological level for deep, deep healing and insight.
Now, think of the state of our nervous system when we, out of fear, grab the steering wheel and demand that the car drive in the direction that our already frantic ego would have us go. Have you ever made a rational decision in throws of panic or fear? The ego would have you convinced that this is the better option; the only option.
In this state, we're clenched, white-knuckled and often irrational. Our immune system has now kicked into high gear known as the sympathetic response, or better known as Fight or Flight. In this state, our immune system has effectively shut down, lactic acid rushes into our muscles, our blood pressure rises and other regulating systems shut down.
How could we possibly heal or return to any kind of relaxed joy from this space? We can't.
Even the notion of surrendering...letting go...allowing...conjures a relaxed response in the body-mind IF you know what is being surrendered.
The healing power of surrender is what our entire experience here as human beings is moving towards. You can trust the Intelligence behind the unfolding of your life. You can trust its benevolence. You can trust that every challenge is taking you more deeply into the heart of your Being.
But most of all, you can let go. Gripping anything that is not currently here in your experience is painful. It's more painful than what is actually here, because we think a grand mistake has been made. We think we're being punished. We think we've done something wrong to deserve the shit-storm that has just crossed our path.
We haven't. We're simply growing. We're breaking open, as Rumi so profoundly put it, so that the light can get in. In fact, surrender is the safest space that any of us can ever occupy.
In love, joy & radiance,
Ann Jarvis
Channeler, Holistic Nutritionist & Metaphysical Teacher