Sunday 20 October 2013

Surrender

Surrender: to Yield as strength.

Part of the Fey Path I teach is the elemental daily meditation. One of these is Air. Air for me is about yielding, about surrendering. When we consciously surrender to our breath we gain an insight into the world of these most nebulous beings.
When we talk about surrender it is often thought of as weakness, or lack of courage but the joy and peace of acceptance of who you are, where you are, what you think and feel gives you the freedom to let go of all these things. Start with your usual daily mediation position, with soft music and gentle light. Then sit or lie down comfortably.Take a deep cleansing breath and hold it for a moment then slowly let it go. Take a few more breathes like this and bring your awareness to where you are.The room you are in, the objects around you, the sounds. Just observe. 
From the moment you stop resisting where you are and settle into being purely in the moment you do not lose anything but gain a freedom from yourself.
This surrender is an experience that is loving not fearful or frightening space. This true experience of being rather than doing, or feeling is to embrace a positive loving space within the cosmos for yourself. If tears come, let them fall. If you get the giggles, laugh. Breathe through it all and LET THEM GO. You are not your feelings or your thoughts, or your body. Accept it all. You are. You are energy, let it all flow. Let it all go. If you are resisting; accept your resistance and then let it go, let it go with your breath.
If you are fearful or anxious accept that and let them go too. You are not your worries. Say yes to this space. Embrace it. Say yes to being. Say yes, to letting it go.
Enjoy this space, enjoy this quality of being. This is the joy of surrender. It allows you the moment to choose and act rather than react. When you have reached this state of awakened being radiate gratitude, peace and joy. When you feel you have achieved this come back to the room. Write up in your journal where you are, what you personally experienced and try again tomorrow.

  



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