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IF YOU’VE EVER SAT in a park in the springtime and listened to the songs of the birds, the buzzing of the bees and breathed in the green grass and spring flowers, you understand how everything in the Universe is conspiring for our well-being.
Surrendering to the Universe necessitates not being attached to the outcome. We don’t need to achieve our goal to be happy. When we need anything, we are dwelling in a sense of lack. This certainly gives the reptilian brain something to fret about! You’ve created a goal and a timeline to achieve it, but you don’t NEED this outcome to be happy! Although creating your calling and your life’s work fulfills the deepest potential of your Original Medicine, you don’t need it for any reason other than that of being of service.
Connecting to your universal self is where the possibility for happiness dwells. Connecting and honoring the wise one within is where the deepest level of satisfaction can be found. Your center of peace nourishes lasting fulfillment, and this is what draws outward abundance.
Taking action towards your goal while at the same time, surrendering the outcome and trusting that it will all work out exactly as it should, is what co-creating looks like. The transformation of your inner state that you’ve been working on through practicing these exercises is how you will manifest a life calling that is aligned with your true nature. What we actively manifest is formed from our inner state of being.
You know what you want to create, this is the seed. You are fostering the inner state from your universal self, the soil, water, and light that represent the conditions for your creation to become a reality. Now you surrender it. Ask for what you want. “I want [this] with all my heart.” This is your truth and there is nothing in your body or your psyche or your spirit that disagrees with that or feels out of integrity with it. Declare it and take responsibility for it and ask for assistance by saying “This is what I desire! I am radically responsible for my reality and I could use a hand.” You can ask for evidence, for signs and for proof that you are on the right track. If you are unclear of what it is you want to create, ask for guidance. “Make it obvious how you would like me to serve.”
Take the pressure off yourself – remove that 75-pound burden off your chest. Put your desire in a box and hand it over to the Universe. If it is meant to happen, divine grace will make it happen.
Writing has been essential to my process of surrender. I feel deep gratitude for the morning journaling that lifts weight off my heart. I write the pain, anger, grief, and confusion out of my heart and in doing so surrender it to the Universe. Letting it go allows me to be present and find joy in the moments, knowing that I will be guided.
Releasing skepticism requires trusting that what you want is possible, and that you are worthy of receiving it. This trust demands that you release doubt, be aware of thoughts that are affecting your inner state and set aside worry and concern. I’m guessing you must be seeing why you did the prior work of preparing yourself. Now it’s time to surrender, to trust and observe the synchronicities unfold like magic. One caveat, if you remain open to the benign forces of divine grace, you very well might attract something even better than what you could have imagined in your wildest dreams. There are no rules in dreaming.
During the five years after my father’s death, I did much of the work I have been guiding you through. As I reconnected with my universal self and formed a sense of my Original Medicine, I started having vivid colorful dreams about a three-year-old girl. In every dream, she had tossed blond curls, and she was wearing a white dress, her eyes full of light, her arms beckoning me. I dreamt of her most every night for almost nine months, somehow knowing that this was my future child.
On December 22, 1986, towards the end of this nine-month period, I made the spontaneous decision to go home to Maui and visit my mom and my sister. I called all the airlines (this was B.I. – before internet), and each customer service representative literally laughed at my request for a ticket from San Francisco to Maui the next day. On my last call, to Continental Airlines, the lovely representative said, “No, I’m sorry we don’t have any seats available for a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu (they hadn’t opened direct mainland flights to Maui yet.) for the next two weeks. Oh wait! It looks like two seats just became available from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Would you like one of them?” So, I headed home the next morning via LA and Honolulu. You’ll never guess who I ended up sitting next to on the plane. It was the future father of my daughter, the very being I had been dreaming about. Miracles do happen when we get out of fear and suffering and connect with the divine through our universal selves.
My journey has involved a series of struggles and awakenings that have brought me to an understanding of how this process works. I have seen nothing less than miracles happen when my clients have done this work.
Unhappiness and a lack of fulfillment don’t mean that there is something wrong with you or that you haven’t done enough. Develop a loyalty to the voice of your own guidance. As you do magic will begin to happen. Subtle and gentle, yet profound. You will feel comfort when you ask for it, guidance and support will show up in the form of teachers, dreams, and messages when you need them most.
“The way back to my real environment, the place where my soul was meant to exist, doesn’t lie through any set of codes I will ever find outside of myself. I must look inward. I must jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. Instead of clutching around me all the trappings of a ‘good’ person, a ‘successful’ person, or even a ‘righteous’ person, I must be exactly what I am and take the horrible chance that I may be rejected for it. I can’t get home by cloaking myself in the armor of any system, social, political, or religious. I have to strip off all that comforting armor and go on.” –Martha Beck
