A light in the darkness

  Today I want to take a break and introduce you all to the concept of surrender. I began my discussion by understanding what is in control and what is not, which means surrendering my control; then I talked about watching oneself from a distance, which means surrendering my present place and going to a new place and seeing myself; and the third one, which I discussed, was about watching oneself from the future, which means to surrender my present hold and go to the future where I want to be, and from there, what would my understanding be for the present situation. In all there, I am talking about surrender. What does surrender mean? David R. Hawkins, in his book "Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender," says that surrender means to have no strong feeling about a thing. In other words, if I have surrendered a thing to you, whether you make good of it or bad of it should not affect me in any way. The attachment that is built with the thing makes us think about what will happen i...

I have been speaking about letting go for about ten days. I talked about the four techniques: a) removing yourself from that stressful situation; b) the Eisenhower matrix; c) watching oneself from a distance; d) watching oneself from the future you. What was common in all of them? Can you all guess? Yes, in all of them, I never told you to forget about the stressful things that happened to you. Yes, letting go begins when we allow this feeling without  a) Resisting it : Resistance to the feeling makes it come up all over again. So, don't resist it; allow it to be there, acknowledging that something has happened that shook you.  b) Venting it : Maybe things might not have been your way, and that is troubling you and making you angry, and you want to take out your anger. Don't do that. Accept that this was not in your control, and so your command is not working. Venting will show your perspective only and is not receptive to other people's perspectives.  c) Fearing it: We o...