The Painful Art of Surrender

Learning to surrender has been one of the most beautiful and painful experiences of my life.

For a long time, I allowed myself to have the illusion I could control what happened in my life and it manifested in a lot of neurotic tendencies. Things like people wearing clothes that had been outside and sitting on my bed bothered me because I was irrationally afraid of my space being dirty. If things weren’t put back in the “right” spot, I would instantly get anxious. This made living with or working with me very difficult.

As I’ve done more work with myself and more self discovery, I’ve noticed these things falling away and I attribute it to learning the art of surrender.

Learning to let go was hard at first, I felt so panicky and uncomfortable. But I was gentle with myself and had a lot of compassion for the neurotic part of me.

Now, I don’t have quite so many of these pet peeves and I feel so much more relaxed.

I talk about all this and more in my book, coming soon.

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