🕊Surrendering is not the same as giving up.

🕊Surrendering is not learned helplessness.

🕊It is allowing and not resisting inevitable change.

🕊It is seeing that there are other ways to get to where we need to be that we can’t see- but the Universe can.

🕊We still end up where we are destined to be, but the route we took wasn’t the one we planned out.

Years ago after I finished my undergrad, I was at a crossroads and trying to decide whether to do post grad studies to become a teacher, a therapist or get more experience in social services before continuing on. I felt a lot of pressure, plus it made sense to take this one particular path, but it just didn’t feel right at all in my body.

I came to a breaking point that found me lying on my hands and knees on my floor in a sobbing heap crying “I surrender. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know which path to take.”

And in that exact moment when I gave up the wheel, I felt a huge release, a weight lifted off and I learned the freedom and lightness of allowing instead of forcing things. I decided nothing. To wait. To let go for that moment and see where life went. And life took me in a completely surprising direction.

We don’t have all the answers. We don’t always know the way. And that’s ok.

Let go and surrender and see what happens. You might be joyfully surprised where you end up.

Sara Murphy
Meditation Teacher, Intuitive Spiritual Guide & Healer
BA Child Studies, Psychology
Dip Jour, Dip DH
Holographic Usui Reiki Practitioner, IARP

EMAIL: saramurphy@live.ca