Letting go of resistance is easier said than done. I still don’t see
clearly how to let go. If you say it is by surrendering, the question
remains: “How?”
Start by acknowledging that there is resistance. Be there when it
happens, when the resistance arises. Observe how your mind creates
it, how it labels the situation, yourself, or others. Look at the thought
process involved. Feel the energy of the emotion. By witnessing the
resistance, you will see that it serves no purpose. By focusing all your
attention on the Now, the unconscious resistance is made conscious,
and that is the end of it. You cannot be conscious and unhappy,
conscious and in negativity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in
whatever form means that there is resistance, and resistance is
always unconscious.
Surely I can be conscious of my unhappy feelings?
Would you choose unhappiness? If you did not choose it, how did it
arise? What is its purpose? Who is keeping it alive? You say that you
are conscious of your unhappy feelings, but the truth is that you are
identified with them and keep the process alive through compulsive
thinking. All that is unconscious. If you were conscious, that is to say
totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost
instantly. It could not survive in your presence. It can only survive in
your absence. Even the pain-body cannot survive for long in your
presence. You keep your unhappiness alive by giving it time. That is
its lifeblood. Remove time through intense present-moment
awareness and it dies. But do you want it to die? Have you truly had
enough? Who would you be without it?
Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you
read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think
about, believe in — or don’t, as the case may be. It makes no
difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in
your life. When you do, the energy that you emanate and which then
runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind
energy that still runs our world — the energy that created the existing
social, political, and economic structures of our civilization, and which
also continuously perpetuates itself through our educational systems
and the media. Through surrender, spiritual energy comes into this
world. It creates no suffering for yourself, for other humans, or any
other life form on the planet. Unlike mind energy, it does not pollute
the earth, and it is not subject to the law of polarities, which dictates
that nothing can exist without its opposite, that there can be no good
without bad. Those who run on mind energy, which is still the vast
majority of the Earth’s population, remain unaware of the existence of
spiritual energy. It belongs to a different order of reality and will
create a different world when a sufficient number of humans enter the
surrendered state and so become totally free of negativity. If the
Earth is to survive, this will be the energy of those who inhabit it.
Jesus referred to this energy when he made his famous prophetic
statement in the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the gentle; they
shall have the earth for their possession.” It is a silent but intense
presence that dissolves the unconscious patterns of the mind. They
may still remain active for a while, but they won’t run your life
anymore. The external conditions that were being resisted also tend
to shift or dissolve quickly through surrender. It is a powerful
transformer of situations and people. If conditions do not shift
immediately, your acceptance of the Now enables you to rise above
them. Either way, you are free.