The Surrender Experiment
I haven’t read Michel Singer’s The Surrender Experiment yet. But these last few weeks have me wondering if it might help. The whole “Let Go, Let God” concept does NOT come naturally. At least not for me.
I do believe that life happens for us and not to us. It took me a while, but I’m fully on board with this idea. But that doesn’t mean it’s always easy. It’s not easy to trust that the Universe will take care of everything for us. And yet, I keep hearing my inner voice telling me loud and clear that it really is OK to let the Universe do all of the heavy lifting. The Universe will bring the right people to the digital course I’m creating. The Universe will even guide me as I create my course. I just need to stop long enough to listen.
It’s not easy to accept that I really don’t have to work so hard. Or that I don’t have to do ALL of the things to launch my course. After all, haven’t we all been conditioned to effort and push for every success we’ve ever had? Usually our minds need some kind of evidence that all will be OK. Luckily I’ve gotten some evidence these last few months in my writing life. It’s actually gotten easier to write! And even more importantly, it’s become fun to write again — what a relief!
I used to love writing, until I didn’t. One day this inner critic showed up and man was she awful. She made me dread sitting down to write. But then a miraculous thing happened. As my intuition got stronger, my inner critic stopped yapping. The words began to flow from my pen once again. I no longer needed to stop midway through a sentence and edit what I’d already written. An invisible fog started to lift. I began to reconnect with my inner muse. And it feels really, really good.
This doesn’t mean I don’t edit my work – of course I still need to do that. It just means I can write a whole blog post, email, or short story without stopping to edit myself along the way. I let the words flow onto the page and I don’t critique them as they come. And the writer’s block that once paralyzed me has lost her muscle. Sure she shows up sometimes, but I know her energy now and how to work around it.
This took time and some practice. It took learning how to relax and release control of how I thought my writing should look and sound. It took learning how to slow down and let my intuition lead the way. And I’m still learning.
