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surrendered state? It means to be free of negative feelings in a given area so that creativity and spontaneity can manifest without opposition or the interference of inner conflicts.
Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it.
To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: “It’s okay if it happens, and it’s okay if it doesn’t.” When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments. We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence on anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
Feelings come and go, and eventually you realize that you are not your feelings, but that the real “you” is merely witnessing them.
The results of letting go are deceptively quick and subtle, but the effects are very powerful. Often we have let go but think that we haven’t. It will be our friends who make us aware of the change. One reason for this phenomenon is that, when something is fully surrendered, it disappears from consciousness.
Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them.
Negativity does not exist within a situation or event; rather, it resides in our reaction to the situation as we see it.
Envy is painful because it arouses our own sense of inadequacy.
Once our feelings are recognized, it becomes obvious to us that they work against us. They drain our efforts and impede our success in the world.
