If there is something in your life that is causing you a problem and you’re aware of it, I bet you’ve tried using will, crystals, hypnotism and pills to placate it. My suspicion is they haven’t worked and my experience is they never will. Oddly, counterintuitively, in our culture of individualism and self-centred valour, it is by surrendering that we can begin to succeed. It is by ‘admitting that we have no power’ that we can begin the process of accessing all the power we will ever need.

