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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books, "The Power of Now".

Surrender is a purely inner phenomenon. It does not mean that on the outer level you cannot take action and change the situation. In fact it is not the overall situation that you need to accept when you surrender but just the tiny segment called the Now. For example if you were stuck in the mud somewhere you wouldn't say: "Okay I resign myself to being stuck in the mud." Resignation is not surrender. You don't need to accept an undesirable or unpleasant life situation. Nor do you need to deceive yourself and say that there is nothing wrong with being stuck in the mud. No. You recognize fully that you want to get out of it. You then narrow your attention down to the present moment without mentally labeling it in any way. This means that there is no judgment of the Now. Therefore there is no resistance no emotional negativity. You accept the "isness" of this moment. Then you take action and do all that you can to get out of the mud. Such action I call positive action. It is far more effective than negative action which arises out of anger despair or frustration. Until you achieve the desired result you continue to practice surrender by refraining from labeling the Now. Let me give you a visual analogy to illustrate the point I am malting. You are walking along a path at night surrounded by a thick fog. But you have a powerful flashlight that cuts through the fog and creates a narrow clear space in front of you. The fog is your life situation which includes past and future; the flashlight is your conscious presence; the clear space is the Now. Non-surrender hardens your psychological form the shell of the ego and so creates a strong sense of separateness. The world around you and people in particular come to be perceived as threatening. The unconscious compulsion to destroy others through judgment arises as does the need to compete and dominate. Even nature becomes yourenemy and your perceptions and interpretations are governed by fear. The mental disease that we call paranoia is only a slightly more acute form of this normal but dysfunctional state of consciousness. Not only your psychological form but also your physical form - your body - becomes hard and rigid through resistance. Tension arises in different parts of the body and the body as a whole contracts. The free flow of life energy through the body which is essential for its healthy functioning is greatly restricted. Bodywork and certain forms of physical therapy can be helpful in restoring this flow but unless you practice surrender in your everyday life those things can only give temporary symptom relief since the cause - the resistance pattern - has not been dissolved. There is something within you that remains unaffected by the transient circumstances that make up your life situation and only through surrender do you have access to it. It is your life your very Being - which exists eternally in the timeless realm of the present. Finding this life is "the one thing that is needed" that Jesus talked about. If you find your life situation unsatisfactory or even intolerable it is only by surrendering first that you can break the unconscious resistance pattern that perpetuates that situation. Surrender is perfectly compatible with taking action initiating change or achieving goals. But in the surrendered state a totally different energy a different quality flows into your doing. Surrender reconnects you with the source-energy of Being and if your doing is infused with Being it becomes a joyful celebration of life energy that takes you more deeply into the Now. Through nonresistance the quality of your consciousness and therefore the quality of whatever you are doing or creating is enhanced immeasurably. The results will then look after themselves and reflect that quality. We could call this "surrendered action." It is not work as we have known it for thousands of years. As more humans awaken the word work is going to disappear from our vocabulary and perhaps a new word will be created to replace it. It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience so to surrender is the most important thing you can do to bring about positive change. Any action you take is secondary. No truly positive action can arise out of an unsurrendered state of consciousness.

I can see that if I am in a situation that is unpleasant or unsatisfactory and I completely accept the moment as it is there will be no suffering or unhappiness. I will have risen above it. But I still can't quite see where the energy or motivation for taking action and bringing about change would come from if there isn't a certain amount of dissatisfaction.

In the state of surrender you see very clearly what needs to be done and you take action doing one thing at a time and focusing on one thing at a time. Learn from nature: See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness. That's why Jesus said: "Look at the lilies how they grow; they neither toil nor spin." If your overall situation is unsatisfactory or unpleasant separate out this instant and surrender to what is. That's the flashlight cutting through the fog. Your state of consciousness then ceases to be controlled by external conditions. You are no longer coming from reaction and resistance. Then look at the specifics of the situation. Ask yourself Is there anything I can do to change the situation improve it or remove myself from it? If so you take appropriate action. Focus not on the 100 things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now. This doesn't mean you should not do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing you can do now. But make sure you don't start to run "mental movies project yourself into the future and so lose the Now. Any action you take may not bear fruit immediately. Until it does - do not resist what is. If there is no action you can take and you cannot remove yourself from the situation either then use the situation to make you go more deeply into surrender more deeply into the Now more deeply into Being. When you enter this timeless dimension of the present change often comes about in strange ways without the need for a great deal of doing on your part. Life becomes helpful and cooperative. If inner factors such as fear guilt or inertia prevented you from taking action they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence. Do not confuse surrender with an attitude of I can't be bothered anymore" or "I just don't care anymore." If you look at it closely you will find that such an attitude is tainted with negativity in the form of hidden resentment and so is not surrender at all but masked resistance. As you surrender direct your attention inward to check if there is any trace of resistance left inside you. Be very alert when you do so; otherwise a pocket of resistance may continue to hide in some dark corner in the form of a thought or an unacknowledged emotion.

From Mind Energy To Spiritual Energy

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?

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Sometimes the "astral current" may be set going by a strong emotional thought at the other end of the line and this may haven even though the thinker has no such intention in his mind. In the rather striking story which I am about to quote it is evident that the link was formed by the doctor's frequent thought about Mrs. Broughton yet he had clearly no especial wish that she should see what he was going at the time. That it was this kind of clairvoyance that was employed is shown by the fixity of her point of view - which be it observed is not the doctor's point of view sympathetically transferred (as it might have been) since she sees his back without recognizing him. The story is to be found in the Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society (Volume 2 page 160).

"Mrs. Broughton awoke one night in 1844 and roused her husband telling him that something dreadful had happened in France. He begged her to go to sleep again and not trouble him. She assured him that she was not asleep when she saw what she insisted on telling him - what she saw in fact.

"First a carriage accident - which she did not actually see but what she saw was the result - a broken carriage a crowd collected a figure gently raised and carried into the nearest house then a figure lying on a bed which she then recognized as the Duke of Orleans. [Page 82] Gradually friends collecting round the bed - among them several members of the French royal family- the queen then the king all silently tearfully watching the evidently dying duke. One man (she could see his back but did not know who he was) was a doctor. He stood bending over the duke feeling his pulse with his watch in the other hand. And then all passed away and she saw no more.

"As soon as it was daylight she wrote down in her journal all that she had seen. It was before the days of the electric telegraph and two or more days passed before the Times announced 'The Death of the Duke of Orleans'. Visiting Paris a short time afterwards she saw and recognized the place of the accident and received the explanation of her impression. The doctor who attended the dying duke was an old friend of hers and as he watched by the bed his mind had been constantly occupied with her and her family".

A commoner instance is that in which strong affection sets up the necessary current; probably a fairly steady stream of mutual thought is constantly flowing between the two parties in the case and some sudden need or dire extremity on the part of one of them endues this stream temporarily with the polarizing power which is needful to create the astral telescope. An illustrative example is quoted from the same Proceedings (volume I page 30).

"On September 9th 1848 at the siege of Mooltan Major-General R-------- C.B. then adjutant of his regiment was most severely and dangerously wounded; [Page 83] and supposing himself to be dying asked one of the officers with him to take the ring off his finger and send it to this wife who at the time was fully one hundred and fifty miles distant at Ferozepore.

"'On the night of September 9th 1848' writes his wife 'I was lying on my bed between sleeping and waking when I distinctly saw my husband being carried off the field seriously wounded and heard his voice saying Take this ring off my finger and send it to my wife . All the next day I could not get the sight or the voice of of my mind.

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