Surrender!
Boy, do we talk a lot about surrender.
But, what does surrendering even really mean?
Well, to illustrate that, I would like to tell you the story of how I almost died.
Hi, my name is Melody Fletcher, and I teach The Law of Attraction and the technology of
reality creation to highly intellectual people, just like you, in a way that actually makes
some friggin' sense.
So, when I was about 13, 14 years old, I visited my sister in Jackson Hole Wyoming, which is
a place that has a lot, a lot of outdoor sports, and one of them is white water rafting.
So, we decided to go on a rafting trip.
There was a guide, we did not do this on our own; and we all piled into this boat, this
inflatable, little raft, basically.
It was my sister and I, my sister Tina; you guys have met her, and a whole bunch of adults.
And, for some reason the guide thought it was a good idea to put a 13-year-old girl
on the back corner of this raft.
And, as I found out later, and as anybody who actually knows anything about rafting;
which I did not, that is perhaps, a better spot to put an adult, and possibly, even an
adult who actually knows what the hell they're doing.
So, we're rafting along and we're having a good time, it was a beautiful day, and there
were some rapids, but no problems, and there was this one really, really, really big rapid.
And, it's basically, a huge rock and the water just drops over it and then, drops down.
So, there's a big elevation change, and so, like, a mini-waterfall.
And, what happens when the water, kind of, rolls over a rock like that is, it doesn't
just drop straight down, and then, you know, it's all tranquil.
What happens is, that there's this churning action that happens at the bottom of that
rock, and that is really, kind of, where the danger lies, right; because the water doesn't
just flow, it turns on itself.
And, this is such a popular spot for things to happen (oh joy), that they have photographers
set up on the side of this big, you know, rapid.
So, I guess it's, kind of, like going over a rollercoaster where when the, you know,
scary part hits, the photographers take lots of pictures.
And, what happened is, that being on the back corner of the boat and not knowing what I
was doing, and kind of, getting out of rhythm with the rest of the group - so, one could
say, there's a big metaphor of massive resistance there, not being in the flow with the river,
not being in sync with the others.
Yeah?
The photographers, when they took the pictures of our boat going by, you can actually watch
me, sort of flip right out of the boat, like, little bit, a little bit more, a little bit
more.
And, in the end there's just a shoe sticking out of the water.
And, it's very, very, very funny, unless you're the person who that happened to.
Yeah?
Because, what happened is, I fell out of the boat, and went over the rapid, and then, I
got caught in this little churny, churny, churny place.
I was wearing a life vest and, you know, so I'd taken every precaution, and I hadn't wanted
to sit in the back of the boat, I hadn't asked for that.
So you know, there's lots and lots of wonderful beliefs coming up there, and lots and lots
of, you know, resistance.
And, it was unfair, and it wasn't right, and I was too young, and, you know, so many wonderful
arguments that we could make why that was wrong, and the guide was wrong.
And, I even dropped some hints, to kind of, you know, some breadcrumbs to help along the
way, to say, "Oh yes, we can all get very outraged about this."
But, in the end what happened is, I was caught in the water, and none of those arguments
really mattered anymore because I was going to die.
And, that became clearer and clearer to me as I was fighting a losing battle, because
as anyone who's gone up against water, and I have on several occasions in my life; this
wasn't the only time I nearly died in water, but that's another story for another day.
When you're fighting against water, you can't win.
You can't even come close to winning.
Water is so powerful; the force is so strong that the human body has no chance against
it.
And so, you're up against, kind of, of an immoveable force.
I was literally between a rock and an immoveable force!
And, all I was doing was spinning.
Just; you know?
I couldn't tell where up was; I couldn't tell where down was.
And, the thought occurred to me, "I am going to die."
And then suddenly, instead of becoming even more terrified, the opposite happened.
I actually became very peaceful, and I accepted that this was the situation, and there was
nothing I could do about it.
And, even though I was facing what, you know, you could logically call, the most terrifying
moment of my life, it actually became very, very peaceful, because there's something to
accepting the situation that you're in, that brings a great deal of peace.
And, of course when I relaxed, and I surrendered to the water, I surrendered to the situation;
I even surrendered to my own death.
And, you know, if you've gone through any kind of change in your life, you know that
sometimes changes actually feel like death, or the fear of that change can feel like fear
of death, because it's the same fear that gets triggered often.
But, even as I accepted it, I surrendered to my own death, the energy shifted, and the
rapid spat me out, about 100 yards down, or 100 feet down.
Sorry; hehe!
About 100 feet down.
And I was of course, very afraid, and the guide was very, very relieved to see me alive,
because I think, he was starting to get really, really, really frightened when I didn't come
up.
And, I didn't come up, and I didn't come up; and it suddenly, wasn't so funny anymore.
At the time, I didn't really see the wisdom in all of this; I was just happy to be alive.
But looking back I can.
Because the metaphor here is, you know, you don't have to be able to read energy to figure
this one out.
It is all about surrender.
Surrendering to our circumstances; surrendering to where we are.
That doesn't mean that we don't want things to change; it just means that sometimes you
feel like you're in between a rock and an immoveable force that is much, much stronger
than you are.
And, as long as you keep fighting, it keeps beating the crap out of you, but you're not
going anywhere.
So, that's when you do the counter-intuitive thing, the thing that doesn't feel at all
like, it should be the thing that you've got to do.
The thing that scares the crap out of you, which is, you do the opposite of fighting.
You surrender.
You give into it, you say, "Ok.
What happens, happens.
I don't really have a choice.
I can't keep fighting; I'm running out of strength."
The beautiful thing is that you can actually foster this state of surrender, before you
get the crap kicked out of you.
You don't have to get to the point where you don't feel like you have a choice.
You can actually step into this state of surrender, much, much, much earlier, which believe me,
makes life much, much, much easier.
Yeah?
So, when you are surrendering, you're not saying, I don't want this situation to change.
What you're saying is, right now, in this moment, fighting isn't working, so I'm going
to do the opposite.
And, I can tell you, oh my gosh, I can tell you; it works.
It shifts energy; it opens up energy every time.
And, if we could just remember to surrender, yeah; clarity comes, situations change, and
we don't have to let it get to the point where we don't feel like we have a choice.
Where it's so painful, or we're so weakened that there's nothing that we can do.
Yeah?
We can actually make the conscious choice to surrender anytime things get hard.
Anytime things get frustrating, anytime we feel like we're banging our heads against
an immoveable force.
So, I hope that this video has been helpful to you.
Please leave me a comment down below.
This should be a two-way conversation, and let me know what experiences you've had with
surrendering, or what you're having a hard time surrendering to, and we'll see if we
can spawn another video.
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So...
Alright; I will talk to you next week.
Until then, smooshy, smooshy, happy shiny puppy hugs, and thank you for bringing your
light to
the world.
Bye.
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