The Importance of Surrender | #2 - When Nothing Seems to Work, Something Wants To Be Surrendered

I have recently written about the need to surrender things as they arise, but really there is another important aspect of what it means to surrender. Or rather: When to surrender...

I have found that surrendering is often really hard mainly because it's difficult to realize that it's time to surrender in the first place. So I am somewhat forming this new habit of trying to recognize when I hit a roadblock or - especially - when I can't seem to see any specific roadblock or thing in my way but everything just feels laggy and stally.

It's that moment that I can conceptualize all sorts of things worth doing but can't seem to find the red thread anywhere, nothing feels right and every attempt is instantly suffocated in uninspiration. It's like having a million construction sites with projects, passions and to-do's in front of you but feeling utterly incapable of executing or even starting on any of them.

And where I once felt that not tackling them is equivalent to giving up or backing out, I am finding there is a lot of merit and value in letting go and surrendering that incapability, that momentary inability and being content and fine with it, without any alterior motives. Cause more and more I find that when I can manage to let them not work out I find my mojo again without warning, the solutions to the unseen roadblocks come crashing my way and suddenly I need a piece of papaer to jot down all these inputs to my construction sites before they leave me again.

And moreso than I thought this goes for any general sense of incapability, rather than trying to overcome a specifi roadblock or monumental task. So in a way this is an addendum to part 1 of this miniseries, worth its own entry because it's way more general and all-encompassing than I anticipated. It seems to go for specific days as well, days when there seems to be little movement except the demands of the ego to go accomplish. If you don't feel like it but want to - don't freak out. Let it all go, then see all things reorder themselves in the most magical way.

So, here's the wise bit of my day today: When you find nothing works out and you don't even know what should work out or why, try letting it go utterly as if in "don't care". Everything.Regardless of whether it's your passion or just a bunch of chores you can't get yourself to get to work on despite your (ego's) better judgment.

I found the self-inflicted pressures about certain tasks are often precisely what prevents them from being done. And the actual work of accomplishing is often next to nothing in hindsight, compared to the preinvestment of mental energy stalling and biting your teeth out on them.

Recognizing when nothing works still is the main difficulty but with this hack I feel more capapbale of trusting that things will flow again, purely speaking from sheer experience.