Happiness is Surrendering

Most of us women have a hard time with this word, surrender (and I expect it’s foreign to most men). I know I have had my own tug of war with it. I want to fall back and trust that I will be caught, but so often I just want to turn around and go into a push-up position myself because I can do it myself.

Surrendering.

What in the heck is happy about that, you might ask?

Well, at the core of it, we’re truly happy when we trust that everything in our lives is going to work out, even if we can’t see how.

We come to that trust by surrendering.

I recently heard an explanation of surrendering that really worked for me: it’s the act of letting go of what no longer serves us so the good stuff can show up easier (and faster, I’ll add).

If that’s what surrender is, why in the world wasn’t I doing it earlier? Before, surrendering seemed like giving up on something I truly wanted or some power-based notion that I didn’t have enough power to make something happen on my own. Surrendering was a disempowering act in my old world view.

But that is changing.

I recently did the inconceivable. I placed my first book—a book I had spent over four years working on—for free. Imagine doing something like this, especially when writing is your livelihood. I had been guided to do this earlier, but I couldn’t at that time. But it still kept coming up, so I firmed up my resolve and followed my heart. I surrendered the book and all of its messages to the ultimate good of all.

And do you know what happened? Tons of new readers are resonating with NORA ROBERTS LAND and reading the rest of my books. Who knew that the act of making something free could bring in such abundance?

There’s a link, folks. Play with this one for the next week and see where it takes you. Is there something you’ve been holding onto, trying to force this way or that? How about a gentle surrender? Bring a little happiness into the situation instead of chronic anxiety?

Who knows? It might just change your life. My act of surrender has.

 

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