Today I encourage you to try an experiment in surrender and non-resistance. Keep your experiment simple and try not to contaminate it with memories of similar experiments that failed to bring the outcome you wanted. Let this be a fresh experiment. Pick just one day to not resist any of the day's unfolding. Give up any struggles with others, with objects, with yourself, including any news and information on the Pandemic that you may hear. Trust that this day you can relax. If there's something unexpected that you need to take action on, you will know what to do. Relax.
Give up your complaints. Give up automatic, judgmental interpretations. Assume neutrality, if not an outright positive reaction. Assume there is a thread of a larger reality, that you trust, that is woven through this particular day. This day you have chosen to let that thread lead you and that means getting out of the way. Do what you need to do as part of the daily business of life, but relax into the day with a sense that for just this one time period you do not have to have things work your way. If it stays on your mind, you can voice a complaint or pronounce your judgment another day. This day, you can risk letting it go.
Non-resistance and surrender are not just about action but reaction, not just about doing or not doing, but about attitude and thoughts as well. Resistance does though impact the body, as it will automatically brace and tense to defend against what the mind and emotions resist. So the body is one of your cues or measures of how much you are struggling against the flow of life.
Take the time to let your muscles relax and a moment to breathe slowly and deeply as needed.
Even in meditation, it is a time to be led. Your inner life is as it needs to be right now. Even in sleep, you are being led. Life's intelligent, automatic release and renewal is taking place in sleep and does not need to be managed by you.
In the words of inventor Buckminster Fuller. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Perhaps with your experiment in spiritual non-resistance, a new model for your life will emerge. (Susan Nettleton)