Stay the Course and Surrender!

Today’s challenges may have many of us feeling stretched to our limit. It is during these times that our overall personal wellness starts to wan and our ability to cope is easily threatened. If you are currently experiencing any type of challenge, take heart dear one, you are not alone and help is a lot closer than you might think.

For the past few months, while navigating through several challenges of my own, I kept hearing the word surrender and the phrase stay the course. What made these words even more intriguing was the fact that several of my clients would make some type of reference to these ideas but had no clue what they meant or what they should do. Of course, I knew. God and the Universe were sending me confirmations that it was time to go on another journey, a journey of true surrender and faith.

As I pondered on my spiritual assignment, I remembered doing research on the phrase “stay the course” and found that it is a military phrase often used during times of battle or war. The phrase is a metaphor meaning that regardless of any challenge or obstacle one faces, the objective is to “stay constant and maintain an unaltering course while navigating life” [word and emphasis mine]. As I studied, “maintain an unaltering course” it became clear that my choice to stay on course or to falter, would eventually determine my final outcome. We all know this but sometimes we need a little, ok, a BIG reminder to help us get back to the basics of what we know is absolutely true.

As we continue, I would like to challenge you, my BraveHeart Sisters, to consider this truth that surrendering or yielding to our own internal power and authentic truth and staying the course spiritually is essential to creating life-changing present moment experiences, manifesting deep abiding abundance, and movement toward a higher purpose. With that, here is what I have re-learned about surrender, faith, and staying the course.

Surrender

Merriam’s Webster Dictionary defines surrender as 1 a: to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand b: to give up completely or agree to forgo especially in favor of another 2 a: to give (oneself) up into the power of another especially as a prisoner b: to give (oneself) over to something (as an influence) intransitive senses: to give oneself up into the power of another: YIELD synonym see RELINQUISH.

Often the act of surrendering is taken to mean something negative such as giving up our power to others or anything outside ourselves; however, I have come to re-realize that true surrender is the development of trust that everything happens for a reason and serves a much greater purpose than our present moment of frustration, confusion and pain. Please don’t get me wrong. Moment by moment experiences is necessary and powerful; however, they are just that…a moment. Yet, creating future moments in our present experiences can leave a legacy that echoes for an eternity. Remember that future moments have everything to do with the development of our current mindset. Our mindset is our beliefs, values, habits and character. During challenging times, these aspects of ourselves are threatened due to our external focus and/or viewpoint of life rather than on our spiritual internal focus and/or viewpoint of life.

When we choose to focus our attention internally or better yet spiritually, the absolute truth will always lead us to freedom, peace and abundance. We must make this conscious choice every day.

"Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot foresee the outcome." - Deepak Chopra

Have Faith

We are often encouraged to “have faith” yet many of us question the concept of faith and what it actually means. Again, according to Merriam’s Webster Dictionary, faith is 1 a : allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions 2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust 3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs. The Bible tells us that, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen” ~ Hebrews 12:1.

Ultimately, faith is an internal knowing (evidencing the possession of inside information) in all that is absolutely true. When I surrender to my faith, to all that is absolutely true, all things work together for good and I become convinced that God and the Universe want me to be and have the very best. It is in this knowing that the best MUST and starts to manifest.

Stay the Course

Earlier I mentioned that staying the course is a military term in reference to, “stay constant and maintain an unaltering course while navigating life” [word and emphasis mine]. At first glance when you read this phrase, you might be propelled toward performing some type of action. However, in truth I have come to believe that this powerful little phrase has a much deeper connotation connected to it. Defined, the word stay means to spend time with a person, a place/situation, or to rest. WOW! I am often amazed how the meaning of a word can dramatically change my understanding or the way I see things when I actually know the original definition of that word.

Now, if we apply the idea of resting to our state of surrender and staying in the course, everything changes. Rest literally means to be inactive, still, or at peace. In this place of rest or ease, things and life can move much more effortlessly. When we surrender and stay in the course of surrendering, we are open to experiencing life as processes of movement toward our higher purpose. Resting in our place of surrender means no worries, or anxieties, and no stress. True surrender means living from our spiritual knowing and allowing that truth to inspire and divinely guide our “activity.” In simpler terms, it means trusting that “it is what it is.”

In the next few weeks, may I encourage you to surrender to all that is true and already inside the very core of your being and watch as God, the Universe and life begin to reveal life abundantly.

Live Outrageously Well and Free,

Anita