Blessings and welcome to the Path to Freedom.
My name is Daniel Rochillo and as always I'm deeply grateful and honored that you're choosing to join me and that you're choosing to participate in a moment of expanding our consciousness and a moment of raising our vibration.
And so thank you so so much for being here,
For saying yes to spending a few moments with me.
Today's theme is the art and practice of surrender.
The art and practice of surrender.
And surrender may have a bad rep to some individuals.
Some individuals perceive surrender to mean to give up,
To acquiesce or submit,
To yield,
To wave the white flag,
You know?
Laying flat out on the floor and allowing something or someone to walk all over you,
To admit defeat.
But that's not what surrender means really.
At least not the way I perceive it.
To me surrender is merely realizing and acknowledging and recognizing that there is something infinitely more intelligent than I am.
There is a presence,
I call it God or Spirit,
And this presence knows all and sees all,
Which I definitely don't,
As I and all of us humans are,
Or many of us,
Are limited to our physical senses.
And so surrendering to me simply means that I realize that I'm wise to get my little self,
You know,
That self-egoic mind,
That monkey mind,
That seeks to convince us that we know what is best.
We know when something is to manifest.
We know how something is to manifest.
It is up to us to make it happen.
We know what is best for us.
We know what is best for another individual.
That narrow-minded,
Myopic consciousness.
So it's not an entity.
It's not a being within us.
It's merely a state of consciousness that we sometimes move in and out of,
And some of us are completely stuck there,
And some of us either have transcended it or are beginning to transcend it.
So surrendering means that we realize that we are not in charge,
But that we're wise to get out of the way and make ourselves open and available for guidance,
For that still small voice,
The voice of intuition,
To guide and move and lead us,
Forever forward,
Forever onward,
Forever upward,
As that voice is intimately connected to the one mind,
The whole.
And we can call it God,
We can call it Spirit,
We can call it infinite intelligence,
We can call it the divine matrix,
Or the unified field,
Or infinite love,
Or we can call it the universe,
Or we can call it whatever we want to call it.
But it is not,
It is something that is infinite,
Omnipresent,
Eternal,
Omniscient,
Which means that it knows all and it sees all.
There is to know and see.
And the thing is that many of us are surrendering on a daily basis to so so much.
We're surrendering to our bodies,
Trusting that they know how to breathe,
That they know how to extract the oxygen out of the air.
We're surrendering to our bodies,
Digesting the food that we eat.
And we're surrendering to our bodies,
Trusting that they will take care of themselves,
That they will rejuvenate,
Regenerate,
Heal themselves,
Allowing us to fulfill our missions and duties.
And we surrender to electricity,
Trusting that when we need electricity to plug in the computer,
Or turn on the stove,
Or the washing machine,
Or the vacuumer,
Or the lights in the house,
Or whatever else it may be,
That electricity is there.
We're surrendering to it.
We're not picking up the screwdriver,
Picking every socket apart to make sure that it's gonna work when I switch on the light.
But we trust that when we switch on the light,
Electricity is gonna be there.
And we're surrendering to nature,
Fully trusting that the trees and the bushes that we planted in some past moment,
That they have it in themselves to,
You know,
Keep expanding,
To bring forth fruit,
Apples,
Oranges,
Lemons,
Bananas,
Pineapples,
Or whatever the case may be.
So we're surrendering on so many levels all of the time.
But there's something about us.
There is something about us humans when it comes to the words me,
Mine,
And I.
Whenever these are involved,
It's like our inherent ability to surrender is thrown out the window,
And we begin to take charge.
And the equivalent,
The metaphor would be us being in a cab.
So we've called a cab,
The cab arrives,
We get in,
We tell the cab driver where we want to go,
And then as the cab driver pulls out from the curb,
For whatever reason,
We stop trusting.
So we throw ourselves toward the cab driver trying to pry their fingers and their hands off of the steering wheel so that we can take over.
And we're in the city where we've never been before,
So we don't have a clue as to how to get to our destination.
The cab driver was born and raised in this city,
So he or she knows exactly which way to go.
But we just arrived,
We're coming from the airport,
We've never been to this city.
But still,
We feel the urge and the need to take over,
To take charge,
To make it happen.
And this would be the opposite of surrender.
Surrendering would be trusting that the cab driver knows how to get us from point A to point B.
Not surrendering would be tossing the cab driver out of the car so that we can get ourselves from point A to point B,
Even though we have not the slightest idea of how to get to point B.
We don't even know where we are.
Or sitting in a plane,
You know,
10,
000 feet up,
And in a spare moment,
We tried to take over the plane because we stopped trusting the pilot,
Who's doing a mighty fine job of getting us from our place of departure to our place of arrival.
So when it comes to me,
Mine,
And I,
We toss that surrender down the drain.
But we are so wise to come back to surrender,
Which does not mean that we give up our free will.
Not at all.
We still get to choose,
We still get to choose.
But we're relying,
We're leaning into an infinite intelligence,
We're leaning into an infinite mind that knows nothing of past,
Present,
And future.
But that only knows now.
That knows every single possibility.
Every single possibility.
And so we are wise to tune in to that still small voice,
Giving it permission to guide and lead and move us.
Even when perhaps we're being guided and moved and led in a way that we perceive to be non-logical.
When it doesn't make sense for us to go right when everybody goes left.
Or for us to speed up when everybody slows down.
Or whatever guidance it is that we catch.
So that is the foundation of the art of surrender.
The next session will be a follow-up and we will go even deeper into the art of surrender.
Into the four dimensions of surrender.
Where we get to surrender the what,
The how,
The when,
And even the why.
So thank you so so much for tuning in,
Thank you so so much for participating.
Until the next time,
I bless bless bless your day and I bless bless your way.
Your beautiful,
Magnificent,
Radiant,
And powerful being.
Namaste.
