We often think we know what we want.

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Logically, we can desire something specific.

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Perhaps to surrender to an experience.

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Yet somehow, we can't

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So we get confused.

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And we can ask ourselves, why it isn't working.

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Why can't we just have the experience we want?

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So we get upset.

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We might even blame someone else for not getting what we think we want.

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Or we could even end up blaming ourselves.

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Creating a story of something we did wrong and that's why it is not working.

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From the outside it might seem obvious.

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Someone could just say to us that we are not surrendering to the experience.

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And we then get mad.

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I want to surrender! we say to ourselves.

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Yet this type of surrender does not come from our head.

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The mind might convince us that this experience is what we really want.

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That it will be good for us.

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Still we find ourselves not dropping into the experience.

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Because the body knows something the minds doesn't.

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Our bodies have a far greater intelligence than our minds.

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And the body knows that we are not quite ready for that experience that we think we want.

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So the body moves slowly.

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More slowly than the mind.

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It is not until we allow the body time and space to catch up will it release control and surrender tot he experience.

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Or not.

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Sometimes the body knows that now is not the right time for the experience and it will just not surrender at all.

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Nothing the mind can do will force the body tot surrender.

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Maybe we can try a different approach.

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Next time we could try not being so attached to what we think we want and just trust the body.

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Trust the body will surrender at the right time.

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And that the experience we are having, even if it is not what we think we want, is exactly the experience we need to have at this moment.

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Surrendering to the moment requires a great deal of trust.

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Learning to trust in small things first before jumping to the big experience might serve us a whole lot better.

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Are you able to surrender to the moment?

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Do you find yourself judging the experience when it is not what you expected?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour