Allowing Divinity to Work for You

When you observe your actions throughout the day, how often do you find yourself trying to “steer” the directions of specific desired outcomes? How much energy do you expend trying to “control” things that may or may not really be within your control? Do you ever launch a prayer or invocation only to follow it with checking up often to see if it's materialized yet?

Behaviors such as these are understandable. Many of us use our own wills or “yang” energies to get the job and major projects done, to make sure that every day operates as business-as-usual, to guarantee that the hectic juggling of caring for children and scheduling details all goes smoothly and everyone's whereabouts are accounted. There certainly is a time and place for this drive and energy.

AND, there is also a time to conserve our energy and let Divinity offer up the unlimited energies of the Universe as the power source to fuel you and keep you going. Here in the Silicon Valley, we are quite familiar with the story of burn-out—personal, work-related, or relationships. It's no wonder when we expend all our energy to keep up with the personal responsibility of what feels like making sure the world keeps going 'round, our systems and bodies get to a point where there is just nothing left to give. There must be Divine Balance between giving and receiving. Just as the battery of a cell phone loses its charge until the phone gets plugged in to a power source and replenished, so do our bodies, systems and souls require the same recharging and revitalizing.

How does one get to this place of greater surrender? For, surrender, faith and trust is really what we're talking about here. It's really a chicken-and-egg scenario: you can choose to keep trying to use your own energy to control everything, and wait to make sure that the outcomes are the way you so desire before you decide to then surrender, have faith and trust. Or, you can choose to take a leap of surrender, faith and trust, and then watch everything unfold before your eyes. Which one feels better to you? Which one feels like less of an expenditure of energy on your part?

Place your faith in Divinity and in God's Hands. Focus on the big picture, on the end goal. What do you ultimately choose to have in your life? God wants nothing more, nothing less for us than what we want for ourselves. It is our own limiting beliefs, the restrictions we put on ourselves, that blocks us from receiving God's greatest gifts marked just for us. God knows what we need before we even know what to ask for. The issue is our receptivity.

Get clear in your mind about what you allow yourself to have. Identify any limiting beliefs and obstacles that make you think “you can't have it” or “you can only have a little but you can't really have it all.” Then, surrender it. Let go and place it all in God's Hands. Let God, Divinity, the Universe do all the work. Let them figure out the details – how, when why, where, what resources, what timing, etc. All these are things that will be taken care of. Focus on the end goal, and then cut, detach, release yourself from the details. Do you really think the details are too difficult for God to handle? If God can create the magnificence that is this Universe, He certainly could take on the task of helping us manifest one or two goals, right?

When things materialize, we give thanks of deep gratitude. When things have yet to materialize, we go even deeper into our surrender, faith and trust that there is a Higher Plan for us. What we may think we need may still be too limiting. God may have even bigger plans for us, if we are patient and wait for the right and proper timing. Think back to some of the things that have or have not unfolded in our pasts. Hasn't everything worked out thus far? We're still alive. We're still going. We may even acknowledge that something we really wanted back then and didn't get was a blessing, because something even better, even more right was waiting for us in the future. Even some of the most difficult and traumatic times—the death of a loved one, for example—have brought us gifts to live by. If we're willing to acknowledge and receive them.

When we sit back and let God into the driver's seat, our lives become easier. God wants us to have easier lives. But it is our divine choice as to whether we choose the path of suffering or the path of easiness. Either way, God doesn't care. It is all our choice.

Pranic Healing Northern California, in affiliation with U.S. Pranic Healing Center | pranichealing.ncalif@gmail.com