Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - Finding The COURAGE To Let Go With Kute Blackson Transformational Teacher & Best Selling Author Episode 231

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

In This Episode You Will Learn About:  Breaking down the process of surrendering  The misconceptions around “giving up”   Why your ego is holding you back Letting go of control  Resources: Website: kuteblackson.com  Read You Are The One & Magic of Surrender  FREE Reinvent Online Seminar   Attend The Boundless Bliss event  Listen to Soul Talk  LinkedIn & Youtube: @Kute Blackson  Twitter & Instagram & Facebook: @kuteblackson Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com  If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes:  Surrendering is NOT easy. Most people never open up to their TRUE selves in order to surrender and let go of whatever is holding them back! Inspirational speaker and transformational teacher, Kute Blackson is here to help us embrace the new, and let go of the past. When you surrender and give things up you don’t get LESS, you get MORE! Allow yourself to release control and STOP limiting yourself by listening to your ego. Instead, start paying attention to your soul, and move with LOVE.  About The Guest: Kute Blackson is a beloved inspirational speaker on a global scale, a transformational teacher, and the winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden award! He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a select group of one hundred of the world’s foremost authorities in the personal development industry. Blackson is widely considered the next generation’s leader in the field of personal development, with a simple mission of awakening and inspiring people across the planet to access inner-freedom, live authentically, and fulfill their life’s purpose!      If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: Why NOW Is The Time To Take A Leap Of Faith With Annabelle DeGrazio, CEO & Founder of Taja Collection Episode 197 AWAKEN To Your True Self & Rewrite Your Story With Ian Morgan Cron, Bestselling Author & Enneagram Teacher Episode 185 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's a death of something. And so to truly move on into, I'm gonna embrace you. You have to be willing to grieve for the old. And most of us never truly let ourselves grief and we wanna move on and surrender. And that's why we can't open our hearts to surrender because we're not truly letting go, and grieving, and honoring what was. I'm on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are

going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my close time. Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet my guest today. They say when the student is ready, the teacher appears that is the case today. We've got Koot Blackson. He's a beloved inspirational speaker, transformational teacher. He speaks at countless events. He organizes around the world,

as well as outside events, including the YPO and EO. He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a select group of one of a hundred of the world's foremost authorities in the personal development industry. Winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award, Laxon is widely considered. A next generation leader in the field of personal development, his mission is simple. To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfill their true life's purpose.

Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. Okay, I want to get right into your book, Surrender, okay? Because I, in the person, I am the type A overachiever my entire life, and I want to wrap my head around the idea of Surrender, but I don't even know where to begin. Am I crazy or do you hear this all the time? No, I think it's quite normal, to be honest. I would say you'd be more crazy if you, if we start the conversation by saying, yeah, it's when it's easy. I love to run, it's a piece of cake.

That would be more unusual. I think more normal. And I would break down why we can go deep into why that is. So it's really, you know, it's probably you in 7.4, 999, other billion people on the planet have that experience. But yeah, look, surrender, I'm really excited about the theme of surrender.

I'm really passionate about it. For me, it's a calling. This was not the book I thought I was gonna write. So for disclosure, I had to surrender to the book that was seeking to be written because I wanted to write a whole different kind of book. I wanted to write a book that sells the book that I thought would sell a book I thought would be best a book I thought people would want because when you say surrender people tend to go shit and run away. it was the book that was seeking to be written. So when I surrender to that, everything floats. So for me, surrender, I believe, is actually the most powerful thing that we can do. I just want to start off there. Surrender, I think, is the key to your next level. Surrender is the real secret to authentic manifestation. Surrender is the password for freedom. If you look at the great ones, and so if you type A. Achievers out there, you look at the truly great ones. Jesus, Buddha, Bruce Lee,

Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King. I mean, there are say Elon Musk. On some level, they all surrendered themselves and in the surrender to a deeper vision, in their surrender to the universe, to life, to their deeper calling, they were able to transcend their own ego's human limitations and they tapped into another dimension of potential, another dimension of power.

And I believe that's when they were able to access the greatness and life was able to use them in ways that perhaps was beyond what they even imagined for themselves. And so there's so many misconceptions I think in our culture today that surrender is weak, that surrender is passive, which is why we're afraid of surrender. Surrender means giving up, waving the white flag, selling everything moving to the Himalayas. So who the hell wants to do that? Surrender means being a victim, being left behind,

being a doormat, being taken advantage of, that if you surrender, you won't manifest your goals, you into desires, you're gonna be homeless, you're gonna be broke. If you surrender, you're gonna get less than in life. And I'm actually saying no. If you surrender, what if you didn't get less, but you got, you got more, more than you could actually imagine and project with your mind, with your will, with your personality,

with your ego's capacity to create your life. Because the mind and the ego, which we can talk about too, is limited in its ability to see what's too, is limited in its ability to see what's possible, is limited in its ability to see what is beyond. And so, surrender is a letting go of control, or I should say, the illusion of control, because we think we're in control, and even we think we're in control many times we're really not, we just have the illusion. And so control is the master addiction. And it's the ego strategy to try to control everything because the ego is job is to is what we think we are, what we've been conditioned that we are. The ego's job is to reinforce his existence, to keep us safe and prevent us from getting hurt

again like we were hurt when we were children. And so that's what we tend to control everything, that if I can control everything, then I'll never be hurt ever again. And so it's so limited. And it ends up limiting us. And often we end up being controlled in the drive to control. So, surrender is letting go of control in a sense, controlling everything. It's a letting go of trying to force and manipulate life to fit into. Once again, our limited idea of how we think it should be is limited because when we say goals just from the ego in the mind, we're not able to see that amazing infinite possibilities. We just see a small perspective and we get so attached to what we think we want. We get so attached to our

goals, our dreams and desires. Like, no, it's not to be this. No, this person has to be the one. And maybe they're not, but in our effort to force something to be, we don't realize we're limiting the universe, we're limiting the infinite, we're limiting the divine, we're limiting nature, we're limiting life. And so surrender is taking the limitations of life is letting go of the idea of who we think we should be, how we think life should be so that we can be truly available, truly open to allow to be receptive, to allow the life that is authentically seeking to happen to reveal itself. And it doesn't mean that you sit there and do nothing for the type of folks out there.

It doesn't mean you sit there, my arm's surrendered, I'm just gonna sit on the couch and like sales are going to magically happen. I'm surrendered, I'm gonna sit on the couch and like my soulmate's gonna just knock on my door from the middle of nowhere. No, surrender means feeling, it's a shift from the question, just to kind of complete the context. The old ego-based model of creating life is what do I want, what do I want, what do I want,

and it's forced right, what do I want, pushing, pushing, forced right. The challenge is ego is limited. You can create life from the ego, but it will always be limited. The shift in the question is from what do I want to a bigger question, it's an infinite question, and that question is, what is it that life? What is it that the universe? What is it that my soul? What is it that life is seeking to express through me and to feel what that is, to feel

the deepest impulse of what life is seeking to express and to feel that, to attune to that, to align with that. And then once you're in alignment, you're like, this is what's true. This is what is in my integrity, this is what's authentic, then you can align your thoughts, your feelings, your strategy, your planning, your go get a personality, your actions, now in alignment with what's authentic,

rather than chasing something that is really not real, not authentic, yeah. And so it might mean when you surrender that you work harder than you ever worked. But what you're working for is, you know, like, you think Jesus did a work hard. Do you think Bruce Lee didn't work hard? Do you think, but I lead it? Like, you think Mother Teresa was lazy and didn't work hard. They worked like 24 seven Mandela, Martin Luther King, nonstop 24 seven, but they were in alignment with the deposition

of what was true. And maybe like, let's look at Mandela, Mandela surrendered. That took into what, 26, 27 years in prison, somewhere kind of unexpected. So we could say, should he have not spent 26, 27 years in prison? Like, what if he didn't? Two things, would the consciousness of the world

have been ready for and rally behind him in the way that it did? And what he have developed, like to spend 27 years in prison, you have to go really deep in yourself. And so perhaps that was the universe's way of preparing him to develop the mental, emotional, spiritual soul force that he could come out and be that empathetic and visionary and compassionate to be able to move the world. So what if he did it? And so I think surrendering is that openness

of availability. This is so tricky and so contrary to how we live and then raise and then taught from our parents, just culture, society, what's the right thing to do? I built my entire life, I built a lot of success in my career in corporate America, from the grind, from the eye control it. And if I can't, I'll go out and find another way to control it.

And I can make it happen. And it worked for a long time, okay, for a long time, until it didn't. And I know you talk about this a lot. Most people want a surrender when they hit rock bottom. That's what happened to me. Right, I got fired from my C-suite job unexpectedly. Single mom all of a sudden I had nothing. I felt like I had nothing and I had to basically throw my arms up and say, where do I go now? I don't know what to do.

I will, I didn't call that surrender, right? I don't even, I still don't even really understand it well enough, even though I've studied you so much. It's not tangible enough. It's for me, right? But I'll tell you, the series of events that occurred when I maybe sort of surrendered in some way is incredible. There you go. There you go. I've been fired, but I toggle back and forth between the natural. It's natural. It's awful. It's awful. No, no, it's part of the process of life. You're like, you're so uncorse. Just no.

Here's what I would say. Part of surrender isn't just, oh, I'm fully surrendered now. I read the Magical Surrender. No, part of real surrender is the ability to not even force yourself to surrender. Like, I'm gonna make myself surrender because this becomes another ego strategy to control the process of surrender, which then keeps you doubly screwed, doubly not surrendered. So now that I eat us as surrender,

I'm gonna control surrender. Now you're doubly stuck. So if you can just even begin by recognizing, I'm not freaking surrendering right now. I'm doing my control thing right now, and I'll explain why. Wow, okay, observe that. And rather than forcing and judging, and like, what's wrong with me, if you can just surrender to the fact

that in this moment you're not surrendering, that's actually a deeper level of surrender, where you can be with, wow, I'm not surrendered right now. And I don't have to judge my, just notice that and be with that and acknowledge that. And surrender to that, you may not be fully surrendered in this moment. And it's okay. And if you can just meet yourself in that space with a bit of compassion, then they can be a relaxation rather than surrender, surrender. But no, surrender, I need to surrender.

No, I just need to be sure. I'm just like, I'm not surrendered right now. Let me, and let me just be with that. So here's the thing, I think this might help as well. I'm going to kind of break down the anatomy of why we don't surrender. And I think this understanding will really help. What I'll say actually before you that is life is a process of surrender. So on some level, you can't not surrender is just how you're going to go about that. Are you going to part how you're going to participate with the

process of life that is happening because the moment you're born, we begin to age, when then we turn 50, 60 hair falls out, that out, you can't turn back to surrender. Then we die. We can surrender now, we can surrender tomorrow, we can surrender at the moment of death, those that believe in another lifetime. We're going to surrender, so surrender is the process of life. And so here's what happens, and why it's difficult for us as human beings. Well, I should say, why surrender seems difficult? And I'm going to say why it seems in a second. It seems difficult.

And to a degree, it is. But here's why. You have a kid, you mentioned you have a kid. As children, we're born free. Like when your kid is born, they're just like these light beings of divine energy. They're not right. They're just being light, being pure.

They're kind of surrendered. They poop when they feel like pooping and they don't just themselves, oh, what's wrong with me, I'm pooping. They cry when they feel like, right? But why did I cry? I'm waking my mother up. They're just being whatever they're being, right?

And your pissed off upset type, they're just still just Googling and smiling and they're surrendered to whatever it is that's happening, whatever it is that they are, they'll run, they'll bang their head, they'll cry, they're never over it and they move on. They're not still four days later thinking about, oh, the time I bang my head four days ago on that coffee table, they're just in the natural flow of living the flow of the essence. They're surrendered. So what happens?

We were all that free once, but what they all happened to us all as human beings as we hit 20 and 30 and 40. We incarnate and we were born into a preset pattern of conditioning. We met our parents. Our parents are conditioned based on their childhood and their parents and their parents and ancestral.

Now we're born into an ancestral conditioning from our generations. And maybe dad was an alcoholic, maybe mom had mental health issues, maybe they were fighting over time, maybe those trauma abuse dysfunction in the family, maybe they were great people, but they just didn't know how to meet our emotional needs. And that was painful. So two things happened in terms of why and how ego, ego which is the source of resistance, why ego gets created. If we understand this, it can shift your relationship.

The first thing is, we begin as children, unconsciously to learn a defense mechanism strategy to shut down disconnect and not feel the pain that's going on around us. So we start suppressing, suppressing, suppressing, suppressing, suppressing, suppressing layers and layers of unthought feeling, anger, hurt, pain, guilt, shame, fear, helplessness. We start suppressing that in order to function and survive, layers and layers of unthought feeling begin to build up and out true light, out true essence gets kind of hidden and buried underneath the unthought layers of emotion.

And also in that we learn all sorts of defense mechanisms and strategies in order to not feel. So now we become, we erect walls around our heart. This is survival mechanism, walls around our heart. We begin to disconnect, we begin to shut down, we begin to analyze, go into our minds, we begin to go into like overachieve a mo because if I can overachieve, then I don't have to deal

with my feelings, I don't have to feel helpless, I don't have to feel, you know, whatever it is that we're feeling often is helplessness is pain. So now we become this thing, this defensive mechanism thing that we hold on to tightly and now we're driving life this way. It worked for us when we were five. And we become this thing, we hope tightly onto that in order

to never feel that pain again. Work for us when we were 5, but now we're 25, we're in a relationship, and now we're doing the same thing. Now we're 35, and a relationship doing the same thing, and that defense mechanism is holding on ego, holding on. We're holding on so tightly to that we are being in order to never feel that pain again. Hence, we are controlling who we're being and how we're being. And if we think if we can control all these elements, I'm never going to feel how helpful, listen, how painful it was when I was five and seven, et cetera, et cetera.

So if we can just understand, that's how ego starts getting created. Ego, which is the source of resistance, is not a thing. Ego is a process. Ego is a process of identification. Identification with ourselves as name, form, body, with ourselves as that way of being.

So for instance, as children, we learned also, ah, who do I need to be in order to get love, validation, and approval from my parents? Oh, for me, as a kid, I'm a preaches kid. I learned, oh, if I'm responsible, if I get all A's, if I'm good, if I take care of everyone, if I smile, if I'm nice, if I never have feel negative, everybody loves me, shit.

Let me just do more of that. So, I disconnected and betrayed possible. I said, so we learned to develop also roles, masks, personas, and identity that we learn to become, that we think now we can taught ourselves to be this person, coops, right, or John or Sue Sardang or whatever our name is, we learn to become this person and we hold so tightly onto that that gets reinforced by teachers and parents, society and those around us. We think that's who we are, the version of ourselves that we've been catapulting in condition to be, to avoid pain and get love. And now we've

become this persona, the overachiever, the successful one, the driven one, the whatever, whatever you want to call the independent one. Like, and so now we become this person, we hold so tightly onto that and we think that's who we are, but it's not. It's just what we've been conditioned to be to survive. And that holding on is the survival mechanism of what painting get loved. When we recognize, so we have to realize that we are conditioned. And we're not who we think we are really. And that's why we often hear a limitation in our adulthood.

That's what got us to that point cannot get us to that next level, cannot get us to that level of true authentic greatness to fulfill our true soul's destiny. It gets us to the point, but we end up reaching the edge of the egos who we think we are, egos, we end up reaching the end of the egos capacity to manifest life. And that's often why we have a breakdown. That's often why we get fired in the spiritual context.

That's often why these events happen in life to break us down, to force us to surrender, not because we're doing anything wrong, but to force us to surrender so that we can go deeper and crack open and find who we really are. So ego isn't bad. When we realize, ah, what's stopping me from living in a flow is my ego. But I'm not my ego. It's my conditioning. And the degree to which we identify with ourselves as ego is the degree to which we are

sometimes afraid of surrendering because it feels like oh shit if I surrender, I am dying and it's terrifying for the ego. So if we can realize that and then have compassion for ourselves like oh what's resisting and what's doing this dance? It's not me. It's just some of my conditioning. And I'm not my conditioning. And I don't have to judge it. I don't have to fight.

I don't have to force it, beat it into submission of surrender. Maybe I can just meet that with some love. Maybe I can just meet my, if we can see ourselves doing our dance, then maybe I can see it has a positive intention to try to get me love. Oh my God, it's like terrified of being heard again. So I'm doing this dance. And if we're able to see that and have the empathy and then meet ourselves with love, compassion and mercy and kindness, so that when we are afraid, when we are acting out, when we are doing our thing, then we can hold ourselves and say, hey, it's okay, you know, it's that loving,

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So just first, that is that understanding the nature of ego. That's, I think, why we don't surrender. That begins the anatomy of understanding why we are doing this, right? And so in terms of the phases of surrender, at first we are often, let's say unconscious, we're just doing what we're doing, living what we're doing, thinking that we are,

this is me, this is life, and then we create life that we're often ends up limited in some way. We're unconscious. Maybe then we begin to become a little conscious, we start questioning, then maybe we start seeing, maybe there's a different way. And now we're going to denial, a bit more conscious denial. And so now we're living a bit more in denial.

Then the next phase is we realize, maybe there's more to life than what I'm doing. Maybe there's more to me than what I've been living. Maybe who I am, maybe someone listens to your podcast and they're like, maybe who I am is not who I really am. And I need to question who I am. We're afraid to question who we are because I don't shit if I question who I am and who the hell am I, ego freaks out starts resisting. And so that next phase from denial is resistance. That's why we're resisting because it feels like who would I be if I'm not what I am and what

I think I am, which is not really what I am, but like who will I be? So resistance is a natural egoic human response. Okay. There's normal, completely normal. Most of us resist our entire lives and then we die, right? And so resistance is natural. To meet that with compassion and empathy and love is the key to melt that resistance

so that we can then allow ourselves to feel some of the pain, those feelings, those emotions, the pain, the hurt, the fear. So we can start feeling those feelings and releasing those feelings because as we heal and release some of those feelings that we have been trained to suppress from childhood, then we no longer have to stay in ego to hold on to not feeling

those feelings again. And that's where the transformational process is, that's what the transformational healing process is really about where the therapist, with the guide, with the coach, through seminar, et cetera, et cetera. So feeling those feelings. So now we're in resistance. After resisting, what we tend to do as in the next phase of surrender is we start negotiating. Well, maybe I can keep eating donuts in the morning and milkshakes and you know, big Macs and work out once a week and be healthy. You know, maybe my partner, even though they're abusive and they've been like this for 10 years and it's just terrible relationship, maybe if I change they'll change. Maybe, you know, they've got potential. So we start negotiating with life. Maybe if I change, they'll change. Maybe, you know, they've got potential.

So we start negotiating with life. Maybe when I'm 72, then I can finally launch that book and live my purpose. We end up negotiating our lives away so many of us and then we die. And that's a pain because when you negotiate with life and negotiate your destiny, to me, that is already living dead.

And so there reaches a point in that negotiation phase where we begin to me, that is already living dead. And so, there reaches a point in that negotiation phase where we begin to realize, no matter how much I negotiate, it's not changed you. I am what I am. I'm an alcoholic. My partner is what they are. This is the situation. It is what it is. And so now we start getting into reality. That is a necessary face. What helps in this face to really move into reality is the willingness to tell the truth. One of the things that keeps us stuck from truly surrendering are all the lies that we tell ourselves.

We stay in relationships that we know aren't right for whatever the reason. We work jobs that we know is not the true expression of our soul's purpose out of fear, out of safety, out of comfort kills us and so to me there is no real surrender, there is no real healing, there is no true transformation without the truth. The truth will set us free. To me, truth is real spiritual practice, truth is real therapy, truth is real yoga. If we're willing to tell the truth, your entire life will begin transforming. So the question number one to start asking in this phase of acceptance is, well, lies in

my telling myself, to change reality, you have to see reality for what it is. See if for what it is, accept it for what it is. Be with it as it is exactly, not as you want it to be, not as it could be. This is what it is. I have an alcohol problem. This is what it is. I'm in a abusive talks relationship. This is what it is. I hate my job. No judgment, reality. The truth will set you free. So what lies am I telling myself step one? Sometimes we were afraid to tell ourselves the truth because we're afraid, oh shit if I tell myself the truth, what's the consequence. And so the ego in its in its steakiness starts playing a game of confusion. Well I'm not really sure if this relationship

is right, I don't know, maybe he can, maybe she can, maybe if we damn well know, it's not right, you know, in the moment we break up, I've had this experience where I was like, is she right, is she the one, is she not the moment I broke up, I told my best friend, I knew that was never gonna work. My best friend asked me, well when did you know? Literally, I remember those relationships were here. Literally, I made this woman at a parking lot. My intuition said, no. Stay up, no. It was very subtle. And sure enough, I went on a date, we ended up in a relationship. It was the disaster. I knew, I knew, you know, I knew there's a part of us

that knows everything deep down because at the deepest level, we're connected to everything. And so the ego plays this game of confusion. And so we have to look at what lies in my telling myself, what am I pretending to not know? But when we ask ourselves the question around truth, you have to want the truth more than you want what you have. You have to want the truth more than you want what you think you want. To real freedom isn't free. It requires that you let go of what's no longer aligned, what's no longer working, and that's where the next level of our life. To go to the real next level,

real level of super achieving. Like to me Mandela was a super achiever. That was not a life that you could have strategized and planned. It went beat. That's like true super human achievement. In surrender, that's what's possible beyond your imagination, beyond what you can imagine for yourself. And so we have to be willing to just acknowledge the truth. And I tell people, be willing to actually take the pressure off of yourself from having to take any action. Take the pressure off. You don't have to take any action, but just tell the truth. Because sometimes the fear of taking action clouds our judgment, the ego's judgment and we pretend to not know. So okay, I don't have to take

action. What does that mean? I hate my job. You don't have to leave. Maybe you have kids and did it. I hate my job. Let that begin marinating. It will start a process in sorry. I'm no longer in love with my partner, with my wife, with my husband, with my boyfriend, you don't have to break up. Just let the truth marinate. It will begin a process. So, well, I'm telling myself, what am I pretending to know? And what is the pain? What is the cost of the lie I'm telling myself? When we tell ourselves a lie, we betray our truth. There is a cost and we will feel pain. It's meant to be painful when we lie to ourselves. It's not meant to feel good.

So I say, the pain is a blessing. The pain is a signal. The pain is feedback that we're not living an alignment. What we tend to do as human beings is we distract ourselves from the pain. We sex it away, drink it away, smoke it away, social media, either way We sex it away, drink it away, smoke it away, you know, social media, either way, work it away, you know,

travel it away, shop it away so that you don't have to feel the pain. And that just perpetuates the dynamic even more. And so third, they tell people, feel the pain of the misalignment. Not wanna win it, but just feel it. Don't deny it, just breathe it and feel that starts to process it.

So now we're in acceptance. Okay, this is what it is. This is the situation. This is what's going on. This is who my partner is. This is who my father is. This is who my kid is. Acceptance.

The next phase, people think of the acceptance, what now? A lot of people say stuck in acceptance, but acceptance isn't surrender. Surrender, real surrender is like, you can be an acceptance, like, okay, this is who my partner is. This is who my husband is. I don't like who he is. I'm a little pissed off that he's that way. I feel like I feel it's unfair and I'm going to hold back my love until they change, but I'm not going to leave, but I accept that this is what they are. And so sometimes we're like, I'm not playing, but I'm not going to leave, but I accept that this is what they are. All right? And so sometimes I'm not playing, but I'm going to be on the field, and you know, that's a form of acceptance, a toleration, shall I say. Trusser Render is the open-hearted participation of the process of life. Like when you roll your sleeves up and say, okay,

it's raining outside, it sucks that it's raining, I want it to go out with my kid, but let's let's go out and dance in the rain or let's invite the family in for a dinner and into a dinner at home and play games together and connect as a family and like let's make the best of this experience and use this experience rather than be used by this experience and so Surrender is the open-hearted participation to the process of life that's happening where you they require two things the belief and understanding that's happening, where it requires two things. The belief and understanding that life is always working for your highest good, even if you can't see it right now. There's number one.

Number two, the spiritual understanding that you and I, we are souls. We are souls having a human experience. And as souls having a human experience, we incarnate into the human experience in order to learn, to grow, to evolve. That life is a school for your soul's evolution. And every experience in life, bad, challenging, difficult, heartbreak, divorce, betrayal, everything is part of the curriculum for your soul's evolution. If you really get that, you stop seeing life as this happened, and that happened, And resisting you. You move to a deeper dimension of asking yourself to go, then you're able to surrender in the

experience, not necessarily to the situation, but in the experience to go, huh, what is my soul seeking to learn in this experience right now? That's the surrender. What is my soul seeking to learn from this messed up relationship? What is my soul seeking to learn from being fired? What is my soul seeking to learn in this situation? The surrender isn't just like, I'm going to sit here in this situation and be a victim and just do nothing. It's like, what is my soul seeking to learn

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and here is a secret to surrender. The most people miss. Most people never crack open to surrender because they missed the phase in the middle. The phase in the middle is grieving. Most people miss the phase of grieving because you see surrender is a death. It's a death of your ego. It's a death of who you thought you were. It's a death of like a phase of your life like wow, I'm no longer 20, I'm 30, I'm 40, I'm 50 Wow, it's a death of that phase of one's youth to a different phase of one's life. It's a death of a dream, a death of a job, right?

The death of maybe as a parent like your kid becomes 18, 20, moves on. It's a death of a role. It's a death of something. And so to truly move on into, I'm going to praise the you. You have to be willing to grieve for the old. And most of us never truly let ourselves grief. And we want to move on and surrender. And that's why we can't open our hearts to surrender

because we're not truly letting go, and grieving, and honoring what was. True grieving, and honoring what was, allows you to fully release and let go. The challenges in our culture we tend to avoid grief, we tend to avoid feelings like that, we tend to avoid that because we're afraid it will last forever, we're afraid it will never end. But if the thing I would just want people to know is all feelings are temporary, no feeling last forever, all feelings that we feel fully with awareness will begin

to dissolve. And grief happens in stages and in layers. And if we can feel the grief, then we can let those layers go. And I think one of the key things is around grieving, if you're able to take the label off of the grief, or any feeling, take the label off, don't even call it grief, that label off of the grief or any feeling. Take the label of, don't even call it grief. And just experience the sensation of their feeling in your body. This is like how to grief or how to feel. Experience the sensation in your body.

Wow, it's warm, it's hot, it's tight. If you really be with the sensation of the grief in your body and allow yourself to just be without getting rid of it, without forcing it away, without suppressing it, without judging it, and you be with it fully as a sensation, not as a, because many times we think that we're feeling a feeling, but we're thinking about the feeling, not really being with the feeling, so the feeling never dissolves, because we're busy thinking and analyzing. But we can feel the sensation, then the cycle of energy, if that sensation of feeling begins to dissolve, and that's how we begin, as we're with it, like, wow, then we let go.

So anyway, those are some thoughts. I like the real life example that you used of writing the book, right? That you actually had the surrender. Can you kind of walk us through what that situation was like for you when you realized you had the surrender and what you did? Yeah, I was sitting there brainstorming, strategizing in my, I was overachievant as to, I can relate to you,

but in my desire to like write this massive vassale and have an impact and, you know, number one, New York, one have you, and I was looking, okay, what are the best of the books out there? Okay, you know, the magical I've tied it up, right? We've all heard of that. Condo, Mary Condo, Condo, everything. Then I was like, okay, there's not a lot of not giving a F, right? Oh, that, that book. And

I was so checking out all these books, I thought, oh, let me come up with something really clever. And I was strategizing with my mind and my brain and, you know, but my editor, and we were brainstorming wrote literally hundreds of ideas on the whiteboard, all very intelligent, all very clever, all very sexy books I thought would sell, books I thought would be best set, books I thought my audience would want, books I thought that would, you know, grab people's attention and be best sellers and to be honest, when I looked at the list on this whiteboard, none of them felt authentic. None of them felt like they might make books one day and I might do them, but

none of them felt aligned. They none of them felt like, yes, this is what you're sold is here to do. And the only word that stood out on this white board that when I looked at it, I felt this, it's an energy, I felt this pull. So I invite people to feel how it feels in your body. Feel where you feel pulled, because that deeper pull is what we get to surrender to, because often we feel that intuition

or that deeper pull, that deeper poll often is arising not from your mind or your logical, your conditioning, but from the unconditioned dimension of your true being. It's your soul speaking to you. You know, like Mandela's soul was speaking to him. Gandhi's soul, like the soul is infinite. The mind is limited in conditions. So I imagine if I wrote a book, it would have been okay, but not not like how it is for the surrender book. And so I felt this

pull and I felt this pull and it's honestly it just felt it felt true. It felt true. And that's when I felt the feeling of all shit, that's the book. It's about surrender. And everything I had at first I resisted. I was like, no, I don't want to write a's about surrender. And everything I had at first I resisted. I was like, no, I don't want to write a book, but I surrender because who wants to surrender? And I'm like, and after my own ego kind of threw a bit of a tantrum, honestly, took a deep breath.

And I just had to acknowledge the truth. And the truth is none of those books feel right? That's the book that feels true. And in that moment, it was like a download and epiphany happened. I started seeing the book. I started understanding how my entire childhood, my entire life, had prepared me to write this book and deliver this somewhat complex topic

for the new generation. I started, like I thought, on fire with it, and it wasn't for money, it wasn't for fat, it was just like, this is the book that I was born to write, and everything came together. And I also saw that in a flashback in that moment that the seed of the book was planted a few years ago, that I wasn't even paying attention, and how that was was, in 2016, my mother was diagnosed with stomach cancer and she was the closest person to me on the planet. She was the reason I knew unconditional love in my lifetime. I mean, she was my everything. So for her to be diagnosed, it was like, you know, life has a way of humbling you when you're in your highest moments. And when she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, I started flying back and forth between LA

and London every month for a week to be with her. And I would sit with her in chemo, I would hold her hand, we would have tea together, all the things I hadn't done since I was in my teens before I left for LA. And after the initial realizing she's not going to make it, I thought a lot of deep regret feeling the sense of like, shit, why did I wait till she was dying to take this time? There's so much more I wanted to do with my mom and why did I wait?

And what started out as the worst of my life turned out to be really the best of my life, because I got to just be with her and experience with her and surrender to the process with her. And every moment became precious. Every moment, like I was so driven to get to some destination that I realized I missed all these moments, like all these moments of just sitting and having tea with my mom, all these moments of like washing my mom, washing dishes, all these moments of just sitting in the park and throwing bread to the ducks, because I didn't have time. It was so sacred because I thought this could be the last time I ever hold my mother's hand again.

This could be the last time I ever see her wash dishes again. My mother was Japanese, was Japanese, was Japanese, so she would make this sort of homemade sushi. And I thought this is the last time I could see her do that again, or drink a cup of tea again. And the preciousness of the moment, it was like surrendering to the moments. And every moment, not just the destination, then the doctor said, and I think this is where the book was planted. The doctor said about six months into the process, I got to be with her for a year, almost a year, which was a huge blessing, because some people don't get that. The parents just die in a car accident, that's it. And so I'm very grateful for that.

And the doctors basically told us you're going to die, so get your affairs in order. It could be, it could be days, weeks, maybe months, but definitely not years. And so I had been making peace with this, but the reality is, you know, something else. And I remember feeling really hardbroken in that moment. And in the parking lot, I was in the car with my mom and I had turned to my mom. Like, wow, I'm not going to see her. This is it. And I looked to her and asked her two questions.

I said, are you afraid? And this little Japanese woman looks me in the eyes. I tell you, and she says, no, I'm not afraid. Clear this day. I'm not afraid. Because I know I'm not this body. Because this body is just a temporary vehicle for my soul. And I'll be with you from the other side. So don't worry. And I was like, wow, like the level of her conviction, you know, it was like

in the, like it's one thing to know when life is good, but when you're about to die and you still have that, it was powerful. So I said to her, mom, is there anything I can do for you in your final days to make your life easier? Like I wanted to be a good son. What do you need? What do you want? And she said, this is working the seed of the book was planted. She said, Sona, there's nothing I need and there's nothing I want.

All I want is what God wants for my life. And that was not, wow. And then that moment I realized that she was free. She was free, not dependent on anything in life. She was free because she surrendered. She wasn't attached to living. She wasn't attached to living. She wasn't attached to dying.

She was truly open to the highest good for her soul's journey. I mean, truly open to that. And in that was her freedom. And I realized this is why she didn't cry. This whole year, emotional woman, didn't cry, didn't complain, didn't feel like a victim. She was at peace.

And I really, I got surrender in that moment in life, how it's lived in daily life. I saw it in the face of my mother, you know, and it was a really profound moment. So that's kind of how the book came about and it wasn't expected, you know, wasn't expected. Like nothing about the book was expected. The publisher showed me the book cover.

At first I was like, hell no, that's not the book cover. And then I had to surrender and I thought, that's the book cover, you know, the title of the book. When I wrote the book I was working with my editor and again, I was trying to come up with sexy titles. We had hundreds of sexy titles. I mean, if I told you the book, I was working with my editor. And again, I was trying to come up with sexy titles. We had hundreds of sexy titles. I mean, if I told you the titles, some of them are so funny.

And we came up with this time, Magica Srinos. I was like, I have to be easy. No, no, it's gonna be, and it was like no. Like the book had a soul of its own, an intelligence of its own. And I think if we're willing to trust, life has an intelligence of its own. It has a magic of his own. And I think if we're willing to trust life has an intelligence of his own. It has a magic of his own. Life has been around for billions of billions of years.

It has an intelligence. And so if we look at the best things in our life that have happened, we did not plan them. They just happened, oh, I'm going to plan to meet my son made at this time and you know, on the coffee. It just happens. If you look at the things that didn't go according to plan and see how some of many of them turned out better than you could have imagined. As someone might say, no, but I was homeless, I lost my everything. Yeah, but if you look at even the worst thing that happened that you thought was the worst thing in the moment, because from the ego's perspective, we're not able to often see why

something is happening in the moment, only in retrospect. But sometimes even I wasn't the happen that forced maybe someone to move home or to move countries or to what have you. In the moment, look like the worst thing, but then a decade later, we start seeing, well, if that didn't happen, I wouldn't have ended up over here, over here and met that person. So I think surrender is the willingness to allow life to lead us and allow life to show us because life has an intelligence and people obviously, well, how do I trust life? How do I trust life?

I'm like, how do you not trust life? Every moment of our life is proving to us. Like right now you and I, we're sitting here and we're breathing. We've been having this beautiful conversation and I'm breathing, you're sitting here and we're breathing. We've been having this beautiful conversation. And I'm breathing, you're breathing, everyone listening. It's breathing. We're not sitting here going, oh, how do I breathe? I got to do, I got to do, I got to breathe. It's just happened. And so what is it that is breathing us? Let's be with that. Let's meditate on the one thing.

Something is breathing us right now. And that same something that's breathing you, breathing me, breathing all existence, and that same life force, that same something that's breathing you is processing and functioning the trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of cells in your body, coordinating the liver and your kidneys, in your eyes and color and speech and sound

and brain waves and nervous system. I mean, and so many more complexities inside of us that we're not even, we're not even aware of the same intelligence of life is function the sound, the star, the moons, all of existence, whatever we want to call it, call it, whatever, but it's something and we're not trusted. Like you ate this morning, I ate this morning, whether I have, I had some cereal, some eggs, eat the cereal, my hand doesn't become cereal. There's an intelligence inside.

And so I think surrender is trusting this intelligence. So when there is trusting the innate intelligence that's inside of us to show us, to reveal itself. And I think when we do that, life has a way of, I have found, to me I call the book, The Magic of surrender, because life has a way, the magic is that which is beyond what we can imagine. We all want magic, I want magic, who wants magic,

I want some magic that which is beyond what I can imagine, but we don't want a surrender. We want to hold on to the old, but the next level of our life requires the next level of us, which requires letting go of what's no longer aligned. And often we don't realize that when we hold on, it's the holding on. We're the one that's blocking our bless. Like for instance, I was speaking to a client and they're like, I really want to manifest

my soulmate, this amazing juicy and live vibrant relationship that is staying in a toxic relationship and waiting for the soulmate to show up in order to let go. You know, how does that happen? And so surrender is letting go of what's not aligned. Letting go of what's not a long long go of vibration as because holding on is your affirmation of your lack of trust in the universe. And that's what you'll attract even more, right? When we let go, we're affirming universe, I trust you. I trust life. I trust the universe. As we let go, we shift our vibration. We raise our vibration, we bring ourselves into more alignment with what we do on, and we unclutter our energy system and

our lives to create the space for new blessings. And yes, I will say you will lose people when you surrender. You will lose things when you surrender, but what I will say is who you lose and what you lose was not truly an alignment with your highest anyway. Because what is truly yours will be yours and cannot not be yours. And what is not yours can never be yours even if you try to force it. I'm gonna replay the last five minutes there,

probably 100 times, too. I'm so grateful that you wrote this book, The Magic of Surrender, it is so needed. It's literally speaking truth into me right now. Tell us how can we find the book and how can we find you? Thank you so much. The book is available on Amazon.

So as of May the 3rd, the paperback version came out on Amazon. So I would just say go get the paper back because it has some cool things in it too. And then I'm going to do something special for those that get the paper back. I bid a free live event on May the 14th. I'm going to give people access to the replay.

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