About Surrendering
Our yoga teachings remind us over and over about surrendering. We move through pigeon stretching and reaching from lumbar, to cervical, to crown, and then extend forward and surrender. We find comfort in child pose as we bend forward and surrender.
Surrendering doesn’t mean giving up, being lazy, or not trying. It is simply a level of awareness beyond the challenge of doing your best, having the ability to accept, and leaving the results in the hands of a higher power.
In these economic times our days are challenging, and our results are often frustrating. So many things are beyond our control that impact our finances, our employment, and our overall quality of life. We wonder why is this happening to me? What could I have done differently? 
Everything moves in cycles from beginning to end. In yogic teachings Hindu gods were associated with each phase - Brahma the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Mahesh-Shiva the destroyer. If we have reached a phase in some aspect of our lives where something has come to an end, whether it be positive investment returns, or a lucrative career we must accept that everything has it’s beginning, existence, and end. At that point, creativity comes in and we can start over and ask ourselves, how would I like to build this next time? Maybe you’d like to re-build with a whole different career, in a whole different place, with an expectation of a whole new set of results and rewards.
The answer to when and why things happen the way they do is often only clear when we have moved past them. Our ability to trust in a higher power to direct our lives for the greater good requires patience, acceptance, and faith. My yoga teacher often tells us “let it go, it was not yours to begin with”. The truth is, those things, those stresses, those results were never ours to begin with. They were given to us. For this we should be gracious, and remind ourselves of the many gifts and opportunities we do have. Always be grateful, and be creative in designing your new beginnings.
