One of the greatest challenges we have to face on the path of our evolution is our difficulty to surrender. Our resistance acts as a brake for our growth and no spiritual message can work its way to our consciousness without our surrender. Surrender is a state of mind, an attitude of openness, confidence and receptivity. To surrender is to chose to trust our consciousness, the intelligence of our heart, rather than our ego and its belief patterns. We usually think we are ready to receive the teachings that will enable us to evolve on the path to consciousness awakening. But whether we are aware of it or not, we do our utmost to avoid the situations and tests which call us into question and we can't get their meaning as long as we don't learn to surrender.

Actually, we spend our time imagining things the way we would like them to be, rather than letting go and accepting them the way they are. The path of consciousness teaches us that the purpose of our existence is to learn the lessons of the tests we go through. Our attitude determines whether we will succeed or fail when we face a situation which is difficult, challenging for us. In reality our resistance is vain and illusory because we can't avoid our tests and we will encounter them again in the future until we understand the lessons and the teachings they carry. But if we accept them serenely, we get enriched with every moment of our life and we discover the power of surrender.

The experience of surrender is an intense and extraordinary moment, that shows us that our fears disappear when we are ready to face them. This is by living this experience that we can't get rid of the belief that we lose our power when we allow ourselves to surrender. For surrender means loss or defeat for mind, but it is a sign of growth, of richness for consciousness. It is also the expression of maturity. Only those who have overcome their fear are able to surrender. And surrender is essential to reach consciousness awakening.

Laurence