The Balance Between

Intention and Surrender

The balance between intention and
surrender is a delicate one. Intention is
getting clear on what we want and
surrender is trusting in the best outcome.
On the one hand, if you over intend,
youʼre trying to make things happen; on
the other, if you over surrender, then
youʼre lazy, lethargic, and youʼll make a
minimal effort. Itʼs a bit of a razorʼs edge,
which is why I think we have to lay down
the very thing weʼve used our whole life
to get what we want, for something
greater to occur. It sounds easy enough
until we have to put it into practice.

If youʼre familiar with my work, by now

youʼve heard me say a thousand times
that to create something out of nothing,
we need to match a clear intention with
an elevated emotion. But thatʼs just the
beginning. Next, we need to remain in the
energy of that creation—day in and day
out. (This is where our meditation
practice comes into play.) Then, we
surrender the how of how our creation
shows up. This means weʼre not only
trusting a greater mind is organizing our
creation in a way thatʼs right for us, but
we allow it to unfold in a new and different
way than what we had previously planned
or anticipated. Think about it—if you
knew what to do you probably would have
done it already. Thatʼs called the known.

But the moment we start to feel

frustrated, impatient, angry, or resentful,
however, weʼve disconnected from the
energy of our future, and more than likely
itʼs because weʼre trying to force, control,
predict or manipulate outcomes. Why
does this happen? Because those
emotions cause us to feel separate from
our creation; thus, weʼre not
surrendering, allowing and trusting in this
greater mind. Instead weʼre approaching
creation as matter trying to change
matter, rather than our energy organizing
matter. If you are trying to control and
predict when and how it should happen,
then youʼre back in the known. Thatʼs
because your prediction is more than
likely you ‘thinkingʼ about some known
possibility from your memory of the past
and trying to forecast that outcome into
the future.

You may find yourself saying, “But I do

the work every day and still nothing
happens!” If youʼre saying that, then
youʼre not trusting; youʼre waiting for
something outside of you to make that
feeling of separation or lack change how
youʼre feeling inside of you. Thatʼs called
separation. You have to remember that
because matter is the slowest frequency,
it may take time for the external
conditions in your life to come into
alignment with your inner vision. Again,
this is why we do the work every day—to
stay in the energy of our creation. Thatʼs
not to say itʼs easy, otherwise everyone
would be doing it.

An analogy I often like to use is that

practicing this work, and learning to
surrender and trust, is a lot like learning
to snowboard. When you strap your boots
to your board for the first time, youʼre
hyper focused on your balance. Youʼre
hypervigilant about your form, your turns,
the position of your body over the board,
and so on. As a result, you expend an
unnecessary amount of energy. In this
regard, your mind and body are separate,
when in fact what youʼre trying to do is
make your mind and body one. In
essence, you are trying to make your
body do what your mind is thinking.

As a beginner snowboarder, youʼre going

to be frustrated, youʼre going to fall (a
lot), youʼre going to be sore, and in the
midst of the experience youʼre probably
going to question whether youʼre ever
going to be able to glide down the
mountain with ease and grace. With
enough practice, however, you stop trying
to think like a snowboarder, and you
become a snowboarder. The habitual
practice of snowboarding then becomes
the state of being, and thus you can
finally relax into it. Now, what was once a
practice becomes a joy—something you
look forward to. As you trust yourself
more and more, because youʼre mind and
body are working in unison, you no longer
have to try to work as hard, it requires
less effort and you are able to better
manage your energy. This not only goes
for snowboarding, but for creating our
reality.

The creative process then is not about

hoping, wishing, waiting, wanting, trying
or looking—hope is a beggar. Itʼs about
embodying and becoming your creation.
We do this first internally in our
meditations by merging with the energy
of our future, then by remaining in that
energy throughout our day. The more we
remain in this energy, the more we
memorize it until it becomes a new state
of being. When it has become your state
of being, then you can finally get out of
your own way, which ultimately makes
trusting, surrendering and allowing easier
and more natural. This is when you have
memorized the thoughts and emotions in
your mind and body, causing you to feel
like your creation has already happened.

If youʼre not making a concerted effort to

stay in the energy of your creation
throughout your day, itʼs the same as
eating an organic breakfast, then
spending the rest of the day eating junk
food. And whatʼs the point of that if
youʼre trying to get healthy? The same
goes for everything weʼre creating in our
life. Why not then, for today, pretend your
future has already happened? After all, if
youʼve been doing the work youʼve
already experienced it enough times in
the quantum field. Who knows…you
might just find your future finding you.