431 thoughts on “The Power of True Surrender”

1. The word surrender, in its true meaning, is such a beautiful word. To surrender signifies coming home to a place deep within ourselves that has always been there, simply waiting for us to surrender to it.

2. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness,’ in fact as I accept my own loveliness I cannot help but surrender…and then my movements begin to flow and there is grace in my body, so gorgeous to feel. Thank you for the reminder to connect in with this as I go about my day.

3. True surrender is not a giving up or giving way as you say Leonne, true surrender includes allowing and accepting.

4. Thank you Leonne for your sharing. Life is so much easier when we allow it to flow or surrender and not hold back in sharing our love with others.

5. Realising that surrendering is not giving up or giving in is huge. Surrendering is just about seeing what is truly going on, accepting it and then allowing what needs to happen. There is a great beauty in this.

6. “I could feel that this surrender is not a giving up or a giving away. I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.” Great article on surrender thank you Leonne this is the answer to resistance.

7. Yes.. This is so beautiful, so needed to discuss what truly surrendering is and what is offers us.
   Allowing yourself to be truly you, no matter what, and be prepared to go beyond , not staying safe (comfort). Which is not at all healthy.

8. ‘Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body.’ Very well said Leonne. After all true surrender is us with our bodies first.

9. It always feels so lovely when we allow ourselves to surrender, ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.I can now see that disregarding my body and the way I feel makes it impossible to surrender to myself.’

10. It’s amazing just how much there is to learn and become aware of in the simple activities of life. This line made so much sense to me “I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.” I notice how much tension I feel when I didn’t attend to caring for my body. Self care is a great foundation for surrendering to and being in connection to our essence. It also then makes sense that for some people who resist self care and live in various forms of disregard, that they may be avoiding living from their essence so as to avoid the reactions of others.

11. Shedding a light on what true surrender is.. Makes us now feel and see , by the unmasked superiority, what true surrender is..
    Thank you for sharing this with us.

12. We spend a lot of time fighting what the body is communicating to us – all that time could be spent enjoying it and refining the way we move and the energy that is moving through us constantly.

    1. Questioning that fight we have with ourselves is so vital for our wellbeing, we may feel we have legitimate reasons to do it but the attack we make on ourselves is much more harmful than another’s attack on us. Living who we are is true well-being.

13. If one person surrendering into themselves can make that much difference to a busy cycling path then just imagine the power we hold within us to transmute any environment we are in. Gosh we are powerful.

14. Truly surrendering to all that life presents can be a challenge. I have recently felt the pull for me to open more to what is on offer, at work, in my personal life, relationships, everywhere. But I just realised recently, that I wasn’t surrendering to it all, but fighting it, going into judgement of others, going into hardness, instead of embracing all that i could feel. I have had more awareness of what I was doing, but now feel I have the opportunity to move in a way that is totally different.

15. Surrender is something we can deeply ponder on .. to truly feel, not know by our mind (head) what it is.. To connect to your body and feel what this means for you, to no longer wait for someone or proof, but that the surrender is in yourself – so that answer of what it then means for you – is there equally so.

16. Your morning walk felt very lovely and honouring, ‘I felt such a grace and lightness in my body as I walked. The surrender I had allowed in my arms radiated through my whole body and I felt incredibly aware of every movement. Each time I felt tension in my body I allowed it to release.’ Beautiful.

17. Every movement we make has an impact on the body that is either healing or harming… it is easy to find the movements that are healing as they are instantly registered by the body in a way we can recognise. This is a great example Leonne, of the body’s response to your gesture to listen and adjust yourself accordingly, and the flow on affect this has on all around you.

18. How many words have been put to the sword so as to keep us from the true meaning and surrender is just one simple example.

19. Today at work I had to learn to surrender and simply breathe my own breath despite the total chaos that was all around. This required me to simply breath my own breath and not get caught up in things.

20. Surrender is an incredibly powerful word. For quite some time now I have had the words ‘surrender into the arms of God’ playing over in my mind. Every time I hear these words there is a deepening within and remembering of the divine being I am. My breath starts to breathe with the all.

21. Thank you. I realise I can go to a disempowered view when I hear the word surrender so this shows me how I have not fully embraced the true meaning of this word or rather I am not always fully with myself when I hear this word for I do know the beauty and grace in true surrender and the deepening connection this brings.

22. I will admit the word surrender still holds a picture of white flags and giving up while I also relate to what this article is saying in that surrender is simple allowing yourself to feel something. I can see from a true surrender how powerful it is given that because you are feeling everything there is, then you have the knowledge and the wisdom to answer back in the same fullness. As the article is presenting surrender has nothing to do with the picture of white flags and in fact you don’t need to do anything. It’s more the letting go of everything and allowing yourself to truly feel what you are already feeling.

23. To come to truly understand what it is to surrender has been the most wonderful feeling. I can feel that when I am able to let go of control, of expectation and the tension that is keeping my body in contraction I can feel myself falling into me. It is like a huge warm embrace and in that moment there is a deep stillness, a feeling of coming home.

24. The day the penny dropped for me and I realised that in surrendering I was simply surrendering into my body, was the day I let myself feel the warmth, love and support of God’s embrace deep within me.

25. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness.’ This is a wonderful place to start Leonne.

26. Thank you Leonne, that is so true. By surrendering to you, you make the whole world rich of that which you bring to your place – the world.

27. I have experienced so much power and healing when I have surrendered and let go of my inner battle with life and the things I kept hanging onto; old ways of moving and being ( behaviours and patterns). Surrendering for me at that time was a letting go of control and not trusting in myself. This blog is a timely reminder, to stop, take stock and feel if there is anything we are still hanging onto that does not support our evolution and our next steps.

28. Beautiful Leonne, being able to surrender is key in our ability to continue evolving. Without it we become stagnant, stuck in the motion of life without it’s balancing surrender into stillness.

29. To discover that true surrender is to surrender to oneself is a glorious awakening.

    1. ‘Surrender to oneself is a glorious awakening’, yes it is, and as our path of surrender unfolds there can be so much expansion and so much support available.

       1. This is so true and I find it quite ironic that this is the case when the commonly accepted meaning of the word ‘surrender’ is to give up.

30. ‘Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body’. There’s a blog just in this one line. Many movements are made for another that stop all that we are from being expressed.

31. In true surrender we allow sacredness to be our way. What an awesome reflection Leonne, thank you.

32. So absolutely true, we cannot surrender if we ignore and do not honour our bodies, The body is the key, and in surrendering we allow ourselves to go deeper and truly feel our connection to the all around us.

33. I would say this is a start of a new dictionary, that explains a word in its true and lived meaning.

    1. I agree, Esther. A word comes after an experience. In trying to put a meaning to a word without livingness, we have created much misunderstanding and misinterpretation that has led to separation, and eventually a loss of the absolute truth.

    2. There is one! The Unimedipedia – true definitions of words we have bastardised to suit our irresponsibility.

       1. Yes, there is! Thank you for pointing this out, Lucy.

34. This is beautiful Leonne – “I could feel that this surrender is not a giving up or a giving away. I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.” – what we are surrendering to makes all the difference…

35. The healing that is on offer when we truly surrender is magic in action. The levels of vulnerability that we need to go to are huge yet the body is offered an opportunity to rebuild and express in a different way that doesn’t hold back what each and everyone of us has to live and enjoy.

36. In reading this again this morning Leonne, I felt the dictionary interpretation was pretty accurate if we apply it to ourselves and not another, “Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority”(1).
    That is if we stop resisting all that is not true,’ the enemy’, our own opponents, and surrender to our authority within the greater universal order life simply flows.

37. Lovely to read this and connect to the surrender in my body. An immense warmth radiates out, instantly inviting me to go deeper. Thank you Leonne

38. When we are not surrendered we are something else and whatever that is was reflected to you through the way everyone around you were. This is so powerful in showing how making a simple self-loving choice can influence others – it proves how we are all connected.

39. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ I love this Leonne, it can be so draining living in protection and hardening up against life, learning to surrender has been an absolute game changer for me and the more I embrace this quality the more I feel the joy and true power that this choice can bring.

40. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness,’ There is no power in surrender in the way that this term is usually used however when we accept our own loveliness and our own Divinity and surrender to that there is all the power in the world.

41. It takes a a lot of unnecessary effort and energy to resist our nature to simply be.

42. Beautiful Leonne, surrender is one of my favourite words… a quality of allowing oneself to be in their truest essence, the letting go of everything other that has got in the way of that flow.

43. Thank you Leonne, we often don’t give respect to the body more so to the intellect, so it may be with some humility that we eventually “submit to the authority” of our own body. It is an amazing way to live cherishing and listening to the body and the surrender to the love within this allows. It’s an ongoing learning process for me but is a beautiful and simple way to live taking loving care of myself everyday.

44. Such a simple but powerful gesture Leonne, and one we can apply to every situation and aspect of life pretty much.

45. How wise Elizabeth, and in the obedience, is when life truly flows….

46. I love when I easily surrender to the communication/wisdom that comes from my body – life is beautifully simple, and at those times when the simplicity is not there, I know I have gone into my head!

47. ‘Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in. my body.’ Fitting in is such an illusion as there is no end in trying to belong to someone or a group of people to get recognition. You end up being a chameleon instead of living in the beauty and the grace of who you truly are.

48. What’s felt in our surrender of our bodies, is the deep connection to the all and you get to feel the flow and rhythm of the world around us when we move in this quality. Absolute magic thank you Leonne.

49. This blog confirms again that what is reflected from outside of ourselves is also what is within, the connection of all things – nature, people, choices. Whilst choosing our movements may feel to be a small thing the rippling effect of these choices is very powerful.

50. What a gorgeous blog Leonne, I particularly love this line “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness” not going with the oxford dictionary version, that we have to bow down to an enemy or someone else, but to feel our own loveliness.

51. Beautiful Leonne, when we surrender to all that we are, we allow the divine to flow through us and stop the battle that we engage with within.

52. I love the times when I have been in such stillness, such surrender, that all around me has quietened too. Such magic! There’s clearly a ripple effect in surrender, that can be conveyed to and felt by all, whether they are conscious of it or not. Though I often find in the stillness people will often become aware of the change and sometimes remark on how calm it feels. It demonstrates too that if surrender can be felt by others, living in agitation of any kind will be as well, as any and all qualities we are in will be equally felt. Agitation and tension in ourselves is therefore not helpful in terms of others – in terms of humanity.

53. ‘I can now see that disregarding my body and the way I feel makes it impossible to surrender to myself.’ Yes – the disregard creates a tension, which is the antithesis of (and makes it impossible to) surrender.

54. What a great question to start the blog Leonne. What is the meaning of surrender? I realise that in the past I have thought that it was giving up or giving in, which is saying I am giving away my power and my rights. As I read on, the understanding you have brought to the activity of walking and surrendering to your own body feels so empowering and honouring. We so often brace ourselves against what our body is asking for and harden because often the opposite force is coming at us from the world around us. Claiming the wisdom of the body, is claiming the best and most informed friend – one who always holds self love at its core.

55. The white flag version of surrender is the image many of us receive when we hear this word. But the true meaning of this word is actually very powerful, supportive and healing.

56. It seems we put up barriers against totally surrendering, yet I have found that not surrendering to how I truly feel is actually harming, and when I allow myself to fully surrender to what my body needs there is a powerful flow that follows.

57. Surrendering to that divinity within is in fact a return to who we naturally are but have walked away from from young as we were told to be different, to a way that was acceptable to ur society. We all have done that but also all have to return to this way of being again, until such times that we do not tell our young anymore to be different but support them stay in their surrendered state of being they naturally are born with.

58. Surrender is definitely the body’s natural way of being, it’s when we drop all fight and just let things and people be and choose what they want to choose, there is nothing to fight if we just observe the world and what we see, feel and hear without wanting to change anything.

59. It is true that we have come to accept that surrender means ‘admitting defeat and handing yourself over to another’, but this is not what surrender truly means. Surrender is a letting go of all that has come to stand in the way of our true self and our expression of this, which is love. True surrender is never a giving up but always a process through which we unfold more of the essence of who we truly are, for all the world to see. Thus the key to surrender is found in transparency, our ability to give up the fight whereby we hide or try to blend in and simply allow ourselves to walk the fullness of us in every single step.

    1. Thank you Liane, its a very powerful comment on surrender including “Surrender is a letting go of all that has come to stand in the way of our true self and our expression of this, which is love.”

60. To surrender is not giving up at all, except giving up the illusion of being separate. It is to allow ourselves to be held in love, to return to oneness and flow in life rather than struggling, fighting, controlling. In the moments when I surrender, I could not feel any grander, more loved or complete. It feels like our natural state, which takes a lot of energy to fight returning to.

    1. The word “surrender” has been so bastardised, I can recognise that for me it’s meant also to not give up, to keep struggling and fighting life to not submit to what’s challenging me. I have learned a lot about surrender in Esoteric Yoga sessions, it’s given me a dedicated space to experience the true meaning of surrender and to realise I’m not here to “conquer” what comes my way, but instead to surrender to my own essence and the true qualities of who I am – which has required letting go of a lot of tension and reactions!

61. “I asked my body to surrender and with each breath I could feel it let go of another layer of hardness and protection. ” lts in the letting go of pictures of how we should be and in this surrender comes the vulnerability and here we come to feel who we truly are.

62. Could surrender be simply being fully part of the world but not holding onto any attachments or pictures or ideals of how we’d like it to be? Could it be not fighting, or protecting ourselves, but instead choosing a loving and open way of being, and knowing that no matter what we are fully equipped to deal with everything in front of us.

63. Surrendering to the wisdom within our own bodies is very powerful I agree. “How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?” The body feels and registers everything and in letting go we allow more space for us to be.

64. I’m often amazed at watching babies or young children playing or going about their day – they don’t hold on to anything nor hold back. They live their little lives surrendered to their bodies. It’s only as we grow up that we begin to put on the armour and protection to help us feel seemingly safe.

65. There was a time when our little one would be absolutely exhausted and ready to sleep – if it was me I’d be out like a light. But he would fight and struggle and cry when all he needed to do was to surrender to himself and to sleep. You’re so right, there is something so wonderful about surrendering to yourself.

66. Wonderful to re-read this and be reminded of the magic and grace true surrender brings, a drop’s ripple effect echoing out stillness.

67. We always think of surrender as a stopping of something, but it is also the beginning of a way of being from our Souls.

    1. In a way surrender is the laying down of arms with ourselves…all that we carry in opposition to the love we are. True surrender opens us to the expansiveness we are, and are from.

       1. A great comment Victoria “In a way surrender is the laying down of arms with ourselves…all that we carry in opposition to the love we are.” We stop resisting all we are and all that our body asks of us in terms of care and love.

68. For me there is a massive surrender when I accept, or remember, that life isn’t about me and that I’m part of a much bigger and grander and magnificent whole, I simply have to play my part.

69. You could describe surrender as: letting go of our attachment to human life and embracing the fact that we are so much more than our eyes could ever conceive.

70. ” All the while I asked my body to surrender and with each breath I could feel it let go of another layer of hardness and protection. ” Choosing to surrender brings us so much that I ask myself why I spend so much time resisting what it has to offer.

71. What if by surrendering it actually allows us to relinquish the struggles created within us and in the world around us so we can feel exactly what is going on and where we are all at.

72. ‘I can now see that disregarding my body and the way I feel makes it impossible to surrender to myself.’ So true. In order to surrender we have to be present with ourselves, in our bodies and the more we are the more surrender takes place.

73. Surrender takes us away from fight and flight to flow

74. I agree Roslyn, when we are bothered and resentful of people we’ve lost connection with ourselves, and hence all others.

75. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” When we truly surrender we can be in the natural flow of life simply being ourselves.

76. Surrendering to the intelligence of the body help me enormous to let go the wayward thoughts of my mind which are constantly trying to move my body in a way that is not naturally for it. For instance when I think of something I have to do tomorrow, or in a few hours, then I am not anymore with my body in this moment and makes me feel anxious and brings tension in my body that I can feel by hardening certain parts of it. To me this was a normal way of living life as I was never been told that it is not a good way to think about something else than that what I am doing or where my body is at. Thanks to the the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I am now learning to be more with my body again and I must say it surely is worth considering to go this way.

77. It is important to be clear about and to understand what it means to surrender, and to be astute in hearing the message of this blog that through a surrender to your body you can re-connect with your essence.

78. I love how your choice to surrender has affected the others around you. We get influenced by others’ choices and often that is to go against what our body wants or what we actually feel would like to, in order to fit in. What an amazing opportunity then to be affected to be pulled towards our natural way of being. You are an inspiration, Leonne.

79. I used to wonder when people spoke about surrender what in fact they were actually surrendering to as it always felt like we had to surrender to something. These days I realize that we surrender to the love that we actually are.

80. Surrendering allows us to feel our true power… the exact opposite to the way l’ve grown up thinking ‘power’ would be. There is no effort, no tension and no striving to be something for or over another. The simplicity of allowing ourselves to be all we are is a letting go… how beautiful is that!

81. Thank you Leonne for sharing this powerful revelation of the fact that surrender is not a giving away of our power in any way, but rather an embrace of all that we already Divinely are within, our inner-most essence, the light of our Soul through which our power is known and lived with grace for all.

82. My new understanding of surrender is that it is the opposite of giving up my power in any situation but rather embracing and allowing the power of truly surrendering to my body’s wisdom to shine through and guide me on my way through life.

83. I am learning a new level of surrendering to my body and allowing its wisdom to guide my movements. It feels so divine when I allow this and walking is a perfect confirmation of it.

84. To me surrendering to that grander order we belong to, brings the divinity we all are and belong to down to earth and with that we make heaven on earth and life becomes about evolution in which we choose to live in brotherhood and in precious harmony together.

85. I love morning walks and how walking in surrender seem to change our environment, it feels as If everything around aligns to the same flow. What a truly beautiful way to walk through life.

86. Thank you Leonne. Your article gave me pause to ponder. I have always associate the word ‘Surrender’ to being behind the battlements keeping the invaders at bay and then realising it was a lost cause and giving in. This is very much how I have always kept people out from getting too close to me and having a sort of brick wall to hide behind. So now I have the opportunity to understand ‘surrender’ to mean dropping the defences and allowing people in to see and know me for all that I am. And discovering and appreciating that we are, once the barricades are down, all the same.

87. Thank you Leonne for a beautiful blog on surrender, it is amazing the changes that take place not only within us but all around us when we surrender to the wisdom of the body, held by our own divine essence.

88. Being able to surrender to what is happening in our lives is the most wonderful experience. I am still learning how to surrender more and more, to what presents in my life, but I have been building it into how I move and live.

89. This is a great angle to the benefits of body awareness, not taking on the tension that we can often feel when there are a lot of people around. How much of the build up of tension we feel towards the end is there in our bodies that is not actually ours? Being aware through the day of how I am feeling, I have noticed it is a natural choice to let it go rather than hold onto it, wherever it comes from.

90. It’s actually fascinating to start being aware of all the times I am tense in my body. It shows I have built up to live in a way that is quite rigid and protected. The more I give myself the space to check in with where my body is at, the more I can choose to let go and surrender.

91. Letting go and being prepared to feel and accept what is present in the moment is what I am learning about surrender. To take responsibility for what presents the next step.

92. Yesterday I walked with someone where we both let go of the need to be something or have somewhere to go. As we held hands and walked and felt the love flow through our hands, heard the birds sing and the frogs croak, there was nothing in me that wanted to escape but just basked in our love like a dog in the sun. Few words were exchanged except to say, ‘wow what a beautiful day’. Now I know I can surrender this way and how wonderful it feels, I can sense I can bring this quality and way of being to every thing not just this picturesque scene. Thank you Leonne for presenting surrendering in such a beautiful way.

93. “Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority”
    Reading this definition of surrender I felt it to be quite accurate. We are usually our own worse enemy, well I know I can be, so really, what I hear is that to surrender is to stop resisting your true and divine self. Submit or accept the authority of the universe and where we are from and stop the fight of individuality.

94. Beautiful Blog Leonne, it is difficult to surrender when we don’t understand what it is, ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ thank you for sharing this inspiring blog with us. When we truly surrender we allow our love to be expressed and allow love to flow in and out of our body like in the rhythm of God’s breath.

95. Your words Leonne Sharkey remind me just how we can be enchanted with ourselves, feel the beauty of our breath and the quality of our grace. We can walk and move, dinging our own bell, except unlike a cyclist, what emanates out to passers-by is the warmth of our heart. We are all on this passage in life, so why not share this Love?

    1. That’s right, ‘why not share this love?’ is a great question. When we allow ourselves to surrender, it is impossible to not share love, it naturally emanates outwards towards humanity without any trying, it simply happens through our choice to surrender and trust.

96. True Surrender is an allowing and never a doing and something to achieve.

97. Stunning Leonne, I have previously thought of surrender as just a physical letting go of tension, but as you say, it is more than this… ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.”

98. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” Wow Leonne, imagine if this was understood by us all worldwide. We would all put our arms, weapons and driven agendas down and just settle into being the gorgeous beings that we are. How crazy that we were never fighting an evil enemy at all so much as our own beauty.

99. Like you Leone when I have thought of the word surrender what comes to mind is the picture of the white flags but this I realise is very short sighted. In times of battles or wars be that from person to person or country to country when we ‘surrendered’ the white flag analogy means the fighting has just stopped, it does not necessarily mean that the cause of the fighting has been resolved at all or that true harmony occurred.

100. Leonne I love how you have touched upon the authority of our body. I hear this word being used a lot, and like many it can be misinterpreted and therefore misunderstood. When you linked it with the body something started to make sense for me. When I feel authority it is because the person first honours the authority of their own body. Without this there is no real authority, and instead is often what we usually term as a mis-use or even abuse of power, usually tied into ‘positions of power’.

101. The more appreciation and acceptance of who we are and our own unique qualities the easier it is to surrender to what is divine and let go of the constraints we have been holding as a form of safety and security in life.

102. Your blog illustrates Leonne that there is a whole new depth to the word surrender than meets the eye than we are used to and that it is not only about the wars of the world or a fight between two or more people coming to an end but a quality that we can surrender to within that stops the war from within our own bodies and mind.

103. Beautifully put Leonne. The path we walk in life is sacred in every way when we surrender to the Love we can feel in our body. We don’t need a course or a magical healer, just to make a choice to deeply cherish and enjoy ourselves in this world. It can be as simple as putting one foot in front of another.

104. Staying with the body to build consistent connection and presence has been made into a disciplined struggle, rather than something natural and simple. Leonne has given an example of how true connection can occur and this can lead to understand there is a purpose to it. The purpose is to bring stillness to the world.

105. It is amazing, how with simple connection and surrender, my awareness deepens, my body relaxes and expands, everything re-aligns, and presence and power can be felt.

106. I find the Oxford dictionary definition of surrender very narrow – “stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority”. The only authority that any of us need to submit to is to the authority of our own soul, by knowing and accepting that we are divine sparks of God.

     1. I love your comment Elizabeth, I agree that definition is a long way from hitting the mark. You could cut out a few words and redefine it as “Stop resisting and submit to your own authority.”

107. ‘I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.’ Listening to the body is the key to amazing experiences such as the example in this blog. I still resist, but I am finally really understanding that our bodies are our gateway to true wisdom.

108. “How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?

     I have felt just how powerful surrender is and my walk has inspired me to keep choosing wisely.”

     This is great to read Leonne. It makes it clear for me that surrender is not a head decision or any other dictionary meaning. There is simply the decision to allow ourselves to keep staying tuned in with the nature of our bodies. This is an ongoing learning how to do this around others and tasks where my attention has been to date on the outer and not with me as I speak and be with others. As well it shows how I have made the ‘doing’ of a task more important than the quality of my bodily movements, and allowing me to just be as I go about in the world. Acceptance of myself as I am feels like a big one which allows surrender. But as I write, I see equally the simplicity of my focus, letting myself be the natural quality of delicateness in my every move creates acceptance of self too.

109. Leonne, this touched me very deeply today, and brought an understanding of why I often fight my body, it’s a great way to avoid surrender, and I hadn’t quite realised that I have had an idea that to surrender is to give up or give over to another. Yet as you show here, that is not true surrender at all, it’s a surrender to ourselves, our bodies and the divinity we are – and reading your line today ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ has crystallised this very sharply. I am holding back on myself when I refuse to surrender and I willingly self sabotage when I refuse to surrender. This is a great package to be unlocked here, so thank you for this blog.

110. The power of your surrendering is evidenced by the shift in all those around you Leonne. A great example that what we do and how we are affects everything around us and highlights the responsibility we have.

111. It’s interesting how the word surrender can be used to imply a giving away of one’s power or authority, a ‘giving up’ of sorts.. Whereas in true surrender we are stepping into our real power and authority and letting go of any resistance to that!

     1. Yes Fiona, the words are bastardised from their true meaning, making it even more difficult to find our way back to the power we all have with us all the time.

112. “A part of me always felt that those who surrendered in war were simply willing to end the madness.” This is a beautiful understanding of surrender, to stop the fight as this has nothing to do with our natural harmonious state of being.

113. Surrender is not a giving up it is the opposite it is a flow with what is there.

     1. “Surrender is a flow with what is there”, thank you Ester.

114. We never have to hand ourselves over to others- true surrender does not involve that. True surrender is that we accept what is going on and don’t need it to be different.

115. The interpretation of surrender often does seem to come with the connotation that it is ‘handing yourself over to another’ but what if true surrender is a deep acceptance and allowing of who we truly are… Well for me I can say that I agree with you Leonne, it is in fact a ‘coming home’ rather than a loss.

116. S u r r e n d e r.
     Even the word allows a certain ‘letting go’. The more we surrender the more we give ourselves permission to truly feel.

117. Simply checking in with our bodies to see if we are holding any tension is very simple and quite profound. We often don’t realise how tense we are until we bring focus to our body. It’s really quite an important exercise, and the more it’s practiced the more aware we are and the less likely we will hold tension.

118. Pretty powerful Leonne. Amazing what a simple choice can make to everything around us, although boy do we love to complicate things for a looooong time before we finally make the choice. And I speak for myself here first and foremost. the internal tug of war that I play when it comes to making an honouring decision is relentless…only to find that when I do finally make the choice, I realise how simple it was and everything following that choice becomes simple too. Ahhh the games we play with ourselves!

119. So beautiful to read again Leonne, the power of true surrender.” I could feel that this surrender is not a giving up or a giving away. I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.” Thank you.

120. This is a beautiful exploration of surrender, how simple it is and what power it brings.

121. What is true surrender, is it “those who surrendered in war were simply willing to end the madness” or “admitting defeat and handing yourself over to another”? To me it is actually non of those but surrendering is adhering to something much bigger. It is surrendering to a bigger whole, something we come from and belong to, a constellation of stars and planets we cal the universe, a greater order we are inextricable part of. While we think our lives here on earth are independent from any order and we belief that WE think and make our own choices, we have to consider the fact that why we continue to make a mess of the way we live with one another in our societies and fail to improve that from the ideals and beliefs we develop and adhere to. To me this is because we have lost our connection with that grander order because we want to feel ourselves independent and having free will. Although we have free will that does not mean that we may choose our lives to be whatever we want because we have to consider the fact that our choices do affect the people we live with and far beyond, just have a look at the status of our societies today. I cannot say that these are healthy or taking care of each member equally. I am slowly learning that surrendering is actually returning to that grander order, to let my life being impulsed and guided by Soul and with that i will do whatever is needed to release the tension we have build in our societies because of us living in separation of that grander order we inescapably belong to.

122. Beautiful Leonne. I know this surrendering to the body and allowing the sacredness of who we are to be felt and yet I so often go back to the old worn paths of unaware and disconnected behaviour. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to appreciate the all loving way of being that you have shared and to deepen my commitment to living it.

123. Isn’t it interesting how surrender has been synonymous with the notion of defeat, giving up, waving the white flag and succumbing to someone else’s will… whereas in truth surrender is one of the most beautiful words I can feel, and there isn’t an ounce of defeat or weakness in the act of surrender, and yet all the glory we could ever seek – falling into ourselves, letting go of the illusion that keeps us separate from who we truly are and all of our brothers.

124. Leonne the last paragraph of this gorgeous blog says so much… surrender is the accepting deeply of who we are, letting go of the trying and of course the fighting. It’s the letting go of everything we’ve put in the way to avoid feeling the exquisiteness that we are.

125. Leonne, great subject you wrote about surrender. I have had mixed interpretations of the meaning of this and you have expanded and clarified this beautifully. The experience of surrender in its true form is when I am within my presence, life is able to flow with me,from me and to me. There is no impositions. But the grace of allowing. Equaling for all.

126. This is a great topic of discussion, Leonne. Surrender. As you have shared this word has been quite drastically misinterpreted, as seen by the dictionary definition. For me, true surrender is about sinking more deeply into my body, into my heart, into Me. There is no giving away of myself, there is only a gaining of myself, which is then in turn naturally shared with others. True surrender is Universal. It is for All.

127. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine” this is gold Leonne, the more we accept the divinity within ourselves the easier it is to surrender what is and everything is constellated accordingly to the good of all.

128. I like it Leonne, surrendering to the fact we are on our way back to ourselves and to god

129. Surrender in the past to me would have meant to capitulate and be taken over with all loss of control and control is something I’ve very much endeavoured to have in life. Whereas with true surrender there’s an allowing for ourselves and others to simply be.

130. It is the weirdest thing ever to observe myself at times react or get racy or anxious or express any form of emotion whilst being aware that there is an all knowing, vast, stillness and loving magnificence within that is ALWAYS there. That divine essence is available to all of us whenever we simply surrender to it. How strange that we choose to live any other way.

131. As you described Leonne, surrendering to the divinity we are is not giving up or giving ourselves away but it is to connect and allow ourselves to be guided and held by the grander whole we are part of. We will be amazed indeed with the power that it brings and what that will do, not only to ourselves but also to all people we are with – like the stillness you brought on the path you were walking.

132. I can feel the power of surrender in your writing Leonne, it is a beautiful experience to connect to what you are writing. Why would we not choose surrendering in life and how come we have made this natural way of being something so seemingly hard to achieve? This last sentence is a true game changing question: ‘How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?’

133. The stillness you describe Leonne is so powerful as it made all other people with you on that track also become more with themselves and less racy. As stillness is an aspect of love, the love that has powers beyond my imagination. When I bring love in whatever I do or where I am, I am stil amazed every time I experience this, by the diverse power it has on people I am with and situations I am in. Surrendering to this love is the greatest gift I can give to myself as it brings me back to who I truly am, to the roots of my origins.

134. Indeed Leonne, surrendering is not about a giving our self away but a claiming of where we belong to and are part of, the grander whole, the universe. We are not individuals that can do what ever they like without having an influence on the whole. We are part of the grander whole and each of us plays an important role in that. Surrendering to this fact that is where we all have to come to and will change how we will live as human beings enormously.

135. When we surrender to our own divine nature we let go of any need for others to behave as we would like them to but the amazing thing is that surrender actually inspires harmony all around us.

136. How doggedly we pursue and hang on to a vision of who we are, that just is not true. The layers in your story of warm jackets and walking Leonne, are beautifully metaphors to me, because, as you show deep beneath the padding lies a deeply divine super-powerful human being absolutely different to the tough and fierce yet weak creature we have made ourselves out to be.

137. The word surrendering is indeed bastardised as it is explained in the dictionaries. No way that surrendering is admitting to the opposing force, instead it is an allowing and accepting of the love we are from to be the guide in our lives and a saying no to the invasive and abusive way of living that the opposing force dictates to us.

138. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine”.
     What a true and powerful explanation for Surrender Leonie, thank you.

139. Yes Sarah, I love this line too. It invites me back to the truth of my origins which is my divinity. There is no push or achievement or an iota of self. Surrender is my natural state that then allows the fullness of life to emanate and expand through me as part of the all. A work in progress but truly felt.

     1. I can relate to it being a work in progress, as although it is natural to surrender, its also not something that I am use to and certainly an area where I need support. Blogs like this support me to remember that its okay to just let go.

        1. Letting go is akin to trusting that I am totally supported and that I don’t have to hold it all together alone. Stopping, and allowing myself to connect again to the truth that I come from love, know it and feel it as my ‘true home’ is what brings me back when I stray – acting like I am somehow on my own…

        2. Beautiful Bernadette.

140. It’s so interesting as I sit here eyes as heavy as sandbags and tired as anything. I realised towards the end of the article that my arms were tight, shoulders up and there was a real tension across my upper back. Taking note of it, and choosing to drop and allow my body to settle has really helped in loosening it all. I’m still just as tired as before, don’t get me wrong, but my shoulders and do not feel as rigid and tense.

141. I too have stopped to feel the tension in my arms, hands and shoulders while typing away. It really can be as simple as recognising it and then just trusting that it’s ok to let go.

     1. Feels to me Elodie that the letting go creates space and a natural unfolding that is not possible when we tighten up and attempt to control things. There is a natural order of the universe that we are intrinsically part of.

142. Such great reminders to have Tracy. We really underestimate our power.

143. Love this post Leonne! More evidence of what’s possible when we let go!

144. Relating to surrender as an action of accepting a grandness within us rather than placing ourselves in a position of being lesser completely flips everything on it’s head. Recently I have been more aware of when I am tense there is something I don’t want to feel and am bracing against. So often is the thoughts of ‘your bracing against your ill choices and everything that is bad’ but what if the first tension was that my loveliness wanting to come out and express and choosing to not accept it?Thank you Leonne.

145. Well said Eduardo, the only fight is the one that is fought against our own divine state of Being, which requires no effort.

146. The power of being from who we truly are, is far greater than ‘fitting in’ every day. This is not to say we are trying to be different, but by naturally being who we are, natural waves are made, and they ripple and grace all.

147. Beautiful Leonne. To surrender does seem to be about giving up or giving over to others, but I realise that this is not the case either. To surrender to the moment and all that comes with this , is quite a different thing as well as being liberating and joyful.

148. I loved reading how the surrender in you Leonne, seemed to change the world around and support others too. It is crazy that in a rampant desire to control life, we cut out and miss our true power. You show beautifully how this power lives inside of us all just waiting for us to let go and trust it.

149. I chose to take the dictionary definition of the word surrender given in this blog a little differently this read: “Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority” If there is a body of divine love we are part of, yet we choose to separate and make resistance to love part of our lives, we may see that loving essence as an enemy and may choose to be shy of it as a source of wisdom and authority. Then when we suffer because of choices made from resistance, we may make the ultimate irresponsible choice to blame the enemy. Our world has conflict which may actually be a product of the falseness of how we live and how we project the cause of our suffering to be the fault of others. Then surrender becomes unthinkable. Yet it may be so far away from the truth, which could be that when we come under the authority of love, we come under a choice less way to live but one which we find offers all we have been seeking in separation to it.

150. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine’ – What a gorgeous reminder to take into my day Leonne, I agree we are all divine, I am not claiming this in full on a consistent basis but know the time has come to embrace this quality and live this more and more.

151. Reading this blog had a very healing affect in my body and when I came to the line “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness”, it opened up the relationship between acceptance and surrender and how important going deeper with acceptance was at this time for me.

152. Thank you Leonne, of late I have been experiencing the power of surrendering and the more let go of the tension and allow myself to feel and let others in the more love I can let out and this is felt by others and inspires them to do the same.

153. Leonne, this blog has really given me a moment to reflect on what I have been feeling about surrender. I have been feeling like a battle or fight has to precede surrender, and that it definitely involves ‘giving up’ and losing a fight. All very dramatic sounding. But actually surrendering is feeling our natural way of being, feeling what is true for us and being ourselves. There is nothing that feels more natural than this.

154. I was talking to a friend yesterday about surrender and relationships, and how when we meet someone new we can be quite guarded in fear of getting hurt, which can apply to everything in life really. But when we are in protection, we are not allowing our true selves out, or the other person in to really see and feel who you are. When we surrender and let the love flow in and out, a truer connection is formed and the other person is also inspired to not hold back. Surrounding in every moment possible to the love and the divine that is within allows a person to bring their ‘all’ to every situation.

155. I am feeling into the way I surrender and how amazing this is and I realize that there is a risk of going solo within this wonderful feeling. We might be sharing the beauty and importance of what we discovered but without really connecting to each other, to everybody. Thank you Leonne for your inspiring words.

156. When I read the translation “Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority” I immediately felt the way I am fighting myself and how wonderful it is to stop trying to become something and fully surrender to just being present.

157. there is indeed a lightness in the word surrender, and with surrender comes trust, and with trust comes reconnection, and with reconnection, we start to know who we truly are, when we start to know who we truly are, we are with God.

     1. Beautifully said cjames2012, surrendering allows me to reconnect to the divinity within myself, I can feel how I am interconnected with the all.

158. Surrender – meant a white flag, and disarming – letting go of weapons, and I am realising that the biggest weapon that I have been using was the protection, the guardedness.

159. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ These are words that immediately invite me to surrender Leonne! A beautiful moment you share here. Thank you.

160. Yes Leonne, we can live ‘calm and collected’ on the surface, yet still be in state of fight or flight with life underneath. Surrender and accepting removes this tension and lets us feel the full beauty of us and life.

161. I got something when reading this definition of surrender; “Stop resisting to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority”.
     How often do we look at our own body as the enemy? When it lets us down and gets sick before a party or our period comes before a date? We often blame our body for disturbing our life with it’s immortality and seemingly warning-less upsets. So this definition made sense to me by way of stop resisting what we think is the enemy (our body) and submit or surrender to the authority within. Our body tell’s us so much about what is going on, do we listen and surrender or resist and blame?

162. In true surrender there is a natural expansiveness and it allows us to feel more of who we are. I loved reading this blog again today, thank you Leonne

     1. yes surrendering is an ever unfolding deepening, as we discard all that is in the way of feeling the fullness we naturally are.

     2. ‘We don’t even have to settle for some surrendering we can deepen it every minute.’ Amazing to feel into this undisputed truth.

163. What a blessing for all those on the walking track Leonne when you made the choice surrender to how you were feeling rather than be swept up in the energy of those around you.

164. Wonderful Mariette I agree that surrendering has nothing to do with giving up – this is really a wrong understanding of surrender. I wonder why it is so common to believe such a thing. With that kind of thinking the surrender lost all what it is about – to recognize that we are all “part of something big, something beyond words.”

165. Spot on Michael – I want this on my wall at work. I vote for simplicity in my day as control seems futile in the face of surrender.

166. A beautiful point Brendan – when we make the choice to observe life from the loveliness of our body and heart then we allow others to feel that potential of living too.

167. ‘Each time I felt tension in my body I allowed it to release.’
     The simplicity here is inspiring as I feel my body let go just with reading it.
     A lovely way to reconnect and check in with how the body is holding throughout the day.

168. This confirms once again the power of Gods communication. As I read this beautiful blog I felt the healing transformation as I fully received what was being shared. We are all connected and as one of us makes the choice to connect to the truth and hold that in their movement, in their livingness then so it is for all. Thank you Leonne

169. When I surrender in the presence of another , it allows me to let go of the protection and survival instinct in my body bringing a deeper level of intimacy with myself and those around me.

     1. Well said Francisco – it’s a great marker to feel the bracing or holding on when we are with another. Are we hard and protected and if so, how does that feel for the other person and what influence is that having on the conversation or exchange? Surrender feels like the way to be to allow what is true and what is love to freely be expressed.

170. Reading your experience made me question how often does this happen in my day and I don’t even notice. How often have I caught myself feeling like I needed to change something to fit in or not ruffle feathers.

171. Beautiful comment Mariette.

172. I really loved your line
     “Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body”
     This for me says so much about how we walk in everyday life and how much we are constantly noticing and changing out body and posture to ‘fit’ in or suit others we are with and around. How truly freeing your walk must have been when you were feeling the easy grace and beauty of your walk and rhythm.

173. What you have written here toward the end of your blog is very revealing for me personally, ‘I can now see that disregarding my body and the way I feel makes it impossible to surrender to myself.’ For many years I had blatantly self-disregarding behaviour and am still discovering and learning about the more subtle forms of this in my life. It’s amazing to feel that as I change the choices I make to be more regarding of myself and my body I am also able to surrender more deeply to myself. Thank you Leonne.

174. Wonderful Leonne that was a very inspiring blog for me to read today. Especially following sentence: “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” That is a powerful expression Leonne and I can feel that this is true. For me that was a needed reminder – it is so easy for me to forget that I am in fact divine.

175. ‘Without surrender life is a battle, and it is against ourselves before we take it out into the world.’ This is so true Dr Rachel Mascord… In the attempt to control life and what we need from others or ourselves to fit in we can enter into a life long battle that resists the natural flow of who we are. I know resistance well and it takes the Joy out of living and puts the drag into existing. Surrender to our bodies and the wisdom they house invites Love back into ours lives, this I am learning.

176. A beautiful sharing Leonie, thank you
     I loved the way you slowly, gently and tenderly surrendered to your true self. What you have written is very powerful and wise.
     “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine”.

177. “The surrender I had allowed in my arms radiated through my whole body and I felt incredibly aware of every movement.” this is powerful sharing Leonne, I too have experienced that in my body when I have dropped my guard in the presence of others and have truly let them in it is exquisite.

178. It amazes me how much time we spend fighting our own bodies, going against the innate tenderness and lovliness that lies within. And surrender is the key, it takes us to our essence and shows that in there lies no tension or anxiety, we create this externally and ingest it. Beautiful, graceful surrendered walk Leonie, allowing what you felt in your body and surrendering to your natural grace and love gave you the most divine experience.

     1. That is indeed the great paradox: what lies within contains no tension, nor anxiety, just tenderness. Still we resist it. We just seem to have forgotten that we are this tenderness.

     2. I love reading about surrender because it enables me to connect to it immediately and feel the amazing love that I am whenever I have forgotten.

179. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine” This is such a gorgeous quote Leonne. Accepting who we are and our divinity is the key to truly living and the antidote to seeking outside of ourselves for recognition.

180. Alexander, what you say is worth pondering. Surrender is an ever deepening let go into the stillness and love that is already there. And once we let go a bit we see more to let go of and it perhaps is something that will ‘forever deepen’. Yet if we already are that deep profundity why do we hold ourselves up as if we do not want to immerse ourselves in a deep pool of water? Are we afraid we might drown? That we might lose our independence and individuality and disappear into the ocean of oneness? Surrender must therefore involve letting go of everything we identify with and this becomes more and more subtle the more that is rooted out and it does perhaps go on forever, or does there come a time when we are free of it and just allow ourselves to merge in the ocean?

181. There are two things that I feel you have highlighted so beautifully in this blog. One is that you need to have a body and be aware of and honouring of how it feels to be able to surrender. The other ( which you also need a body for) is to be really honest about what you are feeling. So much fight and tension goes into avoiding feeling what is there to be felt. When I let go of the fight and holding, surrender is there.

     1. I agree Fiona, we put so much fight and tension into avoiding feeling what is there to be felt, whereas surrendering to what the body is clearly telling us is actually deeply beautiful by its essence, even when it feels somewhat physically uncomfortable.

182. Just you pointing out your own tension Julie, has made me notice my own. My face feels tense, my jaw a little tight. So interesting to allow myself to feel how my body actually is.

     1. And when we are fully aware of the tension the body naturally surrenders as it is so unnatural to hold on to tension and it takes a lot of effort just like when you grip your fist.

183. Amazing how influenced we allow ourselves to be by our peers. I’ve been in that position many times, wondering if I’ve misread the weather because of what others have chosen to wear, rather than accept that I know if I’m cold or hot and also know what to do should I need to cool down or warm up. GIving our power away through doubting our own knowing is the craziest of crazy.

184. Our willingness to let go and trust that the vastness of the love we are from will always hold us, reminding me by surrendering to my own natural way of being and honouring the wisdom of my body that allows me to feel the harmony with others and everything around me.

185. I love this blog Leonne, the power of surrender, you break down all those dictionary definitions of surrender in such an elegant and simple example.

186. Surrender is giving up all the false creations we have made in life to stay safe or play whatever game we are familiar with. It is giving in to me and the love that is already there. Giving up the individual control and surrendering to the big plan.

     1. Yes Fiona, ‘individual control’ brings such a tension into the body and it’s all about setting ourselves up so we are not hurt. We don’t realise though how much we are hurting ourselves by doing that and how it disconnects us from the very love that we so long for.

        1. Dear Sandra thats true “individual control” brings tension into the body and it is good that you mentioned it because in the beginning surrendering was a big thing for me because of the fear of getting hurt. To be aware of it helped me to let go of this fear.

        2. That is indeed the irony, we try to avoid getting hurt and hurt ourselves in the very process.

187. “I felt such a grace and lightness in my body as I walked”
     How gorgeous to read your blog Leonie and to feel you walking with you in your puffer jacket.
     Reading your expression is a beautiful reminder to tenderly and lovingly walk with your self; to surrender to our loveliness.

188. ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ Beautifully expressed Leonne, a gift to bring into my day.

     1. Thank you Anne, I agree, it is very plain and simple and most if not all gifts that bring a deeper awareness are extremely simple!

189. I have found that I too need to accept myself in my fullness, and surrender, otherwise I feel the tension in my shoulders getting tighter, almost as if I am anticipating something happening. When I do surrender it feels wonderful to feel the oneness with everything.

190. Wow! Leonne, what an amazing blog; to let go and surrender to a walk in the way you describe, would be absolute magic!

     1. I agree Greg. I am just about to put on my walking shoes and head out the door!

        1. Yes na, I have just returned from my daily walk to just feel me!

191. To ‘surrender’ yes I would also think of the little white flag being waved in the air – as a sign of giving up. Previously I would always struggle with surrendering to the truth of how I was feeling and what was being presented to me. Constantly numbing out with all the ‘to do’ lists. Now with an understanding that to truly surrender it gives me a space and a choice to really feel within and work with other possibilities to bring about a true healing. Thank you Leonne a lovely sharing with us all.

     1. It’s true the word surrender is synonomous with the little white flag – and comes with that feeling that someone or people were defeated. Another bastardised word when true surrender is such a gorgeous and loving activity that brings us back to our essence and who we are. Wonderful to be re-defining words back to their true energetic meaning.

        1. Thank you Leonie and Jo, I agree, so many words have been taken down the garden path or led astray, until the presentations of Serge Benhayon, which share that from our essence we can discern and feel the truth of what words mean!

        2. I agree Jo. It’s been a real eye opener coming to realise how many words we’ve chosen to twist the meaning of.

     2. Golly, those ‘to do lists’ that keep taking us away from ourselves. I surrendered to a vacuum this morning, staying with my body and being loving to the task, and it felt so true – I left a floor full of love behind me. Then I got distracted, and went in to doing, my body hardened and it felt awful.Yet another opportunity to re assess how I am with myself.

192. Leonie, for most of my life I also held the perception that “surrender meant admitting defeat and handing yourself over to another”. However, since meeting Serge Benhayon and attending his presentations I have become increasingly aware to listen to my own body, not just listening but as you say, allowing “myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body”. Like you I discovered that “there can be great power” in true surrender and we can forever deepen the level of surrender we are prepared to allow. Thank you for the inspiration to never forget this, not just when walking but in every moment of the day.

     1. I have discovered the same Anne, in true surrender, which is ever deepening there is absolutely nothing lost rather a deeper connection and spaciousness felt within the body and the possibility to access more of the natural wisdom we are.

        1. I agree with all you say Victoria. I have always felt that surrender = big loss. But there is no loss, there is only more connection and spaciousness to be felt within the body. Surrendering is when we live our natural wisdom, and absolutely everyone has this equally in their body if they choose to live it.

193. It’s funny, i have experienced lots of journeys in life trying to achieve more things by looking for better outcomes, higher respect from others and greater comforts in life. Yet the only one thing that has ever made me feel truly loved and content within myself is what I have felt inside when I have surrendered to who I am. Now that may sound a little ‘new agey’ to the everyday reader but I mean it most sincerely that there is a place in all of us that is so warm and so true that once we connect with that all else seems to be a pale imposter.

194. That is such a great awareness Brendon… often we do something simple with way more tension than is required. As I understand it the level of tension can be carried over from something not quite resolved, pushed down a bit but yet continues to run my thoughts. None of this would have anything to do with my next task or conversation yet it is laced with the same energy because I’m still with that past moment and only partly present with the now. To stop and just connect with the task at hand is the most powerful gift I can give everyone and myself. A gift that then keeps on giving.

195. Leonne, perfect timing to read this blog and know that it’s about accepting my loveliness, something I’ve struggled with today and that surrender is really to that loveliness. And in that I impact everyone around and allow space. No striving just letting go.

196. I’m only just beginning to see the depths of control we employ in our movement, that control is there every time we hold back or force ourselves to move in a particular way, or move in any way that is not natural to our bodies. Beginning to see how big this topic is has made me appreciate surrender more than ever, so when I notice this control creep in I can begin to let my body go and shake it off – so to speak!

197. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine,” this sentence sums it all for me as I feel it is the connection to the divinity within me that allows me to drop the shield and let others in .

198. There is so much to expose just in going for a walk. How we hold ourselves, what are our thoughts, how we hold our bodies. With awareness of conscious presence much can be revealed if we choose to feel and see. Thank you Leonne a great insight into your awareness on your walk.

199. Surrendering is so powerful. I have noticed that I hold a lot of protection in my shoulders – it is as though I create a wall of armour around me when I enter into conversation with people. By being aware of my shoulders and making slight movements to let go of the tension, open my heart and yes, surrender to my inner-heart – I can feel myself open more to who I am speaking with and allow them to see more of who I truly am. Surrendering to myself and the whole interaction changes. It is amazing. I am looking forward to taking this surrender into my walk – thank you for the inspiration Leonne.

200. So well said Carola – and I feel there certainly is “no end to the depth that we can surrender to this divine love that we are”. I can feel my shoulders fall away and heart open just reading these words. A huge expansion in my body – thank you.

201. I could also hear the song in Leonne’s words – and your comment has added another verse Natasha. A beautiful sharing – thank you.

202. I am so inspired by your walk Leonne. I love the way you have described the process of letting go of what other people might think. It was like you were connected and in tune with nature – and then you unzipped your jacket and got lost for a bit – listened to your body, did up your jacket and became part of the greater world again – including yourself, nature and humanity. Quite a revelation! I also enjoyed this pondering: “How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?” From what you’ve written and from what I have experienced, it can be absolutely, show-stoppingly, game-changingly amazing !!!

203. It is wonderful when we stop enough to feel our body and the way we are holding it and let it relax back to its natural way of being. How lovely it feels to then walk appreciating who you are. What a beautiful way to start the day.

204. Leonne I love what you expressed about …“Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body.” I have spent all of my life trying to fit in until I came across Universal Medicine and once you feel that Grace in the body, its like coming home.

205. Just this morning I went for a walk and could feel tension held in my shoulders and neck – the moment I felt this I had to ‘shake it off’ but this came from a wanting to be free of uncomfortable feeling of the tension and not accepting that I might allow it and feel it in full to understand its roots. In this manner I can now feel that all I achieved was to mask it thinking it had cleared during the walk, but I sit here typing and can feel it return so this time I will surrender to the fact that I feel it and simply allow it to be there, that I might get to feel it in full.

     Thank you for writing this blog that I could have the opportunity to connect with it in the moment that I was ready to accept its message.

206. I love this following line from your blog Leonne. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” It is choosing to trust the divine within that allows everything to fall into place, it is so amazing yet it is our natural state of being that when we connect with the All, that the All all flows together in our lives.

207. Surrendering is such an amazing thing to choose for ourselves and when I am totally surrendered it doesn’t matter what is going on around me I don’t let the tension of the world come in and affect me. This is an on going process as there is quiet a few situations where I forget about my surrendered state of being and slip into the chaos of the world around me and this has an immediate affect on how I feel in my body. I feel contracted and start to harden and get up tight in certain area’s of my body. These are sure signs to me that I have stopped surrendering to my natural tender, sweet, delicate Woman that I am. The choice is always there to keep returning to the Glory of who I am.

     1. Well said Natalie, I used to think surrender was like raising the white flag up and saying… “ok you win!”, but to the contrary I feel the act of surrendering actually gives me more options to choose from. The more I let go and empty my cup, the more choices I can make where all the external things don’t affect me leaving me to truly support myself.

208. What you have written here Leonie is very inspiring.
     I can feel and imagine you walking along a busy path, with your puffer jacket fully zipped up) in your full divinity, glory and power; what an awesome sight.

209. Absolutely Janet. It is as if at some point this knowing was buried beneath the influences and ideals the world has created. In this disconnection, we bounce from belief to belief in search of ‘it’ but the worldly created belief never is the truth.

210. This Winter I’ve noticed that I haven’t felt the cold as much. Your blog Leonne had me pondering, is this because I’m surrendering to my body and how gracefully it moves more consistently since Universal Medicine? I could feel how my body would also tense and brace for the cold and how now, more often than not, I notice this happening and surrender.

211. The word surrender is a very powerful word. To trust and truly surrender has been a long process for me after associating the word surrender with weakness.

212. Surrendering to the messages from my body is a learning for me after spending most of my life living from my head. It’s a completely different experience when I listen to and honour what my body feels to do. It takes me in a different direction and my head sometimes wants to fight against the feeling, thinking how odd that is, but it’s getting used to going with the flow. And it’s starting to accept that the feeling is so often better than the thinking. I wonder how many people noticed how snug and dressed up you were and thought to themselves, what a great idea that was?

213. “How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?” I can so relate to this comment Leonne…resistance creates a great deal of tension and takes a lot of energy to sustain, whereas surrendering to the wisdom of the body is so simple if we allow this.
     Our body has been on the receiving end of all our choices and therefore has great authority in knowing what it needs and what it doesn’t.
     So many people fight and resist their body, and when it becomes sick they feel as though it has failed them – without looking at how they have treated it over the years.

214. This feels amazing to read “…there can be great power in surrender.” It feels this way for me because this article expresses something that I have experienced. True surrender, is deeply empowering. There is so much there waiting to be expressed and lived if we allow ourselves to feel it rather than over ride it and have our bodies become hard and rigid. Surrender for me relates to that lived experience of feeling what there is to feel and not attempting to deny it, always knowing that my true essence is divine.

215. I know I am not alone in getting the meaning of ‘surrender’ a bit mixed up. I have tended to view it in relation to there being something outside of me that I need to protect myself from and not give in to. What I realised reading your blog Leonne is that when you realised that you were holding your body in tension you kept allowing yourself to feel and be aware of everything around you and you allowed your feelings to guide you in each moment. As a result your expanded presence had a big impact on everything around you. This is actually occurring in every moment for all of us but the fight or battle is an internal one that we are having ridiculously to try to hold at bay the enormous flow of awareness and feelings and intuition that we have naturally available in each moment. So I am now understanding surrender to really be about stopping the fight against ourselves.

216. Leonie, thank you for sharing your realisation about “the power we all have when we claim our presence”. When we take responsibility for being present in every moment and as you say, when we “stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body” life can be amazing and that amazingness is reflected to others and inspires others to also claim their presence as your walk clearly showed you. What a loving foundation to take into the rest of the day.

217. This is such a beautiful way to illustrate the power of surrender. It is a word that we have been denied true access to because its meaning is so closely associated with giving in, giving up and giving our power to another. You, in the simple act of zipping your jacket up in honour of your body have shown that surrender is powerful because it is real. It feels what is and says “yes” to it. It accepts what our body is feeling in this moment and responds accordingly.
     This is surrender.
     And when we do not do this, we simply sustain the battle that life can be when every moment is a fight against truth.

218. I love this Leone and am finding that truly surrendering is a forever deepening process and the greatest gift we can give ourselves. It comes first from accepting ourselves and the love and loveiness we are. This is a beautiful sharing and journey into surrender that feels so real and alive in my body too,Thank you.

219. I love this phrase, Leonne – “submitting to the authority of my own body”. This speaks volumes to me, of the perpetual choice to return to the source of love from which we originate, that lives within us.

220. This blog confirms to me so much I have learnt from Universal Medicine. Why give up a natural way of being for a hardness when surrender is all that is required. The word itself has been redefined here. My take on it in the past would be something born out of pride, with with me screaming “We shall not surrender!” at the top of my lungs just before being blown apart. Not a very manly word or one I that I would even consider to be in my vocabulary but this take on it here makes the word and it’s meaning truly beautiful.

     1. So true, kevmchardy. There is a conditioned soldier-like bravura that is hammered into men when it comes to the word ‘surrender’. It is as if we have been deliberately fed a false meaning of it in order to prevent us from connecting to the truth and power of surrendering to that which is greater than us, but at the same time encompasses us all.

221. Surrendering to the loveliness that we are is truly beautiful, we can do it anytime and anywhere.

222. I love your blog Leonne and I am going to copy and paste your last paragraph “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.I can now see that disregarding my body and the way I feel makes it impossible to surrender to myself. How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?” into my ‘Read Daily List’.

223. The depth of our surrender is dependant on our willingness to go there, our willingness to let go and trust that the vastness of the love we are from will always hold us. I so agree Natalie, it is the most beautiful journey I have ever explored!

224. Yes, surrender begins and is only possible when we listen to what our bodies speaks. Surrender means to let my being expand in my body, to feel it to the tips of my fingers and toes. And the more I care and love my body, the deeper my surrendering can be.

225. I find the word surrender to be really powerful. It is amazing just by saying a word how it can change how I hold my body. I am found this an amazing thing to practice in exercise but I can also see how important it is to take a stop and surrender at all times in the day. When I do I can feel how much tension I allow my body to be held in, it is a bit like being on constant fight or flight mode except with no need to run. Imagine how much energy can be saved by surrendering all the time and how much more body awareness this way of being brings.

     1. The energy required to keep ourself from surrendering to what is so natural to us is indeed exhausting! It is natural for us to let go and allow our bodies to receive and then to act based upon what we receive. Our eyes constantly receive light (except maybe when we are sleeping), our bodies receive sensations through our skin, our ears and nose receive messages from our environment always. But we have made an art out of resisting the messages that we receive, of trying to create our own reality instead of listening to what our lives are telling us and following the wisdom that we innately have.

     2. When I allow myself to stop during my day and feel what is going on in my body it is surprising how much tension I can accumulate. The constant battle within is exhausting and definitely not needed. When I choose to live in a way that, through awareness, I am able to allow myself to surrender to me, my whole day changes. The tension does not accumulate, my body does not tire and I feel alive and can truly enjoy my day.

     3. So true Stephen. The momentum we build up inside our body is insane. Love your comment – ‘it is a bit like being on constant fight or flight mode except with no need to run’. In thankful contrast, living any other way, other than feeling surrender in your body, feels like a crazy person!

        1. Indeed, a crazy person Sara, living that way without surrender but held in tension you can feel a bit demented, and it is no wonder then that the unloving choices come in, the decision to eat foods that are not supportive, or act in ways that are not caring. Surrender gives space to feel much more and accept ourselves much more too.

     4. I’m with you on that Leonne. The difference in my body is worlds away from where I was before Universal Medicine and I am so very thankful for that!

226. “Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body.” What a powerful and self honouring realisation Leonne. As I read this line I could feel how many times I have put effort into something that was causing my body pain and discomfort, as I was actually working against what my it was trying to tell me, what it naturally wanted to do. And then to feel the letting go of all that tension and the fight, to surrender, feels nothing like a weakness but a strength that comes through knowing that you always have the opportunity to make a different choice, in every moment. To me, it feels like I am surrendering to the wisdom that I have available to me in every moment.

     1. I agree Ingrid and love what you have expressed here – absolute Gold!

227. This lovely sharing by Leonne reminded me as a child my brother and I would play fight at wrestling and the words used if we held another down by their shoulders was “Do you surrender yet?” “Do you submit?” and answering yes, meant you had won that particular bout! I would often just give in and say I did because of the pain. This awesome blog highlights how for years I carried that same ‘thinking’ that if I surrendered it meant a weakness or a giving up – which is so not what the flip side of this word actually means or feels like now. To truly surrender to what our body tells us or a given situation feels now that I am starting to feel/connect much deeper within and respond in a loving way as you beautifully share Leonne to a “natural way of being” and to “submit to the authority of my own body”.

228. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” This line stood out for me on my first reading of this blog and since then I have found it very inspiring as I had not quite connected to ‘the Kingdom within’ as being myself. It has brought me to a deeper awareness of how I have still being looking outside of myself for acceptance.

229. Surrender has been in my awareness for quite some time, but not always choosing this, so this blog is a lovely reminder that when I am feeling a little unsure or undecided, all i have do to is surrender to what is in front of me, and I will know my next step….

230. I love coming back to your blog Leonne, reminding me again that there is nothing I long for more than to surrender to myself, to life and the Divinity inside and around me.

231. Thank Leonnie beautiful written this blog. Whilst reading my body surrendered more and more and i could feel to surrender to our body is actually very natural. If we do we allow others also to let go of holding themselves in tension.

232. What a great take on surrender and how it can naturally and gracefully play out when the body is in charge and not the mind with its beliefs and ideals of how things should be.

233. In all that you described in your blog, Leonne, was for me a simple feeling of openness, letting down the guards and letting the world around you in. Beautiful, thank you.

234. Isn´t it amazing what effect we have, if we choose to surrender? All the outside changed, like you shared- how powerful we are?!

235. I was struck by the impact that your surrendering had on your surroundings. that everything flowed and had a sacredness about it that others responded to. That’s massive!

236. Surrendering as a foundation for our days – letting go to the knowing that ‘all thereafter is known’ – that is all our trust issues out of the way! Thank you, Alex.

     1. Surrender as a foundation of our days, I love it and I am choosing it from this day forth.

237. Beautifully expressed Leonne – ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.’ – Thank you for this gorgeous reminder.

238. Thank you Leonne for inspiring us to see the power in ‘surrendering’ to our own divine essence. Only then are we in the ‘being’ rather than the ‘doing’ and from ‘being’ our natural self, all else will flow, lovingly so! As you say, “how amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?” – this is the power of true surrender!

239. Surrounding is a truly powerful thing. And there is a connotation that surrendering is a weakness however as explained there is so much power in a surrounding. But more likely then not the body is in a tension and surrendering is the best medicine that you could ever give to your body.

240. I love this line, Leonnie, ” It was as though the path had become sacred and there was a trust and a knowing between us that transcended the need to yell or ‘ding’ a bell”. It is amazing the effect we can have on others when we surrender to our own essence, where we find we are all one. We are so connected to each other, how we are could be expected to have an effect on others.

241. This blog is a beautiful example of how powerful surrendering to our own delicateness and preciousness is and what an impact it has on our surroundings. Thank you Leonne for sharing this with us, it is a truth we cannot be reminded of enough.

242. What a beautiful piece of writing. My body is letting go.

243. Lovely blog Leonne. There is so much power in surrendering.

244. Truly surrounding is very powerful. When I allow myself to do it, I feel like my real self and feel that everything I had been holding on to was really insignificant compared to who I really am.

245. This is a beautiful blog about the power of true surrendering and its effect on ourselves and our surroundings.
     And it shows that when I am in disregard to myself and do not accept who I am that I cannot truly surrender.
     Thank you for sharing this Leonne.

246. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.”- I can feel the strength and power of surrender in my body through these words. Thank you.

247. Interesting you refer to surrender like a battle as I feel like I am actually fighting in a battle within my days and when I truly surrounded and let my guard down I realise that the battle is with myself. I am fighting against myself for perfection, for harmony, for ease of communication, for fear of getting things wrong.
     But learning to surrender and become more and more tender I realise that the battle does not have to be fought. The battle that I am constantly fighting need not be a battle at all but more of a self loving, self supporting, self knowing understanding that all those things that need to happen within my day can and do happen effortlessly when I surrender.

     1. Awesome Natasha, I love what you have come to here.

        1. Thanks Lisa, I am in awe of just how beautiful life can be and just how simple life can be when we choose to surrender. It becomes effortless and easy and like life just glides along so beautifully.

     2. Natasha that feeling of being in battle is something that I completely relate to. I’m amazed that when I surrender I get to feel just how in battle with myself I was and how the reality is there is only a battle if I create one.

     3. Me too Natasha, I resonate with every word you wrote.

248. “I could feel that this surrender is not a giving up or a giving away. I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my body.” How beautiful to read these words this morning, I am learning to do this more myself and feeling the beauty of the workings of my body and all around me when I do.

249. I too have felt the beauty and power that comes from surrendering to oneself. So I pondered on why can a word that can offer an understanding to how we can allow our inner beauty to shine to be so infected with only negative connotations. If were only to have the experience of the learned definition of surrender and no-one offer a true meaning of this word, we would miss out on the opportunity to explore what surrendering to ones own bodies rhythms felt like and the power and confidence this allows to blossom. I was blessed to meet Serge Benhayon who has offered me the possibility of exploring words and their true definitions, this is and has been a very powerful experience for me, Leonne you have offered this same experience, thank you.

250. Thank you for sharing Alexis. This is a great example of surrendering to your own loveliness and a testament to the fact that we cannot help feel the divine essence of others when we do this.

251. Thank you Leonne this is so beautiful to feel and know ,true surrender is the real gift we can all give ourselves by how we live in our everyday lives. I can really feel how this can transform our bodies from the holding back and allows our true essence and divinity to be felt and claimed. Something so missing from life today for manty of us and this article lights the way joyfully.

252. Since my first read of this blog Leonne i’ve been noticing how different it feels to walk when I am surrendered in myself vs when I am on edge. To surrender and be present is certainly something I feel is worth building into my life – being aware of when I tense up and choosing to surrender again.

253. I love this line “surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine”. In the past when people spoke about surrender my reply was always “surrender to what”. Having re-connected to myself I know exactly what I am surrendering to and that is to my divine essence.

     1. This line stood out for me, too, and your comment Elizabeth brings a profound understanding to what is expressed here. Thank you.

     2. Yes I can relate to this in full. I now know the beauty of us all lies in surrender. It’s truely beautiful.

     3. Beautiful, Elizabeth, surrendering is so amazing actually, and it is so powerful too.

     4. This feels so lovely, Elisabeth. I am learning to accept my own loveliness and the power that connecting to my essence has on those around me.

254. Surrender when used in its true meaning is a very very powerfull and beautiful word. Almost feels like letting go and letting ourselves be naturally held by the Love we truly are.

     1. Leonne it was so beautiful to read how true surrender comes from strength rooted in gentleness, not weakness,

        1. And trusting, knowing that the divine qualities that we choose now are what is ahead in the future.

        2. Indeed it was so poignent to feel how if we surrender to the fact that our strength comes our connection to our divinity we do not need to struggle against life.

255. As I learn to trust my body and in essence, trust the divine, I let go and surrender and life unfolds with so much more joy, grace and ease.

     1. I concur Rob, the letting go of controlling life and surrendering to the grace and flow of love is by far a superior choice for our body and everyone around us!

256. ‘It was as though the path had become sacred and there was a trust and a knowing between us that transcended the need to yell or ‘ding’ a bell.’ I captured all of your sharing in this sentence Leonne – the depth of connection with our sacredness is confirming of our true selves and allows us to observe the world from its stillness.

     1. And observing it from this stillness is like taking off your sun glasses when coming home and suddenly seeing everything so much brighter and lighter.

        1. That is a perfect description Michael.

257. This is well summed-up: “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.”

     1. Agree Oliver! And when we accept our own loveliness, our own divinity and our own beauty, we can not only see and appreciate the beauty, love and divinity in others, but naturally expand and allow others the opportunity to appreciate and feel these qualities within themselves also.

258. Hi Johannebrown17, the difference between giving up and and allowing is key.
     I have found that with the tension is a hardness in my body and when I move to acceptance what I am accepting is the gentleness that is who we naturally are.

259. I agree Ariana – surrendering to ourselves makes a lot of sense, considering who knows you better than you?

260. Very true Alexis, we cannot surrender (fully) unless we accept (fully) what is, and I would supplement this with ‘through understanding’. Understanding leads to acceptance and the capacity to let go, and deeply surrender. What beauty and not white flag weakness, there is in surrender.

261. I am currently doing an Esoteric Yoga course in which the theme is surrender. Reading your blog Leonne and participating in the Yoga Course is offering me an opportunity to look at where I am not surrendering and taking letting go to a whole different level.

262. This is true Brendan. A giving up is what is commonly associated with surrendering. It’s strange how the association is actually opposite to the true meaning of surrendering. I too see and feel it to be me surrendering to my deep divine love within and of course it is very powerful and strong.

263. Who would have thought that to let go and Surrender would be the key to going deeper with yourself! It makes complete sense because the energy you are using to be or attached to what you think you need to do, be or say can’t possible support you to be who you truly are. Surrender and accept that amazing beauty that we are and that is a recipe for living in your essence. Now that is what I am talking about.

264. Listening to and trusting in what my body tells me instead of always comparing and calibrating myself to others has been a massive change for me. It is so amazing how much I know and feel that I simply chose to override before.

265. Very true Jessica. When we reconnect with the true essence of a word it is very revealing. Very often they have a deeper, more truthful root than we have come to know. Language has a richness that is joy to rediscover.

266. Interesting isn’t it that we choose to resist our natural way of being – especially because, as your experience shares with us Leonne, surrendering to it is a wonderful way to be. To me it reveals how much pressure there is from outside of us to ‘fit in’ with the image our societies want to present. Yet in fitting in are we all walking around with constant tension in our bodies? Something well worth pondering I feel.

     1. Very true comment for me also Richard, the fact that I often hold myself in protection in a situation or in relationships as a way to control the situation, so that I don’t feel something, that I don’t create such an imbalance, disharmony, and difficulty with just being in my body and then everything else. Rather than simply put surrendering to an instance and allowing for it to unfold, I know when I act that way my body is a whole lot less tense!

267. Power of surrendering/listening to what your body is always communicating to you and then allowing that natural rhythm to follow feels so expansive. I was surrendering into my body while reading what you have written here Leonne. Simple yet so very powerful to surrender to your self. Thank you for your sharing.

268. Thankyou Leonne, amazing what is revealed to us when we surrender to and feel our bodies.You have inspired me to bring this presence and focus on my walk that I am now going to embark on with full surrender, thank you.

269. I love this blog Leonne, to surrender to the authority of your own body is not submissive it is actually empowering. Honoring the exquisite beauty and harmony within our bodies brings us back to our divine origins. I feel like I understand this on a deeper lever since pondering on what you have written.

270. Very powerful indeed- I like what you mention about surrendering to your own loveliness – your own essence.

271. Wow you make a simple walk into a magic and deeply profound opportunity for healing in this gorgeous blog. And your descriptors were spot on. I knew the place you were talking about before I even clocked that you were writing it from Melbourne. I remember those balloons hanging silent in the crisp morning sky above the city sky line. What a great blog to wake up to.

272. As I have been walking this week, especially while doing yard duty at school- I have been checking in to see and ask ‘am I surrendered in my body’ or am I holding any tension as I walk. I have thought of your beautiful sharing. Thank you.

273. Yes Ariana….I too ‘equated it as submitting myself to an outside power’..i saw it as a weakness, giving my power away…and the old use of the word as define in the dictionary is like that… BUT the true use of the word surrender – is powerful.

274. I loved this blog as you present surrender, it brings such a beautiful quality to the word, you bring it’s true meaning, and how powerful it is, it’s almost like surrendering to our divine essence instead of the internal fight….

     Your words ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine’. Was felt very deeply and it is exactly what i can become more in how i live – surrendering!

275. Surrendering to the love and delicateness that we are is powerful as it allows us to connect and listen to our bodies and also let others in full, Thank you Leonne.

276. Adorable blog! It is very supportive and confirming to read it Leonne:

     ”All the while I asked my body to surrender and with each breath I could feel it let go of another layer of hardness and protection. I was now ready to take my hands (balled into fists!!!) from my pockets and my body had warmed up enough to allow this without interrupting my ability to surrender to me.”

     No matter the specific context, weather or situation, what you beautifuly described as ‘surrender’, can be applied at any moment or situation in life, surrendering to our Love within that is warm and letting go of the cold hardness and the protection….

     As you say, very ”still and supportive” in order to walk through life and constellate different things around. Thank you for sharing it.

277. Great blog Leone, true surrender to what we truly are is very powerful, it supports our connection and there is no need to prove anything.

     1. Wise words Benkt; ‘ true surrender to what we truly are is very powerful, it supports our connection and there is no need to prove anything’.

     2. True Benkt. If I remind myself there is no need to prove anything my whole body lets go.

278. Great blog Leonne. As I was reading this I became aware of my tension and started allowing myself to surrender. It felt so good! An ease came about and my whole body relaxed with a simple yes. I think your on to something with this one..

279. So beautifully written & described thank you Leone for your touching article here… I felt like I surrendered as I read it

     1. Yes Leah, ‘i felt like i surrendered as i read it’….I also felt that and the deep yearning to keep surrendering to the divinity within me…it does not feel you do it once and that’s it, it becomes a way of life…and it deepens and deepens..and expands where more and more is felt within….

280. What a beautiful relating of your experience Leonne. What strikes me the most, is that it was your commitment to listening to your body, and staying with you, that allowed the surrender to deepen. There is no abandoning of self, nor giving away of one’s ‘power’ in true surrender – only an expansion of all that we naturally are, as it is allowed to just be.
     As I go to walk a few steps now, I will most surely be deeply with me, inspired by your words. Thank-you.

     1. Great point Victoria an Debra, it is all about surrendering to ouselves, e.g. listening to our body and stay with it. No outer movement at all.

     2. I totally agree Debra, surrender is very powerful and the deeper the connection to within the more love I feel and then live from this.

281. Yes, Golnaz. I felt the same reading Leonne’s piece here – beautiful… And what a powerful reflection of the activity around her changing as she did – as though Leonne was a part of nature that called everyone to be more still…

282. I love your blog Leonne, your beauty and grace must have been apparent to all as you surrendered to it yourself. Sitting in my chair reading your blog, I could feel my body surrendering, it felt very loving. Thank you.

     1. I can too feel the grace of her walk through her writing. I imagine that it caused a stilling feeling around her.

283. Beautiful to read your blog again Leonne and to be able to feel my body surrendering as I read your beautiful words. A wonderful and inspiring way to begin my day.

284. “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” This is huge. I feel I could re-read this sentence all day and in that I know I would be supported completely. Thanks Leonne.

285. Jessica I have found new freedom and joy in reclaiming the true meaning of words like delicateness, fragility, surrender, preciousness, loveliness. Surrendering to the quality each brings, rather than resisting or condemning has opened up a whole new way of being.

286. This is very true Andrew. The more we surrender to what we are, the less we will have to be what we are not. Otherwise stated as: the more we surrender what we are not, the more we are left to be what we are.

287. There is not an ounce of weakness nor defeat in the delicate act of true surrender. Thank you Leonne for painting such an accurate and beautiful portrait of this power reclaimed.

288. Leonne your sharing on the power of true surrender debunks the myth that I and I am sure many others had that to surrender is to stop or give up in some way. In recent years I came to deepen my understanding of surrender and its a great reminder that you can be surrendered in everything you do.

289. ‘Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body.’ This sentence really makes me stop and reflect on how much I compromise my quality of being to ‘fit in’ with others and will serve as a focus for today to be about my quality.Thank you.

290. This constant way of living that you share Leonne of connecting to your body and letting go of the tension and surrendering to our natural state of being is seriously inspiring. When we check-in and see how we are holding ourselves it is and interesting stop, connect and feel process that is vital in connecting to the true you.

291. I can agree with that Aimee. I too could feel the surrendering in my body while reading this blog. It is a great gift to each other to share our experiences in our lives.

292. “Fitting in was not worth sacrificing the beauty of my walk and the easy grace in my body.”
     Nothing is worth sacrificing my inner essence.
     What a powerful reminder, that just came to me at the right time.
     Thank you Leonne.

293. Isn’t it interesting, Michelle, that a word that has the power to open us up to who we truly are, should have ended up as being defined as weakness? I have just been considering the word “vulnerability” as being in the same misconstrued position also. When, why and how did these false misconstructions and misleading definitions of such powerful words arise and from whom?

294. So well said, lizkhalu, that the battle we cease in surrendering, is the one we started by ourselves. Truly awesome: thank you!

295. Awesome observation, Jennifer. Within myself, I have, at times, felt a fear around surrendering completely which made no sense until I connected with a sense of suppression around being a woman. I felt that stemmed from my own disregard earlier in this life, but also from the accumulation of heavy sexual energies and aggressive energies out there in the world. I’m working on discarding the effects of both so that I can truly surrender without fear and then live life purely observing and not absorbing what is harmful to us all.

296. “For most people, surrender meant admitting defeat and handing yourself over to another “ I used to have such a relationship with the word ‘surrender and found it difficult to even consider going there. I have now started to introduce it into my life, and although I have a long way to go those tender and delicate moments are increasing. Cjames2012 says it well when he describes it as “letting go of the parts of us that are holding on, in fact holding us to ransom“. This is how my unfolding with surrender has felt like.

297. Leonne, this is beautiful sharing: thank you. I love the wisdom in your calling out of what is NOT true surrender, with all its false defeatist associations; and then how your simple act of responding to your body’s need for warmth allowed your gorgeous experience to unfold naturally and instantly. How powerful is that.
     As you say, ” How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?”
     Hence, disregard, anger, frustration, all of those emotions bar the way to us all experiencing the truth of our divinity because they are barriers to such a surrender.

298. This was great to read again. Whilst reading the comments, and allowing a moment of surrendering to my body and not giving the authority to my mind, the self-critique and busyness of my mind stopped.

299. Beautifully expressed, Leonne. I felt my arms releasing as I read this and I see that my body naturally lets go if I can allow myself to be with my body with whatever I may be doing. This is new to me as I always used to drum up a certain tension in my body to ‘get things done’ but then I would leave ‘my own loveliness’. Surrender is, as you say, ‘my natural way of being’ and then the authority of the body guides me as to what needs doing and everything does flow more easily and harmoniously, just as it did for you on the bike path.

300. It feels to me that you know that you know that surrendering to you means feeling exactly how incredible and powerful you are Jennifer. Is it possible you are actually avoiding full surrender because of the responsibility this awareness brings? I know this is certainly something that comes up for me.

301. Amazing Golnaz – I am reading your beautiful comment on the train and feel my body surrender in turn as I read. Surrender is contagious.

302. I agree with your words Aimee – “It just shows how powerful it is when even one person shows another way.” – and that is what I initially found when I met Serge Benhayon – he showed me that there is another way, and we do not need to continue to choose the way that we have initially been travelling – that seems to be ‘the way it is’ – great title for a book that!!

303. I love how you said this Leonne – “This extraordinary ordinary walk left me in no doubt of the power of true surrender. I could feel that this surrender is not a giving up or a giving away.” I really get how powerful surrender in this way is, surrendering to what we know in our body to be true.

304. So true Kylie, and a great opportunity to consider
     why we may hold on to such a limited version of ourselves when we are such grandness.

305. Thank you for sharing your experience of surrendering during your walk Leonne. I love the connection you have to your body and those around you as you walk. It is inspiring.

306. It is not just interesting Jessica how words have been misrepresented like tenderess, preciousness and fragility, it is absolutely fascinating to see how we have deliberately set it up so we reject these words as signs of weakness and vulnerability to be avoided at all costs! We definitely need to reclaim the real meaning of words and live them again!

     1. So True Vanessa, I grew up thinking that tenderness and fragility were a sign of weakness for a man so I went out of my way to reject that within myself, I had to push myself to the limit to prove that I was tough and could handle anything ! This has changed over the last few years since I met Serge Benhayon as I can feel how powerful it is for me as man to embrace my own tenderness and delicateness so innate within me and how this allows other men to do the same by way of reflection.

307. Thank you Leonne for sharing the impact we have when we walk in connection with ourselves and surrendered to our bodies.

308. It’s interesting how we ‘fight’ what our bodies are telling us so as to fit in or conform. I know for me, if I am cold, my body hardens and braces against the cold so it’s super important that I am warm, otherwise surrendering in my body isn’t possible as I feel a holding tension against the cold.

309. Jessica I agree. I am amazed at how many words I’ve misinterpreted and through these blogs am coming to an awareness of what they feel in reality to live. I’m discovering the issues I thought I had with these words were actually issues I had with their mis-interpretations. I am now much more open to discovering and experiencing their true meanings.

310. So true Michelle, the word surrender is often associated with weakness, it feels so good to shake this off and claim the true power, strength, freedom and (one more to add) ‘trust’ that this word truly holds.

311. Leonne thank you for such a powerful and lovingly supportive truth: ‘Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine’. Hear hear to living every moment in surrender.

312. It was a beautiful blog to read, Leonne. I am just about to go for a walk and I feel inspired to surrender more deeply as I move. Thanks for sharing.

313. there is no part of us worth sacrificing ever.

     1. A very good point Gyl – never should we sacrifice our own health or well-being because we are trying to please others or keep up with the ‘rat race’ of life. By surrendering to ourselves we develop a completely different relationship with ourselves.

314. I love this line Leonne: “Surrender begins when I accept my own loveliness, act on my awareness and choose to trust in the fact that I am divine.” I find too when I act on my awareness as you say, like having a rest when I feel to instead of pushing through, I can feel how beautiful I am so much more easily. And that is in the end all I truly want.

315. That is exactly what I feel too Alison. It is so powerful to surrender to all of yourself.

316. I too Deborah am also very attracted to reading a blog on the word surrender, for I know that being able to do this will allow me to live with less tension and more energy. Surrender most definitely isn’t a giving up but actually an allowing for more to come, more of life to be lived and enjoyed. I am finding that practising surrender in the evening is necessary to allow me to sleep more deeply, something that has a huge knock on effect on the day that follows.

317. Hi Leonne, As I read your blog I could feel myself surrendering within my body, truly beautiful and now I’m off for a walk with me! Thank you

318. “Fitting in was not worth sacrificing ….” How true is this, fitting in is not worth sacrificing anything for, be it the beauty in our walk, the grace in our body, the love in our hearts, the truth that we are and bring, the power that is inside us all – being A Son of God.

319. That is fantasticly summed up Gabriele Conrad. That to me is true power.

320. Absolutely, well said Rebecca. No words to add to that!

321. Yes Ariannekasi, What exactly are we ‘fighting’ when we don’t surrender to our own bodies?

322. This blog is so inspiring that I just had to do a second post. I thought of you today Leonne when I was out walking in my feather puffer jacket all rugged up. I found that the more I settled into my own rhythm, letting my body relax the more I began to understand that I can let my body release and let go like this throughout my whole day, just by being very present and in my rhythm, the same way I did in my walk! Thanks for the inspiration!

     1. Gorgeous Danielle, ‘I found that the more I settled into my own rhythm, letting my body relax the more I began to understand that I can let my body release and let go like this throughout my whole day’, I’m checking in with my body a lot more in my day now, letting my shoulders drop and my body surrender, noticing more how Im walking, sitting, talking.

323. There are times when we will not fully surrender, as we are afraid of showing our truth. Why are we afraid to show who we really are in this life. There is nothing to hide.
     But lots to show in love, harmony and truth.

324. Yes Gabriele, it is amazing when we align to what we are truly feeling and surrender to what the body needs, how it is confirmed by what aligns around us – in this case the dings. Walking in the field of God 🙂

325. Gorgeous Leonne. The true meaning of surrender has become one of my favourite words when it comes to loving myself, and is key to the stillness I am able to experience when I do allow myself to surrender. For me there is always a deeper level that I can surrender to – and sharing your story about your walk offers a deep healing, and I will certainly be feeling it on my walk in the morning. Thank you.

326. It’s amazing to read how just by surrendering your body on your walk, you got the reflection back to you of your great choice.Very powerful indeed. A great reminder to be more aware of reflections in daily everyday life, like going for a walk. A great learning, thank you Leonne.

327. The aaahh ha moment you experienced Leonne is so significant as you say. When you look back on it and see that we are resisting our natural divine, harmonious way of being. To surrender to this is simple as we don’t have to do anything just let go of what is not us. The body I too have found is the best place to really feel what this hardness, tightness and tension does to me and then the choices and thoughts that I have from here. Surrendering always creates space and clarity along with power. I know which one I prefer.

328. It seems that most things in this world are designed for ‘anti-surrender’. I mean from the moment you switch the TV or radio on, read a magazine, use your laptop or mobile phone or buy something at a shop there’s usually this tension in the air to go, go, go, quick, next, hurry up, don’t be late, move it, there might not be enough if I don’t get there in time, and so on…
     Yet to surrender as you describe it Leonne says no to all of these daily impositions – and I think here you have actually touched on one of the most precious things we can ever do for ourselves and another – let go and surrender to something grand but that lives naturally within… incredible really.

329. Agree Rebecca, everything is already within us, it is just a matter of ‘surrendering’. : )

330. Wow Jennifer, I love what you have shared here and I too can relate. I only feel that I have begun to touch the surface of what truly surrendering is. I have moments of experiencing it but there is a whole lot more that I could bring into my day to day life. A sign that I often feel in my body when I know I am far from surrendering is when I feel tension in my forearms.

331. I agree Ben. An aspect that I find at times makes true surrendering challenging and difficult to accept is that it requires acknowledging and taking responsibility for where I am in the present moment. In that moment it may require accepting full responsibility for the choices I have made that have resulted in consequences that are unpleasant. However, through the surrendering to the truth and accepting responsibility one can deal with consequences and move. That is humbling but empowering too.

332. It is so simple really, no need for complication as you so clearly stated Leone – ‘I was able to see that I allow myself to surrender to my own divine essence when I listen to and support my own body’. In the world that is so busy I see people rushing, pushing, trying, getting caught up in the mind and what they are seeking seems unattainable. All stillness is lost. We are all connected and when we take responsibility for connecting to ourselves and maintaining that then the power of this is magnified.

333. Thank you Leonne, I love the old Latin translation of ‘surrender’, which is to hand over, deliver, bequeath, give up/in, yield, transfer, sell and exemption. All of which seem far closer to the true meaning of the word surrender than the oxford dictionary meaning! I now feel to totally surrender on my walks from now on.

334. Another truly gorgeous blog Leonne. I love how you define that surrender is not a giving up or giving your power away. it is simply allowing the awareness of ones natural grace and inner stillness to come to the fore and allowing them to be the main focus. I also love the sharing of how, when in this state of being, this changes everything for everyone around you. Truly powerful.

335. Such a gorgeous and powerful word: surrender. For me it mostly means stop fighting with myself. Stop fighting the pull ‘ upwards’, to show the world all of me, to not hold back and express in full. To love everybody equally and make not certain people and certain events more special than others. If I do surrender then I drop into my body, it gets very spacious inside and very still. And the effect is felt by everyone, just like you describe in your beautiful blog, Leonne.

336. A lot of the things we worry about – what people think of us, how we look, what we sound like, how intelligent we appear and so on are often not always actually happening. With all of that mind chatter out of the way and simply surrendering in our bodies and to our breath, it’s no surprise to find that there is something deeply graceful and beautiful there waiting for us all along.

337. “How amazing can life be if I stop resisting my natural way of being (surrender) and submit to the authority of my own body?”
     It is truth Leonnne, your question comes to me in the right moment reminding me the need to develop more and more the intimacy with my body especially when I am in motion and surrounded by people.
     I can feel the grace and lightness of your surrender in my body as I was reeding your words. Thank you for your beautiful sharing.

338. Thank you Leonne for your beautifully powerful blog. How freeing for us all to understand with your help that surrender is about letting go and trusting in our inner loveliness- and that it has nothing to do with an enemy or battle lines.

339. For me surrender is a form of grace, and once we let go of whatever we are holding onto, holding onto to the way we think a situation should go or be, so many more choices open up that we would have never been aware until one surrenders to whatever life presents.

340. Leonne this is gorgeous and very confirming of just how powerful we are when we listen to our bodies and surrender. I am going to be super aware of how my body feels wherever I walk from here on in.

341. really lovely Leonne. I’d so much rather look silly as well :D. Lovely to read your blog.

     1. Yeah that’s such a great point though, Harry – the times when we’ll override what we’re feeling just to look or appear cool…or to not stand out. It’s funny for me to look back and think of the times I’ve done this – but I’m with you both, I’d much rather look silly and be warm than look cool and be cold!

342. Because of your writing Leonne, I too have just felt the power of what surrender really means. Priceless, thank you.

343. What dwells within the heart of all of us is beyond exquisite. ‘Divine’ is the only word that comes close to expressing it. Surrendering, as you illustrate here Leonne, is only saying yes to this treasure trove. It is choosing to let go of that which we pull in from outside of us to keep ourselves small or protect ourselves from being hurt. Surrendering is allowing the ‘divine’ into our body to flow through and with our expression.

     Surrendering is just saying ‘yes’ to our truth and who we are.

344. You give the word ‘surrender’ a whole new level of depth and meaning – and the way the body responded sounds amazing.

345. Thank you Leonne, this shines a whole new light on what surrender actually means to and in my body. I could feel myself letting go as I was reading and was realising that I haven’t stopped to consider or feel what surrendering is. This is something I will continue to play with.

346. I have found that it is impossible to be still or surrender when I am cold. My body is naturally tensed up, trying to keep me warm. It was beautiful what happened on the path when you surrendered and it is amazing that it takes just one person in that energy to affect everyone else. I have also been contemplating the word and feeling of surrender, and found that it is my spirit which needs to surrender and become one with my soul.

347. This is such a simple and tangible example of what surrender truly is, and I see how we can do it any part of our day. Like driving a car, sitting at the desk or even when having a conversation with someone. It’s just a matter of being in our body and letting go! Thanks for sharing Leonne.

348. Leonne, a most beautiful sharing. Reading your article in itself is an invite for me to surrender even deeper into my body as I sit here now. Thank you.

349. This is great Leonne…the true power of surrender – when it is done to your own essence and not to anything or anyone else. Magic.

350. I love this blog Leonne, I felt like I was walking with you and felt your surrender. I have also felt the power of surrendering that you speak of. Often I notice if there is any reaction, resistance or protection no matter how little it creates a tension. Even something as simple as feeling the cold or the busyness of a shopping centre can transform when I connect and stay with myself, surrender to me.

     1. I agree, Victoria – and what a confirmation it is when the surroundings transform, as you say. Life is so much easier when we’re surrendered and in our natural state.

351. How interesting…the way words become distorted in such a way that we lose the true sense they convert. “Surrender”, by becoming associated with giving up and disempowerment, is something we avoid. In not surrendering, we fight…but we are fighting nothing other than ourselves.
     Leonne, you have restored surrender to its rightful meaning, a powerful word that blends acceptance with the deepest trust.

352. It is beautiful if we let our grandness out and let ourselves feel it…To observe the outside and connect to the truth is sometimes not easy, but for me my neverending focus. Beautiful reminder of you, that it is always possible and that it changes everything around you.

353. How simple it is to choose to surrender to our loveliness and allow ourselves to be in the grace of who we are. Thank you for sharing Leonne.

354. As I was reading I was surrendering deeply with you and your walk. I love it at the end when you point out the importance of acting on our awareness and submitting to the authority of my body. It rings true and it expands me.

355. A beautiful reflection on the effect we can have, and do have, on the world around us. I notice how in cold weather my shoulders hunch up towards my ears and need constant awareness to continue to release them

356. Thank you Leonne, your clarification around ‘surrender’ makes it a much more inviting word and activity. What a beautiful walk.

357. How clear How simple … Thanks Leonne !

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