Surrender Meditation: Why, How, and What’s Next

Does the wind blows by itself, or something makes it blow? 

What propels the spider to cast its web? Hunger. But hunger is not that spider’s making. 

Are our impulses good or bad? 

Should we surrender to bad impulses too? 

Shouldn’t we fight the monster within? 

How do all these fit into the equation of surrender meditation? We will get all these answers in this in-depth article on surrender mediation and everything related to it. 

What’s Surrender Meditation

Surrender meditation is a method of practicing meditation. It entails letting go of all your mental, physical, and energetic being. That’s why it is also called letting go meditation.

Surrender meditation is also a way of living our everyday life. However, that can be realized and practiced a bit later after we have tried out the surrender meditation in actual meditative states. 

So first, we have to sort out how to achieve surrender in meditation and then surrender in everyday waking life. 

Why Should You Practice Surrender Meditation

We should practice surrender meditation because it: 

• Is a very simple meditation method. 
• Is a very advanced meditation technique, yet even meditation beginners can practice it. 
• Enables us to get rid of our worries, anxieties, and tensions very effectively and easily. 
• Enables us to deal away with our past trauma and regrets.
• Allows us to be unbothered by future uncertainties. 
• Helps us shed our social constructs and the false ego sense. 
• Clears our mind-body and energy body. 
• Facilitates intuition, peace, and bliss to take place. 
• Heals our body by releasing pent-up energies in various parts of our being. 
• Ultimately, makes us one with the universal nature. 

Now that we have established why we should be practicing surrender meditation, let’s move into the way with a very simple yet super effective guided meditation on surrender. 

How to Practice Surrender Meditation

Here’s a simple technique for practicing surrender meditation. You can follow this technique both sitting and lying down. 

The Proper Posture

For this technique, the meditation posture you adopt is very important as you need to have your body relaxed and suspended without needing any force to hold it in place from your part. 

You can sit in the lotus position or on a comfortable meditation chair. Just make sure you can fully relax all parts of your body when you are in the meditative posture. 

Having this total suspended bodily relaxation is easier to achieve lying down, but there’s a chance of falling asleep in this case. So, as a beginner, sitting down postures are preferable to lying down. 

If you are adopting the lotus pose, make sure your whole body is comfortably suspended on your base with your spine erect. It’s as if some stones are piled on top of each other and staying in place without any other external assistance. 

If you are using a meditation chair, make sure the chair is perfectly attuned to your body with a headrest very robustly holding your neck and head in place without you having to put any force on your neck muscles to hold your head. The same goes for your back and legs. 

Now that you have fixed yourself in a completely relaxed full-body suspension pose, you are ready to start with surrender meditation. 

The Way to Surrender

With my years of practice with surrender meditation, I have found that starting with the tip of your toes is the best way forward. 

Focus on the tip of your toes. Feel your toes. Is there any tension there? Most likely, you will not encounter any tension or pent-up energy stored there, so you will find it easier to let go of whatever part of your being is there. Just surrender your toes. 

What does it mean to surrender your toes? 

When you focus on your toes, all 10 of them, and the associated fingers, you will feel your awareness intensify in those regions. Feel your awareness there. Know you can control your toes. You might even move them a little if you want. Then, let go of that control. Just keep the pure awareness there as it is. 

That’s what’s called surrender. 

Your toes are there; just there in this universe as part of pure nature and universal energy. 

Now, start to take your focus and awareness upwards from your toes. 

Focus on the forefoot as a whole, and repeat the process of surrender. 

Take your whole foot into the realm of your awareness, and repeat the surrender process. Let go of the sole, the forefoot, the midfoot, and the hindfoot together. 

Gradually come upwards to your ankles, legs, and calves. You might start to feel the presence of tension or pent-up energy movement in your calves. Take time to experience it, feel it. And repeat the process of letting go of your control over these parts of your body. Just relax your legs and calves along with your already relaxed feet. 

You might also feel your focus, awareness, and energy dissipate out of your legs and calves to the surrounding areas outside of your body. 

When surrender in these parts is complete, gradually move upwards to your thighs and associated regions. This is similar to your calves. 

If your hands are resting on your thighs, take time to surrender your hands simultaneously. 

Now, start to focus upward on your hips, pelvis, and related areas. Here, too, you will see some energy movement; repeat the process as shown above. 

If your forearms are aligned by the side of your hips, take time to do the surrender process for them as well. 

Now, experience the surrender of the whole lower body together – from hips to the top of your toes. 

Your lower body has been fully surrendered to the universal energy. 

Now, take a look at your lower back and abdomen. It’s also important to drive awareness to the inner organs here – your stomach and associated regions. Try to feel as much as possible. Locate the tension and feel them. Now, surrender or simply let them be there. 

While surrendering your chest and back, also do the same for your arms. Similar to your calves, you might experience some energetic muscle tension in your arms. 

Repeat the same process upward to your chest and back. Focus on your beating heart. Feel it for a few seconds. Now just let it beat. 

Acknowledge that you have no control over your heart’s beating. It’s the universal natural energy within you that’s making it happen. Let it happen. Relax all these regions along with the internal organs. Don’t get hung up on finding and focusing on all the inner organs. That’s not possible. Just be aware of it as much as you can. Just know that there are many organs along with your heart that you are surrendering. 

Now, repeat the same process for your shoulder, neck, and throat. 

Move upward to your head, brain, face, and finally to the top of your head. 

These are the parts where you are likely to encounter the most amount of tension and energy condensation. 

So, take time to thoroughly examine everything. Start from the back of your head and relax the area. Simply let go of whatever you feel there or let it be as it is. 

Focus within your head – your physical brain. Gradually shut it down. Stop thoughts one by one. It’s like when you open the task manager on your computer and close the processes one by one. 

Drive your focus from your lower brain to the mid to upper parts. Let go of each of the parts as you go through them. 

Now, pay attention to your face. You will see you have tightened muscles around your eyes and forehead. Relax them at once. Drive your attention to all parts of your face. Relax all the muscles. Give special attention to the eyelids, forehead, and lips. 

Let go of control in all these areas. Relax them and leave them as they are. 

Take your attention to the uppermost part of your head. Feel it getting relaxed and surrendered. Stay there for a few seconds. You will feel free energy movement happening there without any effort or intention on your part. Let it happen. 

Once sufficiently surrendered at the top, we will begin the downward journey through the same route we came upwards. 

Start to go down step by step right to the tip of your feet, repeating the surrender process just as you did while coming upwards from the feet. 

The downward process will be easier and faster as you have already surrendered the whole body once. 

Special Note: During this process, it’s natural for your thoughts to wander away and worries, regrets, or anticipations to set it. But it’s important to bring your mind back to the respective body parts by surrendering or letting go of these thoughts and feelings. That’s how, by focusing only on the body parts, you can actually complete the whole mind-body surrender. Any tension in the body, i.e., tightened muscles, is inevitably connected to mental tension.

Once you reach the tip of your toes, gradually become aware of your whole body at the same time and let go of all of it at once as if a sudden drop. 

At this stage, you might feel energy reverberating out of your whole body or from the spinal cord region. Let it happen or actively take part in the energy action by relaxing even more deeply and letting go even more intensely. You are experiencing a heightened energy body surrender that follows right after you have completed the body and mind surrender. 

This might not happen at the beginning. You will need to repeat the process of the body-mind surrender quite a few times before you reach your energy body. And when you do reach it, you will recognize the intensity of the energy right away! 

What’s Next

After you have practiced surrender meditation up to your energy body, spinal cord, or nervous body surrender, gradually, you will find it easier to achieve such states of intense surrender repeatedly. 

You will be able to instantly achieve the whole body awareness and let go of it all at once, along with energy body surrender. 

From the very onset of practicing the surrender meditation once or twice, you will start to notice greater stability and calmness in your body and mind. Your ego, attachments, and other tormenting parts of your being will dissipate. 

With gradual and repeated practice, the peace, calm, and serenity will keep intensifying. The outer reality, too, will start to realign to make way for peace to stay sustained in your life. Life will start to flow effortlessly. Troubles and suffering will start to subside. The next steps for your inner and outer lives will outflow from your being automatically.

You have surrendered yourself to the universe, and the universe has taken you back into itself. You are one with the harmony of universal existence.  

Now, while you are practicing the meditative surrendered states, it’s also important to hold the spirit of surrender in your everyday life and activities. This way, you will achieve a surrendered life when the universe works through you without the false social constructs of ego and identity interfering with the universal purpose of your life. 

Gradually, the answers to the confusing questions posed at the beginning of the article will start to become clearer through direct experience. For more illumination on the questions, read – Upholding the Spirit of Surrender Meditation in Daily Life. 

Also, read Quotes About Surrendering: To Help Imbue the Spirit of Surrender in Life. 

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