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days are of course more difficult than others. I know from past experience that some particular event is going to be tough and I know it is unavoidable. It is during these times that I have to choose. My choice is to work myself into an agitated state worrying about how I am going to be in command of each and every situation I will encounter, which will inevitably lead to stress and failure or I can lay down my arms, step out of the way and allow the Universe to take over. It sounds so easy, but to relinquish your grip on life is challenging. To trust another power instead of yourself is tough.

Marianne says "We surrender to God first of course the things we don't really care that much about anyway. Some of us don't mind giving our attachments to career goals, but there's no way we're going to surrender our romantic relationships, or vice versa. But if it's really important, we think we better handle it ourselves. The truth is, of course, that the more important it is to us, the more important it is to surrender." The trick is to let go of our attachment to results and to hold onto to the conviction that the Universe will take care of things. Are your ready to make the choice, detach from outcome, strip away those layers and allow your soul to shine through?

Be grateful for all you have instead of all you don't have, care enough for yourself to surrender your ego and your life.
Remember Virginia Satir American psychologist and educator (1916-1988)'s words: I am me and I'm OK.

"I am Me.
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it - I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me.
I am me, and I am Okay."
(Virginia Satir)

You are fine just the way you are you have everything you need and you are exactly where you should be right now. Think about that.

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself." Lao-Tse

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