Letting Go Is Not Giving Up

I’ve been obsessed with two songs lately:

Letting Go by Angie McMahon:

I knew from miles away that I would detonate

I tried some magic tricks to skip my fate

And then gave up the ball as a defender

The trick was simply to surrender

And It’s Time to Go by Taylor Swift: 

… Sometimes, givin' up is the strong thing

Sometimes, to run is the brave thing

Sometimes, walkin' out is the one thing

That will find you the right thing

There’s a whole science to the idea of surrender and how it affects the quantum field, but the art of doing it can be very abstract…not to mention incredibly difficult.

But here’s what I’ve learned lately: there is an alchemy with letting go and right action. And sometimes the letting go IS the action.

Surrendering is the opposite of giving up - it’s actually actively empowering.