What if surrendering to the idea that you don’t know what’s next is the wisest thing you could do right now? 
Can you even relate to the question?
And, if you think that thought is a challenge, what about this one?
What if creating a void — in other words, a big empty space in your schedule — was the “action” you needed to take so you could surrender?
Does this sound crazy? Lazy?
Scary?
Irresponsible? Self-destructive?
All of the above?
Well, some of the most spiritually aware and wise people I know are being guided to do just that. And so am I.
At times, my feelings fall into that “all of the above” category. Yet, when I get still, and connect to my higher guidance, the wisdom resonates at all levels of my being.
As you might imagine, this has been a process. And overall, it’s been much more like a dawning than a lightening bolt, that’s for sure.
Surrendering to Our Higher Wisdom
It took a while, but eventually I realized that when we surrender, we are opening to the wisdom and the power of our higher selves. Truthfully, I already knew that about surrender, and how it applies to others. My obstacle was seeing that it works this way for me too. My fear of being irresponsible was so strong that it kept me from putting two and two together and applying this wisdom to my own life.
Next came understanding the importance and power of creating and allowing the void — the slower pace, the sometimes-empty schedule.
“Where would something new fit in?” asked my higher self when I was in my Akashic Records. “For years now there’s been no space in your life for something new. Not only that, there’s no extra space in you!”
That piece of truth did hit like lightening.
As did another.
When we surrender to the guidance of our higher selves, we open to a wisdom that is far greater than our human selves can comprehend.
Yes, our higher selves already know what’s best for us and what would make us truly happy. Happy in ways our egos cannot imagine.
This was another truth I understood in concept, yet I had so much going on that I missed how it applied to me. That’s because I was convinced that I knew what needed to happen next in my life.
As humans, we value the notion that we must know the outcome before we begin. And that bedrock coach’s wisdom that we should “begin with the end in mind” does have value.
That said, we have no clue what we push away by sorting life in advance of its arrival. We humans can’t see what our plans and our schedules crowd out of our lives.
The Wisdom of the Void
And because our egos need to know the future to feel secure, we forget that our soul already knows more than our human selves can even imagine. Hence the need for the void, and the wisdom of creating space for our soul’s desires to seep in.
Yesterday I began to harvest a bit of this surrendering and allowing the void, I’m happy to say. Because both of us allowed an afternoon to stay open, one of those spiritually aware and wise friends and I spent some time in the Records.
“What do you mean you haven’t been doing anything?” asked my friend. “Look at all the clearing you have done in less than a week!”
And she was right. If I had been off doing my usual things, I’d still be hanging on to some old ways of being and doing that no longer serve me, keeping newer, wiser, higher aspects of me at bay.
“Won’t it be exciting to see what comes in to take that space?” she asked.
“Yes it will,” I smiled.
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You’re singing my song again, Nancy! I’ve been embracing this concept in tiny pieces over the past few years, but in earnest since having SO much “alone with nothing to do” time this past summer. It has been a magical experience contributing to a much greater level of trust in the process. Thanks so much for sharing this wisdom
And thanks for sharing your experience with this dynamic Vicky.
I’ve had this imposed on me these last couple of months by injury. I’m seeing how beneficial it is and how much I enjoy some down time. I think I was trying my best to outrun grief, so the universe stopped me in my tracks. And there sat Grief! Nothing to do but feel it. Noticing lots of positive changes as a result. The Haagen-Daaz is less enticing, for example. Now, when I am tired, which is often since the injury, I allow myself rest instead of “pushing through”. I’m not getting much done in terms of projects, but I don’t really care all that much right now. It waits.
Oh Nancy, This is so wise! Leaving space for things to happen in and not needing to know who it will all turn out! I can so relate right now, so relate.
hugs and love to you, Gayle
Thanks! Needed that wisdom😇🙏🏻
love this! been practicing this awareness awhile and had attributed it to getting older and being less interested in external doing and perhaps lazier and i was quite ok with that – now i’m going to reframe as sitting in the void, allowing emptiness – love love love it!
Thank you for articulating what a lot of us are feeling these days my spiritually aware and wise friend! P
I’m still struggling with taking the time to create space idea, myself. And trusting more and more that when I do, I am creating the space for something even more magnificent to birth – perhaps something I don’t even know about. Thank you as always for your lucid insights, Nancy.
Nancy this is so enjoyable to read. There is a spaciousness in “allowing” for the Higher Self or intuitive or whatever word used cracks the mental state that diverts and distracts from living in the flow. Perhaps that is the wisdom of day-dreaming, meditation or tennis that unwinds the chatter. There are really NO RULES and I “get” that when I am in a mindset it is just a perception. Good watchword for me to see how little my mind can be or what else needs to go to the manure pile!!.