There are things we need to be aware of within a relationship with anyone. God desires the same, as we are deepening the experience of His embracing presence. Leaning on this feeling instead of our own understanding assists us in letting go of the mind and associated mental activity.

God wants to guide us, kind of like a parent, to be in control of any situation in life we’re willing to surrender. This requires our active experimentation surrounding how surrender feels, relying on God’s non-logical process, and building awareness of our internal states. When the becomes active, like when we’re trying to solve problems, we surrender the mind and thought processes to Him. Through doing this, we notice that attempts at thinking are how the mind learned to replace God. Nothing to fear, though! We are each remembering how to bring God back into our lives more fully.

Thoughts have two phases in which they exist when we work with God as a process. During the beginning of our journey with integrating the mind, our thinking is very cognitive and can be observed through “trying” to “figure out” or “solve” problems that it believes exist. This is a natural function, and it’s how we were born.

Over time we learn how to surrender these thoughts and thinking processes to God for transformation. When we’ve experienced the benefits of surrendering the logical mind and it no longer controls our actions, we see that God can influence our thoughts! No longer are we engaging with thinking from the perspectives above, but we rely on thinking as a point of inspiration and revelation from God Himself. This is an experiential moment, meaning the more we practice with creating space for inspiration, the more we learn to rely on this non-logical function of the mind.

Thinking is taking up a lot of processing space in most of reality. Our responsibility is to notice when we recognize this thinking, and to see how deeply we can feel God’s awareness after recognition has occurred. The mind’s role is to remember that it’s not in charge, even though it’s presenting the “internal content” needing transformation.

If we view the mind as a radio receiver, during the healing phase the mind is receiving thoughts based on beliefs that were stored to keep us safe, often long ago. As God untangles these complex situations that our mind has no business sorting through, the role of the mind transitions into a receiver with less interference and static, allowing inspiration, creativity, and peace to become commonplace.

There’s a sense of stillness, of letting go that happens when God’s in full control over a line of thinking. We feel unattached to what was previously introducing anxiety, fear, and gripping. This present awareness is God’s contact as it transforms the narrative we’ve built up.

We will often experience more thoughts and contraction as we onboard to this unraveling process. As the pendulation occurs, we’re remembering to shift back to God, as the more contact we choose to make, the deeper the overall transformation.

Our work with God takes a lot of patience. Often when we’re noticing more intense patterns associated with addiction, more layers have to be unpacked before understanding of the pattern arrives. This simply means we need to remember to find some grace for the experience of being human, and trust that our level of engagement is enough. Within each moment we can choose to acknowledge our attempts at control and surrender, or be continue in the intensity of thinking and addiction. Ultimately if it’s not neutral, God’s work isn’t complete.

Exactly! When we are polarized towards a situation the experience is some level of desire or repulsion. Through experimentation with surrender and observation, we’re lessening the intensity of the polarity through God’s process. We notice this shift in polarization slowly over time, and eventually the thing that used to have control over us no longer does. This is when we can ask for guidance, and receive more effectively.

God’s process is the same for working with our wounds as it is for asking questions and waiting on answers. By actively surrendering the thing we are attempting to figure out, we naturally offer space for a divinely inspired answer to arise. This doesn’t mean it’s instantaneous, and we often have to ask many follow-up questions to ensure it’s not the mind attempting to regain control of the situation. Learning God’s process takes time, so make sure to start with small decisions and know that they’ll naturally grow larger as He proves to be a reliable source of orientation.

Giving up is like a structural collapse, yet we cannot change the collapse until we become fully aware of it as a pattern, and what we gain from following through with it. Asking questions in this space is important, since they will offer the opportunity for God to inspire us to understand from His perspective.

When we find a moment that seems easier to give up, maybe we do! Observing the effects of complete collapse is a great practice of cultivating awareness of all moments, no matter the judgment. Eventually we’ve collected enough information through observation that it just makes sense to not collapse anymore. No reason to rush the process, even though it does feel like we’re never going to experience anything different. This is just a phase, although it usually lasts a bit longer than we wish.