Surrender to the Ways of the Universe—Mar. 23

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March 23, 2025

Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 27: Surrender to the Ways of the Universe

Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).

This week, our topic relates to surrendering to forces that are out of your control. It can be a path to inner peace.

Surrender to the Ways of the Universe

An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:

You embrace your life purpose. Your life purpose is your tour guide to living a fulfilled life. You love the universe of existence. You approach each day with kindness as you bring love to yourself and others, giving Earth a bounce to its orbit. Then, life tosses a curveball and throws you off balance. That’s when “surrender to the ways of the universe” enters the spiritual game and helps you pick up the spin on the ball to put it in play.

When you surrender to the ways of the universe, you choose to release the need to control the natural flow of life. You trust that events will unfold as they are intended. By accepting your lack of control over the natural order, you liberate your mind and spirit to focus on what you can always control: your thoughts and responses to life. Surrendering provides a path to inner peace.

What It Means

A key aspect of surrendering to the ways of the universe is accepting that impermanence is an inescapable truth that reflects the nature of existence as it is, not necessarily as you would like it to be.

THE LAW OF IMPERMANENCE

Sunrise and sunset. Birth and death. Changing seasons. Evolution. These are just some examples of nature’s impermanence. But look at your life’s progression—employment, relationships, finances, health, where you live . . . Do you notice anything in common? Yep, more impermanence. More change. That’s what the Law of Impermanence teaches us: Everything changes. Everything has a beginning, middle, and end.

When you embrace the Law of Impermanence, you surrender to the truth that change is constant. That wisdom becomes an integral part of your empowering worldview, a worldview that chooses to flow with the current of change rather than trying to paddle upstream to reach a past-tense reality that is no longer there.

For a Self-Actualized Genius, surrendering to impermanence can mean:

• As the SAGe grows older, they may fondly reflect upon their youth, but they accept their advancing age as unavoidable. They find joy and meaning in the present and evolve their life based on their reality.

• When a loved one passes away, the SAGe understands and accepts that life has a beginning, middle, and end. They grieve, for that is a loving and natural response, but they emerge grateful for their loved one’s time on earth as they move forward in their own life. Their suffering recedes as a result.

• As relationships evolve in a SAGe’s life, the SAGe evolves with them. The SAGe recognizes that the most meaningful relationship is between two people who keep their love flourishing as they grow throughout their unique but overlapping life journeys. The SAGe also acknowledges that some relationships run their natural course and go dormant. That can be okay, too, if that’s what is meant to be.

• When the SAGe experiences something positive, they are grateful for their blessing but understand that their status quo is not permanent. Therefore, they are careful to moderate their attachment to what they have today because they know it will change tomorrow.

• When the SAGe experiences down periods, they understand that all things pass because all things change. This helps them shorten the suffering cycle because they know their present state is not permanent.

Your Call to Action

Are there situations in your life that are out of your control? Would surrendering to that reality bring peace to your life and help you focus on what you can always control: your thoughts and your actions? If so, work on surrendering to your circumstances through meditation, journaling, walking in nature to gain perspective, or talking with a friend, counselor, or life coach.

Have a peaceful week!