If you find yourself reluctant to surrender something or find you are still revolving the same thing over and over along with the negative emotions, you need to ask yourself why - what is the payoff? What is the 'juice' the lower self is feeding on? ('poor me', 'look how I was wronged', etc.) Realize that whatever the ego is holding on to, it will continue to cause you grief and suffering until you are willing to surrender it completely! Remember - you have a choice - to continue to hold on to negative emotions and suffering - or to surrender them and as a result, find more happiness and peace in your life. When negative emotions arise, the key is to immediately surrender them to God/the Universal. As long as we are primarily operating from our lower self/ego, we are unfortunately tying ourselves to those very things. A powerful way that I like to connect with myself and the world around me is to go out in nature and simply observe. Feel them, acknowledge them, and then let them go. One of the most important things we can do to reconnect with our Higher Self is to surrender - let go of that which causes us pain, suffering, unhappiness, and limitation. To connect to your spiritual side, I invite you to tap into the things that are demanding your attention rather than running away from them.
