When we surrender our petty control patterns to our Soul — which is on a higher and more refined level than our minds, emotions, and bodies — we transfer our consciousness to what is really running things. We then don’t have to make things happen in our lives. They simply happen, and our task is to cooperate with the natural movement inherent in all things. thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
– John-Roger with Paul Kaye (From: What’s It Like Being You?, p. 86)
Cooperation
Once you accept a situation, the next step is Cooperation. This is the second law of Spirit and another marker on the journey. Unconditional cooperation with whatever is happening is one of
the keys to creating happiness and well-being. It is a powerful antidote to stress.
Cooperation has a lot to do with letting go. When we cooperate, not only do we let go of the need to be better than others, which reinforces the false self and ego, but we also let go of our resistance to change and to not getting our way. Once we have accepted the reality of what is, we can go with the flow. We stop trying to control other people or bend situations to our will. To get the idea of what this means, picture a surfer riding a wave. He’s not try i n g to push the breakers or hold back the tides but to become so attuned to the movement of the water that he and the wave are one.
We don’t like to admit when we’re not being cooperative. If asked, most of us would say, “Of course I am. I get up every morning and go to work. I’m there on time. I keep my mouth shut and stay out of trouble. I’m cooperating.” True, that’s cooperation of a sort. But it’s minimal, and it will probably get you minimal results. You may moan that life is unfair, that you don’t deserve the bad things that happen to you. You may even be tempted to blame God your troubles. But God didn’t have anything to do with them. When you cry out, “Why me, God?” His reply might well be, “Because you put it in motion, and I love you so much that I allow you to experience and learn from it.”
When we surrender our petty control
