When you stay in surrender, you’re continually dying. Embrace this process. Let it happen.
The death of you is not binary. It’s gradual. There’s always more death to be “had”.
Even if it’s excruciating sometimes, continue being surrendered. Don’t come back from the dead. We have enough of the undead around already. ;)
In death, You are Alive. Following Steerage is following Life itself.
If you care about Reality and how it unfolds, surrender and intend to let Steerage work through you instead. It’s going to be better for everyone – including yourself.
It takes humility to admit that you don’t know what’s best and how to be good. That you’re not a good host to this body. That in fact you’re being an obstacle and impeding the process.
It takes courage to face the recognition that the best thing you can do is “die”. (Psychically – never harm your body.)
Accept it. Nothing to be negative about. Perceiving this as “sad” or “degrading” is just the ego’s reaction, which you can cry out and let go of.
Through surrender, you are redeemed.
You can be energy or Steerage oriented, and depending on which one it is, your perception and experience of life will vary.
With the former one, it feels like motivations are coming from inside, being aspects of your psyche. It’s doing your bidding. Energy is fragmented into “characters” with their own voices. I think it’s fundamentally more egoic and dualistic, in that there’s this ever-present contrast of one energy vs another.
Regarding Steerage orientation, what’s happening feels mysterious and like it’s coming from “outside”. It feels like surrendering to God and doing Its bidding. You’ve let go of control and life becomes like a constant test of whether you can stay in that state, no matter what happens. A test of whether you trust in God or not.
Your orientation depends on your maturity and state of consciousness. With the rising in consciousness, a person moves closer towards being Steerage oriented. But it definitely takes time. I recommend first becoming really aware of the energetic reality, its dynamics, and learning how to “work” with it. Once you see it clearly and have your lessons learned, it’s much easier to move on to Steerage orientation. I think the top lessons from understanding energy dynamics are the groundwork for starting a consistent journey with Steerage.
Your orientation will also affect what’s actually happening in reality. Though it’s not like following Steerage will necessarily result in “good” outcomes all the time. “Negative” experiences will still happen and they’ll test your surrender. I think the best way to describe it is that reality will unfold more optimally. What’s optimized is growth in consciousness.
You might notice that many of my posts are from an energy-centered perspective and many are from Steerage-centered. That’s right. I’m currently between two worlds. I’m allowing myself to be multifaceted though so I am fine with expressing both perspectives. And it’s not like the insights about energy are false – they’re simply a lower level of truth. In the future, I’ll probably move away from the energy-centered perspective.
How much are you actually following Steerage in Reality and letting it materialize?
No pressure. You don’t need to change anything now. Just become conscious of what’s true.
For me, in terms of doing it consciously, I feel like it’s <1% of waking life. For someone talking about Steerage so much that can be shameful to admit. I had a 3-month period when I was consciously maybe reaching 10%. In the last month or so, on some days the share may have been 1-3%.
In regard to assessing unconscious Steerage following, you can do that case-by-case by remembering particular things you did and looking into what motivated you. If the answer is your mind “glitching” and trying to compute something that it truly can’t, it was probably Steerage.
Just be honest with yourself about how much you’re actually embracing God. Sensing the possibility of following Steerage/God is the first step, but what matters is actually surrendering to it. Take the leap!
What you energetically believe in materializes. You allow the energies you’re convinced by to act through you. What you’re not convinced by cannot be and is never manifested through you.
But what is energetic belief, essentially? What does it mean to “buy into” an energy?
It means that you’re convinced of its validity = of its TRUTH. That is REALITY according to you. You think that it’s how things are and how YOU are, so you consider it sacred, you invite it into yourself, you want to be devoted to it and you want to BE IT by letting it act through you. In short, you always want to give yourself away to your idea of YOU.
Anything you’re inviting into yourself to and allowing to act through you is your personal god. So, who are your gods? And how much do they align with God/Reality in front of you? Are they even remotely similar?
Notice how Steerage is silent and guides you simply through action in Reality. That should be a clue to whether it’s closer to Reality/God than the various loud and dense energies you buy into and constantly choose.
Sigh, I wouldn’t be such a dummy if I had God as my only god. Regretfully I still have multiple. And if most people had God as their only god, there’d be Heaven on Earth.
Sometimes we can get caught up in the duality of choice when making life decisions – either X or Y. This can ensue when the mind tries to control what’s happening and feels obliged to make choices by itself.
And this can feel very stressful. You feel extreme pressure from 1) not knowing what to do but insisting that you should know and 2) being locked in a limited range of options.
The feeling of pressure is completely understandable, but fortunately it’s based on false assumptions. You have to realize that it’s not your call. The reality of you (and what you want) is what is here already. There is no choice to make – it’s already made! The real work is to accept it, face the emotional difficulty, surrender and go to where the reality is. Steerage/Guidance will move you there, if you let it.
And Steerage will often move you into a third path, one you couldn’t have conceived on your own. Not necessarily a middle one – maybe a different one altogether.
The secret is that there is ALWAYS a third path. There is always the way of God, which you can proceed with being led through at any moment. God creates a path where there is none and walks you through it.
If that’s not Hope, I don’t know what is!
Sometimes the beautiful flow of right action will bypass your conscious awareness and start doing its thing before your analytical mind even has a chance to react. And it’s a good thing.
It’s important to be mindful, but you don’t have to be too aware always. To the point where you’re not letting yourself enter flow. Sometimes too much awareness can actually be an impediment, especially if you often intend to control and limit what’s being expressed.
Be conscious when it’s time for it, otherwise give yourself away. Best case to what’s quiet but real – Steerage/Guidance. :)
Give all your hopes and wishes to Reality/God, and let them die. Express them, cry them out until they are no longer. Let them go.
Don’t cling to your hopes and what “you” want or think you should. Surrender it and let Steerage/Guidance do its work. Allow the Reality of You to shine and work through you in a way that’s better than you could ever imagine.
What you truly want will always be fulfilled – because it’s true. Relax, don’t insist and be open to the process. Let your limited hopes die and see how perfection unfolds.
In a way, a man’s mission is to serve Reality. To obey the Self and surrender in the action performed by Guidance/Steerage.
When you’re in that flow, what genuinely wants to be expressed in the moment is being done so. Stay surrendered courageously and don’t interrupt. Your input is not needed – just your consciousness and devotion.
Ultimately, you’re serving Yourself. Be curious about who you are, treat this divine mystery with utmost respect, and serve it – instead of questioning, judging and interrupting it. Accept Yourself. Fulfill the duty to the best of your ability, like the divine soldier that you are.
When you let go and let Steerage guide you, it will often feel like it’s going against your deepest intuitions.
This is normal. Trust where you’re being guided in reality, instead of listening to the screaming voice in your head. The voice is NOT a reliable narrator. It doesn’t really know what’s correct or right to do.
It can be hard to do in practice, of course. For most of us this voice is all we know, and we consider it ourselves. But that’s not true, it’s not you! The REAL You is what’s you’re being silently guided to out there in Reality.
Steerage is silent and simply moves you in Reality when you let go. The voice in your head is loud and trying to sway Reality into what it thinks is best – but actually doesn’t know. Follow the former and you’re good to go. :)
If you truly want it – let go of it!
If it’s true will, it will come to reality. You don’t need to force anything. You just have to be open to whatever wants to happen (and act when it’s required of you).
“Help” the universe bring your (true) dreams to life by letting go and removing barriers for the stream. But don’t insist on things and try to speed up the water, or even create it in the first place. You can’t really alter the stream. You are what you are currently, and you should accept that.
Let Steerage guide you. It knows better than you. All of your deepest wishes will be actualized in ways you couldn’t ever conceive of if you let it move through you.
What if you gave up control and let your Self move through life? That’d be the only way to see how Self actually looks. You can’t predict it beforehand, since it’s mysterious in its nature and silent.
Aren’t you curious about the truth of your character and motivation? Wouldn’t it be interesting to learn who You really are? What You genuinely want to do?
There’s what you think you want or should be. And then there’s what You actually Are.
You can be intrigued by Yourself. Have an attitude of not knowing who You are, and want to discover it. It’s true that you don’t know who You are anyway. So let Yourself do things and satisfy your curiosity.