Create a Surrender Box

time is getting closer to doing this. The more therapy sessions i go to the more it seems fitting to do this. I have started a “letter writing” campaign to mail off eventually to people i care about and let them in on my world. IF that makes anysense at all. I think as i get more out of therapy and the medicine starts working better, i am able to take bigger steps to completing this goal!

like a good idea, being the kind of person i am as of late. I hope this will help or the idea of it may be modified maybe a notebook would be more useful…ill have to mull it over..but this does sound like a good plan!!

I’ve decided to give up on this, at least for now. I thought it was a nice idea, but I seem to have found other ways to turn over things I worry about.

I saw this on Calista’s 43 things and then read on. I really like this idea. I spend way too much energy worrying about oh so many things, so I want to try this approach.

A Place For Worries
Surrender Box

There are times when our minds become too full. Our to-do lists, worries, plans, and dreams may be so crowded together in our heads that we don’t have room to think. We may believe that we are somehow taking care of our desires and concerns by keeping them at the forefront of our minds. In maintaining our mental hold on every detail, however, we may actually delay the realization of our dreams and the resolution of our worries because we won’t let them go. At times such as these, we may want to use a surrender box.

A surrender box allows us to let go of our worries and desires so the universe can take care of them for us. We write down what we want or need to happen and then place the note into a box. By writing and placing our thoughts in the box, we are taking action and letting the universe know we need help and are willing to surrender our feelings. We give ourselves permission to not concern ourselves with that problem any longer and trust that the universe is taking care of it. You may even want to decorate your box and place it in a special place. Your surrender box is a sacred container for your worries. Not only do you free up space in your mind by letting go of our worries and desires and dropping them into your surrender box, but you are giving your burden over to a higher power. Once we drop our worries and desires into the surrender box, we free our minds so we can be fully present in each moment.

Surrendering our worries and concerns and placing them in the hands of the universe doesn’t mean that we’ve given up or have been defeated. Instead, we are releasing the realization of our desires and the resolution of our worries and no longer concerning ourselves with their outcomes. It’s always fun to go back and pull the slips of paper out of the box once your requests have been granted. And it’s amazing how quickly problems go away and dreams come true when we finally let go and allow a higher power to help us.

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Creating a surrender box is one of the tasks for the last week of the Artist’s Way program. So this afternoon I took an ordinary shoe box and wrapped in in some brightly coloured wrapping paper we had left over.

I haven’t started using it yet. I’d like to have a little ceremony to dedicate it, like Wendy did. Hopefully I should be able to do that before the week is out. I’m looking forward to using it. I’ve always been a bit of a worry wart. I’m hoping this will help.

After making it last week, it toook me a while to actually start using it, since I’ve been fighting off some sort of a virus. But this afternoon, I decided it was time to start using it. So, I gathered up some affirmations I’d made over the past couple of months, and did a small ceremony to state my intentions for the box, and consecrate it. Then, I surrendered a bunch of things into the box, which is now sitting beneath my home altar. Right now, I feel peaceful and happy about it, and I do believe that it’s going to be helpful for me on into the future.

I made it today – I used left-over fabric from when I made my duvet cover, and glued it all the way around a shoebox. That description probably sounds kind of lame, but it turned out very pretty. I’ll take some pictures and post them. Tomorrow, I’m going to start using it! It was a good project for me to do, and I’m very pleased to have been able to make it, start to finish, in just one afternoon. (I often get off-track with things like that, and have half-finished projects lying all over the place). :)

I received this article from today’s DailyOm mailing, and I think it’s a wonderful idea:

A Place For Worries
Surrender Box

There are times when our minds become too full. Our to-do lists, worries, plans, and dreams may be so crowded together in our heads that we don’t have room to think. We may believe that we are somehow taking care of our desires and concerns by keeping them at the forefront of our minds. In maintaining our mental hold on every detail, however, we may actually delay the realization of our dreams and the resolution of our worries because we won’t let them go. At times such as these, we may want to use a surrender box.

A surrender box allows us to let go of our worries and desires so the universe can take care of them for us. We write down what we want or need to happen and then place the note into a box. By writing and placing our thoughts in the box, we are taking action and letting the universe know we need help and are willing to surrender our feelings. We give ourselves permission to not concern ourselves with that problem any longer and trust that the universe is taking care of it. You may even want to decorate your box and place it in a special place. Your surrender box is a sacred container for your worries. Not only do you free up space in your mind by letting go of our worries and desires and dropping them into your surrender box, but you are giving your burden over to a higher power. Once we drop our worries and desires into the surrender box, we free our minds so we can be fully present in each moment.

Surrendering our worries and concerns and placing them in the hands of the universe doesn’t mean that we’ve given up or have been defeated. Instead, we are releasing the realization of our desires and the resolution of our worries and no longer concerning ourselves with their outcomes. It’s always fun to go back and pull the slips of paper out of the box once your requests have been granted. And it’s amazing how quickly problems go away and dreams come true when we finally let go and allow a higher power to help us.

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