In January of 2022 I selected the word surrender for my word of the year.   Often referred to as WOTY, it is customary for people to pick a particular word to hold in their mind, and perhaps guide them, throughout the year.  I wasn’t entirely sure why I selected surrender, only that it seemed like the perfect next step after using “trust” as my word for 2021.  As things happen, surrender became more and more meaningful to me as the year unfolded.  Then recently I reread a book from several years ago by Michael A Singer.  That book, titled The Surrender Experience is Singer’s follow-up to his first book the untethered soul—the journey beyond yourself.   Together, those two books are helping me recognize my own surrender experiment and where I hope to go from here. [Read more…]