David Hawkins on surrender

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself,
not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing,
and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely
rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence
of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated
pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the
moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse
made up by the mind.

As we become more familiar with letting go, it will be noticed 
that all negative feelings are associated with our basic fear 
related to survival and that all feelings are merely survival 
programs that the mind believes are necessary. The letting go 
technique undoes the programs progressively. Through that 
process, the underlying motive behind the feelings becomes 
more and more apparent.

To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about
a thing: “It’s okay if it happens, and it’s okay if it doesn’t.”
When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments.
We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness.
There is progressive diminishing of dependence on anything
or anyone outside of ourselves. These principles are in accord
with the basic teaching of the Buddha to avoid attachment
to worldly phenomena, as well as the basic teaching of Jesus Christ to
“be in the world but not of it.”

Sometimes we surrender a feeling and we notice that it returns
or continues. This is because there is more of it yet to be
surrendered. We have stuffed these feelings all of our lives
and there can be a lot of energy pushed down that needs to
come up and be acknowledged. When surrender occurs,
there is an immediate lighter, happier feeling, almost like a “high.”

Hawkins, David. Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender .