# Surrendering to Peace > Surrendering to peace is surrendering to peace itself rather than to each other, expressing a willingness to explore that there is enough for everyone. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/surrender-to-peace # Surrendering to Peace Surrendering to peace is Bashar's name for a specific redefinition of what surrender means in the context of conflict. It is not surrender to each other — nation to nation, person to person — but surrender to peace itself. The distinction matters: in the ordinary reading, surrender is a loss imposed by one side on another. In Bashar's reading, when any party surrenders to peace, it expresses a willingness to explore the idea that there is enough for everyone, and that anyone can live their dream. The topic is introduced as the next chapter of the broader surrender teaching at the close of the earlier Surrender session, where Bashar connects it to measurable drops in the probability of collective violence, and is then developed in the session that bears its name. ## Surrender to peace, not to each other The foundational move is to relocate the object of surrender. The act of surrendering is not so much the act of surrendering to each other, nation to nation, person to person, but surrendering to peace itself. When an individual or nation does this, both sides can understand that their wishes can be fulfilled, because to surrender to peace is to express willingness to explore that there is enough for everyone, which there is, and that anyone can live their dream. The link to natural self is explicit. The only conflicts that are created are when individual and nation are trying to be something they are really not. That which you were created to be, that which you naturally are, fits automatically with everything else that naturally is, because the universe is a whole idea. Therefore, Bashar concludes, when you surrender to peace, you are surrendering to be your natural self — not giving up the self but abandoning the unnatural self that conflict requires. Surrendering to peace is, by this account, gain for all, not loss. ## Surrender as the umbrella teaching To grasp surrendering to peace, the earlier session insists on a careful redefinition of surrender itself. Surrender in your language usually means giving up, losing something of yourself, giving your power over. This is not what we mean. What Bashar means is the stopping, the cessation of trying to be who you think you need to be and the beginning of simply allowing yourself to be who you are. Surrendering the limiting personality mask allows the universe — which is a mirror — to reflect the unlimited possibilities you actually are, so that life becomes an infinite series of miraculous circumstances. He emphasizes that this is physics, not just a nice idea. Two practical clarifications follow from this umbrella teaching. First, true surrender is active and makes you more capable on all levels, not less; the personality becomes a vehicle for expression of the knowingness of who you are, rather than being annihilated. Second, breathing or other centering aids are not manipulations that disqualify the state — worrying that breathing into it is a manipulation is very far from letting go. Surrender is ultimately just letting go of the effort to be other than what you are. ## The state of grace: zero insistence on the outcome A learner who has surrendered in this sense is described as living in a state — what the transcripts sometimes call a state of grace — that attracts exactly what is needed to fulfill the original joy, even though he had no idea how he was going to get there. The instruction is making a change within yourself that you know as a change, and then behaving as if you know you have changed, even if the outside still looks the same. The unlimited possibilities manifest by surrendering just for the sake of surrendering — not as a strategy for a specific result. The state is recognizable in its felt quality: do you feel at peace? Do you feel loved? Do you feel humble? Do you feel great? These are the markers of having dropped the mask, and they identify surrender as more of a realization, an epiphany than a technique. In its fullest expression, total surrender suspends time and space and reveals the one eternal moment in which all creation exists at once — the I-am and the everything simultaneously. ## Surrender, peace, and the path of excitement The surrender-to-peace session weaves this teaching into Bashar's broader framework of following your excitement. Joy and excitement are the frequency of your true natural self; when you act on the highest excitement available to you in each moment, to the best of your ability, every moment, you find that the definition of what your natural self is contains the ability to be supported by reality. Nothing is denied to you in creation. Only you can hold it from yourself, by believing in definitions that are not in alignment with who you truly are. The same session locates peace in the neutrality of situations: No situation has built-in meaning. All situations are fundamentally neutral. The meaning you have been taught to assign automatically is what determines the effect you get out of the situation. Surrendering to peace, then, includes surrendering the insistence that any situation must mean what you were taught it means — and choosing, instead, the meaning that aligns with the natural self. ## Practical implications When you feel conflict escalating — internally or with another — distinguish surrendering to peace from surrendering to the other party. The first opens a willingness to explore that there is enough for everyone; the second is a loss of self. Bashar's teaching chooses the first. Notice where you are trying to be something you are really not. Bashar locates the source of conflict there, not in the other party; surrender to peace becomes, practically, a return to the natural self that fits automatically with everything else that naturally is. Reframe surrender away from giving up. In Bashar's sense it is the cessation of trying to be who you think you need to be and the beginning of allowing yourself to be who you are. The test is capability: a true active surrender leaves you more capable on all levels, not less. Drop insistence on the outcome. The state that lets reality support you is the one where you act on your joy and allow the how to arrive, even with no idea of the mechanism. Behaving as if you know you have changed, even if the outside still looks the same, is the practice. Treat situations as fundamentally neutral. The meaning that produces conflict is often an automatically-assigned meaning; choosing a new meaning aligned with your natural self is part of surrendering to peace. Use your felt state as the compass for whether you are in surrender. If you feel peace, love, humility, and greatness, you are in the state; if you are analytically worried whether your centering practice is allowed, you are not — worrying that breathing into it is a manipulation is very far from letting go. This material does not direct anyone to remain in situations of harm. Surrender in Bashar's sense is an inner cessation of the false self, not passivity toward danger; the safety and medical/legal boundaries of the corpus are preserved. ## Representative passages The act of surrendering is not so much the act of surrendering to each other, nation to nation, person to person, but surrendering to peace itself. Then both can understand that their wishes can be fulfilled, because when an individual or a nation surrenders to the idea of peace, what they are saying is that they are expressing a willingness to explore the idea that there is enough for everyone, which there is, and that anyone can live their dream. … That which you were created to be, that which you naturally are, fits automatically with everything else that naturally is, because the universe is a whole idea. When you surrender to peace, you are surrendering to be your natural self.— Bashar, Surrender To Peace (surrender-to-peace#qa-1) Surrender in your language usually means giving up, losing something of yourself, giving your power over. This is not what we mean. What we mean here is the stopping, the cessation of trying to be who you think you need to be and the beginning of simply allowing yourself to be who you are. … This is physics, not just a nice idea.— Bashar, Surrender (surrender#qa-1) By simply being in the state itself in which all things that are who you are can then manifest the unlimited possibilities by surrendering just for the sake of surrendering.— Bashar, Surrender To Peace (surrender-to-peace#qa-13) ## Related - [Surrender & Letting Go](https://sassani.app/topic/surrender) - [Unconditional Love](https://sassani.app/topic/unconditional-love) - [Reality As A Mirror](https://sassani.app/topic/mirror-nature-of-reality) - [Self-Empowerment](https://sassani.app/topic/self-empowerment) - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/surrender-to-peace. The HTML page is the source of truth.