Staying in Conductivity: Letting Go Without Losing Control
A few weeks ago I was dealing with one of those days when everything seemed to go in the opposite direction to what I had planned. Meetings cancelled, emails multiplying, everyone looked like was conspiring to mess with me. My reaction? Grit my teeth, push back, try to force everything back onto the tracks I had imagined.
It’s an attitude I know well: opposing what happens, as if willpower alone could change the flow of events. But after hours of this pointless tension, I stopped. I asked myself: what am I doing, exactly?
And that’s when I recognised the difference between controlling and remaining in conductivity. Controlling is stiffening, forcing, pushing against the current. Conductivity is staying present, receptive, available to what arrives, without losing the ability to navigate. It’s not passive surrender, it’s active presence.
When I stopped resisting, something changed. The same situations were still there, but I was different. More fluid, more open. It’s not that everything magically resolved itself, but I found the space to move, to choose, instead of wasting energy in opposition.
In Sharanagati we often hear about letting go to allow the energies of the masters to enter. It’s not a mystical discourse detached from everyday life: it’s exactly this. When we’re rigid, closed, busy opposing, there’s no space for anything new. Not for help, not for guidance, not for the energies that could support us.
Staying in conductivity means remaining available. It means trusting that the flow, even when it seems contrary, is actually leading somewhere. It means holding the helm without clinging with all our strength, ready to let ourselves be guided when needed.
Next time I feel tension rising, I’ll try asking myself: am I resisting or am I staying open? Am I pushing against, or am I letting myself be moved through? The difference is subtle, but it changes everything.