Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Kute Blackson.
Kute is a transformational speaker and national best-selling author of You.Are.The.One. and his new book, The Magic of Surrender, published by Penguin Random House. He has been recognized as the “Mindfulness guru that billionaires go to for advice” by Inc Magazine and has been featured on the Larry King Now Show, Dr. Drew, NPR, Fox and Friends, Mind Body Green, and many more. With everything going on in the world, there’s never been a more important time to discuss the topic of surrender. The Magic of Surrender is a guide to move you past inner struggle to discover the power of letting go of control and how letting go leads to more. Typically surrender is considered passive, but Kute wants to show people it isn’t about giving up, it’s about being strong and courageous. It’s about tapping in. This inspiring book shows how surrender is a key factor in the lives of so many great people throughout history and shows how readers can move past barriers in their life to discover the freedom and possibility on the other side of surrender.
Favorite takeaways:
1. My soul guided me. Sometimes what your soul guides you to do doesn’t always make sense to your logic, doesn’t always makes sense to your mind, isn’t always convenient or comfortable, but what I have found is when you listen to your soul, when you listen to that inner guidance, without compromise you’ll always be guided in the right direction with the right people at the right time even though the road and the route that you take might not be the one that you most expect.
2. Pain is feedback showing us we are not living in alignment. Pain is communication.
3. When you’re out of integrity, you can feel it. The problem with our culture and society today is that we go, go, go, go, go, and then you can’t feel it. Because we’re always running on autopilot and you can’t feel it until you slow down.
4. Sometimes people think that when you find your purpose, life gets easy. But I think sometimes, when you find your purpose, the real challenges begin- when you find your purpose, the real difficulties begin. To me, these are soul tests that you have to go through in order to grow through.
5. When it doesn’t seem like there’s much hope, when nothing seems to be working and you feel like giving up- I want to tell people that you’re closer than you think. It’s in the darkness that gestation is happening. So when you’re in the darkness- to me the darkness is a gift, the darkness is a blessing. The darkness pushes you to look inside.
6. When things don’t go according to plan, don’t collapse, don’t contract, don’t curse the universe, don’t blame yourself, instead get curious. Step back, don’t judge, and be open and available.
7. Surrender is the most powerful thing that we can do. Surrender is the key to the next level of our lives. Surrender is the real secret to manifestation. Surrender is letting go of the illusion of control. Surrender is when you stop trying to force life to fit your limited idea of how you think it should be and who you think you should be and how you think life should unfold. It’s when you’re open and you take the limitations off of life and you’re open and you’re available to receive.
Podcast shoutout: The Soul Journey Podcast by Sherrie Lynn https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-soul-journey-podcast/id1654413239
You can find out more about Kute on his website, www.kuteblackson.com; Facebook and Instagram. If you are interested in his Boundless Bliss event happening in December, you can find more information at www.boundlessblissbali.com.
Find more from Karaleigh on her website, karaleighgarrison.com.
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