The practice of releasing ego-driven criteria and control in choosing partners, allowing vulnerability to guide authentic connection.
Mirabai's devotional path centered on surrendering personal will to divine love, transcending social expectation and rational calculation. Applied to attachment style, radical surrender means releasing the defensive patterns—avoidance, control, perfectionism—that mask fear. Rather than approaching partner selection through checklists or protective strategies, this practice invites you to examine what you're afraid to feel. Mirabai chose ecstatic union over security; in modern attachment terms, this means tolerating the anxiety of genuine intimacy. When you surrender the need to manage outcomes, you paradoxically become more discerning: you can sense misalignment with your true self rather than settling for what feels safe. This doesn't mean recklessness, but rather honest assessment of whether you're choosing from wholeness or from wound.
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