Rob and I already published our messages from this particular practice session, and we want to include our teammate Jo Ann’s interesting and reassuring guidance. For any of us to create viable projects, trusting, surrendering and allowing are essential. We are not interpreting this guidance to mean passivity in the face of injustice, wrong-doing or any situation that seems to be not of love. We are, however, being asked to trust our own deepest desires, and to partner with our Higher Selves in the process. Thank you so much, Jo Ann, for letting us share the third perspective on this theme. Jennifer
Jo Ann’s Channeling of Higher Self, Ariel
Ariel: Greetings, my child. This is your Higher Self, Ariel. We have not met before as you have not asked about me, child. I am always there, but you have never asked to know your Higher Self. My name is Ariel. I have been with you always, and I am your Higher Self.
Now, you struggle, it seems, not understanding the intellectual concept of trust-surrender-allow, but heart-understanding what it means to trust, surrender and allow. Because, as you have spoken to your colleagues about, you are [and] have always been, since a young child, goal-oriented, success-oriented, accomplishment-oriented, driving, driving, driving. You have just described yourself to your family, sometimes, as being driven, but not knowing what you’re driven to.
You think you are being driven to accomplish a certain thing because there’s a check mark on your human list of what you feel is necessary for you to feel successful. Now this is where we challenge you, my child, because achieving a certain income level, a certain badge, honor, shall we say, a certain badge on your brownie vest as a child, [is important to you]. These are accomplishments, my child, but they are not of the highest good and the highest direction for you. But I digress.
Trust-surrender-allow. Trust is that you trust your relationship, your interaction, which is becoming more and more strong, with me, your Higher Self, with your audience, with the Council members, all of whom you have come to know and love and talk with, that you trust that you are being guided in the direction. Yes, you set goals at a higher level, objective goals — not, particularly, that it’s that you want this amount of money on this date. Yes, that is a goal, but a goal of what it feels like …
Jo Ann: (I’m getting myself confused. I think I’m talking and not letting Ariel talk. Let me go back to the center again.)
Ariel: My child, it is difficult for you to let go. It is difficult for you not to feel as if you must be in control, that you must drive things, and this is at the heart of this conversation. You must decide what it is you want, my child, in this life, as you said, whether it be in terms of relationships, in terms of financial success, in terms of health, in terms of whatever you choose.
You must, as you said, decide to take actions. You must be in alignment with your thoughts. You cannot say, “I want to be healthy,” and yet eat junk food all day. You must be in alignment with your actions. You must be in line with your goals, your intent, but you must let go of the stress of the drive to make sure it’s all right.
Set your intentions, set your actions that are in alignment with intentions. Do your best to carry out, to focus each day on the accomplishment of, that small goal, that small intention, whether it’s to eat right or to exercise or to contact your loved one or whatever. But then trust. Trust that we’ve got it from there, that if your intentions and if your goal, if we can use that term, are in alignment with the highest interest of you and the universe, the consciousness, that you will be given the right answers, the right direction, as Rob has said.
Relax. Know that if it is in the highest good it will happen. Your job is to believe, to trust that it will happen, to surrender the how, who, maybe the individual wheres and wherefores. Surrender that, and then the universe will take that and will plant it in the best interest. And allow that to happen.
So relax. Drop your need to drive everything, to spend every moment in the best possible use, the most efficient use, the most effective use of that second of time. Relax. Go into your heart. Listen, listen, listen, my child, for the direction will be given to you. The answers will come your way, but they CANNOT come your way if …you are in a tense, must-do, must-check-this-off-list mode of operation.
So you must trust in your desires. You must trust that they are in your highest good. You must trust that they are in the highest good of others. You must do your action steps as you see or as you’re guided to do. You must surrender the outcome to us. Surrender knowing that we are in partnership, that we will take your guidance, your direction, your goals, your intents, if you will, and if they’re in the highest good of all, the universe will find a way to make them happen.
So trust and surrender and allow the partnership between you and the Divine, between you and your Stranger, between you and your Guides, between you and me, your Higher Self, between you and the Mother, Yeshi, all of the members of the Council of Love. Trust that, together, in a relaxed state, in the mode of surrender, that all will be accomplished and good.
I feel like you are somewhat choppy with our communication. Maybe it’s because we are new together. I will come more frequently, if you ask. I will give you guidance, if you ask. I will always be there with you, my child, whether you ask or not. But I encourage you to talk to me more. I have your highest good, always, in the forefront. I will be here guiding you if you listen. I will be here, giving you options, directions or whatever, if you take the time to hear me.
So, my child, relax. Relax. Find joy. Find happiness. Find contentment. Find gratitude. Find peace. Take the time to smell the roses in each of your days, because in doing so, the communication will flow. It cannot flow to a bucket that is completely full and is overflowing with to-dos and things I should have, would have, could have done. Allow us to guide your bucket, to guide you on your path. Slow down, [and] listen, listen, listen.
So with that, I go so that you have time for all members of your group to complete their communications with their guides or with whomever they wish. We are here, my child. I am here. Slow down. Relax. Let us work together in joy and happiness and gratitude and peace for the unfoldment of your goals, of your purpose in life. Farewell, my child.
Channeled by Jo Ann Fogarty, Council of Love Coach and Author, 24 April 2026