You might want to google around for different approaches of surrendering...
I am sort of a student as well
You could try and go through everyday life like a little child. Try to not think (at least not too much...that´s where meditation could be of help), be curious and openminded...look at everything like it is new...wonder...give all your questions and thoughts and such to the Universe and trust that you get what you need...Hm, that´s a good advice for myself as well
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I am having a hard time at surrendering. Last year things ´suddenly´ happened and ´divine timing´ and ´divine intervention´ came to my mind then. It got really beautiful and then suddenly there was lots of pain...but i think, or rather try to believe, that heartfelt pain was necessary...i understand that what one needs is not always the most beautiful...(i somehow knew that in the back of my mind, but to really experience it now is way different...) Maybe that´s exactly what is holding me back from totall surrender...afraid of what might come...
Funny thing...a couple of weeks i dreamt of serpents as well...baby snakes. I was at my parents house and my brother had bought them to eat witch a sandwich. My parents ate the sandwiches but not the serpents. My brother collected them and put them on a plate on the table, where i was (i hadn´t been eating with them). I saw one serpent glide of the table on the ground and dare not pick it up. Asked my brother to do that, but he refused...