Create It. . .
One of the most common wishes I hear from others is this: I want to live (work, be) with more ease! I want more joy in my life!
Joy is about light and lightness, about fun, flow, and inspiration, about enjoying the process for its own sake. Joy has always been one of my guiding principles. The awareness I’ve gained from embracing joy has given me a new perspective on how to go about creating more of it.
“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.”-Ekhart Tolle.
So the first thing to do is to take 10 deep breaths. You have this innate built in capacity to create ease through your breath. Don’t need to go anywhere. It’s in you, in your being, in your body.
Now when your mind is stressing and racing, you create stress in your body and so your breathing becomes more short and more shallow. And when you’re stressed in your body, you become more stressed in your mind and in your thinking and feeling. And so it’s like a loop that reinforces itself. So taking 10 deep breaths is the first way to create more ease. So just take a deep breath in, can say thank you for the oxygen that’s filling you and keeping you alive. It’s love from the universe that’s sustaining you and just breathe deeply.
The next step is ask for more ease in your life. So once you’ve taken those 10 deep breaths and you’re feeling more at ease, you’re more expansive, your being, your body, your mind, your heart are more expansive. You can ask the universe for more ease.
If you bring more ease and focus, you can achieve much than when you try to just finish or get things done. When you feel stressed, things begin to go wrong. It takes a minute, two minutes to breathe deeply, to slow down, to create more ease in your system and then ask for more ease. How can I bring more ease to the cooking I have to do today? How can I bring more ease to the deadline I have today? How can I bring more ease to a challenging family situation? How can I bring more ease to my self care when I go to the gym? How can I bring more ease into taking better care of myself?
So breathe deeply and reflect (sound like meditation?). Take 10 deep breaths. Appreciate the oxygen coming in and leaving. Say thank you. Appreciate it. That’s how you calm your system. Then you ask from this expansive, relaxed, flowing state, you ask for more ease in any area of your life. You ask for insight and guidance of how you can create more ease. You are taking anyone in particular; just put it into the universe.
And then whatever the insight is, go do it. You will experience more. And I promise you that if you slow down, you’ll be more efficient and you’ll get more done than if you feel that you can’t do it. It’s a loop that just sucks you in like a magnetic force. There’s so much to do. So you’re stressed and you’re so stressed that you think you cannot let go.
So let go, breathe deeply. Ask the universe to support you. How can you create more ease in your life? And then when you get an answer, go do it!
Peace and Love, Jim
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