Let It Be Ease-y

A coaching client recently brought up a question along the lines of: What’s the distinction between living a life full of ease and flow and just only ever doing things that feel good. 

The way I think of this distinction is that living an ease-y life is very different than living an easy life. 

The more we get in the habit of slowing down, pausing, dropping out of our heads and into the felt sense of life as it pulses through our bodies from moment to moment, the more we effortlessly start to connect to a greater sense of ease and flow in our days. 

But allowing our lives to be guided more by ease versus by force, willpower, shoulds or inner criticism doesn’t mean that life always feels good. 

It just means that we become a little less rigid. A little better able to more fluidly let life move through us rather than constantly damming up the flow with our efforts to resist or control it.

Painful moments are still going to feel painful to us…because we’re human! 

It’s just that the less we resist unpleasant moments or cling to pleasant ones, the more easefully we’re able to be carried downstream by the flow. 

You still get to choose when and where you dig in and hustle for some larger goal or greater good. That work may still feel like hard work sometimes, but it’s likely going to be infused with a bit more of a sense of ease and fluidity the more you practice pausing, dropping into your body, and noticing with curiosity rather than judgement.

So, how ease-y are you willing to let it be?

Exerting enough energy but not more than needed.

Joining forces with the flow of the universe rather than swimming upstream.

Maybe your conditioned mind has been assuming that if you stop working so hard, pushing so hard, you won’t be as successful as you want to be or achieve as much as you’d like.

But what if that thinking has simply been confused? What if you could accomplish just as much as you are now — or potentially even way more — without all the over-efforting, exhaustion, self-criticism and burnout?

What if there’s a more effective and efficient way of navigating through life? 

And what if that way is actually much more useful and much more enjoyable than maintaining all the pressure on your own shoulders by assuming you have to push everything forward all by yourself?

What if?

Lots of Love,

Melissa

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