Life Can Be Easy
As I was right in the middle of my self development journey, I heard someone ask a question that quite literally changed everything. And that was “what if life can be easy”?For so long, I thought I had to constantly push, struggle for what I wanted, always be serious or else my dreams would never materialize. But my goals were never met, I never felt good, or I felt worse than before if I finally did reach an endpoint.Sure I was pushing myself to be better, but why did I feel empty inside? I just assumed struggle was a part of life, and those that worked hard would be rewarded in the end.But I was missing one of the biggest pieces of self development. They key player in truly feeling happy and living my dream life was letting life be easy. Going with the flow.Yes, it is important to have goals and have some sort of self discipline, but life is already mapped out for you. It doesn’t matter if you are spiritual or not, there is an energy greater than all of us that has our path laid out.So the more you push against life and its lessons, the longer it will take to get to where you want to be.When I was in my biggest fight against anxiety, everything just felt heavy and challenging. I wanted to heal, yet I thought I needed rigidity and hard fast rules and had to give up any semblance of fun.But what I didn’t realize was that I was making things harder for myself and pushing people away. I wasn’t enjoying life, I wasn’t being a twenty-something that was making new experiences.I was shut inside myself, treating self development as bootcamp. Although it didn’t seem like I was reaching happiness or connection within me, I just felt like I had this strict teacher that was telling me to do more, be better, fight harder.But that voice wasn’t on my side at all, it was my ego that wanted perfection, an unrealistic picture for my life. It was addicted to the struggle.Humans are addicted to the struggle. Whether our parents told us we had to be better, society forced us to constantly be achieving more, or our own self doubt was loud in our heads, we learned that we needed to struggle.I can only challenge you this one question, what if life was easy?If life was easy you would be doing more of this:
- Waking up excited for the day, knowing there will be challenges but nothing you can’t handle
- Expressing gratitude for whatever job you are in, knowing that it provides resources for you to live comfortably
- Are able to confidently rely on the relationships in your life, you’ve spent lots of time fostering and nurturing them
- Not letting anxiety or fears overtake you, choosing to take action regardless of whatever negativity comes up
- Recognizing that you have the power to choose your thoughts and create whatever reality you picture for yourself
- Taking care of your body through the food you eat and the exercise you take part in
- Making feeling good your number 1 priority since all the positive change stems from that
Now this may be so outside your comfort zone, that it feels uncomfortable. But the popular saying is absolutely true: nothing good happens in your comfort zone.We all have things we struggle with, all have some demons, and some cards stacked against us. But that’s life. We are all here just trying to figure it out.So take 1 day, even 1 morning to feel more positive and let life just be easy for a bit. I bet you will start to feel more powerful than ever before.