Hey friends.
Currently sitting at a cozy coffee shop outside in Vietnam – the coffee here is STRONG. And it comes in coconuts.
It’s fantastic.
It has been an incredible few months of travel that in a few weeks, will be coming to close for me.
That said – so much experience and learning has been had.
I’m bursting at the seams to share with you one of the coolest lessons I have had so far.
Life is simple, and it gets to be easy, if you choose to come into enlightened states of Being.
Not easy because the circumstances that arise – or even the feelings and thoughts that arise within you are always “easy” –
but you can learn how to take it easy.
Go lightly.
As the Buddhist proverb goes – allowing thoughts to be like thieves breaking into an empty house.
There is nothing to steal. Nothing to grab on to. Emptiness – Beingness. Flow.
I don’t know about you, but from a young age I was conditioned to make things hard.
To stress, to constrict, to overthink, to overanalyze, to force, to fear, etc. etc. etc. Obligatory struggle, regardless of the context. Distortion and feedback loops baked in to the fabric of perception.
So much so that – if things aren’t hard, it used to freak me out.. there is no way it could be this easy – something must have gone wrong. I must be missing something…
Cue the unconscious self-sabotoge.
How strange is that – really?
Surely, if you’re reading this – you know life – real life, by nature, is simple.
It is our minds that complicate it.
Why?
Is it because the complication is necessary – or simply because we were conditioned to believe in and make things hard? To think our value is earned based on how “hard” we worked? To be addicted to the struggle? To come at life with constant unconscious streams of commentary, dread, judgement, and fear narratives that are not even our own.
It goes beyond perception, into behavior.
Not only are we conditioned to complicate life with our mind – but it is often difficult for the ego to let things be easy.
Perhaps that is what happens when you live in a system that was designed to produce masses of workers, rather than masses of thinkers or creators… Although the prevailing shadow of self-invented struggle goes far before that.
One of my biggest tasks at hand, prescirbed by my Spirit at this time – is to allow, to tread lighter, and to let things be easy. More than ever.
Both in the sense of – it is what it is, and moving with the groove of life in a harmonious, consciously creative, and dynamic dance,
And
In my “work”, in my abundance, in my relationships, in my business – letting go of the “hustle” mentality which tells me if I am not working super hard, I am not worthy or capable of excellence.
The truth of the matter is that in higher realms, excellence comes from the quality of your Being, rather than the quantity of your struggle/hard work.
Nothing wrong with hard work – I am all about going all in and devoting myself to a deep project.
But what I am saying, again – is realizing the work gets to be play. To such a degree, it will shock you when you see how hard you’ve been slaving away because you think you have to or that it’s more effective to be a slave. Ha.
Life wants you to remember how to play with it. That you actually have the Divine Power. It is enjoyable, thoroughly, to higher and higher degrees.
It is not that serious, as the ego would have one believe – it is much more enjoyable to go lightly.
The funny part is – the playful nature is far more magnetic and abundant than the mind-slave mentality.
Like creates like – slave mentality creates more things and mentalities to be enslaved to. No fun.
Frankly – one could be busting their ass for shit results in life and on the other hand – one could be dancing in delight and reaping profound sows – spiritually and physically.
Myself, I definitely prefer the latter.
Paradoxically – it’s hard work to let it be easy for the mind 😂
Although it always surprises me – having more fun AND getting better results – by truly enjoying the simplicity and inherent ease of life?
The way life was meant to be played? Upward spirals of joy and freedom?
Yes.
So truly – it is a win win.
My question to you is – how can you let things be easier? More synchronistic? More divine?
I want to end this teaching with a wonderful Aldous Huxley quote:
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humourless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.”
– Aldous Huxley
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Until next time, beautiful family.
Lightly,
Regan
Regan Keely 