CONTROL

Letting go of control, being grateful for the good in our life, and being present, right here, right now, is the way to cultivate effortlessness.  But it’s by no means easy.   It’s not the easy way out or a short-cut around.  In fact, one of the hardest things we could possibly try and do, for a lot of us, is give up the need for control.  

Control has us caught up in the hamster wheel of worry and anxiety about ‘what was’ and ‘what can be’, too entrenched on seeing lack and not having enough.  It has us convinced that struggle is the only way we have influence over our lives.

It’s simply not true.  But effortless is not easy.  In fact, it’s one of the hardest things we can cultivate.  Yet, here’s the thing, to quote Uri Alon*, in order to discover something truly new, at least one of our basic assumptions has to change.  This is the problem right here.  Our basic assumption is that effortlessness is suspect, it can’t be trusted, IT’S TOO EASY.  

It’s a paradox.  We have to give up the struggle in order to allow for effortlessness.  In other words, we have to give up what we perceive to be hard in order to get what we think is too easy, but is in fact, really hard.

I know.  A head scratcher.

*Professor & Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.