EFFORTLESS

We routinely de-value our intuition.

Relationships, when they’re right and true, are effortless.  Our life, when on an authentic path, moving in the direction of compassion and love, for ourselves and others, is effortless.   Struggle does not equal value.  When it comes to relationships of any kind, or the way we lead our lives, struggle appears as fear, anxiety and apprehension.  It’s a warning from our intuition that we’re moving in the wrong direction.  It’s telling us that we’re hanging out with the wrong people, doing the wrong job, pursuing the wrong things.

We constantly over-value our irrational thoughts.  

When we see the smoke signals coming from our intuition (and we do) we tell ourselves that we’re just being silly.  That we’ve gotten the wrong impression, have misunderstood, or are just plain wrong.  Usually we side with our irrational thoughts.  These are the thoughts that tell us that if we don’t hang out with the people we’re feeling apprehensive about, we’ll die friendless.  Or, if we don’t stick it out with this job we hate, we’ll end up homeless.  That if we kick our abusive partner to the curb, we’ll live forever unloved.  Sounds irrational doesn’t it?  That’s because it is.

Our intuition will not steer us into friendlessness or homelessness.  Quite the opposite.  When we listen to our intuition and release the struggle to please, or be accepted or be chosen, we throw open the doors for the things that will do us the greatest good.  Friends and partners with integrity and our best interest at heart, will show up.  Jobs that feed our souls and pay our rent, come knocking.  A life based on effortlessness, brought to us by our intuition, will lay before us.  

And yet, we don’t trust effortlessness.  Why is that?