One Word – EASY

In thinking about words and their power, I recalled something a fellow student said in class. We were discussing the efforts required to keep our thinking accurate and elevated instead of falling back into old habits.  She said, "All you have to do is remember you are a soul.  Easy."

Easy?!  She was sort of new, and new students are enthusiastic and think everything is easy.  But she was also studying philosophy at uni-versity - I just sensed that in this case the new-student 'honeymoon' period didn't apply to her. 
Could she be right?  Could it be easy?  I hadn't really considered that enlightenment and self-transformation could be easy.  But when she said it, I felt a lift.  It was as if the soul was breathing a sigh of relief.  That one word, uttered out loud, had such an impact.

OK, the seed was planted, but things didn't get easy.  Why?  Disheartenment.

The best analogy I can think of is learning to ride a bike.  If you don't know how to ride a bike, then it probably seems to you to be a difficult thing to do.  But to those of us who have been riding a long time, it's easy.  I think it's easier to learn as a kid - falling only hurts the knees, not the pride.  Whilst learning, you are bound to fall.  Each fall feels like a failure.  One can become disheartened.  Each fall re-affirms that riding a bicycle is difficult.  It requires sheer effort and determination to get past the disheartenment.
Now, let's look at learning to ride a bike in a different way.  First, we'll say that riding a bike is easy.  Then, we'll say that in order to learn to ride a bike, a person must fall a certain number of times.  So, riding a bike is still easy, but in order to find balance, it is required that you fall a few times or maybe a lot of times.
Next the rider, knowing that riding a bike is easy, goes out to learn to do it and sets about falling all over the place.  OK, you can count your falls if you want to, but no one knows the number of falls required for them to learn, so counting doesn't really help you except to let you know that you have already fallen that number of times and therefore you're that much nearer your aim.
When you DO find your balance, then you discover that riding a  bike IS easy.  See?  EASY!  But  it was that initial thought  - the thought that riding a bike is easy - whether you believed it or not - which motivated you to learn.  Who wants to learn something difficult?  And it was the realization that a fall was NOT failure, but required in order to find balance - balance makes bike riding EASY, doesn't it?

So, for any challenges you face, just remember, the solution is there and it's EASY!
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Ross Galán, NLP Spiritual Life Coach
at the Spiritual Life Coaching School