Purposeful Growth

Do you believe in an easy life? If not, it may be your own belief that’s blocking you from an easier life. What is a belief or belief system? It’s just a thought or set of thoughts about how something is. It’s not necessarily how that something really is, just how we think about it. Once held firmly, we subconsciously make many of our decisions based on our beliefs.

Typical beliefs about life include:

• life is a jungle
• life is a struggle
• life is a competition–get your share before others take it
• life is a battle for survival
• life is a test
• life is a lesson
• life is perfect
• life is hard
• life is easy (not widely held, I admit).

What a wide range of sponsoring beliefs about life. It’s no wonder people interpret identical life situations sodifferently. Your fundamental belief about life is governingthe ease or difficulty of your life experience. The same goes for me and everyone else.

Years ago I held the belief that life was a struggle because that’s the way it seemed to be. How did I come to believe that?

From parents, friends, or circumstances of my early years? Probably all of these. But once I formed this belief that’s the way life was for me. The good times were merely lulls between struggles. The bad times were evidence of the truth of my belief. 

I’ve changed my belief and the way I look at life and so can you. I now believe that life is fundamentally easy; not without difficulty and not without challenge. But I let life come and go as it will, doing my best to manifest my intentions, but generally accepting what comes along as the natural and normal flow of life experiences. Life is easy because I believe it to be so. Are my life experiences different because of my beliefs? Perhaps, given the Law of Attraction which dictates that I attract events and circumstances similar to my thoughts. Even if my life events are actually unchanged by this change in belief, it feels different to me now. And isn’t that all that counts? How life feels?

If you desire an easy life, you must come to accept and ultimately believe that a life without struggle is not only possible, but is natural. If you do not intuitively know this to be true, or know that an easy life is within your grasp, your life may, indeed, be a struggle.

What can you do if your present belief system is
keeping you from an easy life? Open your mind to the possibility that your view of life is not supporting whom you choose to be. Consider that sometime in the past you accepted a belief about life that you no longer choose to believe.

Look around you–observe that beings in nature simply live their lives. Wildlife seeks food each day, mates and reproduces

each year, and migrates or hibernates to sustain life through the winter. Predator and prey alike live their lives according to the role nature dealt them. A hawk suddenly descends, scattering feeding birds. One bird isn’t fast enough and falls victim. The hawk lives, the bird dies. The other birds return to feed after a time. Life goes on. 

Notice the strength and resilience in nature. The cycles of life go on despite many obstacles. Trees and shrubs grow out of cracks in rock along a stream. Weeds return each year despite our efforts to erase them from our lawns. Grass goes dormant in the middle of a dry summer, only to bounce back with the rains of September. Year after year, daffodils pop up through recently thawed ground.

Remember that your soul is immortal. Even though your body’s existence is finite, your life goes on forever. Your return to heaven is assured. The love of God is certain. The experiences of your life, real as they seem, painful as they may be at times, are simply illusions. Recall that vivid dreams seem so real–until you wake up. At the level of your soul you are immune to pain, sadness, and harm.

Realize that you may have much invested in your current belief about life. Life as a struggle may be your story line. It may create the scripts of your daily interactions with others. It may be difficult at first to know what to say as you convert from “isn’t it awful” to “what an adventure.” Perhaps you will choose to continue viewing life as a struggle–you do have this choice, so make it consciously knowing that you are free to change at any time.

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