Effort and our resistance to life
In most cases, to achieve any goal, the daily efforts towards it should never be overwhelming.
We only need a moderate amount of patient work through a long enough period of time.
Our endeavor needs to be devoid of stress, and we should not be fretting over our seemingly slow progress.
When we are in a relaxed state, we sometimes get prompted by our brain to take certain actions, or to change course towards a more balanced approach that would move us closer to our target.
Forcing things to work generates resistance. It's like picking up fruits before they are ripe and using chemicals to speed up the ripening process.
The result is always a mediocre product that upsets our stomach and violates our palate.
When we push too hard for a project for example, we might get the funding, and the support we need, but something will not feel right.
Eventually the project will hit a snag that could delay it, or causes it fail.
Even in our projects succeds, it will be a bitter success, that would generate more issues than solutions.
How do we know that we are pushing too hard?
There is no visible line beyond which lies a sign that tells us to slow down. It is more subtle than that, it's a feeling, a signal that we get attuned to reading with experience.
When we ignore this signal and keep pushing, unpredictable events occur to slow us down.
We could look at it as nature's safety net.
This could be a sudden sickness, the withdrawal of funds from a project for no apparent reason, or any other circumstance meant to stall us, and decrease our pace.
Pushing too hard might get us a pale version of the results that we are seeking while wasting way more energy than is required.
The universe is smooth in its workings. It takes tomatoes about three months to mature, and it take the bamboo tree around five years to grow to its full size.
Problems, snags, and diseases are ways to stall us so that we could rest and gather more experience to face future problems.
Most people who win the lottery for example, lose the money within a year or two because the process of acquiring that weath was fast and unatural. It sidestepped the learning curve that might have equipped the winner with the necessary tools, and knowledge to handle such a circumstance.
When we push too hard for a project for example, we might get the funding, and the support we need, but something will not feel right.
Eventually the project will hit a snag that could delay it, or causes it fail.
Even in our projects succeds, it will be a bitter success, that would generate more issues than solutions.
How do we know that we are pushing too hard?
There is no visible line beyond which lies a sign that tells us to slow down. It is more subtle than that, it's a feeling, a signal that we get attuned to reading with experience.
When we ignore this signal and keep pushing, unpredictable events occur to slow us down.
We could look at it as nature's safety net.
This could be a sudden sickness, the withdrawal of funds from a project for no apparent reason, or any other circumstance meant to stall us, and decrease our pace.
Pushing too hard might get us a pale version of the results that we are seeking while wasting way more energy than is required.
The universe is smooth in its workings. It takes tomatoes about three months to mature, and it take the bamboo tree around five years to grow to its full size.
Problems, snags, and diseases are ways to stall us so that we could rest and gather more experience to face future problems.
Most people who win the lottery for example, lose the money within a year or two because the process of acquiring that weath was fast and unatural. It sidestepped the learning curve that might have equipped the winner with the necessary tools, and knowledge to handle such a circumstance.
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