Aug 16
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Are We Created to Struggle?
Guru says, “struggle is illusion”.
I received an excellent piece from a well-known personal development “guru” recently, in which he talked about how we were not created to struggle, but rather with a natural flow; his point was that if we found that flow and “rhythm” we could end all struggle by “going with the flow.”
I took it with a grain of salt at first, and then he got to me by laying out the following to prove his point that struggling was unnatural and actually self-defeating with this:
WATER DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO FLOW, GRASS DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO GROW, WIND DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO BLOW, RAIN DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO FALL, SUN DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO SHINE, EARTH DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO ROTATE AND FLOWERS DO NOT STRUGGLE TO BLOOM.
I’ll be right back, please save me a spot on the boat.
If what he says is true it could then be said that our only struggle is to give struggling up and for this we need only find the flow of CREATIVE FORCE (a verb not a noun) and go with that flow. We also need to realize that if we are sitting in a boat perched on a sand dune, THERE IS NO FLOW WITH WHICH TO GO!
As one way of finding the flow that works for you, you may want to consider YOU WITHOUT LIMITS the small group “MAGIC” aimed at helping individuals help one another find the flow that is suited perfectly for each individual, recognizing and respecting that we are all unique and interpret many different things in many different ways, none of which are “good” or “bad” or, if you prefer, “right” or “wrong.”
With that in mind please consider the following caption from a perspective different than what the words immediately trigger in you: 
The Integrated Mind and
“Spiritual Enlightenment”
These words create a challenge because they mean many different things to many different people and, therefore, they tend to keep everyone spinning in the mindset of a world of their own preconceived thoughts.
Creative Power…oh my!
If, however, we take the time to understand what is intended, rather than jump to judgment based on our own preconceptions triggered by whatever these words have meant to us in the past, this caption can lead to accessing the very same CREATIVE POWER upon which the whole universe and every galaxy, star, planet and, yes, even black hole and “dark matter” vibrates and operates.
If your interest has been piqued, perhaps we can begin: An Integrated Mind is intended to mean the entire nervous system comprised of literally trillions of individual cells, each with a neurotransmitter continuously sending and receiving signals to and from one another and involving two primary information processing organs, the heart and the brain. The foregoing is based on now widely accepted recent neurobiological research.
Your enlightenment is like a crown, wear it often.
Pinning down a widely accepted foundation for Spiritual Enlightenment is not so easy; although there is some agreement among some scientists in some branches of science, particularly physics, that a connection exists between the term spiritual and the mind and this multi-faceted mind when at optimum vibrates at the same frequency as CREATIVE FORCE, but the conscious ego-driven part of the mind sucks us in to being distracted by physical evidence which is the primary obstacle to spiritual enlightenment. There is a whole host of resistance based on religious and philosophical preconception.
It should be remembered that LIGHT is given for those willing to see – it is also true that a light that is too bright causes temporary blindness.
To see if your FREE PDF copy of the YWL handbook for small group facilitators (and we are all facilitators and co-learners) might shed some additional LIGHT for YOU …send an e-mail to:
Sekou@youwithoutlimits.life or doug@youwithoutlimits.life – just type on the subject line HANDBOOK; it will come to you as an attachment in the reply with no strings attached.