Waaayyy back in the day, I was a life coach with only a handful of clients and an overwhelming desire to churn out hundreds of articles. Most of these pieces make me cringe now, but a few have held up. Some folks have built careers out of concepts I freely published to Coach U and other self help libraries. More power to them. Here’s an old favorite.

 

Top Ten Ways to Ease into Effortlessness

Originally published 6/15/99 on Topten.org

 

1. Decide effortlessness is Easy
The only thing standing in your way of an effortless life right now is the thought that effortlessness is unusual/difficult/wacky or wrong. These ideas will leave as easy as they came, easing you in to effortlessness. You can’t struggle your way to effortlessness.

2. Listen for your comfort
Listen with all of your senses. When a shoe feels good, ask someone to send out for 5 more pairs. When you feel really relaxed, notice, and stay that way.

3.  Get fed and eat slowly
A Dionysan feast might be nice, but in lieu of that, go out to eat. Know that the hands that serve you- serve you. Realize all the services that make your life effortless right now- use them.

4.  Breathe (like someone needed to tell you to do that….)

5.  Take the low road – gravity is on your side
Decide to take the easiest path to your destination, in fact, hitch a ride on an elephant’s back. Sometimes the high road takes hiking gear and muscle strain….unless of course, you have wings.

6.  Smooth-in some ruffles – they create great cushion.

And extra air-pockets for breeziness. Texture is indicative of effortlessness- nature is full of ruffles and bumps. It is man’s hands (and efforts) that make rough spots smooth. Witness the ruffles and bumps as textural zen- simplicity untouched.

7.  Wake up by rolling over
Invest in your sleep and take the benefits into your waking life. Roll your sleep over into an investment in your day. How else can you make your dreams come true?

8.  Your thoughts move effortlessly, why not you?
Our thoughts come and go, with lightning speed and little energy. So do our bodies. Let it come and go as is natural. Choose easy movements, enjoy them. Energy, electricity and health are your bodies’ nature.

9.  Ask someone to clean your clutter
Find the easy way out of a closet full of clutter…or learn to love it. Reaching into our wallets takes less effort than reaching the back wall of our basements.

10.  Create a vacuum (or mail order for a Eureka)
It is easy to create a vacuum. Remember: removing anything makes a space. How about removing the idea that effortlessness takes work?

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