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The Struggle to Give UP the Struggle

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In Lesson 3 of the Higher Power (HP) Course I talk about why it is difficult for people to give up the struggle associated with bringing into their life what they want and to do it with no effort at all.

Struggle is unnatural... All you have to do is look at nature and you will not see one thing in nature struggling to achieve its goal. A sapling doesn't struggle to achieve its goal of becoming a tree, it just does what is consistent with its nature to do. A flower seed doesn't struggle to achieve its goal of becoming a flower. It simply does what is consistent with its nature to do and blossoms into a beautiful flower naturally.

The only creatures God created that struggle to achieve their goals are human beings and boy do they struggle.

Did you know that struggling through life was something you learned?

If your parents struggled through life, that why you struggle. If your parents worried about money, that why you worry about money. If your parents had a lukewarm relationship with one another, that's why you have you have lukewarm relationships with others.

Whatever you learned from your parents, or anyone else for that matter, that does not serve you, can be unlearned and replaced with a way of living that does serve you.

There are two ways to give up the struggle, by choice or have struggle stripped away from you when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired of struggling.

Often times before people give UP the struggle they come down with some serious illness. Illness is not punishment from God. On the contrary, this is a gift from God to support people in giving up the struggle in life. This related link will give you more insights about why sickness is a gift rather than a curse. Disease - The Gift

Of course, you do not have to become seriously ill to give up the struggle, you can give up the struggle by choice. By the way, not struggling is a moment by moment choice we make. If you practice living in the moment, all struggle will melt away from your life naturally.

In order to live in the moment, make sure your body and mind are always in the same place at the same time.

Stress and struggle are created when your body is in the "here and now" and your mind is in the future (even if it is five minutes into the future) or in the past ( even if it only five minutes back into the past).

The body can only live in the moment, the mind can live wherever it pleases. If your body doesn't like where your mind is living, it creates stress in you as an ALERT signal for you to bring your mind back to the present moment where your body lives 24.7.
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"Where does God live?" my son asked "He lives in the moment." I replied. "If you want to find God, live there too!"

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