This gets to be easy
Life and art get to be easeful
Everything - and I mean everything - gets to be easy.
I’ve been brewing this newsletter for a little while longer than usual, because it is fluffy, easy and bright.
You see, every time I write or create something, a chapter, a book, a Youtube video, a class, or a newsletter, I get to bask in its energy, learn lessons from it while it’s incubating, receive teachings, ideas and moments from the universe, so I can write about it, or teach it, in the best and highest possible way for everyone. So it’s no surprise that a newsletter about ease, would bring in the peace and light of ease. And indeed it has done so, over the past month.
Here’s the thing: it doesn’t mean there hasn’t been challenges, portals, conflicts, tests, and a need for change and upleveling. It meant, that in every moment, I got to choose the path of ease, to transform my reality.
In finally writing this letter, I’m ready to let it go, but also integrate this teaching, to remember it fully.
It gets to be easy, if we choose it to be so.
I have a very convoluted ego/mind, able to bring solutions and find hundreds of pathways, detours and changes to make something work: this goes for writing, for life situations and emotions, for administrative and practical problems, for conversations, for work, for plans and destinies, for emails… for anything really, and if it’s really useful skill in life or death situation, or when faced with a complex problem or challenge to solved, most of the time, in my daily life, it is a hindrance, especially when I start half-proposing solutions to people around me, confusing everyone as I go, included myself.
In every situation, there is a path of ease, one that doesn’t involve the ego, or masterplans, but rather the energy that sits right in front of us, the truth that is laid upon us so obviously, that we laugh when we finally notice it, the choice - which I actually believe is alignment, rather than free will - where, when everything will unfold so easily, that you will wonder how and why there was a problem in the first instance.
Ease, is an ingredient of flow, of letting go, of beingness, of joy.
Our minds create plans, solutions, fears, limitations, questions and insecurities to protect us, but instead, they often block off the truth, the easeful path, the joy, under a pile of misgivings, which could have been decided in a few seconds, if only we would have stopped to listen, learned to stay still and silent for a few seconds, and simply choose the path of ease.
While writing this newsletter, the website was doing something strange this morning, blinking and saving the page every three seconds. I could have reloaded, forced it, tried to fix it, to find a solution, even go on a chat board to see if the website was down, or stop doing what I was doing altogether, to come back when the website worked. Instead, I took a breath, and I was led to my writing software. I never wrote a newsletter there, but it turns out it’s comfortable, pleasant, and will allow me to save these offline easily, without any extra step. It also opens possibilities for saving a bigger project, that I’ve been wondering how to archive. My problem never truly was one, and in following its thread, I found new doors to open.
Ease was found in flowing to another pathway.
My partner and I were planning to do a conference for an organisation for several months, but complications and backs and forths kept on piling up, without us noticing or stopping to check in on the energy of the project. One evening, after revisiting the project once more, I felt a strong and harsh energy around it. I knew it was time to let it go.
Ease was found in the not doing.
I’m always trying to schedule my different projects, and structure all the boxes of my life, so everything fits. But that’s not how it works, and it’s never how it truly worked. When I choose ease, instead of overthinking, naturally, the right projects and activities move into place, while others fall away.
Ease is found in letting go of control.
I may procrastinate, not write, not get up, fill up my schedule with everything else, but the project I’m working on. The energy around my days may become heavy, entrenched, impossible to move forward with. But as soon as I release my limitations, my fears, my expectations, my procrastination and I move to the project near and dear to my heart and soul, then my energy lightens, even if my workload may appear to increase from the outside.
Ease found in the doing.
Planning a bus route, to be there at a certain time, when I simply could get ready and follow the flow of the day, and of my energy.
Ease found through the body, the heart, the soul, and not the mind.
Sometimes, sending that difficult email, having that hard conversation is what is called forth, and ease is found through the difficult, rather than trudging in the difficult and harsh waters of the easy way out.
In conversations, we can choose the easeful path, we get to find ease. In our inner ramblings, we can choose the easeful path, we get to be with our minds in ease. In our daily lives, in tiny moments and big ones, we can choose the easeful path, we get to live in ease. In our art, in our mission, we can, we get, to choose and experience the easeful path.
Choosing ease, is not about doing nothing because that’s easier. Most of the time, it’s the exact opposite. Ease is found in the hard, difficult, uncomfortable action, conversation, in becoming the person who acts differently, who becomes different, who embodies a different light, by always choosing ease. Ease, truth and joy are ready to welcome us in behind the seemingly difficult doors. And one day, ease will have become our default mode, and the challenges of choosing this path will have dissolved.
When I think back on my month of ease, I find it difficult - hahaha! - to find a specific moment or story to tell, beyond the few examples that I have shared. In truth, there has been so many, and it has brought me so much peace and ease, but somehow, ease has dissolved them out of view. Because perhaps, the problems weren’t real, but only for my mind to grasp hold of.
How do we find ease? How do we listen and choose the easeful path?
When a challenge, a problem arises, slow down, stop, be silent, be still. Don’t do anything. Don’t force, don’t transform, don’t remove yourself from the discomfort. Yet. Be with it. And listen. Your mind might be going crazy, might want to control, and to solve the problem immediately, but that’s ok, reassure it and tell it it’s gonna be ok, it’s just an experience, if you need to. Listen to your inner world, your intuition, as only you know it manifests (in sounds, in actions, in body, in messages, in tears, in shivers, in words, in the heart, in the gut, in your body, in your energy), and choose the easeful way. It might even be presented by your mind as : ‘this is the solution, but, but , but…’
Remove the buts. And do that action. And watch your world, and your peace transform.
Everything gets to be easeful, easy. Our art, our conversations, our mission, our daily lives, our relationship to challenges and hard things.
I hear your “buts”, and “my situation is different”, and “life is hard”, and I get that. I have been there too, and I’m still there on some levels and subjects too. AND (rather than but), I recognise that often, life is difficult, because I make it difficult, because I project my fear outward, by controlling, limiting, criticising, blaming, instead of slowing dow, breathing, following the energy, doing the hard thing, to find ease.
This letter was written in 40 minutes, at dawn, after a month of playing with it, woken up by the muse to write it that specific morning. There used to be a time, barely a year ago, when, where I was thinking hard about what I would talk about in my next newsletter, trying to schedule it and write at least once a month. It didn’t work. It never does.
For three months, I’ve been writing almost weekly, in French or English, letting the subjects come to me, not questioning or pushing them away, writing them when it’s time, finding ease in the form and content.
First, I had to do the hard thing, which was to stop closing off my voice, to share my whole truth, to accept that it wouldn’t look like anything else I had seen, that it wouldn’t be perfect, that it might be messy, that it would be in French or English and that it didn’t matter. I then had to write a first full helpful, open and vulnerable letter, and next to leave the tap open, for me to listen, to find the easeful energy, and follow its strand and send you regular letters, in flow, in love, in awe and in gratitude.
And one day, when ease becomes not writing this letter anymore, I won’t do it anymore. I will let myself be guided to what flows in the moment, to where the energy lies, rather than to force an energy that isn’t anymore.
Where can you find easeful flow and decisions in your art, in your mission, in your life? Do you have examples to share with us?
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I’m opening to a fall of ease, despite the current of harsh energies that surround our collective. Writing, life, love, relationships, projects get to be easy. And so it is. How about you?
With much love and light,
Lucie Alma