Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The universal Law of Least Effort Part 2

The [universal] Law of Least Effort [Part 2]


In The Art of Dreaming, Don Juan tells Carlos Castaneda, “. . . "most of our energy goes
into upholding our importance. ... If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two
extraordinary things would happen to us: One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain
the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy
to catch a glimpse or the actual grandeur of the universe.”"

There are three components to the Law of Least Effort — three things you can do to put
this principle of “do less and accomplish more” into action. The first component is acceptance.

Acceptance simply means that you make a commitment:
“Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur.”
This means I will know that this moment is as it should be,
because the whole universe is as it should be.
This moment — the one you´’re  experiencing right now — is the
culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past.
This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.
When you struggle against this moment, you´’re actually struggling against the entire universe.

Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole
universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is
total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment.
This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this
moment you have to accept things as they are.
When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not
reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation.
These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault. When you recognize
and understand this completely, you are ready to take responsibility for how you feel and to
change it. And if you can accept things as they are, you are ready to take responsibility for your
situation and for all the events you see as problems.

This leads us to the second component of the Law of Least Effort: responsibility. What
does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation,
including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility
then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems
contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and
transform it to a better situation or thing.

Once you do this, every so-called upsetting situation will become an opportunity for the
creation of something new and beautiful, and every so-called tormentor or tyrant will become
your teacher. Reality is an interpretation. And if you choose to interpret reality in this way, you
will have many teachers around you, and many opportunities to evolve.
Whenever confronted by a tyrant, tormentor, teacher, friend, or foe (they all mean the
same thing) remind yourself, “This moment is as it should be.” Whatever relationships you have
attracted in your life at this moment are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment.

There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own
evolution.
[Go on to Part 3]







[source:7 spiritual Laws of Success]