True Power Lies in Releasing Resistance: Effortless Effort is Key

Effortless effort is key to tapping into your boundless reserves. As I am learning, the more I fight and struggle to achieve goals the harder it gets. I know that I am doing it wrong but the instinct is really hard to resist.

Happily for me, I subscribe to Abraham Hicks daily quotes and this one speaks directly to me – true power lies in releasing resistance – :

Most rarely align with their true power, because it seems illogical to them that there is power in relaxation, in letting go, or in love or joy or bliss. Most people do not understand that their true power lies in releasing resistance — which is the only obstacle to their true power.

Most people do not expect their path to great abundance to be one of ease and of joy. They have been taught that struggle and hardship and sacrifice are requirements that must be met before the reward of great abundance can be realized. Most do not understand that the very struggle they deliberately involve themselves in, in their quest for success and advantage, actually works against them.

There are so many things that you have been taught to believe that are counter to the powerful Laws of the Universe that it is difficult for you to think your way out. And that is the reason that we present this path of much less resistance.

We want you to breathe rather than try, to relax rather than offer effort, to smile rather than struggle, to be rather than do. For your true power is experienced only from inside the Vortex.

 — Abraham/Hicks

This is 6 of 32 practical expanded quotes excerpted from Abraham’s new Getting into the Vortex Guided Meditation CD and User Guide that will be available everywhere on Nov. 15, 2010.