{"id":68,"date":"2014-03-28T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:28:46","slug":"how-can-this-be-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"How can this be easier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;it was all about hard work.  &#8220;Put your nose to the grind stone.&#8221;  &#8220;No pain no gain.&#8221;  &#8220;The only way you can get a head in life is if you work harder.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Do you think it&#8217;s possible that we have gotten into the habit of &#8220;working harder?&#8221;  Or at least our brains think that working harder is supposed to be better.  If you think that way then all you do is kick yourself when you don&#8217;t believe you are working &#8216;hard enough.&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd who says what &#8216;hard enough&#8217; is anyway?  How do YOU measure hard enough?  Do you compare yourself to someone else?  Maybe that&#8217;s a little restrictive.  <\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to be yourself and start from where YOU ARE right at this moment? How often do we allow ourselves the chance to do that?  I mean&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..when is the last time any of us gave ourselves a moment to just find out how it feels to just &#8220;BE where YOU ARE?&#8221;  Because, truly, it is only from that place that you can start to grow and find more and easier and better ways of doing and being.  <\/p>\n<p>I was able to do that over the weekend.  I went for a mountain bike ride with friends.  There is a somewhat steep loose rocky climb that I have always remembered to be quite difficult to climb.  For what ever reason I was always in the mind set, &#8220;just get to the top , just get to the top, go, go, go!&#8221;  This past weekend I tried a question instead of a command to myself. &#8220;How can this be easier?&#8221;  Funny enough, I found an amazing amount of ease in myself.  It was still a climb, but, it felt smooth and flowing and much much lighter than ever before.  Nice!!  Give it a try. But, don&#8217;t forget , you should consider starting from where YOU ARE!  Sometimes you have to let some things go in order to find that starting place.  But, it feels great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;it was all about hard work. &#8220;Put your nose to the grind stone.&#8221; &#8220;No pain no gain.&#8221; &#8220;The only way you can get a head in life is if you work harder.&#8221; Do you think it&#8217;s possible that we have gotten into the habit of &#8220;working harder?&#8221; Or at least our brains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fmb4-16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbodyscienceworks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}