We’ve all heard the expression at one inopportune time or another: “If it was easy, everyone would do it.” I’ve lived by this for a long time, and without self-aggrandizing, I can say with honesty and humility that I have accomplished a lot.
Further to the point, I can say that with my body type and propensity to overeat; or worse, binge-eat, that if I am having an off day, or a rough few days wherein my portion control is whack and I’m feeling undisciplined in my workouts – I can see it in the mirror. When I was obese, this was a curse – but now, it’s a blessing.
But I got slapped with a crazy concept recently.
Instead of constantly pining away at something, and “trying hard or “digging in” or putting in “sweat equity” or any of the other buzz-word approaches to putting ourselves through the gauntlet… what if it was easy?
What if everything was like meditation? We don’t approach meditation with the furious intensity that we take on every other task, but we still tend to acknowledge it’s importance (assuming we have a practice). We don’t say “I AM GOING TO MEDITATE SO HARD RIGHT NOW” beat our chests and stomp around like so many heavy-lifting gym primates. What is stopping us from dropping in and enjoying the process?
This harkens back to some of last year’s posts about the child-like state – that unapologetic exploring, playing, enjoying. As I think back now of being a kid with a bmx bike, when it didn’t matter how much money I had on me, and it didn’t matter how much time I had before it was time to go in for dinner.
What if it was easy?
What if we just did the thing?
The Conscious Pilgrim 