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Letting Go Of Struggle
A client shared something with me during a recent session that
inspired me to write this article. Her husband is a contractor
and was working on a bathroom for one of his clients. They asked
him to build a wall in a certain place, which he did. This left
him only one place to install the shower and toilet. The problem
that followed when the work was complete? The shower door would
not open up all the way because the toilet stopped it and, there
was no other place to put the toilet!
Needless to say, my client’s husband was horrified and his
mind went off in a million directions. Thoughts, I might add,
that weren’t serving him or allowing him to come up with a
solution for this problem. The more he struggled for a solution,
the worst he felt and the further away he was getting from any
kind of answer.
When he got home, his wife (my client) and her friend, were in
the kitchen chatting. He told them what had happened. Although my
client did her best to console him and pointed out to him that
they specifically wanted the wall to be put where it was, it did
little to relieve his frustration. He was responsible and that
was the bottom line. But, when the friend who was visiting asked
one innocent but brilliant question, the clouds opened up and the
sun came shining through.
“Why don’t you find a smaller toilet?”
What a concept! Why didn’t he think of that? I mean how
simple can it get? Well, as Albert Einstein once said: “We
can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them.”
Every time you are looking for an answer to something, it is so
natural to believe if you think about the problem until
you’re blue in the face the answer will jump out at you.
Herein lies the struggle, and where there is struggle, there are
very little answers, if any.
With struggle comes emotions that don’t serve you. And
it’s those exact emotions that disconnect you from receiving
the answer more easily and quickly from your higher Self. When
you let go of the struggle you free your mind and shift your
emotions, opening you up to receive a solution that is absolutely
perfect.
The answers are always available to you. You just have to get
quiet enough internally to hear them and detach from the problem
at hand. When the question was posed to my client’s husband,
he immediately knew that was the right answer. He found the
perfect size toilet easily and all the elements of the bathroom
ended up fitting perfectly.
Next time you’re faced with a problem, remind yourself to
let go of the struggle toward finding an answer. When something
isn’t coming to you easily it’s a good indication you
need to leave it alone and get your mind off of it completely.
Build the trust that the sooner you do this, the quicker your
answer will come.
Copyright 2005, Linda Salazar all
rights reserved
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