Struggles Cease When You Cease Struggling

Chinese finger traps. How do they work and what’s the catch?

You put a finger in each end. Once you start pulling, the toy clasps onto your finger. The harder you pull, the tighter it grips your fingers, and the more you get ensnared.

What’s the trick? What’s the secret to escaping what seems to be an impossible struggle?

Stop resisting it. Stop fighting. Accept the situation and look at it while you’re not struggling. Don’t even try to look for a solution. Just look at it.

It’s the very attempt to escape that ironically locks you in place. It’s the struggle that creates the struggle.

By looking at the experience when you’re not caught in the struggle, possibilities arise and show you that it’s possible to release the situation without having to struggling with it.

It seems that people think they struggle because something is wrong, yet the reality is that something is wrong because they’re struggling.

Your inner world creates your outer world.

Many people spend much of their lives trying to escape or run away from their issues, to somehow distract themselves with food, alcohol, drugs, music, sex, running, sleeping, clubbing, traveling, meditating, attending seminars, and so on.

These are all used as distractions in the hope that if one can just distract themselves enough, the problem will resolve itself.

See, that which you resist persists.

What you look at disappears.

When you’re willing to sit in the same place as a fear or worry and look at it, just simply allow it to be just as it is, very often you may find that the problem you thought you had simply dissolves all on its own.

Fascinating…