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The path of least resistance
Basic principle
Implications
The energy
landscape
Working with the
path of least resistance
Making life and
your creations easier
In working with the flow of energy
within our being, it needs to be understand is that energy flows in
the path of least resistance. In the world of energy, energy, which
is allowed to flow freely, flows the path of least resistance for
the environment in which it finds itself. In a different environment
the energy will flow a different way. There is a natural flow to
reality for every situation in which we find ourselves and the
natural flow path is the path of least resistance.
Since energy and consciousness are different forms of the same
thing, consciousness also follows the path of least resistance. What
we do when we work with our
belief structure for a creative endeavors and surrender to the
flow of energy we create with the intention we hold we create a path
of least resistance within our beliefs for what we desire to create.
Basic
principle (Top)
To understand this principle, just
look at the way water runs down hill. It will always find that path
that allows it to flow in the easiest way possible to the lowest
point or “ground” state. When a flow of energy flows to the ground
state, we say the energy is “grounded.”
In any form there is a contour to the form, a contour of the land so
to speak. Energy flows like water and will find the path of least
resistance to flow through the contour of the land to the sea.
Our creative life energy flows where we focus our attention and
awareness. Any clearly held intention will generate a flow of
energy. Hence, if we aligns with that flow of energy and allows it
to lead, we will create what they desire according to the path of
least resistance with the least expenditure of energy for the
environment in which we find ourselves. It may not appear to be the
fastest way but it will offer the least resistance. There may be
faster ways but they will require more energy. Similarly, there may
be slower ways that are more gentle than the fastest.
When it comes to a creative endeavor, our belief structure form a
terrain through which our creative life energy will flow to manifest
an experience of what we desire. The energy will follows the path of
least resistance through this terrain and the path of least
resistance is usually the quickest way to flow with the least
expenditure of energy. Of course, the quickest way is not
necessarily the gentlest. We only need to look at a water fall to
understand the quickest way for a river to reach the sea is not
necessarily the gentlest.
Implications (Top)
We humans like to think we are in
control and determine where events in our lives are going. There are
many choices we make that seem to make a big difference. Most of the
time we take credit for the great thing we manifest. Although we do
affect reality, our impact at times is much less than we imagine and
at other times, it is greater than we imagine. However, most of us
never stop to look at why that is the case. In reality, it all
depends on the energy of the situation.
What is little understood is how often we ride the current of the
energy that is manifesting. It’s like being in a rowboat carried
along by a swift river current rather than by the effectiveness, or
lack of effectiveness of our rowing. The world we experience is much
like a
Galileo Thermometer such that the environment conditions change,
we move naturally according to the energy changes rather than by
choice. What we fail to realize is that we are
energy consciousness and we move into or out of a situation
depending on how well our energy matches the situation at hand.
For example, When we die and leave our physical bodies we move to
that level of consciousness at which we are the most comfortable, is
most like us or simply, were our energy fits. It is what the
proverbial heaven and hell are all about. It why it can be said
“Heaven and hell are here and now” or why the esoteric traditions
talk about becoming “free and unbounded” to achieve a “higher”
state. The issue is like the
Galileo Thermometer. The greater the weight we carry in what we
hold onto consciously the greater we bog ourselves down and
constrain ourselves.
The energy landscape (Top)
Energy is always flowing into and
out of situations and into and out of ourselves and others. Every
object is energy and influences every other object in existence to a
greater or lesser extent. The closer we are to a given object the
greater its energy will affect us. Even inanimate objects have this
effect and some individuals are more sensitive to the effect than
others. We all have been in a location that “just didn’t feel right”
or was “warm and pleasant” but we could not put our finger on
exactly why. In any given situation, there is a collection of
objects that affect the situation and the sum total of energy
determines the way the energy will flow.
In any given situation, there is an overall energy flow determined
by all the pieces that come together to create the situation. We can
look at the situation of aligning with the flow as though we are in
a row boat with a sail in a river and very strong winds are blowing.
It is possible to align our rowing with the wind and the river’s
current, and it is possible to have the wind, our rowing, and the
current all pulling against each other.
We are capable of changing the flow but we must first recognize
there is a flow, and then understand how big a flow we face. There
is an anecdote that says, “Its hard to remember the task was to
drain the swamp when you are up to your rear end in alligators.” If
you are going to drain a swamp that has alligators, you need to
factor in how do deal with the alligators. When you are in alignment
with the energy, there is a very natural flow to the process. When
you are going against the flow you will find it much like trying to
row a boat up stream against a current or draining the swamp and
forgetting about the alligators. You can succeed but it will take a
lot of work and you must be able to overcome the strength of the
existing flow.
There is a natural flow to reality for every situation in which we
find ourselves and the natural flow path is the path of least
resistance. It needs to be realized that each point of consciousness
has a conscious or subconscious intention and these intentions
affect what we desire to create for they determine the landscape.
Remember energy and consciousness are different forms of the same
material and consciousness functions like energy. When we talk about
the flow of energy giving rise to a creation, the environment in
which it travels is through our
mind and through the collective unconscious. The path of least
resistence to this creation is not only through your own mind but
also through the collective unconsciousness to the ground state. For
humans, the ground states is a physical experience where the body
acts in some way.
What we see surfacing in front of us for any creative endeavor is
the path of least resistance for the energy we carry and the arrange
of our internal landscape. To change what we see and experience, we
will have to change our internal landscape. The thoughts we have are
only how our
mind has framed or characterized the energy according to the
path of least resistance for what mind thinks and believes. If you
change what we think and what you believe, we will notice our
thoughts become different. Similarly, if we don’t change what we
think and believe, the energy that flow within our being will
continue to follow the contour created by the flow of energy of the
past.
The energy within our being will always flow around our beliefs in
the easiest way possible and around those of the collective
unconscious. This is why living our truth or aligning with our
living process, which is just the natural flow of the creative life
energy that sustains us, because it is the easiest way to move
through life for we are the past of least resistance. However we
lose the ability to follow our natural flow path as children
when we adapt ourselves to the way our world wants us to be rather
than following our own internal guidance. In time our habits take
over as the paths of least resistance. Our habits of the past are
only channels that allow our energy to flow easier than if we have
to develop new flow patterns to create new ways of being and acting
in the world.
If all the points of consciousness involved in a given situation are
acting
nonconsciously,
asleep and unaware, the situation is relatively fixed and the
outcome will be extremely predictable. People in general are
actually relatively predictable for most are unaware and asleep.
Their consciousness is focused on the mundane things of life. Most
never set a clear direction for their life and hold it with
unwavering faith. It is only when an individual becomes awake and
aware of the situation at hand, as it is, and not biased by their
own thinking, that he/she is able to shift the energy of the
situation from its preset course. The more individuals and points of
consciousness who are awake and aware in a situation, the greater
the shift can be achieved. The greater the
passion and intensity any one point of consciousness exerts in a
situation, the greater the possible shift.
An individual who holds a given intention with great
passion and intensity can exert a great influence on reality and
can potentially shift reality - that is what many of the passionate
leaders of history whether they were an artist, scientist,
politician, military leader, explorer, healer, etc. have
demonstrated. A collection of aware and awake individuals holding
the same intention with great passion and intensity will shift
reality. How much energy the group can focus and how long will it
take are questions, but it will happen.
In many ways we can look at this process as a river flowing in a
given direction through a given environment. The river current is
the flow of the energy. All the pieces that come together in a given
situation determine what type and kind of environment in which the
river is flowing. As an example, if you have a group of like minded
thinkers, the situation is analogous to a steep mountainous terrain
with deep canyons. This would be most typical when a group is
engrossed in group think - that is they all think essentially the
same way. It takes only one very passionate individual with an
explosive type of energy to divert the flow much like a placing an
explosive charge in one of the canyons causing the subsequent rock
fall to block and divert the river causing it back up and flow into
a different canyon. It may be crude but nevertheless effective.
However, if you have a very broad range of divergent thinking
individuals involved, the situation becomes more like a river slowly
meandering across a broad sweeping plane. It’s very difficult to get
the individuals focused on building the equivalent of a sufficient
number of levees and dams to divert the flow of the river. It can be
done, but takes much more than one passionate individual.
If we are in tune with our body wisdom and open to the information
it provides, we can train ourselves to receive an image, thought, or
feeling that describes the energy of the situation within any group
of people. In understanding the energy of the situation, we can
learn how to divert the flow of energy of a situation into the
fulfillment of our intention.
If we pay attention, our subconscious through our
intuitive guidance will always give us an image as to how it is
sensing the energy of a situation. Sometimes the image, thought or
feeling is literal and sometimes figurative. The greater clarity we
have in seeing the energy as it is, the more and more the image we
get will be literal rather than figurative. However, the image may
make no logical sense.
Nonetheless, if we have clarity we will know that we need to act on
the image as it is and as it is presented no matter how bizarre it
appears. Sometimes we only need to step into the direction of the
image for the energy to again shift and an entirely new energy
situation and corresponding image is presented. Walking within the
energy flow is like crossing a stream using stepping stones in a
dense fog. You cannot seen the next stone beyond the one directly in
front of we. We need to take the next step that is presented to us,
fully trusting that another stone will appear. As we proceed step by
step, we will get across the stream and get to where we need to be.
It does need to be noted, that in any given situation, the intention
we hold both consciously and subconsciously, causes an image,
thought or feeling to be received based on that intention. If we
hold a different intention, the image will be different. The reason
for this is the energy of an environment is much like a field in
which we plant a seeds. There are some seeds the ground is capable
of nourishing and sustaining and other seeds just will not grow
well. The images we get for the different intentions is only
reflective of what kind of growing conditions we face for those
given intentions.
Working
with the path of least resistance (Top)
To align with the flow we will
either need to feel the flow or rely on our
intuitive guidance to direct us toward aligning with the flow.
Our intuitive guidance is the best characterization that mind can
give for what we feel. As such the actual form that intuitive
guidance present whether it be a feeling, thought, image or vision
may be incorrect but the direction it tells us to go will be
correct. We must surrender to the flow of energy created by the
intention we hold to access that path of least resistance. Our mind
will be of little assistance this process other than attending to
the details as directed by feeling or our intuitive guidance. This
means stepping out of mind and trusting what arises from within our
being and what we feel.
As for how fast the path of least resistance will be is of course to
realize the fastest way is relative.
It could be an instantaneous chance occurrence radically changing
our life or it may be grown much the way it takes a seed years to
grow into a mature tree only bearing fruit years after planting. It
all depends on what is in our heart and the environment in which we
currently find ourselves. In this regard, we must learn to
garden our life and become aware of what is unfolding in our
life. We need to look to see whether what is unfolding serves or
doesn’t serve what we desires to create. We must ensure weeds and
other unwanted plants are not robbing and stealing the nutrients
from what we wish to grow and bear fruit.
How gentle or safe the path of least resistance is again relative.
What I consider safe may not be what you consider safe. However, for
whatever intention that is set and whatever path is revealed we can
always go back and iterate the process. If we set an intention and
we find the path of least resistance offers hazards that we prefer
not to face, we simply need to go back and change our intention. We
simply set a new intention which includes the safest way to address
whatever hazard we perceive. In response to that new intention a new
flow of energy will be created and the path it follows will be the
path of least resistence incorporating our new desires. Of course,
the more constraints we add, the longer it will probably take to
create whatever we desire.
Also there is a corollary to the path of least resistance. The
corollary is that the most energetic thing necessary to deal with to
create what we desire to create will arise first. What this means is
that what arises as an obstacle or issue to address relative to what
we desire to create is probably the most energetic. So unless we
change our intention, we probably will be unable to avoid what
arise. We may be able to postpone dealing with it, or avoid dealing
with it in the form it presents, but we cannot avoid it. We can of
course always change our intention but then you risk not getting
what we really want.
Making
life and your creations easier (Top)
If we wish to make your life
easier in all ways, we will need to look at what we are trying to do
and whether or not it is in alignment with the energy of the
situation. It is a matter of looking at the environment and working
with the environment as opposed to opposing it. However, what the
particular environment supports depends on what we wish to manifest.
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