We have a question for you – for all of you, but you’re here closer and you stirred this up. Let’s use the analogy of the hot fudge sundae: Let’s say you were being called to it, and you were in an environment like this where you could be five minutes out the door and have one in your hand, and it would be giving you whatever satisfaction that your desire and your allowing equaled. But let’s say instead that you are and have been out in the desert for days and you have a hankering for a hot fudge sundae. And as you feel this inspiration coming over you and you follow this inspiration, it leads you to this and to that and to this and to that and to this and to that (we’ll let you all make the movie), and you discover in the sand something that looks like a vortex (it’ll be a good movie). And you dig a little and you find a steel thing with a screw-off lid that has dry ice in it and a hot fudge sunday. (Fun) Which hot fudge sunday would you claim the greatest success in?
Q: The one in desert
A: And there in your problem because you believe that struggle and hardship is necessary to get what you want. So with the stuff that comes easier to you, you discount it, you don’t revel in it, you don’t love it and you don’t accept it as evidence of your worthiness.
Q: And I’ve found that you said this once before – and for me sometimes it’s part of it – is I like the thoughts in my mind, so to me to find a hot fudge sundae in the desert would be more fun than I can have finding it easily. So sometimes I choose that.
A: Well, maybe you like the challenge, and that’s OK. Maybe you like the faster momentum, and that’s OK. We’re just saying that there is this effort factor, there is this challenge factor, there is this belief that many of you have been dragging around with you for a long time that does not serve you very well that says “The more struggle that is within it then the more I’m deserving of the prize.” And it prevents you from the easy flow because you have never been in a position where you were needing to prove your worthiness for anything through your effort or through your struggle, only through your focus.
So if your focus is bringing you the satisfaction, and we want you to know the difference between what’s going on between those of you who are finding the least satisfaction and those of you who are finding the most satisfaction is the subject of focus, it’s the subject of allowing the momentum to grow on your behalf. So if you can get the struggle out of the equation a little bit, then we think this was a powerful conversation.
Let’s say that you have a thousand subjects that you’re focusing on today…
Q: A thousand…