The Easy Place

There’s a way of interacting with the world that results in constant roadblocks. We end up in a place of dissatisfaction where we seldom get what we want and we find ourselves continually wounded by other people. Here, life is hard.

Then there’s a way of being in the world where roadblocks become life lessons. In this place other people are merely people, without the power to harm us. And when we don’t get what we want we usually end up with what we need. From this perspective life has an ease, a peacefulness that provides fertile ground for growth and connection. Here life becomes easy.

The irony is that the hard place is default for many of us. It’s a place of action without thought where emotions have free reign, reactions are unconscious and unchecked. It’s where we’re damaged and where we damage others. Where we’re forced to live amid the consequences of thoughtless actions, where we find ourselves constantly working to fix what we’ve broken.

The easy place, on the other hand, is a place of growth, where we allow ourselves and others the space needed to learn and bloom. What happens to us here might not be easy, but we are easy, we’re able to sit quietly when the hard stuff hits and stay grounded, clear and present.

When we are in the easy place life has a peacefulness and serenity, no matter what’s happening around us.

This blog is about finding your easy place.