There is a difference between trying to think your way to an answer and allowing the answer.
Thinking is like attempting to force your brain to deliver. It’s like you are tapping your foot waiting for the file clerk to sift through a room full of documents so they can present the one you are looking for.
Allowing is knowing that the answer to every question exists and you just have to listen and wait for it to show up. It’s like sending that same file clerk off with their task and going about your day knowing fully well that they will bring back just the document you need like they always do.
One is based in fear and effort . One is based in love and faith.
One feels tense. One feels easy.
Haven’t you ever noticed how when you are thinking really hard on a problem it’s almost like your brain constricts?
I notice that when I’m thinking really hard my internal voice repeats the question to a space of dead air. Like it’s talking into an empty room. After a brief time other words usually answer back.
I’m certainly not here to bad mouth thinking. I’ve accomplished a lot through thinking. It’s one of the greatest abilities that we have at our disposal.
I am suggesting though that if you can lean more in the direction of allowing answers especially to “big questions” you will find more ease in your life. You will find yourself in the flow more often.
Thinking has often been accompanied by resistance for me. It’s the pushing to find the answer. Trying to dig it out.
The goal here is to push less and feel more ease.
When I allow answers to come to me they feel like a lightbulb going off. An aha moment. It’s exciting. It’s reassuring even.
The Universe wants to show you the answers. The Universe in its constant expansion has already provided an answer for every question.
It’s the yin and yang of existence.
There can be no question without an answer anymore than there can be night without day.
This is all about how you want to spend your life answering the thousands of questions both big and small that you will ask for the rest of your life.
From a place of effort or a place of ease.