We all want life to be easy, don’t we?
Then why, when we are presented with an opportunity for ease, do we not take it?
Instead, we often times rather opt into struggle, disease, and challenge.
Are we really all that competitive? Or simply bought into the concept of unfamiliarity with ease?

How does ease feel? Do you even know?
I am not asking if you know how struggle feels, because that’s just daily life now.

But only because it’s familiar does not mean it is right for you. For anyone.

So ease. Does it have a taste, a smell, a feeling in your body?
How would you know that you’re at ease—and can you allow it?

I think, more often than not, we don’t even have a construct in our psyche that it can be easy.

Read that again.

More often than not, people simply do not even have a construct in their psyche that it can be easy.

It feels like if something comes easily, it isn’t fun. Really?
But is it truly not fun — or have we just never felt worthy of it? Is that too deep?
Is it boring, too deep, too red, too beige — or are we simply unfamiliar with ease?

Were you ever allowed to simply be and receive, just as you are?

The truth is:
We don’t need to perform complex tricks like dogs at a show to deserve/get anything.
And that’s not the goal. We are hunters and gatherers, but we have never stopped and questioned why is it that now all non-physical qualities we are also hunting on the outside?

By default, when we are born, we are enough. Just as we are.
Love—whether that’s what you want, need, or are seeking—is meant to flow naturally, back and forth.
It’s an ever-present, all-penetrating field of enoughness.

Love is an ever-present, all-penetrating field of enoughness.

Where you are enough. Where I am enough.
Where you’re okay. And I’m okay.
Where there is no competition. There is no fight.

But how do we imagine a world where we don’t have to fight?
It seems idealistic, doesn’t it?
But is it really?

In the collective psyche today, I would say, and you can throw the numbers, people don’t believe that ease is possible. And that is where the real problem stems from.

We live in a world where we think we have to wake up fully armored.
But the truth is, we don’t.

I’m right in this with you, still standing on that battlefield.
But I know—the answer is not more armor. It’s undressing down to the skin.
Because when a child is born, the first connection is not made through armor. It’s skin-to-skin.
That’s the only way true contact is made:
Just being present. Witnessing.

Why do we think that when we grow up, we need to build walls and butt heads?
Do we really have to be that afraid to let our guard down and risk genuine connections?

Ease is not something the mind can grasp.
It must be felt.
It must be lived through—with your whole body, not just your head.

I hope these words plant some seeds in you.
And if you allow them, in their time, they will grow.

You don’t have to do anything.
Just be willing.

And maybe next time you wake up fully armored, you’ll leave at least one of your knives at home.
Start there.
Take it off.
Go outside.
And see for yourself. Experience your fear and live to see another day.

What makes me hopeful is the rhythm of change I feel in humanity right now.
I know many are afraid, but I believe that with the same speed, we’re progressing technologically, we’re also beginning to change our minds and hearts.

If we keep going like this, we might just see the day when a genuine smile, a real human touch, comes easier to us.
And we’ll find our strength in that. In ease and strength of vulnerability.

I hope we live to see the day when letting down our armor is cool—and we begin, collectively, to live our best lives.