2 Mobility in Relaxation | Could this be the answer to everything?

Distorted thinking about mobility and relaxation is the root cause of all our problems.

All of life is teeming with a vibrant life substance that packs a powerful punch. It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about mental power or a physical power like atomic or electrical energy. These are simply different facets of the same amazing power.

Even more amazing, this power isn’t some static blob existing outside of our reach. No, the substance this power is made of is highly impressionable and can be readily formed and shaped by our consciousness. We are molding it every moment of every day.

The result of our molding this life substance is what we refer to as matter, occurring in varying degrees of density. Beyond the particulate matter we can see and feel, there are also more subtle varieties.

This includes life itself as it unfolds for each and every one of us. It includes our experiences, outer circumstances and our fate.

Whatever the conditions of our life in this moment, this is the form that life has taken as the outcome of how our consciousness has impressed this life substance. And the creation process is never ending. It’s in continuous motion. If we can come to understand the rhythm and method of this movement, we will have an important key that can unlock many of our life’s mysteries.

The root cause of all our problems

This perpetually moving life substance that permeates absolutely everything is a mixture of two things: mobility and relaxation. It’s this magical combination that opens up the whole world. This is the state of being we are in when we are in harmony with the Oneness. It’s the unitive principle in its natural habitat.

But then along comes some bit of wrong thinking—some misconception about reality that got formulated back in childhood. And in creeps conflict. Hello, duality.

Indeed, a classic piece of distorted thinking can be found regarding this very topic of how the principles of harmony and unity operate: how mobility and relaxation work together.

On the one hand, we mistakenly view relaxation as being stagnant or not moving. On the other hand we view mobility as involving a tense effort. Embedded right here in this misunderstanding lies the cause of humanity’s predicament.

In fact, all our misconceptions about life are derived from this basic duality. We believe we can only relax through non-movement that is really a stagnating form of passivity. Alternatively, we make movement into something so tense that every effort is more like an anxious and grabby striving.

Seemingly, we have to pick between these two wrong options. Whenever these are our only choices, strife and conflict must follow. Conflict always descends from misunderstanding.

As we do our work, we’ll become more aware of this duality—and we need to transcend it if we hope to reach the Oneness.

This isn’t just a nice theory. This is the practical reality of what we must do if we want to change the scenery in our world.

If we want to see for ourselves that this is so, we can look at any misconception we have unearthed during our personal development work. Any false conclusion we have formed about life—also called an “image”—will always fall into this split.

This demonstrates that the distorted thinking about mobility in relaxation is the root cause of so many—OK, of all—of our problems.

Whenever we see only two alternatives to a situation and each one is unsatisfactory, this is the misconception we must search for, because our conflicts are always linked to our primary wrong conclusion about motion and relaxation.

Finding the right balance

To come out of our imbalance, we first need to acknowledge that we harbor such confused ideas about how the world works. Once we admit this, accepting and observing ourselves in action—or inaction, as the case may be—we can slowly but surely begin to straighten ourselves out. It all starts with simple awareness of the real problem.

If we can calm ourselves enough to quietly listen to the thoughts and feelings that emanate from our psyche, we’ll start to see the places where we go in the direction of stagnation. Because not moving just seems so darned tempting. That, we think, is the effortless state our soul cries out for.

Or we’ll find that we can’t stop moving because movement just seems so, well, necessary. We can also watch for feelings of guilt that crack the whip underneath our overly tense movement.

We might not even know what drives us into such forceful action, but if we listen, we can learn to ease off the gas.

As we bring our awareness to our imbalance, the next step may be something like learning to relax while we’re taking action, and vice versa. But the deeper aim is to perceive and participate in a deeper movement of life that is simultaneously mobile and relaxed.

More and more, we’ll orient ourselves to moving serenely with life and get into the swing of reality. We’ll go with the flow, naturally figuring out how to experience mobility in relaxation.