embracing life with no pressure

i don’t work well under pressure. i used to be able to when i didn’t care too much about my well being. but these days, pressure isn’t as amusing or as thrilling as it once was. ⁣

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anytime i feel myself forcing something, i know that i am pressuring myself to do something. our culture really emphasizes deadlines, but everyone is different and sometimes deadlines don’t work for some (esp. creatives) as well as they work for others. ⁣

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for my procrastinators (hands up!) deadlines feel like death. and i hear someone saying “well if you don’t have deadlines, how will you get anything done?” and that is a great question. but let me ask you this, do you ever procrastinate on something you love? heck no. ⁣

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you most likely are up early as can be when you have a flight to catch to a destination that you are so excited about. now, this leads me to a different question, should we even be doing things that we don’t love?⁣

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isn’t procrastination just a sign that there is something that we don’t want to do but are forcing ourselves to do? hmm, there’s that word ‘force’ again. think back on the last time you had to force yourself to do something you love. i’m guessing that you can’t; that is because we don’t force the things we enjoy. ⁣

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pressure is force. and so when we are feeling pressure that is an indication that we are forcing something. when i think of the word pressure the first word that pops into my head is heaviness. ⁣

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now stay with me here, as creator beings, we align with frequencies to create our reality. the lower the frequency, the denser (or heavier) it is. how many of us have gotten accustomed to pressure? or even find it thrilling like my younger self? the truth is pressure causes us to vibrate on a lower frequency. so does doing shit for the sake of doing it. ⁣

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now ask yourself when you feel the most pressure. ⁣

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picture pressure as a heavy weight on your shoulders, take a deep breath and just place it down on the floor. we have to unpack the pressures in our lives to see why they are there. what is creating this pressure? this is an important question to ask if we are going to take hold of our realities and create what we desire. ⁣

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more than likely we feel pressure from situations/places/people/jobs that have long expired but we still hold on to. can you imagine not disposing of expired milk because you drank it once and fell in love with it? that is what we do when we hold on to things that no longer align with us. ⁣

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these things create pressure and pressure is a sign from the universe/God/source creator that we need to look at what has expired in our lives. in our culture, we glorify pressure, because we glorify being busy for the sake of being busy. but there is nothing glorious about pressure. ⁣

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we were meant to be, not do. we do when we are inspired to, other than that our job is to be. how is pressure standing in the way of your being? where have you bought into the program that “you gotta do what you gotta do?” we get to do what we feel inspired to do. this is the way to create a life of bliss, from a state of surrender. ⁣

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#getoutthetrap⁣