Hard Work Is Not The Answer

While most people tend to associate productivity with faster motion and harder work, the reverse is often true. We can be far more effective and powerful when in a state of relaxation than when we are tense and aggressive.

Study of brain wave frequency shows that while faster, our typical wave state - beta brain waves - result in less fluid  overall focus and function than slower wavelengths. Alpha and Theta waves are much slower brain frequencies, but have been associated with enhanced performance and inspired thinking.

You don’t even need to understand brain wave frequency to know that speed and aggression are not necessarily the most powerful attributes of action. Watch an expert landscaper outperform a younger, less experienced co-worker and you’ll see slower movements and calmer thinking easily exceed the capability of what we traditionally consider "hard work".

And how often have you been able to solve a problem by stepping back and slowing down, after hours of pushing forward at top speed yielded only dead ends? the phrase stillness in motion has great value, and is worthy of further study.

When we relax and allow, rather than attempt to force and push, we are connected with our source. In this state of relaxed alertness we can often do amazing things.

It’s odd, even funny, how our society places so much emphasis on aggression, struggle, and "kicking some ass" when the truth is these approaches are often counterproductive. We are naturally very capable beings with incredible wisdom and insight at our disposal; and excessive tension tends to "pinch off" the flow of our natural expression.

This is obvious when you spend only a little time looking into it. In most cases the good things in life come easily to us, while our hard work and worry tends to push away the things we are striving towards. 

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One Response to “Hard Work Is Not The Answer”

  1. Could not agree more with the statements above. I have found over many years in the accounting field that if something did not balance or an error eluded me, if I put it aside for a time and went on to something else, lo and behold - next time I looked at the problem the answer almost jumped out at me.

    Perhaps the old adage “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” should be amended to “If at first you don’t succeed, put it aside and try again LATER”

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