Question: How can one find the balance between doing the necessary, sometimes exhausting steps to change a certain outer situation such as a job or the place to live while at the same time being at peace and surrendering to the moment without striving?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Easter Webinar.
Well, if you take the teachings we have given both at this conference and previous conferences you will see that the sense of struggle, the sense of suffering, the sense of having to fight limitations and outer conditions really comes from a separate self. The separate self always has some kind of story, some kind of problem that has to be solved and since this can be difficult to do, the self has a sense that it has to struggle to achieve it. When you identify with the self, when you look at the situation from inside the self, you will feel it is a difficult and arduous task.
What you can do is use our tools and teachings to expose such a self, to let it die. It does not mean that suddenly everything will become easy and everything will happen in five minutes but it does mean that you will not have the same sense of struggle that you had through that self. If you still have some sense of struggle then consider there might be another self. There are many, many of these collective selves that people have created struggling against the mother realm, the Ma-ter light, the matter energy and they are in the collective. Many people have taken them on or created their own individual versions of them in past lifetimes where when you look back to many societies in the past, the majority of the people really had to struggle very hard to make a living. Of course, most people on the earth today still have to struggle very hard but at least there are some societies where the outer struggle is not as hard as it was in the past.
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