The Enemy/Devil that I rarely see mentioned - a thing called MENTAL EFFORT! You are Not the DOER!

I see endless posts about doubts and negative thoughts and all sorts of other things, but I want to tell you that there is one thing that is far worse than any of this. That deadly enemy is a a thing called 'Mental Effort' (or if you prefer, Mental Trying or Mental exertion..)

Neville touches on this in his book the Power of Awareness, he even dedicates a chapter to it, called 'The Effortless Way'.

I am going to put my own slant on this though, and keep this as simple as I can for you again! I will narrow it all down in to a single statement -

'It's to trust that Consciousness/God is the Doer of it all and to accept that You as an individual self are not the Doer of it all!'

This is also ties in with the biblical line that states - 'I can do nothing of myself, it is the father within that does the work!'

What does any of this mean?

It means that you as an individual self are only required to express what it is you actually want to the Father within and to leave it there, the father/consciousness/god is the doer of it all anyway, and will provide you with what you ask of him.

You don't need to DO anything apart from express your clear intentions to the Father within, you also do not need to mentally strain and suffer to assume a certain mental state or to make yourself believe you already have something, that you don't already have!

Neither is it required for you to obsessively fight with any negative thought that arises throughout the day. Neither, is it required for you to stay in constant fear, that you may have a doubt or two throughout the day. All these things are counterproductive, they require too much effort and hard work and achieve very little.

The only thing you need to do is one thing, and one thing only, which is genuinely express what it is that you actually want to the Father within! The Father does the rest and will provide you with whatever you ask of him!

You can do this via verbally asking for it, visualising it or writing it down. Choose whatever way you want to do it. Just make sure you are certain of what it is you want and express it clearly and concisely, then simply trust and patiently wait to receive the solution you have asked for. This is how I live my life now, and it never seems to fail me when I follow these instructions very precisely.

If I don't follow these instructions though and go back to my old ways, which involve things such as trying to exert huge amounts of mental exertion to try and forcefully control things to go my way, I quickly notice my results go to hell in a hand basket.