Greetings!
A subject that is near & dear for many of us, whether we choose to speak of it aloud or not.
How can Life be easier?
Why does it have to be so hard?
The answer is: it doesn’t.
Read on & we’ll show you some hows.
Chirp, chirp! 
-Birdy :>
Photo by: Educated Savage
(The more detail-oriented among you may have noticed that we’ve visited this topic before, back in MommaCat Monday Missive #5. There is so much to cover around this topic that we felt it appropriate to visit it again, this time including even more tricks & tips to help make it part of your reality.)
On to the Missive! 
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Greetings!
Yes, indeed, dear ones, it is both Allowed & allowed to be easy.
There are no Hardness Police ‘up’ here, watching & waiting to make sure you have suffered enough before permitting things to become easy.
(Tho’ there are sometimes some in your head, however.)
You are the ultimate source of your hard.
But this is much better (and easier!) than it sounds.
For just as you are the one to create your hard, so too are you the one to dissolve it, and allow things to be easy.
Two things first, before we go into some of the hows around allowing things to be easy.
One. This has nothing to do with where you’re starting in life, or with your current circumstances.
You can have things being both easy & hard at any level of privilege or income.
Two. Allowing it to be easy does not mean that you escape having to do the work around achieving your desires.
Even if you choose to ‘cheat’ by learning how to achieve these ends through psychic-based means, you still have to do the work of learning/remembering how to do that.
However, having said that, you are certainly both allowed & encouraged to have help.
And that is one of the biggest suggestions I can offer you around allowing it to be easy: expand yourself to where you can receive help.
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Human, Guide, physical world or Otherworld, for these purposes it does not matter.
• Expand your worldview to allow help from Otherworldly sources, and in ways that are not yet common to your world.
• Expand your attitude to allow help from your own world, your own people, both human & otherwise.
An easy way to do this expansion is by visuallizing the thing you wish to expand as a close-fitting mesh structure around your body.
Then as you breathe, picture the spaces between the meshes increasing with every breath, whether in-breath or out-breath makes no difference. Choose whichever one makes more sense to you.
When you have opened the meshes as far as you feel you can for this time, then bring yourself back to the everyday world, while leaving the larger-sized mesh in place.
When you feel ready to expand that area again, go back & repeat the process, each time further increasing the amount of space between the meshes.
Which leads us nicely into…
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Macros
What are they?
How do they relate to this ‘letting it be easy’ thing???
Psychic Macros, like the computer kind, are about achieving a larger goal, with a shorter, possibly-tho’-not-necessarily-symbolic, symbol or command.
In the recent Open MommaCat Chat, we spoke a bit about the use of macros in self-expanding/improving work.
Such as having a mental cork-board for pinning things you wish to put on pause while you take a break.
Such as a URL-bookmarking system for authors, so they can help keep track of their Universes by bookmarking their ‘location’.
Such as a big, mental ‘RESET‘ button for those times you find yourself in need of resetting your mood, energy, or attitude.
To create a mental macro, you simply choose your desired result & the symbol you want to attach to it.
Then equate the two things in your mind (perhaps with a big, mental ‘equal sign’ thusly: symbol = result), and then let them go.
That’s it.
Unlike the computer kind, for these you don’t have to know the intervening steps.
Simply trust that the connection was made, and allow that to be a truth for you.
On ‘Cheating’
Closely connected to this is the concept of ‘cheating’.
Now we are not talking about cheating as a moral transgression here.
No, in this sense we are talking about cheating in the sense of stepping sideways around some of the physical laws of your Universe.
There is (much!) more to say on this later, but for now, simply suffice it to say that such things do exist, do happen, and there is not a thing wrong with that!
For example: one day Birdy was working on a crocheted chunk of a blanket for one of her Blanket University projects, a rectangle whose theme was ‘Teamwork’.
This particular stitch was complicated, it was getting late, and she was really looking forward to being done with it.
Then, as she surveyed the completed rectangle, she saw it.
Photo by: sideshowmom @ mF
An important mistake several rows back. (In other words, not one easily ignored.)
She sighed, ripped back to before the mistake, and started to crochet again, not happy about the re-do, but determined that it would get done.
Then I put my metaphorical paw (and energetic claws!) in.
All Birdy saw was a bit of a ripple in the air around her project, and all she felt was a sense of a bit of a disjoint in the world. When the world steadied again, her piece was redone.
Three rows of crocheting had mysteriously appeared out of thin air.
She had a sudden vision of metaphorical claws delicately hooking through yarn, and that is a truth. :>
Now I did this to prove a point to her, that such things ARE real, and that Teamwork is taken as a sacred task by those of us who chose this role.
Please don’t get the idea that we Guides will step in every time there is a minor problem: we won’t. You come here to experience Life, after all, and it is neither our place nor our desire to deprive you of that.
However, being open to the idea of such help and sufficiently comfortable with the idea so as to allow it to be a reality for you, should it occur, allows for the Universe to sneak in in whatever guise and help you to ‘cheat’.
Nothing says it has to be hard, except you.
So allow it to be easy!!
On Going with the Flow
One important way that you can allow things to be easy is by opening yourself up to the Flow of things and following it.
Open yourself up to the Universe.
Hear what it is telling you.
Listen & follow the flow.
What is easy to do right now?
What feels in the Flow?
Now this may take some getting used to at first, but the more you open up and learn to trust yourself to know what is truly best for you at any given moment, the easier you will find it to stay in the Flow & move forward.
On Not Going with the Flow
Now one thing that is very important to understand about going with the Flow is to understand where the Flow is coming from and why.
Flow that is you following your intuition & your Inner/Underneath Knowing is very, very good.
But there is another kind, one that can be very damaging if not recognized for what it is.
And that is the Flow of other people’s expectations.
Photo by: jppi @ mF
It often happens in terms of health: “You’ll be dead in six months!” or “You’ll give yourself a stroke living like that!”
It can occur many other places as well: jobs, marriage/relationships, etc., any place there is that potential for being caught in the energy of another’s expectations.
The important thing here is to be aware of them, so that you can take protective measures.
One way is to picture yourself as glowing bright energy, and the expectations as cords attaching themselves to you, draining off that energy.
Gently detach those cords and let them fall away from you.
They’ve nothing to do with you. :>
On Worthiness
Since this is often relating to those expectations, a brief bit on worthiness, tho’ again, there is much more to add for another time.
The biggest & most important thing to understand about worthiness is:
You are.
You don’t have to ‘earn’ anything.
Although you may have to work for it, those are not the same things.
Earning is about merit.
Working is about achievement.
The only merit you need is that you have come here.
The work you have to do depends on what you want to achieve.
Explore, Experiment, & Implement, oh, my! :>
Finally, allowing it to be easy means freeing yourself to explore.
To experiment.
To implement.
Being easy means that you free yourself to try something.
If it works, wondrous well.
If it doesn’t work, you’re free to try something else, without shame or blame.
And that, dear ones, is enough for now.
Until next week…
Be Bold!!!
-Lady Coco (& Birdy! :> )
