The Law of Cause and Effect operates with or without your approval. God, or Creative Intelligence is your Source, whether or not you believe it. Give up your job as manager of the world. Stop criticizing others. Stop criticizing yourself. Stop wishing people or situations would be different. Focus on feeling good, on having a sense of well-being, on generating joy. Envision what you want and how you want to feel, practice feeling it, then back off on trying to control any other aspect of your vision.

If you planted seeds you would put them in the ground, cover them with soil, and water them. You would make sure they get watered until they germinate. You would not keep digging them up to see how they were doing. You would not break the seeds open to speed up germination. These things would destroy your seeds. Visions are destroyed in the same way. We create them, and pepper them with doubt. We dig them up by trying to force situations to be what we want them to be. We worry about when it will happen, or wonder if it will happen. These thoughts can destroy your vision. Create it; care for it; and protect it from the ravages of doubt and fear. If things aren't happening fast enough for you, be nonresistant to what is.

Resistance requires the use of force. Force creates counterforce. When you push on life, life pushes back. When you try to change people they resist you. Many people make money by force. This is not prosperity. A drug dealer in Colombia is not prosperous. He may have money, but he does not have well being. He lives in fear for his life and the lives of his family members. His lifestyle is dependent upon harming others. He may experience pleasure and feelings of control, but he does not experience true well-being. As he spends his life taking advantage of others, others wait in line to take advantage of him.

True power comes from within. Nonresistance is power. It is unshakable, because there is nothing to shake. If I am nonresistant in a negotiation, it means I am willing to do without the prize. If I am willing to walk away, I am strong and cannot be manipulated. The willingness to let go, to walk away, to do without, is powerful. It says that you trust in the Source of your power, and you are not fooled by the suggestion that anything else has power over you. What you resist has power over you. Power is a gift you give to yourself through your nonresistance to what is. The result of this gift is peace and well-being.

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