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then, even if we don’t understand how, things will happen at the
right time in the right way. As Benjamin Hoff says in “The Tao of
Pooh”: “It’s hard to explain, except by example, but it works.
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least
they do when you let them, when you work with circumstances
instead of saying, “This isn’t supposed to be happening this way”
and trying hard to make it happen in some other way. If you’re in
tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they
need to, no matter what you may think at the time.”
Use Your Brains
All of us possess an amazing machine in our brains known as the
creative sub-conscious. This is the source of all our best ideas.
Yet, when we are rushing around like headless chickens, we
don’t allow our sub-conscious brains to come to our rescue.
Often we put a lot of busyness into a task only to realize later on
that, if we’d stopped and thought about things, we could have
found a smarter, quicker, or more productive solution.
Stop and Tune In
In his book “Life Tide”, Lyall Watson records the phenomenon of
a group of macata monkeys stranded on a Japanese island, all
discovering the right way to prepare food even though they
weren’t in any obvious form of contact with each other. It was as
if there were a collective consciousness telling them what to do.
The same thing can happen to human beings. We can sense the
times, sniff the wind, and roll with the tides. In this way, we can
tune in to what is happening and make the journey free and
effortless.
Take a Break
Breaks are essential for productive work. Research shows that
there is a basic physiological rhythm to our day governed by our
automatic and endocrine systems. This is known as the Break –

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