Turn It Down!

by Derrick Williams

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You can use this technique for any aspect of your life that you want to change. This is an overall technique that could precede anything else you might want to try to change. This has to do with the “Difficulty Level” of you life. My life could have been set on a kind of high "Difficulty" level. I turned the level down.

Since I like playing games a lot that is a good analogy, like the difficulty settings on a game.

Our Lives are also set to have a certain amount of difficulty. Supposedly... the idea is that by things being difficult, the lessons we learn will be engrained within us and we will learn them successfully as a soul.

Depending on how we're playing this "game" of life determines how many obstacles we'll have to face, and how quickly we will get the things we want and need in life. We could have our needs met immediately (easy level)... or at the last possible second (difficult level).

Life isn’t supposed to be hard, its supposed to be easy. Truth is easy. Life Lessons are supposed to be learned through love, acceptance, and peace. Life should be manifesting itself through ALLOWING rather than FORCING.

And in a lot of ways living a "Hard" life is not only something that should be obsolete by now, it’s also counterproductive to the things we want to do in life and the service we can give to everyone else and the world.

This is how you turn down your Difficulty Level.

1) Figure out where the "Difficulty" is set for your life. Are you having problems right now? Are your most important dreams still lagging behind even though "smaller" things might be manifesting left and right? Your biggest desires are not really harder to manifest than the smaller ones. The Universe doesn’t see a difference between a penny on the street and a wad of $50's. The only difference is how it gets to you, and it’s just as easy either way.

Set the intention that you want to find HARD your life is, on a scale of 1 to 100. Close your eyes, and start counting from 1 in your mind - visualize the numbers if you want - to 2, 3, 4, and so on. When you start facing resistance to count higher, you have probably arrived at the difficulty setting for your life.

A number between 95 and100 would be the most difficult and impossibly challenging life we could conjure for ourselves, and a number between 1-5 would be the easiest, peaceful and least challenging life we could have.

Remember, its not necessarily the problems you have, but how well you are able to handle them, and what context your life takes on (what is important to you) that determines how hard it is. Others may carry heavier burdens than you do, but may have an easier life because they can handle that. While some people with wealth and affluence greater than yours could have a much harder time with things. 2) Then, once you figure out where you are on that scale... choose a new number, a better number, one that will serve you for the dreams, desires, and the life you really want to live.

That doesn't mean we should just foolishly set it all the way down to 1... life might get too simple or sweet for you to be interesting. Or it might not work because it’s such a big contrast.

But say... something in the 10's, 20's, or maybe the 30's so that way everything gets easy enough to handle yet balanced enough that it still seems believable. So that way life isn't without its smaller challenges, you get what you want, and you face no serious or insurmountable problems. In other words its still has its episodes, but you really do feel like you're in complete control, and the power is in your hands.

It’s the Goldilocks syndrome... not too much... but not too little... just right.

Making changes like this will set in motion a whole slew of other changes, and some obstacles you thought were impossible to remove before will suddenly start dissolving (even diseases and physical conditions). When your life is EASIER... then obviously the things that make it HARD can't stick around. It even works retroactively, and things you thought were impossible to overcome or recover from might just disappear.

It might not happen overnight, but over the course of a few weeks you will see changes and notice a shift. Someone emailed me, telling me it really DID happen overnight. Things improved substantially at work for him the next day.

3) If you're having trouble changing that number, imagine you have a knob or dial and you're turning it down, and there's a way to pin it down where you set it. And if its hard to turn in your mind... imagine having something to help you like a wrench, to make it easier to turn. Here are some good images to work with in your mind for a Knob or Dial or Adjustor so you can visualize yourself turning it down.

I really like that red knob that says “Gain”... that one could represent MONEY... or LOVE... or anything else that flows into your life... and in a separate exercise you could be turning that one UP to symbolize yourself gaining more of it. In that case turning it up wouldn't have to do with difficulty at all, but FLOW, so a higher number would be better.

Conversely you could use it for something like DRAMA and turn it way down. Experiment. See what works best for you.