The Law of Least Effort is the fourth spiritual law listed in the book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
In Deepak’s words, “This law is based on the fact that nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease and abandoned carefreeness. This is the principle of least action, of no resistance. This is, therefore, the principle of harmony and love. When we learn this lesson from nature, we easily fulfill our desires.”
The Law of Least Effort is the idea that fulfillment is easy to achieve when we we act out of love and unity. This is because love creates the least resistance to the natural flow of things. On the other hand, when we act selfishly and attempt to satisfy the ego, it is much more difficult to feel fulfilled.
Why and How it Works
Part of the reason why this law works has to do with the way we are perceiving our reality. When we make changes to our interior reality (changing the way we are feeling) our exterior reality then shifts to reflect our inner reality. So when we act out of oneness and truth, instead of acting solely for satisfaction of the ego, we notice a shift. Things become easier to experience with less expended effort. At the same time, there are changes to the things that make us feel fulfilled as we change our awareness. We may find fulfillment in something as simple as stillness, where as before we may have sought exterior sources of happiness.
One of the easiest ways to observe The Law of Least Effort in our everyday life is to observe nature’s intelligence at work.Anything in nature is an example of the law in action. Think of how a tree grows, does the tree have to struggle to grow or does it happen naturally? Think of an animal breathing, does it need to think to breathe? The obvious answer is no. These events happen naturally without any effort. The tree grows and the animal breathes with no struggle. There is no resistance so the needs are met easily and with no effort required.
The Law of Least effort is truly amazing. Prior to writing this post, I had been noticing this law at work in my life in an increasing number of ways. The less I thought about a “problem”, the easier it was to come up with a solution.The less I perceived a situation as a “struggle” the easier it was to change it. Sometimes I would have a solution to another “problem” just through acceptance of the present moment.
The Law of Least Effort can be applied in your everyday life by using the three principles outlined by Deepak in his book
Acceptance
Acceptance comes with making a decision. It is your choice to decide that every occurrence is happening perfectly just the way it is happening. Accept the fact that the universe is flawless just the way it is. In your acceptance you reduce the resistance you are creating.
Responsibility
Responsibility is the next principle of the law. Responsibility means not looking for a reason to blame anyone or yourself for the current situation. When you are responsible you see the situation as an opportunity to display your truest self to the world and recreate in love. You know that every situation is part of the perfection of it all.
Defenseless
Defenseless is the third principle used to apply the law. Defenselessness is important because it allows you to free up energy that is wasted on defending your opinions and points of view. You will no longer argue to defend yourself. Instead you will be open and flexible to listen to other points of view. If you present your opinion and others disagree, you will not feel a need to defend yourself.
All in all, you can let your intentions out into the universe and know that they will eventually come to fruition, when and if the time is right. Your intentions will be one with nature’s intelligence.
Weight Loss and The Law Of Least Effort
Weight-Loss is one very practical application of the Law of Least Effort. When we are attempting to lose weight, we often put a lot of energy into a perceived struggle. We may view ourselves as battling against our desire to eat unhealthy or even in a battle against a false identity. We may feel that it is going to be a hard fight for us to “win”. What we may not realize is that when we do this we are actually making it harder for ourselves to lose weight. To quote Sonia Johnson, “What we resist persists”. As we view it as a fight, it then becomes a fight and the weight loss becomes difficult. We get caught up in the idea of the battle.
When we apply the Law of Least Effort in this situation, weight loss actually becomes easy and effortless. Instead of feeling as if we are struggling, we solely connect to our true self and know the wants and needs of our body. We know what’s going to be best for our self and we do it. Also, we feel the great energy that is inside of us and we feel healthy. Health can not be overpowered by our resistance anymore.It just may happen that you may lose a lot of weight using this law and you may not even realize it. In fact, you may not remember or feel that you lost a lot until someone comments and reminds you.
Money and The Law of Least Effort
It is also very easy to observe the Law of Least Effort in action with money. When you are not focused on how much money you can spend, you may notice that you more frequently have money to spend. Also,when you are not focused solely on making money, and instead focus on what’s important, you will make more money. For example, with your blog, if you solely focused on monetizing it and spent no time writing content, you wouldn’t have a very profitable blog. However, if you instead focus on the real purpose of your writing and what you would like to accomplish, the money will come.
To quote, “Don’t chase the money, chase the dream”.
In any case, I have found that when we act out of love and release our resistance through whatever means, what happens is truly remarkable.
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After reading blog after blog online (I am a bit of an avid blog reader these days), I discovered a secret that most successful bloggers either use and aren’t aware of or they are aware and they don’t tell you about it. I think the reason they don’t share it is because they are afraid people will begin to notice it and feel cheated. Perhaps they feel bad and think that they are stretching the truth but really it’s nothing to worry about (worrying is a waste of time and energy). I’m sure there are also other bloggers who don’t use this technique but really should if they want to increase their blog traffic. This secret was a monumental finding for me and I hope it is for you too.
The Blogging Secret
The blog secret I discovered may seem simple but you’ll understand soon enough why that’s okay. Anyways, here is the blogging secret: the most effective title of a post is a hook that readers can not pass up at all costs. These can be amazing opportunities, secrets, hidden value, messages, inside information, your experience with a subject etc. Most blog posts that get large amounts of traffic, new subscribers and please your readers will be these types of posts. This tactic is psychological in nature, people do not want to pass up an opportunity on something that will help them. Even if it sounds too good to be true they will probably check it out.
There is also the idea that the post could be something they always thought was true and always wanted to learn about. For example, the title of this post “The Blogging Secret Most Bloggers Won’t Tell You” could’ve been about many different things but I focused on one of them.
Do not think that I am proposing dishonesty. I am not saying to make false promises to your readers and not provide them with good content. What I am saying is do not to be afraid to take a leap with your titles every now and then.
At the very least I suggest you perform a case study with hook titles. Check your stats and respond to the feedback that you receive. Was it positive or negative for your blog? Are your readers surprised by your new style?
Tips for Implementation
Make the title something that the readers will not want to miss out on.
Free, Easy, Smart, Secret, Hidden are just a few suggested words that you should use in your hook.
It really comes down to the concept of providing an opportunity that is too great to pass up.
In fact, this post itself is an example of that strategy. This post and a few other posts I will be making will comprise my own case study (I love experiments) and they are intended to attract people based solely on the title.
I suggest that you implement this strategy as well because I believe it will help you achieve your goal of a building a high traffic blog.
So far this strategy has only proved great for me. I have received positive benefits such as more readers, more unique visitors and more pleased readers on my blog.
At the time of writing this post I have another popular post (17 Tips For Better Blog Post Titles), this post is arguably more informative than this one and required more research but I expect this post to surpass it in popularity solely because of its title.
If you don’t believe me, maybe you should consider how you came to find this very post. Were you attracted by its title?
A hook title that is supported by great content is the ultimate bloggers goal for each post.
I have revealed this powerful secret to you, now go do something with it!
Maybe you even can think of ways to apply this secret to more than just your blog post titles.
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