Relaxation is the absence of unnecessary effort. Resistance to situations and the flow of existence is unnecessary effort. Resistance is non-freedom. This so because resistance is reactionary. Anything reactionary is bound to events. If one is bound one cannot be said to be free.
I’ve been listening to a talk given by Eckhart Tolle and thinking about the nature of conditioning. The question is - how can a human being enjoy personal freedom and really live life instead of stumbling through life asleep at the wheel? In the general conditioned state of human beings the weight of the past largely dictates the perception of available choices in the present moment. Or even worse, the individual is almost completely supplanted as the past continues to repeat in the robotic continuation of patterns.
