All that’s required for enlightenment or an easier life is to release resistance and the need to control what happens to you.
The need to control life comes from the ego and is an impediment to higher consciousness. It’s only when resistance is released that the need to control fades; then, you can be open to a less stressful life that still challenges you but doesn’t bring you out of your center.
When you resist or try to control life, you create tension that manifests as obstacles further down your path.
You meet brick walls where there were once open doors, and those who struggle to find the source of this newfound difficulty need look no further than the resistance they may be showing and the control they may be attempting to exert.