This is the 6th part in our series on transforming your relationship with money.

Once our inner conflict between money and peace has been removed from within us, it is also removed from the money we draw to us in our lives. However, there remains an even more insidious form of conflict still to be addressed.

That is the conflict over how we see ourselves and conduct our lives.

Instead of addressing its cause, our fears and unmet desires cause us to succumb to frustration and impatience, which in turn trigger anxiety and even greater fear of what the future might bring.

The Curse of Civilization
Yet we are not the only ones who suffer from such struggle. It is endemic to our situation, passed down from generation to generation through ideas and observations that become etched in the deepest recesses of our subconscious.

What sort of ideas? That money doesn't come easy. That we have to work hard to get it, putting our nose to the grindstone and all that goes with it. That we have to fight to keep it.

Such beliefs lock us into a perspective that money will be ours only if we toe the line putting in long hours of hard work, and if need be at a job we find less than to our liking. And most of all, treat money as if it is something worth struggling for rather than a divine birthright endowed by our creator.

In short, we act like we believe -- that to get the money we want we have to struggle.

These beliefs don't go in easy, though. Because something in us knows better. So it in turn sets off another conflict of beliefs. On the one hand, we want to believe God provides what we need. On the other is a belief that it won't come easy, so we have to be prepared to pay the price.

And what a price it is.

Stress. Sacrifice. Struggle. And it isn't limited to our financial affairs, but bleeds over into other areas of life as well -- especially our health and relations with those we love.

These are the means of acquiring money that we have infused into our subconscious. They and their fruit must be eradicated if we are to get money the easy way.

Learning Not to Struggle
Dealing with struggle starts the same way we dealt with conflict, by recognizing the way we conduct our activities to generate and deal with money. When those ways don't come simply and easily, we are in struggle.

Those beliefs have whispered in our ear and triggered a deep-seated response mechanism. Like puppets on a string, we succumb once again to our subconscious programming and buckle down to struggle some more.

Yet it doesn't have to be this way. We could just as easily say, "STOP. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

But we don't. We try to do more and make something better out of the situation.

We could refuse to struggle and instead choose to just go along with the flow of the moment, doing the best we can and accepting whatever happens good or bad.

But we don't. We try to change it.

Rather than accept the situation we're in and allow it to be whatever it is, we try to control our reality and make it into something more of our choosing. Or at the very least, to brood about ways we could possibly change it.

In short, our outer struggle becomes an inner one as well as our effort to control reality falls short, leaving us even less "in control" than we were before.

In fact, though, the outer struggle occurs because first we have set it in motion through our patterns of thought, emotion and physical activity, patterns fraught with anything but ease.

We anticipate what is coming down the road (or which could if our fears come true) and begin to squirm about what might be. As it grows closer our thoughts become more active, giving it more energy and brining the unpleasant possibility closer to reality. Finally it arrives in all its glory, just as bad or worse than we imagined it, leaving us with little to do but to bring our inner struggle outward to meet the demands of the moment.

So with all that going on, how can we avoid it?

A Case of Abdicated Responsibility
Remember we spoke about recognition? It brings responsibility to carefully select our response mechanisms and engage in different thoughts and behaviors, ones more aligned with ease and simplicity.

With it comes an even greater responsibility, the responsibility of foresight. Not of the negative demands of the situation or its dreaded impact. Not even the possibilities that might come if it escalates to a worst-case scenario.

Rather, it is the responsibility to foresee the implications of slipping back into struggle and what they might mean not only to us but to everyone else affected by the situation. And then to use that foresight as motivation to stay our course toward the peace and joy of meeting even the most troubling situations without struggle.

After that, then if we can acknowledge its value and allow whatever is causing our struggle to play itself out without getting caught up in the game it wants us to play, we can begin to raise our vision to something better.

It might be hard to exercise responsibility in such a fashion at first, but try. It's especially important to shift your thoughts and emotions while you are in caught in the circumstances of the situation itself and not just in the times of reflection afterward.

It may help to see yourself letting go of all care and concern over what is happening now, and begin to visualize how your affairs could play out in a way that brings joy with ease. See yourself free of the struggle and sacrifice that you're now caught up in, so that at least in your mind you are living without it.

This will allow the energies of your reality to shift and reform in a way that is a less threatening and requiring less effort from you to engage them. For now you're trying to force the round peg into the square hole. The time has come to put down that peg and pick up one that fits. What kind of peg might that be? Whatever will allow you to engage your reality without all the effort and emotional turmoil you're now putting into it -- and generating in spades.

Moreover, by shifting how you see the situation, you will also find that you're beginning to lay a foundation upon which the energies can bring you new situations that will be easier to deal with and turn out in a more desirable way.

It's not enough to momentarily try this release and visualization and then slip back into the same old patterns, because the situation will continue in its present form to see if you're really certain you want to try things a new way.

Try your best to hold that image so firmly in mind that you can act within the current stressful situation with ease.

Then also carry it forward into the rest of your affairs. Look at everything like it was arranged by a divine hand, requiring little if any effort on your part. Most of all, refuse to get upset by or attached to whatever consequences result.

That will accelerate the arrival of new reality that comes with more ease and less struggle.

You don't have to accept struggle in your life. Just remember that your struggle comes not because of the situation, but because of the struggle that's already within you -- your struggle to accept yourself as you are yet still be all that your are inside.

When you can end your struggle with yourself, those outer struggles over money will dissipate as well.

Make it your intention each day to free yourself from struggle. Make it your reward for bringing light and love to all your affairs. It is a reward far greater than any amount of money, for it comes with peace of mind.

Who knows? It might also come with a lot of money as well!

Enjoy the Whole Series
Read #1. Transforming the Nature of Money
Read #2. Making Money -- A Tale of Many Conflicts
Read #3. What Activity Do You Do to Get Money?
Read #4. What to Do When Activity Doesn't Bring the Money You Need
Read #5. Separating Money from Conflict
Read #6. Taking the Struggle Out of Money