Release the Hard, Allow it to Be Easy

Light of the Way by A Line Within

Ashley Hämäläinen

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What if everything could just be easy? Does life need to be heard? Ashley begins this episode by sharing that she was woken up on December 12th with this mantra repeating to her for over an hour, "Release the hard, allow it to be easy."

As the holiday season approaches and Christmas draws near, Ashley reflects on the unconscious habits, patterns, and roles that quietly add pressure and heaviness to everyday life. She explores what truly makes life feel hard, and gently challenges the belief that effort and struggle are required in order to grow, heal, or move forward.

This conversation opens a deeper understanding of what "easy" really means. Ease does not necessarily equal immediate comfort. In fact, choosing ease often asks for change, awareness, and a willingness to step away from familiar but limiting ways of being. Ashley speaks to how ease can feel unfamiliar at first, yet ultimately brings more presence, clarity, and alignment.

The episode offers a grounded invitation to move through the holiday season differently — with more intention, softness, and consciousness — while releasing what no longer needs to be carried. It's a reminder that ease is not something to earn, but something to allow.

Ashley also shares about The North Node: A Map Back to Yourself, a newly launched six-week live experience and intimate workshop. This container is designed for those who feel called to reconnect with their intuition, gain clarity on their soul's direction, and return home to themselves. Applications are now open, with details shared inside the episode.

This episode is a reminder that life does not need to be forced. Ease is available. And choosing it is always possible.

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0:00.0	What if you could release the hard and allow it to be easy? Really, feel into that. Release the hard
0:08.4	and allow it to be easy. What would life feel like? That's what we're exploring in today's
0:15.7	episode along with the energy of this time as we approach the solstice and this beautiful, cozy time,
0:26.5	a gateway of miracles from the 22nd of December to January 4th.
0:32.2	We're talking about living in a place of magic and miracles and releasing the limitations of the mind by allowing
0:41.5	it to be easy. This is a beautiful episode to prepare yourself for the holiday season and so
0:48.5	let's dive in. Welcome here. I'm Ashley Hamalan, host of Light of the Way and founder of a
0:58.5	line within. And here I share personal stories, lived experiences, and the guidance I
1:04.2	receive through the Akashic records to support and nourish your soul as you awaken and
1:09.9	return to yourself.
1:11.7	May this show be a light of the way for you,
1:14.7	illuminating your path as you rise.
1:20.9	Hello, my beautiful friends, my beautiful family, my community.
1:26.5	Welcome back.
1:34.9	Wow, I am sitting here looking out over the ocean and the mountains and the sky is pink i have not seen pink sky in so long we have only had sun here like I think it has been three or four
1:49.2	times in seven weeks I'm not kidding it has been very very very very dark and there's been
1:58.9	no sign of sunsets for oh my I think I've seen one sunset since October
2:06.7	and there's this little hint of pink right now in between the clouds and it is so beautiful
2:13.9	it also feels so light and bright it's 4.19 p.m. and there's lightness and it actually looks
2:22.3	like, wow, I might be able to see stars tonight. Okay. I haven't been looking out the window.
2:27.6	I was on a Zoom session for this mentorship that I've been doing, Soul Awakening mentorship through a line within.
2:37.1	And it's almost wrapped up.
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