Do you know how resistance is operating in your life? What effect it is having on you and what you do?
Resistance is a strong force in our lives but many people do not recognise it or are not aware of what it is.
Resistance is when you know what you need to do, know what actions you need to take or have something you have to do, but you do not do it. You avoid it, you make excuses to yourself or others for not doing it, you tell yourself you are too busy to do it now but will get around to it and never do.
Say you have a report to do for school or work. You could just sit down and do it but you don’t. Instead you make yourself a snack, pick up a book, leaf through a magazine or pop out to the shops. And in your mind the task keeps getting bigger and bigger. Pretty soon the report seems huge, impossible; it’s like an albatross hanging around your neck. Until the day you can put it off no longer and you force yourself to sit down and do it….and you find you it flowed easily and quickly and you manage to get it done in an afternoon. All that anxiety, all that angst, all that worry, was for nothing. Had you done it straight away you could have saved yourself a whole load of stress.
Such is the power of resistance; it turns molehills into mountains and kitties into monsters. But worse, it acts as a huge block in our life and keeps us stuck.
What we resist persists. We can resist it all we want but its still there and will hinder our progress and stop us from moving forward in our lives. That call we need to make, that stuff we need to clear out of the spare room, the apology we need to make, the trip we need to take. It will just sit in our path and impede our way, sucking up energy and attention as we dream up ever more creative ways to avoid it.
What we need to understand is that the very thing we resist is what will move us forward in our lives. Perhaps when we finally make the call what was a business prospect becomes a client, when we clean the spare room we are finally able to set up that home office and create a new stream of income, when we make the apology we heal that family rift or regain a friend and as we take the trip we put to rest memories and old hurts that we needed to let go.
These are just examples, but how is resistance affecting you?
My wish for you is that you become aware of how resistance is operating in your own life, how it is tripping you up, and take whatever steps you need to overcome it.
