You Get More Of What You Resist? 🌄

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Resistance Within Our Lives

Typically, once you’re resisting what constitutes your reality—or rather, your subjective (and presumably faulty) sense of that reality—you’re shying aloof from it, complaining regarding it, resenting it, protesting against it, or doing battle with it. Without a lot of self-realisation, your energy, your focus, is purely centred around on not moving beyond what opposes you, not coming to terms with it.

Unconsciously, your impulse toward resistance tends to be regarding avoiding the more hurtful, or worrisome, aspects of the experience. These adverse feeling states usually involve worrying, shame, pain, or feelings of being dispiritedly out of management.

Revisiting Past Experiences

Not solely will resistance take many forms, it also can apply to many situations. for instance, it'd ought to do with revisiting a past trauma, that never has, or might ever, resolve on its own. To bring it back to focus would, at least at the start, appear to risk revivifying old, profoundly distressful emotions—and, too, all the unpleasant physical sensations that accompany them.

It’s therefore solely human to want to distance yourself from such a memory. For you’d naturally assume that re-introducing it into full consciousness might beat up previous pain—and perhaps even engender more of it. To really “welcome” such affliction back to your life—to dare to open yourself up to it all over again—might appear virtually perverted, or masochistic.

Nonetheless, this clearly defensive posture solely serves to perpetuate old, obsolete thoughts and feelings regarding yourself, that are sometimes exaggerated and negatively distorted. And such instances of resistance keep you stuck in life, compromising your current ability to perform positive, problem-rectifying actions. Or, on the opposite hand, they stop you from accepting, and reconciling yourself to, what maybe can’t be changed—at least not currently.

Don't Keep Resisting

You’re far better off focusing not on what’s blocking you from realising your wishes, however on the wishes themselves—and how best to achieve them nevertheless . . . or (if need be) merely to relinquish them.

There are uncounted examples I might use to Illustrate the pointlessness of merely “going to war” with what is—examples that may relate to your work scenario, personal health, relationship challenges, money difficulties, and, of course, unresolved emotional disturbances (or traumas) from your past.

To sum up, it will hardly be overemphasised that to maximise your possibilities of obtaining what you wish, it’s foolish, and futile, to dedicate your time and attention to resisting what you don’t need. On the contrary, what’s required is to reapply your energy toward what you do—and set up an action plan to get there.