Resistance is the calling card for your next shift. Check in right now and notice what you KNOW about this. It’s the opening for the next, for what wants to come through for you now. Often resistance is a game we play with ourselves and may show up as avoidance, procrastination and denial. You actually have to downgrade your energy to live in that space and it feels pretty yucky.
There’s no escape from it really, sooner or later she comes knocking on your door again. “Resistance is futile!” and yet it leads to experiences of flow and bliss and to a deeper experience of who we really are – Conscious Evolvers!
What if we FULLY engaged the resistance and explored what was underneath the surface? Here’s how I might do it:
- Treat the resistance as if it were a presenting issue. Imagine snorkeling vs scuba diving. What ‘appears’ to be the resistance on the surface is invariably not IT.
Breathe, relax, and expand into the biggest space possible now. Imagine yourself coming apart and allowing lots of space to come into play and realign your being in a new way. - Sink a little deeper into your awareness. Imagine yourself including the ‘apparent resistance’ in the biggest YOU imaginable. It’s there swimming along with everything else – the rest of you, the next step, the potential, etc.
- Allow anything and everything that comes into your awareness as if it were a clue, a signpost, a piece of information. This is your KNOWING connecting with you physically. It will show up through your senses – an image, a thought, a feeling, a sensation, a word/phrase, something unexplainable and yet right there. Don’t seek perfection and nailing it exactly, dance with the bits and pieces that come thru.
- Jot down whatever you feel called to capture. Notice how the awareness around this experience ripples into the rest of your day, week and happenings.
- Share the awareness with others who are engaged in the same game and ready to hear it.
Resistance is the key to stepping into your next piece. We’ll be doing this exercise on today’s call at Living New Leadership.
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