Give up your resistance and envision better results
Why is it that when we don’t want something, whatever it is tends to follow us through life?
What we resist, will always persist.
Think about that. The woman who has endless fears about her health, the man who worries about losing his job, the mom who worries about her children not speaking to her, the boyfriend who thinks that his girlfriend is cheating on him. Whatever our fears they just keep coming back to us like that proverbial bad penny.
When we resist what we don’t want, it is just like throwing gasoline on a fire. We just add power to someone or to some situation though the simple act of our resistance. When we resist all those things that we don’t want to have happen we are giving all those things our full attention.
Let’s take a look at a few practical examples of this in our day to day lives:
In the workplace the people we resist the most are somehow the ones we are forced to deal with on a regular basis. When we resist our children’s feelings, they just seem to get stronger. When we resist paying bills, they seem to overwhelm us, and when we resist that afternoon traffic on our commute home, we consistently pick the one lane that turns out to move the slowest.
What we don’t realize in this process is that through our very act of resistance we are denying our inner power to create and attract what we really do want. Actively focusing on what we don’t want weakens our power to get what we do want. It is difficult, if not impossible, to direct our attention and feel confident about what we want when so much of our energy is spent thinking about what we don’t want.
Ultimately what we believe is what we create. Resisting only reinforces the notion that we cannot get those things that we want. For most people about ninety percent of what gets done in life is the result of thinking and focused intention, about ten percent is the actual action. When our thoughts are focused on what we don’t want to have happen we take time away from thinking about what we do want to happen.
Suppose that resistance was replaced by a strong sense of confidence that what you want in life you can bring about. When bills overwhelm, for example, we are coming from a place of need. Imagine abundance instead. You know that if next month you were going to receive a check for a million dollars, those past due bills sitting on your kitchen table right now would suddenly become trivial.
There’s not that great a chance that such a huge check is going to appear in your mailbox next week, or next month. But the object of freeing yourself of those things you fear and embracing the side of you that sees a positive outcome is the first critical step in starting down the path to personal success.
To experience that success, we must feel and act on our true desires. Resistance is almost always about relatively small issues. True desires, on the other hand, focus on those things that are much more important in the bigger picture of our lives.
You cannot really stand confidently on your own road to success distracted by a variety of daily irritations that cause you to resist. Persist instead in your focused intention to achieve the goals that are truly important to you and in so doing you’ll see the resistance you once had simply evaporate like a puddle of water on a sunny summer afternoon.
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