What You Resist Persists

First of all, for those of you who are rather new to this: if you're resisting something, you're obviously giving a lot of your attention and emotional energy to it. If only you knew how to release that energy for much more enjoyable purposes! You might begin by learning by heart a teaching of the great psychologist, Carl Jung: what you resist, persists, and then repeat it often during your day until, any time you notice that you're resisting something, it springs up into your awareness - and you remember!

Suppose you're planning a day outdoors at the beach or perhaps visiting some beauty spot, but the weather has changed to wet and windy. Not surprisingly you react negatively. However, you may well find that just by repeating those 4 words a few times, you can stop your resisting and take the common sense approach - make the most of the day as-it-is. Of course, if what you're resisting is something very unpleasant, something you really don't want in your life, you'll probably be thinking: What, don't resist it? But no one would want 'that' in their life! Maybe not, but isn't it obvious that, as long as you keep on resisting, your problem stays with you?

How, then, do you move on beyond this ‘what-you-resist-persists’ way of thinking? In a moment we'll take a look at that, but first note that releasing the resistance will turn out to be a very positive move on your part for, strange as it may seem, letting go leaves us freer to actually set about making whatever changes we need to, and in ways more likely to bring success.

So here's a really simple way to let go of resistance or, for that matter, of any negative feeling. It's one of the basic techniques taught in the Sedona Method, and here's how it works: Think of something in your life that you really don’t want there. All you need is a hint, a fairly gentle reminder, of how you feel when you’re thinking about it.

Assuming that what you resist persists - it is persisting, isn't it? therefore you must be resisting - I'm going to ask you the 3 questions that form the technique: (1) Could you let go of this feeling of resistance? - which means, is it be possible for you to let go of this feeling of resistance? (2) Are you willing to let go of this feeling of resistance? - If your answer is 'No' or ' I'm not sure', relax! there's nothing wrong with that. Just do it anyway - unless you feel too unhappy about it.(3) When? - And you answer: Now!

Next, go through the process again in the exact, same way. Naturally, until you've had quite a bit of experience at it, you may need to go through those three steps a total of 6 to 8 times.

When finished, take a "look" at the situation you were resisting. How do you feel about it now? It won't be long before, when you check up on how you're now feeling, you'll find it difficult to get any picture at all, or else it will appear just very bland. And you're free of the resistance !! More importantly, though, you're free to go ahead and deal with the unwanted situation in a much more creative way than you could have before.

NOTE 1: You may become aware, sometimes almost immediately after completing the process on 'resistance', that there's some other emotion surfacing: could be annoyance, frustration, fear, guilt.....If that's the case, just use the process again on the ‘frustration' (or whatever), asking yourself the questions in the same way as before: (1) Could I let go of this feeling of frustration? …Yes (2) Am I willing to let go of this feeling of frustration? ….Yes (3) When? ...Now. Note 2: If using the technique on yourself, choose either the 'you' or the 'I' form. Note 3: Often you'll only need to go through the questions once, but note that it may not be on the 'resistance' that you first concentrate. Even more likely, it will be on the feeling of worry/anxiety/ fear/ frustration/ bitterness/ annoyance/ anger that you actually first became aware of. Anyway, it's very common for resistance to be 'hiding' somewhere in the background, so it's always well worth 'doing' that too.

Stephen Ogilvy has a background in osteopathy and a long-time interest in alternative medicine and self-empowerment. So, simple, natural and usually inexpensive ways of noticeably improving your health, as well as highly successful techniques for making positive changes in other areas of your life are all reported on at http://www.livelifeinabundance.blogspot.com

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