I was thinking about how resistance affects our ability to manifest our desires, firstly in respect of healing. Healing arises when we let go of resistance and, if we are able to allow this, then full healing is possible.This is a familiar concept but often we think in terms of letting go of the resistance to being well. The presence of symptoms may indicate that we have not fully embraced the idea of optimum health and are therefore in resistance to creating it. The other side to this coin is that our strongest resistance may be the resistance to illness. Whilst we need to focus on creating health, we also need to let go of resistance to our symptoms and to being unwell. We need to love the state of health and, equally, we need to love the disease state. In the absence of ALL resistances, healing flows, abundance flows and we are in harmony with universal forces.
This may seem crazy at first. How can you love illness? Well, it is about making peace with where you are and then it is possible to move to where you want to be. If you are not at peace with where you are, you are in resistance to it and this causes you to expend a lot of focus on it. This is drawing more of your present situation to you.
I was thinking how this would appertain to other areas of life. Many people, myself included, are working with the Law of Attraction to manifest what they want in life. The creative process is set in motion by focusing on what we want, holding the vision of what we want, and acting as if we already have it. The power of the subconscious mind is harnessed to attract the people, events and situations that will enable us to realise our intentions.
The top two issues that people work on with The Law of Attraction are money and relationships. Let's take a look at money. Usually we will work on our resistance to having money. This can involve overcoming our conditioned beliefs that money is bad; it's not spiritual to have lots of money; wealthy people are not nice people; and so on. In doing this we neglect our opposite resistance which is resistance to being poor and being in a state of lack. In outwardly working toward creating what we want, e.g. more money, we may actually strengthen our resistance to being poor. This can take the form of a real fear of our current circumstances. When we resist an area of life we draw it to us through the Law of Attraction, for what we resist persists. This resistance is working counter to what we want to achieve.
As we live in a world of duality where we judge things as good/bad, rich/poor, healthy/sick, we do not see things as they really are. Unconditional love is the state of acceptance of all things as they are. It is loving both ends of the scale. In other words we must love health and sickness, or wealth and poverty in equal measure. Thus we transcend the duality and become open to all things. In this state the abundance of the universe flows to us. As the patterns of resistance are deep and interconnected, we may need to start by loving the resistance, or even loving the resistance to loving the resistance!
The image of a see-saw came to me. For there to be balance you must sit on both ends with equal weight. With the polatrities of rich/poor, healthy/sick, fat/thin, attractive/ugly we must learn to accept all equally and unconditionally. Then there is balance and we can see things as they are, without any labels, without preconceptions. All is embraced.
How do we let go of our resistance? It is far from simple as our patterns are entrenched and subject to continual reinforcement. A process that I personally have found very powerful is "The Work" of Byron Katie. Any circumstance in life is neither good nor bad but we attach ourselves to thoughts that make it so. When we believe these thoughts we can experience negative emotions and stress. In her book "Loving What Is" Byron Katie offers a process of inquiry into these thoughts. Invariably they are found not to be true. In letting go of these thoughts and the resistance they set up, we become free. We come to love reality, to see with clarity what really is. The process takes courage, as when resistance drops away we lose identity and we are firmly rooted in identification with the stories we have created about our life. But to see things as they really are for the first time brings us into harmony with the universe and we become one with all that is.
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