Receive Resistance

When we want to install a new lifestyle with new healthy habits that serve us for the better, resistance starts to show up. More often than not, it grows the more we dive in. Resistance is a natural force that manifests itself in events, emotions, and experiences.
It can reveal itself unconsciously through self-sabotage, like not showing up for yourself or others because of deeply rooted fear, self-doubt, and perfectionism. Or externally and more conscious like friends and family that start to question the new you. Even strange unwanted ‘random’ happenings, so-called “aimless” accidents that stir up your life might come along.

Our new perception or uplifted way of being starts clashing with our old one or with that of others who are used to you being your older version. This brings a lot of dissonance and dis-ease with it mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. We are shifting between dimensions or different realities. We are re-tuning to a different frequency, stepping into a higher vibration. We are clouded between multiple levels of consciousness.

It takes courage to hold on and stick to this new vision of you, this new identity. Your ego is protecting you by trying everything to prevent your old self from dying. The process can be painful, heartbreaking, and very revealing. The journey of rebirth is a relentless and beautiful one. It takes bravery and resilience.

But for you to shift from your current lived life into the unlived life of your dreams, you need resistance. Resistance is no more than an indication. An indication that you care. It is the “negative” energy to the “positive” energy that resides within you. A natural magnetic mechanism that brings balance to the universal polarity.

I like to see resistance not just as a motivator, which is temporary, but as an inspirator. It shows you straightforwardly that you hold an amazing gift or potential. And the bigger the resistance, the higher the reward. And instead of needing to push yourself through your pains and problems from your past version, let yourself be pulled through by your fearless and forceful future self. Do not move from brokenness, emptiness, or lack, but from wholeness, fullness, and abundance.
The more you grow through the resistance as a person, the more you will naturally reveal yourself. Look at it as a strong cosmic wind. It is not there to hold or push you back. It is there to clear you. To move all of that which is unnecessary away from you. Removing all the heavy layers from the heart. It stirs your embers to reveal and allow your inner gold the flow through you.

If you put up a dense shield to protect yourself from the resistance, it will only feel harder. Absolve your armor and let the cosmic wind of consciousness crawl into every corner of your being, through you and for you. Let it deeply touch every part of you. Let it guide you. Let it ship you to your soul.

“You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.” — Rumi.

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