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Resistance Is Futile
Published on 12 Jul 2010 at 6:36 am.
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Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
 –Anonymous
On July 5 I had one of those days. I’d been dealing with an upsetting personal issue that was dragging on without resolution and I awoke at the crack of dawn in a rage after only five hours of sleep.Â
When I walked into the living room I found that my sweet cat had vomited in six different places on the carpet. So, after cleaning up the carpet, doing a short workout, and having some breakfast I walked into my office to get a little work done.
I’m in the midst of coordinating a mega tele-summit called, Your Powerfull YES: Courageously Living An Inspired Life with some of the most inspirational and influential leading edge teachers on the planet and there are a gazillion details to coordinate so everything goes smoothly.
The next several hours seemed to go downhill with some website glitches that couldn’t be handled because the support people I needed were off due to the holiday!
By midday, I was all stressed out and on the verge of tears with my inner victim clearly in control because I was feeling powerless. So, I let myself cry to release the energy of everything I was feeling and surrendered to the day.
Because resistance is futile.
The more you struggle against life situations, the more stressed out and twisted up inside you’ll get.
So, I emailed my dear friend Karen who has a fabulous perspective on struggle when I need reminders to embrace life. She wrote back saying, “You get to choose fun and ease. Remember that the universe is supporting you in all endeavors! Let it help you in allowing this to be fun and easy … and it will be so. I know, easier said than done. And I KNOW it can be so!”
And then I clicked on one of my Inspirational emails notes I saved from Neale Donald Walsch that said:
On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know…
…that all the problems you face today are going to go
away, unless you worry them to stay.
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Problems like worry. Worry is a magnet for them. If
you just “let it be,” the current worrisome condition
will not even be part of your life a short time from now.
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If you worry enough about it, however, you can be sure
that it will stick around. So, just do your best around
all this…then turn it over to God. Yes?
Reminders are so wonderfull. They are these lovely gifts that come just when you need them!
I took several deep breaths and smiled. Thank you Karen and Neale!
I was also remembering that we all came here in physical form to be Creators. And it is through the contrast of life experiences that we choose what it is we really want. For example: war invites us to choose peace, hatred invites us to choose love, fear invites us to choose faith, and struggle invites us to choose ease, flow, surrender, fun, play….. We get to choose whatever we want!
The way to dance with Life is not to try to get rid of the feelings and situations you don’t want or focus on something unwelcome ending – that only creates more resistance and gives whatever you don’t want more energy to hang around. That’s what I did on Monday!
The key is let go of any resistance to whatever shows up in life and to play with the feelings and circumstances in appreciation for what you created so brilliantly. My friend Karen laughs and says “ok” to whatever shows up. She says that when she accepts whatever happens and then states what she’d like instead things often flow towards getting what she wants because she is not attached to what happens. Whatever the outcome is just fine with her.
No resistance, see?
In fact, when she returned home from a two week vacation to be attacked by fleas in her bathroom, she initially got upset and rebounded quickly into surrender. She said the day went great. Stanley Steamer and the exterminator showed up at her house within hours, they did a massive cleaning together and they made the experience a fun family day.
So, when I have those moments of upset or fear, I will reassure my scared inner child that everything will be ok, take a few deep breaths, surrender resistance to the Universe to love, guide, and support me, and show up to do my part in whatever I am being called to do.
And I love these four simple words my good friend Christine Kloser shares that make resistance so much easier:
- Breathe
- Smile
- Trust
- All is well
Read her article called, Stepping Into Faith
Resistance is futile
What you resist, persists
So, whatever person, feeling or situation shows up inyour life , good or bad – celebrate your brilliant creation with appreciation for being the powerfull creator you are. Release all reactions, judgments and resistance with full acceptance of “what it is.” Let everything in your life be ok as it shows up and then choose what you would like instead without any attachment to what happens. And trust the experience to be in service to your growth and evolution.
Yeah, I know. Easier said than done sometimes, right?
Take it one situation at a time, one step at a time.
It’s a process and part of the journey of LIFE.
What will you choose today?
PS – Click here to reserve your seat in my mega telesummit, Your Powerfull YES: Courageously Living An Inspired Life, July 27- August 12. Join me with Neale Donald Walsch, James Twyman, Janet Attwood, Marci Shimoff, Dr.s Bernie Siegel and Eric Pearl and many more. Register now and receive some great bonus gifts too!
Cheers,
Lorraine
www.isayyesnow.com
www.powerfull-living.biz
