Golly,
all those fights with your partner, all the
wrestling matches with circumstances, all
the struggle & effort & sweat to make
things turn out the way you need them to...you
can stop! Whew!
"But
life just won't mind me! Why does it keep
fighting me? Why don't people cooperate with
me! Why is life so hard!"
Ironically, from the perspective of the "fighter"
it looks as though life is the one
doing all the fighting. One thing's as sure
as the rooster crowin' at dawn...life IS what
life IS. It offers no fight. The only fighting
taking place is YOU resisting what IS. Any resistance
you feel in life is from your side
my friend. This is one of those "too simple
to be important" secrets to life. But if
you can really get it, it'll transform every
area of your life. So it's worth repeating.
The
only fight taking place
in life is from ME...resisting WHAT IS.
Making
your partner do this. Motivating yourself to
do that. Making everyone out there line up with
your plans. Yikes! I'm worn out! Now run look
in the mirror. Is it showing yet? The stress.
Right there on your face. Or has it been there
for so long that you don’t even recognize
it anymore?
Life.
I’m either Resisting it or I’m
not. And my resisting it is what's
keeping me frustrated from not having what
I want.
We
become much more effective with people and things
as we approach them more from a place of "being
OK with exactly who and what they are".
Have you noticed this in your own life?
The
hilarious part of it all is...regardless of
how I FEEL about
people and things, it doesn't change WHAT IS!
Rather, it only keeps me bunched while keeping
them feeling unaccepted by me! Whoa, what a
losing cause, this resisting life thing!
I
want you to notice what brings you
a sense of Life & energy, and what does
not.
We’re
conditioned to fight for what we want. To
resist. That’s how battles are won,
right? To force, resist, combat. But matters
of life and love have different rules. ACCEPT
that part of yourself that you want to change.
ACCEPT the very thing in others that you don't
like. And in that place of accepting
it (giving it permission to exist) you then
maintain your energy, creativity, connection
and awareness that you so desperately need
in order to deal with it. It’s called...
people and things, it doesn't change WHAT IS!
Rather, it only keeps me bunched while keeping
them feeling unaccepted by me! Whoa, what a
losing cause, this resisting life thing!