From time to time (I'm choosing monthly right now) I'll be sharing an insight about energy and a simple way to empower yourself in certain areas or situations. This month - RESISTANCE.

RESISTANCE

There is a common misbelief that when a person is on their spiritual path or aligned with their highest purpose, that everything should flow and abundance will naturally abound. This then becomes an odd sort of gauge. If a person is struggling financially, or in any area of their life its easy to fall into the belief that a person is out of integrity with their core self, or somehow not on the right path, taking the right actions, or surrounded by the right people - basically that something must be wrong.

This dangerous misunderstanding of the dynamics of energy has led to many highly gifted people walking away from pursuing their passions, believing that it must not be in their highest good, since they are experiencing so much resistance, and nothing is flowing. This belief tends to put people in a passive creation mode, constantly looking to their outer experience for guidance. If something is easy, this must be what God wants me to do, or the right thing. If its hard, I must be taking the wrong path.

Rarely will you ever hear about resistance as a natural and in fact unavoidable part of any path, and all creation. Resistance is what allows a caterpillar to become a butterfly, its tight cocoon allowing it to build the strength to flutter its new wings, and only when it can burst the cocoon on its own will it know its truly ready to fly. If you were to help the butterfly by prematurely opening the cocoon, believing you were helping, you'd actually cripple it and it would never fly.

Resistance is merely the outer world mirroring the contrasting energies in our own vibration. As we move toward higher, fuller and more radiant expression of our true selves, the old energies (thoughts, beliefs, emotions) we've held are no longer able to sustain those higher vibrations. These lower energies are now forced to do one of two things - release or act. If the energy is released, then the new higher vibration will integrate, becoming our natural expression.

But energy can also act.

Since our vibration is fluid, when old energies get triggered by new vibrations (think of water meeting heat) they stimulate any old pain, habits or ideas that they are attached to (in essence boiling old energy to the surface). The tendency many call self sabotage is really just old energy taking action. As you move into a higher, healthier more radiant self expression, the old energy kicks and screams... and can trigger old emotions and behaviors. Next thing you know there's a food binge, a shopping spree, a long night of partying or a reconnection with an old lover you'd swore you were over. By embracing the old energy we return to our previous vibration, creating more of the same thing. Then we often begin the distracting process of trying to fix, solve or make sense of why, how or what is the source of the problem.

There is no problem.

This isn't the universe saying you're on the wrong path.

It's the natural process of a new vibration stirring up that which no longer serves you. Its energy screaming you're doing amazing!

Creating the same vibration (playing it safe, habits, etc) never stirs up old energy. Only the creation of a new, higher expression can trigger old energy, limits, and emotions.

This is actually validation that you are doing an amazing job!

The bigger the leap in vibration, the more old stuff gets stirred up. Now we can start to see that pursuing your dreams is actually designed to stir up resistance. It has to. If you were already a vibrational match to your dreams they would be your experience. To create a new vibration (your vibration = your reality) you must release the old energy, limits and emotions. As we move toward our biggest desires, the resistance is much stronger, the pain much deeper.

You will experience resistance.

The difference is, how you handle it when it shows up.

People with tools and awareness recognize resistance for what it is (validation), easily releasing it, creating more space for the new vibration. People without awareness and tools most often get swept away in old energy, often misbelieving that they must be doing the wrong thing, or are not supported in their creation by source energy (aka on the wrong path) to be experiencing all the pain and challenges. They often make it personal, and choose to believe they are self sabotaging.

There is only creation.

The universe/God/source has no agenda other than to love and be one big giant - YES!

If you understand this, truly get this, you'll see you are your path. It is what you choose it to be. The resistance is ours, and merely old energies that must be released, creating space for our new chosen expression.

So, I pose this challenge to you. Take a look at your life - what are you resisting? Could this simply be old energy (most often painful unexpressed emotions) showing up. Are you using the same tired excuse that you don't have the time, money or resources to take your next step (all inner resistance being reflected). Consider taking a deep breath and moving toward your bliss anyway. Let any old thoughts or emotions go! There is always a way to inch closer. Start with your imagination (its free!), and be generous enough to allow yourself to picture your experience of being at the new vibration... then be more generous and allow yourself to feel it fully in your body.

You are a magnificent creator, and nothing short of pursuing your bliss will ever bring you deep satisfaction. This is your power. Joy is your purpose.

All love,

Seda