As Carl Jung – the founding father of analytical psychology – one famously stated, “What you resist, persists.”
And if you’ve ever tried with all your might to put a difficult incident, situation or relationship behind you, only to find it coming back time after time, his words will ring true.
This sense of ‘struggle’ that we often experience when we resist a particular outcome is the subject of an email that dropped into my inbox the other day from Dr Robert Anthony.
A psychotherapist, NLP practitioner, master hypnotist and personal performance trainer, with over 30 years’ experience, Dr Anthony is one of my personal heroes.
Not only does he impart incredible wisdom, in my view, he’s authored some of the finest personal development products ever seen.
Products such as The Secret Of Deliberate Creation, Self Confidence Creator and Deliberate Creation Instant Self Hypnosis – all well worth investing in, as I have myself.
In the meantime, however, below is that email. I hope you find it both interesting and beneficial:
“Breakthroughs do not happen when we are stressed. They happen when we finally let go and stop struggling. Resisting is at the heart of struggle.
Although what we are resisting feels like it is ‘out there’ the resistance is really inside of us. That is, if you are resisting anything, you are really resisting yourself.
When we resist something we increase the amount of struggle in our lives and this in turn increases how much scarcity we experience.
When we resist, we make things harder than they have to be. By making things difficult we create struggle and prolong getting where we want to be.
We make things complicated because we are afraid to decide. It is partly our fear of the unknown – what will happen if – and partly our fear of making a mistake.
The excuse I hear most from my clients is that are afraid they may make the ‘wrong’ decision.
There is the fear that somehow they will permanently be locked into the consequences of their choices.
But consider this for a moment. What if there are no ‘wrong’ choices, only choices. Even if we don’t make the best choice, we will be guided to what we need to learn.
All great athletes understand this concept. They know they can only anticipate so much, but have to make constant instantaneous decisions IN THE MOMENT as each new situation arises.
So who wouldn't want to stop struggling? More people than you can imagine. I struggled for most of my life with the illusion of struggle.
The power of any illusion is its ability to keep us thinking the illusion is real.
When you give up struggle it involves letting go of both the past and the future to activate what is needed right now.
It is not your hard work that creates the results, but your ability to give up struggling and forcing things to happen.
Flow happens when we accept and embrace ‘WHAT IS’. Flow happens when we release our death grip on resistance and insistence and instead step back and take more conscious actions.
Flow is the lack of resistance. It is effortless. The magic in life is believing in possibilities and the getting out of your own way.
Today will bring you a new awareness, a lesson or a manifestation that you are making progress – IF YOU LOOK FOR IT!
Truly Caring for Your Success!
Dr. Robert Anthony."
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