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Why Are Setbacks Essential To Creating Positive Change?
   

This article explores not just the value of setbacks, but how and why the duty they perform are so essential in creating any positive change at all.

In a book called "The J Curve", author Ian Bremmer explains how countries making the transition to a democracy will usually experience a period of tumultuous instability prior to achieving the stable state they desire. This is a common phenomenon reflected in pretty much every other area of life as well.

In more familiar terms, you may have heard before that to discover new lands you must first lose sight of the shore. Well, this losing sight of the shore - all that is familiar, comfortable, and known to you - almost invariably leads to temporary feelings of doubt, worry, discomfort, and confusion, among a slew of other emotions we usually find unpleasant and identify as "negative".

I like to tell people that confusion is actually a positive state, and wonderfully so, because in it, we are not pretending that we "know". Likewise are there positive attributes of the rest of those states we're so prone to viewing as negative. Sorrow from a loss, for example, is an outpouring of emotion that makes way for new things to come in.

A sense of openness is a requirement for any desired change to occur. But for many of us, that state of openness produces a sense of vulnerability within us. And what do people tend to do when they feel vulnerable? Close up. But it's not the sense of openness that caused them to close up. It's their interpretation of the feelings that openness produced in them, judgments of what it means to be open and evaluations of how that feels. Openness is merely openness. All that other stuff is resistance. And resistance is the original cause of all of our setbacks.

We can't always stop resistance from happening, but with an awareness of this phenomenon, we can start to view our setbacks with new eyes. We can start to see setbacks as opportunities to identify and clear resistance.

So often we pine, "What can I do to…" (succeed, get what I want, make the Law of Attraction work for me). And however we end that question, the answer is the same. By looking to our setbacks, for they will show us exactly where and how we are putting up resistance getting those desires met. If you want to take a more active role in the fulfillment of your desires, then, simply look at your setbacks.

Look for the resistance within you that produced them. Or, put another way, look at the resistance that setback represents, then own it as something you are putting out there.

Setbacks are guideposts, clearly indicating the areas in our lives where we can produce definite and deliberate changes by releasing our resistance to what is, thereby helping facilitate what will be. Our setbacks show us exactly where our power lies to change our lives for the better.

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