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Stop Resisting, Start Relaxing
   

Life is spiritual resistance training. We learn and practice every day how to resist things, thoughts, emotions, situations, and other people. So well do we develop this ability to resist, in fact, that we not only resist bad things from happening to us, we resist the good as well. Not only do we resist the things we don’t want from coming our way, we resist those things we do want too.

The subject of this article, then, is not how to train oneself to resist better, but to untrain oneself from all this resisting. The flip side of spiritual resistance training, the positive side, is learning how not to resist good things from happening to us and having what we want. But instead, how to allow it all in.

The first step to unlearning all our deeply ingrained resistance tactics is to recognize and acknowledge that they exist. To do this, let’s examine some of the indications – or symptoms – of resistance.

Stress is the ultimate symptom of resistance. If you can recognize when you are experiencing stress, then you can already tell when you are resisting. With the stress response comes:

• shallow breathing
• sweaty palms
• accelerated heartbeat
• jittery stomach
• nervous shaking and twitching
• cloudy, impulsive, and irrational thinking
• short temper
• fear and other negative emotions

The solution then to training yourself to be free of resistance is to practice relaxation. In a state of resistance, of stress, our systems are overstimulated. To relax, then, we must remove ourselves from all this stimulation for a moment, so that we can bring ourselves to a state of inward quiet and peace.

One way to do this is to find a dark and quiet room where you can close the door and arrange to be free of interruptions for a few moments. Another way is to head to nature, find a park or a garden or even a tree to sit under. Even city-dwellers can find a local flower shop or nursery to visit. And if you simply can't get away from your hectic urban daily grind, bring a bouquet of flowers or a plant into your environment, put on your iPod earphones playing some gentle soothing music, and close your eyes for 5 minutes. Can't do that? Try 30 seconds.

Even just a few minutes (or seconds) of conscious, intentional relaxation each day can go leaps and bounds towards eliminating feelings of stress and creating the kind of openness that allows the beautiful bounty of life to enter.

Resistance creates a closed-off state with nowhere for anything positive to enter and no place for anything negative to go. But in a state of allowing, the opposite of resistance, there is openness, abundant room for positive energy to enter, and a clear path for all negative energy to be released.

Relaxing involves taking the reins on your breathing, for one, and transitioning from unconsciously breathing rapidly and shallowly to consciously breathing slowly and deeply. Relaxing also involves taking the reins on your thoughts, and allowing your mind to be free of attachment to any thought circulating through it. To relax is to still your busy mind and body so that, for those precious moments, you can simply be. And in this state, there is no pain, no fear, no struggle, no anger, no disappointment. No stress. No resistance.

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SolveYourProblem.com : 2008

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