A Third Portal to Freedom ~ Non-Resistance
First Listed May 23, 2011
Claire is getting older. She looks at her face and sees the wrinkles that are forming at the edges of her eyes, around her mouth and on her forehead. She sees gray hairs poking through her dark mane.
She notices it’s harder to get out of bed in the morning – her joints are stiff and her back aches. It takes more time to do things. It takes more effort to exercise and get her body moving. She starts to become upset and anxious as she thinks, ‘I don’t want to get old, I don’t want to feel these aches in the morning, and I don’t want these wrinkles on my face.’
Whenever you rebel against what is happening in the moment, you are resisting ‘What Is’. Whenever you resist what is taking place in the Now, you suffer.
Resistance (and non-resistance) has to do with our relationship with the Present Moment.
When you start becoming more Aware of Life, then you realize you can choose how to BE in every moment.
As Eckhart Tolle says: “Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with life.”
When I think of Non-Resistance, I think of saying YES to life and BEing ONE with life.
Whatever you resist in the present moment, that’s what will persist…….and that resistance will spread into other areas of your life. When you say Yes to life, allowing what is happening to happen, without resisting, life flows with more ease and people show up to help you, and your life circumstances seem to work for you, rather than against you.
And when you make living in the Now your prime residence, the times when life throws challenges your way, you work through them from a different place – a place where you can access your inner wisdom more freely and you respond more calmly and with more love and truth.
I rather reside in the present moment…how about you?
Claire had enough awareness within her to immediately realize,‘I am making myself suffer by thinking these thoughts’. She asked herself, ‘What is my relationship to the present moment..hmmm…..I am treating it as my enemy and that is insane.’ Claire chuckled as she realized this.
So Claire decided to live in the NOW, in the time-free zone, because she realized she is timeless. She smiled as she compassionately and lovingly gazed into her image in the mirror.
What’s important to you about living in the NOW? When you don’t, what happens? Where in life are you saying, no, and resisting ‘what is’?
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Petrea on Tue, 24th May 2011 10:29 am
This article rings so true for me right now. I have always been an advocate of mindfulness and being present. Knowing and doing are two different things-or are they? I find my children are my greatest teachers in living in the now- with them there really is no other way! Of course they aren’t always around so a little support in staying present can make such a difference.
I see the resistance as old tapes we have recorded in our mind over time and still hang on to even though these tapes are obsolete and need to be traded in for some new up to date mp3s!
Thank-you Gina for all that you offer. I am so grateful to have met you!
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gina on Tue, 24th May 2011 11:03 am
Hi Petrea!
I am so grateful for meeting you too!
If you bring Awareness into your Knowing & Doing, they can be quite the same……in a way…….or I could say that having the ‘Awareness behind your knowing’, can make your ‘doing’ that much more powerful!
oh yeah!
much love!