There’s one thing people do that makes them suffer—or at least unhappier—every single day:
They resist what IS.
You might think you don’t do this. But you do.
I used to do this, too. (Still do at times!)
I resisted how I felt.
When I felt bad, I didn’t want to feel that way. I tried to fix it, ignore it, or wish I felt better.
I wanted different results.
I wanted to change things I didn’t like and worked hard for things I didn’t yet have.
Every time you think something—anything—should be different than it is, you’re resisting.
You resist your feelings.
You resist your fears.
You resist a situation, person, experience, something you see in the world, or something someone did.
You resist life as it is in this moment.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting something different.
As long as you don’t resist the way things are right now.
Right now, life is what it is.
Right now, you feel and look a certain way.
Right now, there’s X euros or dollars in your bank account.
Right now, the weather is what it is.
The past already happened—you can’t change it.
You can wish things had been different, but they weren’t.
The future isn’t here yet—you can fear what might happen, but you don’t know what will.(In fact, the future doesn’t exist. It’s always and only NOW.)
The more you resist what already IS, the harder you struggle.
The more you accept things as they are, the more space opens for change.
Resisting leads to struggle.
Acceptance leads to relaxation, openness, and flow.
Accepting what IS does not mean you have to like it.
It just means you acknowledge the way things are right now.
You stop fighting your feelings.
You stop fighting your experiences.
You stop fighting your thoughts, pain, fears, and doubts.
You stop fighting life.
Fighting and resisting are movements of the mind.
But you are not the mind.
You are Pure Awareness.
Awareness doesn’t resist anything.
Awareness is ALL that is—so there’s nothing to fight, fix, or transcend.
Awareness welcomes everything.
There is always and only what IS in this moment.
Let everything be as it is.
And notice—without resistance, suffering disappears.
“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
Byron Katie
Love,
P.S.: You only struggle, worry and experience stress when you live life from the identification with your mind.
Once you drop the mind’s conditioning and shift into a higher consciousness, life unfolds for you effortlessly—without struggles or stress.
I can help you make this shift.
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