Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Resistance

Love this photo


"The Work
Your work is to create art that changes things, ro expose your insight and humanity in such a way you’re truly indispensable.

Using resistance as a weather vane
Whenever you feel the resistance, the stall, the fear and the pull, you know you’re onto something. Wherever the resistance is coming from, that’s where you head.  The closer you get to achieving the breakthrough your genius has in mind, the stronger the wind will blow.
The resistance will help you find the things you most need to do.

The Paradox of the Safety Zone
Resistance wants you to curl up in a corner, avoid all threats, take no risks and hide
The more you hide the riskier it is. Need to make a commotion.
Lizard brain wants to keep you safe, invisible, unchanged"

Thing is, in Vipassana meditation, the teaching is to tune in to your body to determine your course of action.  So this is sort of the opposite.  Tune in to the feeling, and if it feels difficult, do it.  Hmmmm. Paradox.

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