Monday Mindset | What We Resist Will Persist

What we Resist, Persist – Carl Jung

When we resist change, we are clinging to old ideas and limiting beliefs. Where focus goes energy flows. Focusing on the problem makes the problem bigger. Focusing on the Solution makes the Solution bigger.

Resistance can be procrastinating and listening to the voices in our heads telling us we’re some version of not enough; you’re not good enough, smart enough, young enough, old enough, there’s not enough time, even if you achieve it …you’re not enough to keep it.

This negative self-talk that feeds our self-doubt is created by our limiting beliefs, fears, and our selfish opinion of how something or someone “should” be.

Have you ever started “Shoulding” all over yourself?

If we focus on our fears, then they get bigger in our heads. We may even rehearse different scenarios in our mind where things go poorly. It feels like watching a movie in the screen of our awareness where we are the lead character and it somehow turns into a horror film.

We are effectively doing a visualization meditation on the fear and negativity that we are hoping to avoid but instead we are sending more energy and bringing more awareness to it. The Brains filter The Reticular Activating system kicks on in high alert to bring us more of what we focus on the most and unfortunately, it’s the very thing we hoping to avoid.

It’s like procrastinating on something we know we should do. Procrastinating feels like pushing it out of our minds temporarily (Resisting) but somehow when we do it ends up being all we think about all day. (Persisting)

The Secret of Change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but building the new. – Socrates

What have you been resisting?

How can you make space for that feeling or change?  

Where can we refocus our energy to building the new…the Solution rather than the problem?

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