Aloha, Happy February

     I have spent a good portion of this past month watching people push against New Year's Resolutions.  This resistance has come in the form of anger at not being able to fulfill them, anger at the shear existence of them and/or the refusal to make them because "they never get kept".  The premise behind a New Year's Resolution appears valid.  The setting of goals assists an individual in focusing his/her attention and intention thereby realizing said goals.  This is the basic premise of the Law of Creation or the Law of Attraction.  It is for this purpose that people make these decisions.

     Unfortunately, because many of us live outside the here and now a majority of the time, we are also unaware of the numerous set-ups which co-exist in New Year's Resolutions.  These goals are filled with ideals, attachments to outcome, and many opportunities to push against them.  Since I have so many people beginning the fourth eight-week session of Writing the Soul; Journaling to Wholeness, I am choosing to focus on the resistance piece which is the main topic of the fourth eight weeks. 

     Briefly, what do I mean when I use the word resistance?  Resistance is energetically pushing against something, a person, an idea, a situation.  This energy can take the form of physically pushing, emotionally pushing, spiritually pushing, or mentally pushing.  Why do people use resistance?  The more surface value in resistance is that it motivates a person.  At a deeper level though, I believe that people use resistance so frequently because it is a way to feel connected to others.   

     Try this experiment.  Take your hand and press it against the arm of the chair in which you are seated, or against the desk where your computer rests.  As you push against this surface, it feels as though it pushes back.  If you are sitting down your bottom is pushing against the seat, you sense the presence of the seat.  You feel as though you are connecting.

     A second thing to learn from this experiment is that the pressure you are applying to this surface may be described as "hard".  To push against something could not be described as "soft" action.  Depending on how long you push, the action gets even harder both in the pressure itself and in the energy required to maintain the pressure.  This simple experiment is a clear physical lesson about how resistance provides us with "hard" life lessons.  If you choose to connect through resistance, you are asking for a hard lesson.  If you want challenges in your life, I recommend you continue to use this process of resistance.