The spiritual path of non-resistance
One should view their spiritual world as learning to live life without stress, problems, fear or melodrama
- Stress only happens when you resist life’s
events.
- If you are neither pushing life away or pulling
it toward you, then you are not creating any resistance; you are simply present
- In this state, you are just witnessing and experiencing the events of life taking place
- If you resist, tension builds in your body mind and spirit
- If you are neither pushing life away or pulling
it toward you, then you are not creating any resistance; you are simply present
You are generally using your will to resist one of two things
- That which has already happened
- That which hasn’t happened yet
You are sitting inside resisting impressions from the past or thoughts about the future
Resource: Relinquish
Think of how much energy is used resisting what has already happened
- Since the event has already past, you are actually struggling with yourself, not with the event
- How much energy is used resisting what might
happen?
- Since most of the things that might happen never do, you are just throwing you energy away
How you deal with your energy flow has a major effect on your body
- If you exert your energy on an event that has
already happened, the energies build up so much that you either blow up or shut
down completely
- This is what it means to get stressed out or totally burned out
- There is no reason to get stressed out, as long
as you let each moment of each day to pass.
- It is not life’s events that are causing you stress, it is your resistance to life’s events that are causing you stress.
craving and resource from “The Untethered Soul” by Michael Singer