| "The Dance of Resistance" |
| by Janice Mason, Channeling Ashia |
| Strong emotion comes forth and you find yourself in a situation that seems out of your control. You begin to search for answers, or solutions, that will end your discomfort as quickly as possible. You find little comfort in speaking about your problem with friends. You find yourself reacting to the situation irrationally, doing things that seem natural, but do not discontinue the experience. Frustrated and confused, you begin to give up. All of the things that you are doing only seem to aggravate the situation. Pushing the problem away with all of your might, your strength begins to fail. You realize that if you continue to fight this battle, that you will only become more frustrated. Finally, exhausted, you retreat, disengage. The problem slowly drifts away. You have just engaged yourself in the dance of resistance! Whether this process lasts a week or a year, the outcome will always be the same. When it comes to battles with emotions, war is never a beneficial process. Of course, from our non-physical perspective, war of any kind is never beneficial. But, it has come to the consciousness of many, that the act of "pushing away" often increases the strength of that which we are trying to eliminate. Situations that we allow to bring about strong, negative emotions of fear, anger, and frustration present a special challenge for those who are learning on your planet at this time. The object of your attention that is causing the negative emotion is not the problem, your emotional reactions to it make it so. If everything is truly in a perfect state of flow with the universe, and you are concentrating on the fact that you simply are a part of nature, then you can begin to place things into perspective. The hardest thing for all of you to understand is that you are creating ALL of your experiences. Your words, energy, actions, and expectations of negative outcomes are mostly the culprit to your frustration. When you become truly aware of this, you can look back upon your recent past, and ask yourself, "what did I say or do last week, that brought this problem about?" You may not remember, but if you do, you often create more negative emotion by getting angry with yourself for creating the undesirable situation. Let this anger be the last stage to your dance of resistance. Realize that by resisting the flow of events in your life, you are only complicating, and prolonging your discomfort. However, the act of non-resistance is not passivity. Recognizing the situation with acceptance, and taking responsibility for creating it takes much courage and strength. It is often easier for you to blame others, or to ask for sympathy. These are the other extremes to the act of non-resistance. You blame the other that is causing your discomfort. You push against them, resisting the other Being that is simply reacting to your own fears, words, and actions. They do not go away. The act of asking for sympathy prolongs your difficulty as well, because you are still refusing to take responsibility for creating your undesired circumstance. Words of sympathy temporarily comfort your wounded spirit, but you do not heal. Your pain increases until you are able to stop the dance of resistance. Once you stop this dance, and begin to disengage your negative emotions from the situation, the problem begins to softly drift away. This is the way all of the problems of the world cease. Those who realize that they create their own problems can begin to distract themselves with something else, or discontinue resisting, and the problem will naturally go away. The following week or month, you often forget the problems of the recent past all together. If you are not understanding this process, you may find yourself in another dance of resistance, continuing one dance after another. But let your heart and mind join in this understanding, that all that you resist and push away will only come with stronger force. That those things which you want to eliminate will go away by the act of non-resistance. These are our suggestions: Recognition - Recognize that the negative emotion that you are experiencing is yours alone, and yours alone to deal with completely. Realization - Realize that you had the negative energy within yourself that caused the mirroring within your experience. Responsibility - Take responsibility for the words, feelings, actions that brought the undesired situation into your life (even if you can not remember what you have done). Release - Release others from the confines of responsibility for what you are experiencing. Release all blame and compulsion to extract sympathy from others. Understanding - Understand that you are experiencing the natural occurrences for your highest soul’s growth, that everything is in divine order. Acceptance - Accept the events that are occurring in your life as temporary, that everything changes, moves and retreats. Accelerate - Move ahead swiftly from your present situation. Do not stay frozen behind the red light of your own fear. Let go and move on to your next experience. Create - Visualize the situations that you are wanting in your life. Think positive thoughts, speak positive words, feel positive emotion moving back into your life, and expect your desires to come forth naturally into your experience. This is the dance of non-resistance. Beautifully take notice of all of the events in your life as natural, flowing experiences that shape your Being. Begin to notice the wonderful things in your environment, the loving souls in your life, the positive experiences that you are having. Realize that your life is what you make it. It can be quite wondrous, if you only stop resisting the natural process of life. |
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