The Transformation Of Resistance
Have you looked Resistance in the eye? If you live on the earth, in a human body, you surely have.
Resistance causes us to procrastinate, loose steam on our passions, give up, never try in the first place and make excuses. Resistance is the main force keeping us from living the life we were meant to live.
THE authoritative resource on the nature of Resistance and how to overcome it, is The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield.
This article takes three of Pressfield’s gems, followed by my own questions to help you dissect your own Resistance. Then you can use what you learn to transform your Resistance with EFT tapping.
Your answers can become your tapping script with Emotional Freedom Tapping. Simply say one answer at each tapping point. Here’s more info about tapping technique tips.
From Pressfield: Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
I know you’ve had glimpses of your unlived life. You get these glimpses late at night, when you’re in nature or when faced with difficult or painful life circumstances.
Clarity about our possibilities often comes in these poignant moments.
By answering the following questions, you’ll gain insight into your unique brand of Resistance.
What would you have to give up if you lived your unlived life?
It wouldn’t be safe to live your unlived life because… (finish that statement)
Who wouldn’t like it
Would you know yourself if you lived the life you’re not living?
When you tap the meridian points while stating your answers to the questions, you bring who you are and who you want to be closer together.
Pressfield: Look in your own heart. Unless I’m crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone.
Get some privacy, get quiet and ask yourself these questions.
What’s in my heart?
When I listen, what do I hear from my still small voice?
What calling have I heard ten thousand times?
Use your answers as your EFT script.
From Pressfield: Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.
Now answer the following questions to find out about the Resistance that arises from within.
What enemy arises from within you?
How do you self-generate your Resistance?
How do you tell yourself that the enemy is outside of you?
In what ways do you perpetuate Resistance?
Use all your answers as tapping phrases. That activity will help bridge the gap between you lived and your unlived life. This practice can align your inner enemy with your dreams – and make them possible. With Emotional Tapping, you can transform your Resistance and you life.