552: What we Resist Persists
To touch base on a previous blog, 540 , I wanted to reiterate the point of how 'what you resist, persists'. When I resist pain such as headaches and take a pill to get rid of the experience , I am essentially giving up the opportunity I have to develop a level of self-intimacy, and self-awareness. Headaches, and pains, as mentioned in my previous blog, don't just come out of nowhere. Often times I can see how I create the pains... how who I am, and what I participate within my mind creates the experience in my physical body. And so rather than investigating what has been accepted and allowed that thus creates an outflow consequence on/in/as the body, we just take a pill to deal with the issue, not realizing there is something deeper to dis-cover. How we allow our patterns of pain to persist is in how we resist DEALING with the actual problems that create the pain in the first place. Instead of getting to the root of the problem - finding the thought patterns we k...