Are you in resistance?

Glorious morning!

Today we will expand on a powerful, yet sobering quote from Carl Jung.

“ What you resist, persists “

Seems simple enough right?

We can definitely dive deep with this one to help us overcome and transform, you know, the main reason we are here?

Lets see a little bit about Carl Jung and give credit where credit is due. Carl Jung was born in 1875 and died in 1961. He was a Swiss psychiatrist, a psychotherapist , and a psychologist. He pioneered evolutionary theory. He also founded a school for Analytical psychology. To say the least, that man was a thinker, lol.

What this quote enlightens me on is, suppression of uncomfortable feelings doesn't just disappear after we feel them. It is a natural automatic human response to not want to feel pain or grief. Just like when we learn as children , usually the hard way, not to touch a hot stove. After being burned by a hot stove, our brain registers the pain and tattoos a memory of a negative association, to help us not repeat the event again. Unless you like pain, but that’s another story. The same goes for the pain of being ridiculed as a child, or physically hurt. The same goes for a heartbreak caused by someone breaking up with us or losing a loved one. The feelings associated with those events are not fun. Humans are naturally pleasure seeking. It makes perfect sense to not want to feel negative emotions. But unfortunately being fully human requires the experience of all emotions, even the negative ones. It is how we learn. The trouble starts when we don't release the negative ones and get scared of them. When we get scared we hide. We suppress. The same emotions from a negative event does not just go away after it happens, UNLESS we are conscious enough to respond to it instead of react.

The negative feeling we get from anything is there to help us learn something, to enlighten us to something according to one's personal story. We all have a story and yes we all have a story filled with negative experiences that produce yucky some feeling emotions. So what this quote is saying is, you might as well deal with the uncomfortable feelings , learn from them, and release them as they come up for review. If we are not getting the lesson from the negative experience, then for our own good, for the sake of our souls evolutionary growth, it will keep happening. I mean we are in an earth school. I don't want to stay stuck in 2nd grade , do you?

If you wake up one morning with a little itchy bump on your finger, and you do not know what caused it, chances are the first thing we do is leave it alone to see if it will go away. But if it showed up as a result of a quiet underlying problem that has been manifesting in the body unbeknownst to you and has now become skin cancer, well you can imagine what happens if we continue to ignore that itchy little bump. It will only get worse, including the uncomfortable symptoms. “ What you resist , persists” It makes sense to deal with uncomfortable feelings and situations as they arrive, tend to them, not react but to respond, fix it, retire it and move on.

When I was in my 40’s I didn't realize I was holding on to a deep anger and hatred for someone who was preventing me from seeing a dear loved one. The anger and grief was tremendous and went on for years. One day I developed basal cell skin cancer and my higher self knew it wasn't just from tanning beds 20 years earlier. I knew it was from a hatred and non forgiving heart that I was carrying inside of me and was poisoning my spirit quietly underneath the surface of my everyday life. So I knew I had to get medical treatment as soon as possible so it would not get worse, but I also knew I had to deal with the unhealed and unprocessed grief inside from being separated from my dear loved one. Just like a piece of my skin had to be removed for my body to heal, a piece of poison had to be removed from my spirit. Hatred. I diligently worked on forgiving the person and came to a place of acceptance for the separation. I still have not been reunited with that loved one, but know one day I will. I have never had basal cell skin cancer since.

Do you have things in your life that won't go away? Things that keep persisting? Could be that you are suppressing things. I can help you identify what it is. Make a free discovery call today. Peace be with you ,Dawn

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