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Mundane Things, We have To Do

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There are some things that are required of us to do that we don’t want to do.  And these are the things that will help us move ahead in life —in the long run. The small mundane things are really the backbone of the great things we want to do. Inspiration is like a spark while doing the mundane work is like a fire. We all resisted in doing something we don’t want to do, but after doing it, we experience a feeling of satisfaction. We ought not allow the feeling of resistance keep us from doing what is necessary to move ahead and complete things.

We Have the Ability to Go Against Our Resistances

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We all have the ability to learn. We have the ability to experience. We have the ability to think, plan and execute the most basic of things.  If we have these abilities then how come we have so little faith in ourselves to do the things we desire the most?

What we desire usually is a life-changing event. Also what we desire or what goals we want to obtain usually requires of us great labor. If we want to make things happen, we must go against our resistances.

Going against our resistances mean staying focus, even though we don’t feel like working on the project or experiencing doubts, we must do it anyway. When we do it anyway in spite of our lack of motivation or self-doubts, we begin to learn about self-discipline.

If the mind is disciplined, then the rest of body will obey and carry out what is necessary to obtain or complete the goal.

When Resistance is winning

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We can get frustrated at times, when we’re resisted to new changes; changes that we want in our life. At our work places, change is inevitable, although we express resistance a little, we do eventually readjust our behavior to the changes.

One motivating factor is that we want to keep our jobs. It is easier to resist changes in ourselves than at our employment because we don’t link consequences to the change. Consequence is one way to motivate a change.

It is good to find a reason why we want to make a change. How does the change be beneficial in the long run? Is making a certain change in our lives realistic? These are start-up questions to get us thinking about change when we can ask ourselves before we venture to make changes.

Giving us a date to start and a date to end the process if it’s something involving completing a project, can be useful.

Lessons are Everywhere

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Life is full of lessons. We all experienced something the hard way. Some things are better experienced than told. Those of us who are parents want to tell our kids what they should and shouldn’t do.

Most parents naturally want to protect their kids. When we were kids there were things we preferred told about than experienced.  But most of time as kids we wanted to figure it out ourselves.

But lessons are everywhere; we don’t have to look for them. They’re in the movies we watch, on the news we hear and in the newspapers we read. Some lessons are warnings, others, for most of us, repeated themes in our lives, such as, patience.

Some of us, who are rushing to work, are impatient when we’re behind a slow-moving vehicle.  It’s not the fault of the slow-moving vehicle.  This started when there was a delay, or not getting us enough time to prepare for work.

Whenever we’re having a hard time with something, there is a lesson learned.

On Being Emotionally Free

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What we feel is very important to us.  When we hurt emotionally, we need to feel our pain to heal.  Sometimes we raise our shields, when we don’t want to face a painful memory, or a painful truth about ourselves.

We need to feel the most, when it’s the most painful. It’s better to let go of painful feelings than to keep them inside us.  Emotion is energy in motion.  Feelings are like a pocket of air; we need to burp them out.

If we don’t burp them out, the air pocket creates more discomfort. Thus, we becomes more preoccupied with the discomfort and forget about what caused the painful feelings in the first place.  Let us be free of painful emotions and move forward.

How Resistant Are We?

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Keys

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How resistant are we for change?  When we’re presented with new ideas or new changes, we find ourselves resisting them.

Resistance can be a good thing but not so good a thing, depending on the context of the situation.  If someone is trying to indoctrinate us into a belief system that we’re unsure about, it’s okay to resist, especially if it can cause harm.

But how come we resist things that we know are better for us in the long run?

When Erickson couldn’t get through to his subject, he believed that he needed to continue looking for the “right key” to turn the tumbler to unlock and open his subject’s door of receptivity to welcome in new ideas.  We can learn to do the same and continue looking for the right key.