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RE: Learning to embrace our comfort zone

This:

"We have to allow ourselves to do things at our own pace. Resistance toward doing something either means it’s not the right thing or not the right time. Trust in the intelligence behind resistance. For many, this is a real step out of comfort zone."

Resonated with this in a big way. I caught up with a friend on Tuesday, and I was talking about a big resistance to stepping back into a regular Tai Chi and Qigong practice (I've been living and teaching this for nearly 20 years, but stopped last year).

She told me how she thought it sounded like I was beating myself up about it, and reminded me something I'd taught others: the resistance is a signal!! She told me how what I was describing was something a little more than some kind of 'block', and to explore this less as a problem that needed to be fixed, more like some important feedback or lesson.

I totally knew what she meant... I've been struggling with some deep processes all week. Still not sure where this process is taking me, but it's pushing some very big, deep buttons.

Thanks for your words.
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Thank you for sharing your valuable story.

I agree totally. Quite often we think that resistance is something that happens against, not for us. Something that implies kind of an idleness that serves no purpose but to be broken through. But with this mindset we'll miss the deeper lesson taught by it. Resistance is always there to divulge to us a better, more self-balancing, way of doing something than the thing we feel the resistance toward.

Best of healing to you. :)