Resistance is Futile

You many know this line from Star Trek The Next Generation, uttered by The Borg to inform some soon to be conquered individual that they might as well give up because ‘resistance is futile.’

I agree, in principle but for a far different reason. I dont believe in giving in to a hostile force trying to bend my will to their way of thinking (Microsoft has been referred to as a corporate version of the Borg … sort of fits if you think about it in a monopolistic sort of way). I have a quote in my book that explains my perspective a little bit better:

“The root cause of anything that diminishes our wellbeing can be found in resistance.”
-Abraham-Hicks

This is from the teachings of Abraham, provided to us by Jerry and Esther Hicks, a couple of very leading edge thinkers and teachers in the area of the Law of Attraction and other metaphysics. The point is that when you are resisting, the universe is trying to tell you something: you should not be doing this, it is not the right time to be doing this, you are doing this for the wrong reasons, etc.

You emotions are how your subconscious communicates with the real world and your conscious mind. If you are pissed off about something, angry, sad … whatever … resistance is rearing it’s head. Listen to your feelings, explore all the possible sources of why you may be resisting the situation, activity, or person that is causing you to not go with the flow.

An example: I am in the process of writing news releases for my book coming out on May 9th (The Wealth Manifesto). I have been struggling with getting this done for the better part of a day and a half. I MUST send these out to all the major reviewers (everything from the New York Times to any magazine that has anything to do with my subject material) as this is free publicity and an essential part of my marketing campaign. I wont get into the reasons I uncovered for WHY I was resisting this (unless someone asks me to) but I finally figured out that it was not the right time to be writing these news releases, the flow was not there.

It’s not like I dont have plenty of other things to do in getting the promotion together for my book (dozens of things, many of which I really enjoy) - I was essentially wasting my time beating my head against the monitor trying to crank these out.

If you are having a hard time with something and it is causing you grief (”diminishing your wellbeing”), leave it and move on to something else that feels better for the time being. Your mood and your productivity will increase dramatically if you dont resist the subliminal messages you are getting from the superconscious mind.  There is great power there … we must learn to listen to it.

Cheers.