The grit that makes you grow, what you resist persists

I was listening to an author this morning, she said something that rang in my head.

It is the grit that makes the pearl. She was of course talking about a Oyster. It is sometimes happens that what we resist, delay or deny most, is exactly where we need to work. It is what irritates us that we do not want to look at, might hold the key to what we have to do next.

During the Landmark forum that I did a few weeks ago, this came up. We were asked to call people who we have been running a racket on, or making up stories about them. I used this method that I got from David Essel my Life Coach, look to where you resist, delay, or deny. It worked perfectly. I made the calls I leaset wanted to make first and the easiest ones last.

The grit is this denial. It irritates us though we take some lotion or potion, distract ourselves with entertaainment or dull our sences with drugs and alcohol or food so we do not feel. We do this with pain, we take something to make it go away, rather than figure out why we have pain.

Whether our pain is emotional, mental, or physical, masking it over works only temporarily. A slight knee pain over years might end up a knee operation for a replacement. What if the pain came from diet, or how we move, or work. The shoes we wear or the tension we hold. After the knee operation something else starts to go off from the same original problem.

We need to face what irritates us. What you resist persists.

Take that irritation and make a pearl out of it like the Oyster. Sit with the pain or emotion. Realize though it is real to you but on some level it is just energy. When you are fully with it, it can it go away, or you can figure out how not to cause it again.

Is the food you eating causing inflammation?

Are your emotions eating you up?

Are you shoes worn out?

Do you need a new bed or chair at work?

Many solutions?

Make a list of what you are resisting, delaying, or denying. Really go for it.

Ask for help if needed. I am there for you.

All the answers are inside of you.

Blessings,

Dr. Steve