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Essays on Discover the Power Within You
What is Non-Resistance
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We are made of the love of God. It is the warp and woof of the fabric
of our lives. Yet when faced with a new challenge in our understanding,
our first reaction is often to come unravelled.
The movement that is change occurs solely on faith. If we seek and embrace
new understandings, no matter the form or outward circumstances that surround
us, then we have faith that our will is God's will.
If we hesitate, procrastinate, and vacillate, then we are operating
out of faith (often unconscious) that what we want will be denied us, or
is bad for us, or is not God's will. We have faith at some level that what
we want shall not be.
Faith is not something that operates part of the time. It is always
present. It is the only way that change occurs.
To be non-resistant is to recognize that God's will unfolds through
our will. It is to recognize that the outward circumstances of our lives
are temporary, that we are always leading ourselves on to greater good.
If we reject a learning experience because it seems unpleasant or beneath
us, then we are practicing resistance to the higher self within us.
God only gives us what we ask for in thought. When we lack understanding,
the higher self arranges the opportunity for us to develop that understanding.
Non-resistance is not a passive acceptance of our situation or some
supposed destiny. It is an active expectation of good, it is a seeking
of the spiritual clothed in the physical.
If we can say, "Spirit led me to this", that may be good. But recognize
that Spirit only leads us where we first ask to go. It would be better
perhaps to say "I am doing this", recognizing and taking responsibility
for the God in ourselves.
There is no such thing as a negative thought. Is it a less-than- nonexistant
thought? There are only thoughts we like the con- sequences of, and thoughts
we don't like the consequences of.
To worry is the ultimate form of resistance. It is to become lost in
thought, to deny our own value and ability to deal with the present moment
when it comes. The antidote is to remember that we are made of the light
of God, the eternal flame of truth, and that no one and no thing can blow
us out.
Non-resistance is not indifference to, but rather confidence in the
will of God.
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