Not resisting resistance means to not fight or deny resistance but be aware of it and in a nonjudgmental way let it happen. It means to be detached from the resistance, not investing in it and not being distracted by it. Learning to accept and stay with what I am experiencing is ongoing. I'm not really very good at it. I am easily distracted and captured by thoughts that keep coming in. My insight is that I am easily busy in my head, often not good at being still, often not present. My insight is that there is a stillness beneath my head busyness. Letting my head busyness come and go without my getting caught up in it may be my reconciling being the change with non-resistance -- it's difficult for me. Sometimes I'm not good at being where I am. I struggled in writing this response -- I guess I struggle with not resisting resistance.
On Dec 28, 2014 david doane wrote :
Not resisting resistance means to not fight or deny resistance but be aware of it and in a nonjudgmental way let it happen. It means to be detached from the resistance, not investing in it and not being distracted by it. Learning to accept and stay with what I am experiencing is ongoing. I'm not really very good at it. I am easily distracted and captured by thoughts that keep coming in. My insight is that I am easily busy in my head, often not good at being still, often not present. My insight is that there is a stillness beneath my head busyness. Letting my head busyness come and go without my getting caught up in it may be my reconciling being the change with non-resistance -- it's difficult for me. Sometimes I'm not good at being where I am. I struggled in writing this response -- I guess I struggle with not resisting resistance.