Life Is Just As Much About Resistance As It Is Acceptance

[Salaam]

I hear often about how my Wife and I's relationship is the exception rather than the rule.

But, the things is, while it takes a lot of start-up effort to reach the capacities for exceptionalism, it takes much less apparent effort to maintain them. You expand and adapt, and the previous expansion becomes comfortable, relative to how tough it first was. I feel like all things in life are like that. What was once tense or hard, becomes comfortable, and access to further expansion becomes attainable.

Comfort can be such a heroin for people. Sometimes it's the thing we have to resist most, especially when doing so protects meaning and potential.

Life is just as much about resistance as it is about trust and acceptance, but they both orbit around meaning and potential. We trust and accept into ourselves that which adds to them and we resist and reject that which saps those precious energies from our bones.

Creating love through those efforts. Both enlarging and filling the cup of love so it showers down around us, inspiring more life and love in the world.

It's beautiful really.

[Loreena]

Very meaningful and beautiful

[egoeimai]

@Salaam  How do you feel when resisting? 

Edited April 12, 2017 by egoeimai
oops I forgot I ruined my 666. oh shit

[Salaam]

51 minutes ago, egoeimai said:

@Salaam  How do you feel when resisting? 

It depends on what I'm resisting and the meaning involved.

For instance, because of the development I have and the choices I've made my body will often dump massive amounts of euphoria into me at night, that express as these surges of pleasurable tension. I know from experience that indulging in them and letting them escalate beyond a certain point will drain me over time and stress out my body, so I resist that temptation and restrain myself. That resistance feels amazing, while also allowing space for greater coherency and satisfaction that comes from looking after my health and increasing my capacities via temperance. 

Then there are other times when I'm working on something or starting a new project and I run into beginning stress and it gets uncomfortable and super easy to push it off for another time and not get it done. I resist those feelings of comfort and put in the effort, especially when the motivation and flow isn't there, resisting the drag of inertia and stress. Making it through the plateau, till my body adapts to the project I'm working on and it becomes fun and comfortable again.

When working with my sexuality and harmonizing my beast with my heart and my spirit. I have to apply both resistance and trust. Restraining my beast to the point that it doesn't overshadow and ignore my heart and spirit, but not restraining so much that it becomes a repression and depression of my sexual energy.

The key is harmonious balance.

My whole life is dedicated to balance and harmony and that means the careful application of both acceptance/trust and resistance or in other words attraction and repulsion. These are the strings of my violin and they play in rhythm to make music that is life. I don't just play one string and ignore or demonize the other. I play them both, diversifying them with nuance, so those two strings divide and multiply into millions