Human beings, like animals, always tend to move away from pain and towards pleasure. It is some kind of biological response that nobody seems to be exempt from. Even masochists, who rather move towards pain instead of away from it, do it because it appears to be more pleasurable than the absence of it. Even those of us with a strong self-destructive streak do what we do, because the destruction of the self is perceived, whether consciously or unconsciously, to be preferable to existing the way we do.
What most of our behaviours have in common is that their basis is resistance. We resist that which appears to be more painful to our existence than its alternative.
It seems that we don’t want to feel and experience resistance within ourselves, or as little as possible, and so we create a story in our mind in which there are characters other than what we believe ourselves to be, and those characters experience resistance, too. Then most of it is their resistance, not ours, as we dream about living among them.
The more spiritually advanced we believe ourselves to be, the more it is them that are resistant and no longer us. They are against this and against that, we aren’t. In the past, we may have been resistant to a lot of things, but not anymore. Oh no. Now that we are spiritually mature we don’t resist anymore. We allow. They resist.
In fact, we can’t believe how much they resist when it is obvious to us that allowance is the way to go. So we allow ourselves to be as we are, try to ignore them and their behaviour that we don't like as best we can, and struggle to always keep our focus on nice things. Law of attraction and all that, right? Yet shit keeps happening. Aren’t we secretly glad that it is them who resist so much and not us? Yet why do bad things still happen to good people such as ourselves?
Can we allow ourselves to see a problem with this? That the resistance won’t go away even if most or all of it is now apparently in them and not us, and we choose to ignore it? Why doesn’t it disappear if we look the other way?
Because we are everything. That means we are definitely all that we perceive. And that means, whatever resistance we perceive in others is really resistance within ourselves. That resistance is reflected back to us in the shape of others because we are blind to it within our own being. As long as we believe ourselves to be this dream character, we can only see what it sees, and how it sees everything. We cannot recognize that that which we see and secretly judge in others is that which we don’t want to see in ourselves. Therefore, whether we experience resistance in ourselves or in others makes no difference at all. It is there for us to see it and deal with it.
So here we are. In a world where resistance seems to be everywhere. Everybody appears to resist something, many of us resist many different things. We are sick and tired because of all the resistance, both in ourselves and others. What can we do?
We could tell ourselves all day long that the world is not real and that our perception is wrong, as A Course in Miracles and other spiritual teachings proclaim. Does that make us healthy when we are sick, or a better person in the eyes of our fellow sufferers? Some of us, maybe, if we become more loving and kind towards ourselves and others because of our practice. But looking at all the arguments in the spiritual community there doesn’t seem to be a lot of difference compared to the “unawakened” part of humanity.
From a common sense perspective, which may not be the most spiritual in the eyes of many, we could just quietly endeavour to dissolve all resistance within ouselves that we come across, whether we perceive it in our mind or in the world outside. Some like to call it forgiveness, and we would forgive literally everything that has resistance in it. I don’t know how that practice feels to you, but in my case there is an immediate shift towards peace after I perceive a bit of resistance energetically until I feel it dissolve. Often, it is a matter of only a few seconds. I just need to remember to do it.
The difference between ignoring resistance and focusing elsewhere, and dissolving it whenever it is perceived, is that after dissolving it there is nothing there anymore that feels wrong. There is nothing that has been hidden somewhere in the back of the mind and not looked at because it was felt to be too ugly. Everything everywhere, not just in ourselves, is seen as it is, and fully allowed to be as it is, and through being seen without judgement it dissolves into unity. Into all that I am.
That perception of unity then grows a little bit bigger. Consciousness expands a tiny bit more. We feel a little lighter and more peaceful. There is a bit less stuff that appears to trigger us or someone else in our perception. Day by day the world we perceive appears to become a slightly nicer place. Not because the same shit still happens outside of our bubble and we decide to look elsewhere, so that we don't dampen our high vibration, but because it really disappears. Wherever we look, we can no longer find it because we no longer resonate with that level of perception where there is so much resistance.
In a sense, we could say that all resistance that was ever created, or seems to have been created, is still there somewhere, and that would be correct, if we see it from the perspective of the dream being real. And yet, even for our dream character, it disappears. There is still the I that perceives its creation, but it is no longer the small I that was against this and that, felt triggered all the time, and lived in a world where there was a lot of conflict. Now that I is growing to be all of creation, and the unity it allows to be within itself is the unity it also sees in the world.
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