What You Resist Persists
I know a rhyming aphorism is the quickest route between saying something interesting and resonant and people tuning you out completely but stick with me for a second.
What you resist persists.
The loving presence of the Universe is constantly sending us messages, clues, guide posts, and breadcrumbs called synchronicities to gently nudge us in the direction of our own evolution. When we are babies, we flow with the natural progression of what we are meant to learn and at what time. Once we start meeting external expectations, our intuitive voice gets replaced with the much less loving voice of CONFORMITY. This voice is loaded with all kinds of judgment, capitalistic benchmarks, generational trauma, and bullshit from our parents about who they thought we’d be… it’s a mess. And healing is the rigorous process of muting that voice in order to reconnect with our own.
Resistance has a place and a purpose. The ego is terrified of death (that’s why it developed in the first place—to help our ancestors discern when danger was near) but the metaphorical death of growth is good for us. Internal stagnation causes a lot of avoidable suffering. Learning to surrender is an active process and daily practice, but it is absolutely one worth doing again and again.
If you pay attention, you can see the resistance to the natural flow of progress everywhere. The early days of covid gave the world an opportunity to abandon unsustainable lack-based economic systems in favor of societies founded on mutual care and abundance. People seemed, for a brief moment, to understand the ramifications of working people to the brink of exhaustion, the terrible (and dangerous) practice of guilting and shaming people to coming into work when they’re sick, the ability to use our technological advances to make a more accessible world where disabled people could attend events virtually, where parents could spend time with their children, where our finite energy could be used in ways we chose instead of through the obligatory commute-work-commute-eat-sleep-rinse-repeat-retire (if you’re lucky)-die cycle of misery that everyone was so trapped in for so long.
But as quickly as was possible (I would go so far as to argue that it was not possible and currently isn’t working but I digress) we went “back to normal.” Back to hustling, back to suffering, back to resisting our highest good.
Many of the social justice movements which so many people consider “newfangled” have been around for decades, centuries in some cases. Why are we fighting the same fights over and over again? Why won’t the world progress?
Cuz the people in power are resisting.
They have been resisting for a loooonnnggg time.
They will probably continue resisting until they aren’t able to anymore.
The good news is
what you resist, persists
The fight will keep fighting. Those that are open to learning, growing, healing, and progressing will keep on keepin’ on. The world will move past those that are holding onto the old world for dear life, terrified to lose their power. It’s a kind of ideological rapture. After having committed to the unfolding of my own evolution, having undergone small death after small death and lived to tell the tale, having felt the bliss of infinite expansion, I look forward to the new world.
It’s like Bob Dylan said “your old road is rapidly agin’/get the fuck out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand/
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