7 Life Path | What You Resist Will Persist?

7 Life Path | What You Resist Will Persist?

I’ve often used the quote:  “What you resist will persist.”

And yet in the past months I have questioned that notion.

Yes, resistance as avoidance doesn’t just disappear or regress into the sidelines.

Whatever we want to avoid does have a tendency to persistently make its way back around.

Like when …  you go out for one drink and it always ends up being five.  (Resistance to practicing self-discipline)

Like when …  you know that the way your partner verbally undermines you when you’re with friends or family isn’t healthy or in any way all right with you and yet you continue to let it slide.  (Resistance to standing up for yourself)

Like when … you feel as though you’re marching into purgatory every day when you show up to work and yet do nothing to change jobs or improve your situation because, well, because.  (Resistance to change or to taking action)

And while “What you resist will persist” is often true, I’m finding there are times when it isn’t true.

When in actuality, active resistance results in a reconfiguration of the persistent issue.

This form of active resistance can actually transmute and reformulate the issue at hand.

The key is “active intentional resistance.”

Let’s use the gym metaphor.

In order to build muscle, resistance training is key.

The more weight, the more resistance.

The heavier it is, the more attuned your body gets.

The more often you engage in resistance training, the easier it gets to endure longer period of time training.

The more reps you do, the stronger and more resilient you become.

If we carry forward with this metaphor, we can revisit the idea that “what you resist will persist.”

How can we think about re-thinking what we resist and why we resist it?

7 Life Path: The Analyst (and sometimes reluctant) Spiritualist

As a 7 Life Path, here is your usual point of resistance:    TRUSTING YOURSELF

• You will always be met with people, situations, and experiences that test your sense of trust in yourself, in other people, and in the wisdom of the Universe!
• Time after time you’ll be met with opportunities to rely on your intellect and also to develop and trust your psychic/intuitive abilities.
• The coping mechanism is either over-thinking and over-analyzing with a strong sense of emotional detachment (and frustration) OR being so airy-fairy that you’re disconnected from the demands of your life here on planet earth.

RETOOL:  As you’re met with opportunities to step into a healthy level of faith, trust, and the development of your understanding of your higher spiritual calling , understand that this isn’t something to be avoided and you’re not being punished by continuing to have experiences that push you question your purpose and that push you into developing and using your intuitive gifts.  THIS IS THE POINT!

As you build your “intuitive” muscles:  Focus on connecting to your body since you often are in your head so much that you can have physical issues that are meant to make you pay attention to your physical vessel.  Also developing an active interest in personal and spiritual development and learning to go with the flow of life rather than push against it.