Several of you have written to me asking about resistance and how it's not our fault.
Well,
Our resistance to our soul energy often comes from how we were treated as little ones in the family climate we grew up in.
So,
You know,
If our parents weren't self-realized,
Then we get imprinted with kind of how to live in our egos.
And also,
Patterns come from other lives.
So,
When you have no conscious control over those,
You know,
They may have been your choices,
But you weren't in this body that you're in now.
You're in different bodies.
So,
How can you be blamed for what choice you made back then?
So,
This is how it's not our fault.
But we're responsible to allow the healing.
We're responsible to the soul who streamed us up,
Who,
You know,
Incarnated us.
We're responsible to allow our soul energy to flow in this life.
So,
All of us will be faced with resistance at times.
I remember feeling like I was full of concrete and later I realized that it was basically my soul telling me I was too much believing in concrete reality.
And,
You know,
The walking around for a week or so feeling full of concrete was the clearing.
It wasn't anything I had to get in there and fix.
It's like,
You know,
If you choose to move into truth,
What happens is you start clearing immediately and your job is to observe it,
Observe the clearing,
Not to get in there and madly fix things.
This is where the ego hooks us.
It tells us our resistance is our fault and we have to fix it.
And I'll tell you,
That is just the ego trying to knock your spiritual journey off the rails.
You know,
This is how people get tied up in knots.
Their ego tells them they have to fix the resistance,
But it's the resistance talking,
Trying to trick you,
You know,
Into keeping the status quo.
That's why a good teacher is priceless,
Because they can spot this stuff.
And a truly authentic teacher's been through it so they can recognize it when someone's stuck in it.
Yeah,
The answer's always love.
Yeah,
So please learn loving compassion and gentleness for yourself.
Yeah,
It takes great patience to grow on the journey,
Especially in the West,
You know,
Where we've been so outer-focused for centuries,
And now we're having to pivot and go inside.
So I think we all need a lot of compassion for ourselves.
And compassion for yourself is the answer,
Because it's your soul that feels compassion for you.
Your ego can't feel compassion for you.
So if you can experience a feeling of self-compassion,
Kind of soft,
Expansive self-compassion,
You're tapping into your soul energy.
Yeah,
So just keep at it,
And one day you'll just find that you're compassionate for yourself and for everybody else.
It's nice.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.
