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Reistance is Futile
Resistance is Futile
DLScott CtHa / CDP
337 No. 143rd. St. Seattle, WA. 98133
No matter how much we might like to believe otherwise, we all have our bad days, days when we just want to wallow in our aches and pains. I recently went through a couple of those days. As I look at what was going on, I now recognize that I was resisting lessons that the universe was trying to send me. The more we resist, the more the lessons persists.
Without going immediately into a rehash of the drama that I wanted to convince myself was causing all of my problems, (it could not be that I was creating the problem by resisting what was going on, OH NO, I couldn’t be doing that to myself, yah right), I am finding that these past couple of days have been an excellent reminder of a very important lesson, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Stress is one of the major emotional, mental, and physical health concerns of our society today. When we resist things, we create stress, stop the resistance, and we stop or lessen the stress. An easy way to conceptualize this is to take your left hand and hold it up, palm facing to the right. Now take your right hand, form it into a fist, and then push against the palm of the left hand. Next, with all your might push the fist against the palm of your hand, but do not allow the palm to be pushed aside, just keep creating stronger and stronger force between the two hands. This force is an example of the power of stress created by the resisting forces. Now simply drop your left hand and you will notice that the fist moves without resistance and the force of the stress is gone. Go ahead as you are reading this article, give it a try, it is an excellent lesson in the power of stress as created by resistance.
As I look back on my life I find that this lesson has come in many forms, two of which I would like to share with you now. The first big lesson started when I was about 14 years old.
I, like many people, have experienced stress in the form of addictive behavior in my family. My response was to hold in all of the emotions of anger and bitterness that I was creating in response to the addictive behavior. As we all know, emotion is simply energy, and as I created more and more energy, and then suppressed, it needed some kind of outlet to be let loose. (Energy does not just disappear, it can change form, but it does not just disappear, so suppressing it does not make it go away). My energy started expressing itself through the physical manifestation of Gall Bladder trouble. Eventually by the time I turned 18 my Gall Bladder had become enlarged, full of stones, and was no longer working. It had to be surgically removed. If only I had known more about underlying causes of physical problems at the time, I may have been able to prevent the necessity of surgical removal, as it was I had no other choice then to have the diseased organ removed.
The Drs. remarked, several times, that it was unusual for a man of my young age to experience such a radical problem, and even back in those times (70’s), before the body mind connection was as widely accepted as it is now, I was asked if I was experiencing a lot of stress at home. At the time I was not willing or able to admit to the source of stress or to the fact that I was suppressing my stress, if I had been able to open up I could have dropped the resistance and worked toward a healthy solution to the problem. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
The next lesson that comes to mind is a bit more dramatic and immediate, but due the development of my ability to relax and not resist, the outcome was much more positive.
A day before I turned twenty – five, I consented to go on my first jog. A young woman had been asking me to go with her for weeks, and I finally gave into her requests.
She lead me along a path that included jogging down the left side of an access road. Well I need to let you know that I do not hear very well in my right ear, and when I heard a car coming up from behind us, I thought that it was on the left of us, I pushed my companion over into a ditch and I jumped to the right, thinking that this would give the car a path in between us. What actually happened is that I jumped right in the middle of a car doing forty miles per hour. I felt a bump, and started to go under the car, but due to daily exercises of mediation/self hypnosis, over the past two years, I quickly recognized the fact that there was nothing I could do about the situation so I needed to just let go. The one thing I could do was to make sure that I did not go under the car so I pushed backwards, went up over the hood of the car, and stopped momentarily as my right elbow connected with the windshield of the attacking vehicle. I recall looking over at my companion who was now standing at the side of the road with her hands over her face screaming, and I was calming thinking that this was going to hurt when I land. The woman in the car slammed on the brakes and I was sent flying several yards through the air. I was absolutely correct, when I hit the concrete of the road it started hurting. Amazingly I stayed awake through the whole experience, talking calmly with the ambulance attendants as they put me on a stretcher and took me to the hospital. The only injury I sustained was a broken right shoulder and this came from the impact of my right elbow against the car windshield. The Drs. and the police agreed that I should have been killed by the experience, and that the only thing that saved my life was the fact that I relaxed, and did not resist.
These two examples have lead me to comprehend the incredible power of our minds, and the how a daily regiment of such practices as self -hypnosis, mindfulness, or meditation can start the process of taking control of your mind and body, and accomplishing seeming miracles.
Stress comes from our resistance to outside stimulation, as long as we continue to resist, we continue to promote stress. Take for example the idea of fire walkers, a fire walker has been trained to completely relax the body, and thus negate any damage from the burning hot coals. The same is true of people who walk across beds of broken glass, relaxation equals no resistance, no resistance equals less consequences to what we once considered serious problems.
A daily regiment of self -hypnosis / mediation is the first step in learning to control the body mind connection. Information and or instructions from a professional Hypnotherapist, Teacher or Guide in Personal Energy Mastery and / or Relaxation Therapy will show you how to enhance, increase, and broaden your daily exercises. Just remember, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!.
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About the Author
D.L.Scott is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Nationally Certified as a Pain Management Consultant. He has an Associates of Applied Science degree in the Social and Human Services, and received his license as an Chemical Dependency Professional in 1993.
For eighteen years he has worked in the addictions studies field using Hypnotherapy, NLP, and Cognitive Behavioral Techniques to enhance relapse prevention skills with numerous clients, it was during this time that he refined a technique that he calls Emotional Release Therapy.
He is a member of the National Board of Hypnotherapist & Hypnotic Anesthesiologist, the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists, and the GSBA. He is a qualified instructor with the state of WA., and an experienced group facilitator.
Through his roles as a Counselor in private practice, Smoking Cessation Specialist with the Center for Health Promotion, Clinical coordinator for Project NEON, and as chemical dependency counselor with the state of WA. DL has helped thousands of people stop addictive behavior with a variety of substances, including cigarettes, and Crystal Meth. You can view more about DL at dlscottpersonalenergymastery.com
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