The Power of Resistance as a Sacred Moment of Growth

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Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Written by Leo Babauta

The Power of Resistance as a Sacred Moment of Growth

Everyone has resistance to difficult tasks, conversations, and habits.

It's a moment when you feel like turning away from something ... and then more often than not, you turn away from it.

This is a sacred moment. I'd love to share more.

In this moment of resistance, you're simply feeling fear. You rarely recognize it as fear — it can feel like anxiety, dread, overwhelm, boredom, frustration. But at a deeper level, it's simply fear.

If we go below the label of "fear" ... it's simply sensation in our bodies. It's an experience. It's the experience of being in the unknown.

This is a very human moment. It's also a sacred moment, tender and vulnerable, when we are faced with possibility but also uncertainty.

What if we could slow down, in this moment, and just let ourselves experience the uncertainty, the unknown, the vulnerability, tenderness, possibility and fear?

What if we could breathe deeply, and just sit in that experience?

Then instead of turning away ... we could turn towards. Find some gratitude for such a sweet, tender moment full of our humanity.

From there, we could continue to step into the unknown, and take action. Write a sentence, read a paragraph, make some kind of movement towards possibility. One movement at a time.

And we could even do so with love.

with love,

Leo Babauta

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Zen Habits is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. My name is Leo Babauta. I live in Davis, California with my wife and six kids, where I eat vegan food, write, run, and read. Source

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