What is Resistance and How Does it Block Success?

Resistance creates a barrier between what you have and what you desire. It's trying to swim against the current instead of floating downstream. Feeling like you are not good enough creates resistance. It comes from a place of fear and actually makes it harder to change, because it feeds into expecting failure. 

When we make New Year's Resolutions and try to keep them, the underlying belief is that I am not good enough as I am today. It makes success harder to achieve because when results are not immediate, low self-esteem contributes to causing people to go back to bad habits. If you have listened to the comments of people who give up, they might say, "oh well, it wouldn't make a difference anyway". That's a sign of low self-esteem.  

Resistance acts like a pressure cooker in your mind. There is only so much it can take until things blow. We reduce resistance when we are able to love and accept ourselves exactly as we are at this moment. The goal is to have our core belief knowing innately that we are enough. With that, change becomes easier.

If we have to be perfect before we can change, it won't happen, because none of us are perfect. Accepting and loving ourselves, exactly as we are in this moment, are the first steps to creating lasting change. It can be so difficult to like or love ourselves, but it is one of the most important paradigm shifts we must make to lead our best lives.

Have a wonderful day!

Xo

Conni