By Leo Babauta

I’ve seen that almost all of us let ourselves be pushed by our resistance to one thing tough, scary, unknown.

We tackle a tough activity — creating one thing, for instance — after which we really feel some type of resistance. Or perhaps it looks like overwhelm. It’s merely uncertainty, and concern of the unknown.

That is fairly regular, to really feel uncertainty, concern, resistance, overwhelm. Then we let it drive our actions, letting the concern be within the drivers seat. That’s fairly regular too, and really comprehensible.

What wouldn’t it be like if we didn’t want ot let this resistance drive us?

What if we might let ourselves keep within the uncertainty, really feel the resistance … after which remodel it into creativity and motion?

Let’s check out the 2 components of that.

Keep within the Resistance

So the very first thing is it’s important to put aside some house for no matter you’re resisting. Warning: this step is usually a doozy. We one way or the other at all times discover ourselves too busy to find time for the factor we’re resisting. We’re so busy! We don’t have time for that scary factor! Humorous how that works.

So in case you discover that you simply by no means have time for it … make the time. Put aside a while. Perhaps quarter-hour within the morning, perhaps 30. Reduce out some Netflix, Youtube, or social media time, and find time for this. Put it on the calendar, and commit your self absolutely.

OK, let’s say you try this … now you end up in that block of time, and hastily, all the pieces else appears a lot extra pressing! Your emails are instantly irresistible. Your kitchen magically wants some cleansing.

Keep right here, don’t abandon the duty. Your resistance desires to drive you away, however you’re going to attempt one thing completely different. An act of management somewhat than letting life occur to you.

Sit nonetheless for a minute. Let your self really feel the resistance. Not the ideas about how one can’t do that, or how you must do it later … however the sensation of resistance in your physique. The feeling of overwhelm and concern and uncertainty. It’s merely a sensation, an expertise.

Be with it. If it looks like greater than you may deal with, keep a couple of moments longer. It’s a coaching, to have the ability to keep mindfully current with the sensation of resistance.

With follow, you study that it’s not an enormous deal. You may be with it, with non-judgment, gentleness, even love.

Rework It Into Creativity & Motion

When you’ve accomplished that, there’s one other unbelievable option to work with this power in your physique. It looks like one thing you don’t need … however really, it’s simply power.

That is the power of life. Of being human. Of concern and that means. Of studying and creating. Of discovering one thing new. Of connecting and falling in love.

This power is just not one thing to expel out of your life, however somewhat to make use of in your creation. What are you able to create on this place of resistance, within the unknown? Are you able to let your self keep curious, and discover? What would possibly emerge, in case you keep open right here?

From this place, your deepest creation shall be uncovered. You start to understand that you’re not the inventor of your creations however the discoverer of them. You start to get enthusiastic about what is perhaps unearthed within the unknown.

That is magic. What are you ready for?