Equal and Opposite

We spoke last week about Resistance “coming second.”

We said that self-doubt/fear/procrastination/distraction/perfectionism etc. only arise in response to (and reaction against) a DREAM, i.e., the book we dream of writing, the podcast we want to start, the creative enterprise we dream of initiating.

There’s a corollary to this truth:

The degree of Resistance we feel will be EQUAL AND OPPOSITE to the power and importance of our dream.

Little dream = little Resistance.

Big dream = big Resistance.

The visual we cited last week was a tree in the middle of a sunny meadow. The tree (our Dream) inevitably casts a shadow (the fear/self-doubt etc. we feel to pursuing that dream.)

The bigger the tree, the bigger the shadow.

How does it help us to understand this? Because when we find ourselves feeling MASSIVE RESISTANCE to some creative project, we can be certain that that project is VERY IMPORTANT to us and to the evolution of our soul.

Big Resistance = Big Dream.

In other words, the worse we feel … the better.

Resistance senses that our Dream is important, that it’s critical to our development … so it marshals all its dark resources to stop us from pursuing it.

We can use that to encourage ourselves. The bigger the shadow, the bigger the Dream.

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