How to Best Let Go of Resistance Now
How to Best Let Go of Resistance Now Introduction: Life is a beautiful adventure. Resistance creates tension and anxiety. Our life of the outer world, our thoughts and our emotions. These change constantly. Michael Singer’s Living Untethered, describes your journey of acceptance of reality. It helps you. achieve freedom, peace, and inner enlightenment. You will find out who you are, what the outside world is, and why and how your thoughts and emotions change. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to accept reality and surrender to the flow. In other words, how to let go and live your life “untethered.” You discover your real self and the difference between willful and automatic thought. Three powerful techniques help you let go. Chapter 1. What’s in it for Me? What is our inner monologue or stream of consciousness? But what is it exactly, and why does it never stop talking? If you pause for a minute, you will hear it. Your inner train of thought hardly ever stops to take a break! Your first step toward enlightenment: Start paying attention to your inner voice. You also need to understand that your thoughts never define you. They’re only outputs of your consciousness. Your consciousness is the part of your brain. It spends all day processing your thoughts and feelings. This is the information your senses pick up. Start paying attention to your inner voice, notice that it follows certain patterns. Sometimes it makes you worried, upset or surprised. It also influences your emotions. Sometimes we get caught up in our thoughts. We forget they’re actually objects of our consciousness. This is the difference between our self and personal self. Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself. This is the patterns of your thoughts. If you often feel sad, for example, you may start to think of yourself as a sad person. If you’re always envious of others, you might see yourself as a jealous person. To become enlightened, accept that these thoughts and feelings never define you. The real you is aware of the role these thoughts and feelings play. Chapter 2. Well of Energy. Consciousness is a wonderful, mysterious thing. It’s like the energy we all have inside ourselves. If you can learn to flow with this energy, you can do about anything. Like the energy of the physical world, there’s an internal energy inside you. Imagine that your partner broke up with you. Since then, you’ve been lying in bed, feeling depressed and lethargic. Then one day your ex calls you up, saying they never should’ve left you. They want to come over. You may feel a sudden burst of energy. This energy is chi in Chinese medicine, and shakti in the yoga tradition. If you want to feel it, you need to open your mind and let it flow. Inner energy may seem intangible. It’s actually very real. It’s a resource that’s waiting for you to tap into. We don’t feel it constantly because we tend to subconsciously block it. We break its natural flow. Picture yourself driving down the road. As you move along, you’ll notice buildings, traffic lights, people and trees. Then suddenly you think you see your “ex” walking down the street, holding hands with someone else. You keep driving, but your consciousness becomes consumed by this image. You return to this over and over again in your mind. It’ll make you anxious and jealous, Unable to relax. In situations like this, let negative thoughts pass through you. Otherwise, your inner energy will build, but become blocked.Unreleased energy can lead to negative emotions, like depression.Your consciousness has a bad habit of focusing on negative things. There’s a reason we evolved this way. Focusing on our predators made us more likely to survive! Chapter 3. A Fear Free Life. How can you put your fear and anxiety aside to live a more enjoyable life? Fear is also an object of your consciousness. You can deal with it in two ways: recognize its presence and let it go, or run away from it. We often bottle it up. We even structure our lives so nothing ever triggers fear, to protect ourselves. Think about any time you’ve had a splinter in your finger. If you touch it, it hurts. You may find it difficult to sleep because you’re bumping it. In this situation, you have two choices. Change your movements so nothing ever touches the splinter, pull it out.Letting go of your fear is like removing a splinter. Accept that your fear is a separate thing you need to remove. Fear is the result of blocked inner energy. When your natural flow energy gets blocked, it is unable to reach your heart.Your heart will become weaker, and more susceptible to fear. Enlightenment is reaching awareness of fear. Never let it take over your life. Chapter 4. Widen Consciousness. Letting go of your thoughts and feelings is the key to spiritual growth. But what if you train your consciousness to turn away from your thoughts and emotions? What if your consciousness transcends all that? Your consciousness is tightly bound up in a mental construct shaped over the years. This functions like a cage that you are unable to escape. We impose mental boundaries on our own minds. This protects us from anything we feel threatens our idea of who we are. Letting go, your consciousness expands. Your consciousness is so focused on your thoughts that it tunes everything else out. Buddhists call this clinging. Clinging builds a cage. When you let go, you realize freedom. When you let these thoughts flow, your consciousness expands. This is how you transcend your personal self. Death is frightening. It also gives life meaning. What would you do today if you knew it was your last day? Chapter 5. Idea of Death. Yogis and saints have always embraced death. In the words of St. Paul, “Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh
