Have you ever considered how many times we offer resistance or negativity to ourselves, our co-workers, what work we do, the traffic, how tired we are, how you didn’t do this or that, how that person has offended you by the way they look, by the way they smell, how much money you have or don’t have or anything that we want to be different than it currently is?

The great thing about this universe and the God we serve is that we can consciously feel how our thoughts, stimuli and emotion affect our bodies and where it affects our bodies.   Our bodies are the ultimate receptor, it receives messages from our outside world, processes it all through our skin and our mind then forms a thought around every single thing that we experience.  I ask you to start noticing where your thoughts and feeling show up in your body?  Have awareness around what you are feeling?  Where are you feeling it? What are your thoughts at that exact moment?

For example, today, I got a simple text message about someone coming to see me unexpectedly.  The minute I read the message I felt my heart start beating faster, my breath was a little quicker, a picture immediately came to my mind of his smile and his eyes, I heard his voice in my head, I felt his hand fitting perfectly into mine.  It was like he was standing in front of me at that very moment.   All of those feelings started in my heart and brought an overwhelming feeling of Love to my entire being.

I have people in my life that bring the opposite feeling to me, with a phone call, text, or email I immediately feel my resistance towards them in my neck, my shoulders and my head.  The tension I allow them to bring into my body and my world is resistance at its best and I am still learning how to take that resistance and move it out of my body and my mind.  It is a process of being fully present in the moment and becoming hyper aware of how my body reacts to these people and situations.

I have been blessed to know a God that showed me compassion, mercy and a grace beyond my own understanding.  He has shown me that I hold the key to my world, I hold the key to my life, and I get to choose my thoughts, my experiences, and I choose my resistance as well.   I am learning to choose the path of least resistance, I am learning to bring awareness to my body in times of distress, in times where thoughts want to overcome me, in times of uncertainty, in times of fear.   I am learning to become aware of my true feelings, how and where it affects my body and ultimately I am learning to embrace every one of them.  I am learning to wrap them up and surround them in LOVE and WARMTH.  I am learning to ever so gently let the resistance go by breathing deep, seeing the light that surrounds me and willingly letting the resistance pass through me.

Today I ask you to become aware of all the little things you are experiencing that you are holding onto and not letting it pass through you?   Where are you holding them? How does your body feel at this moment?  What thoughts are you having?  Is there tension and thoughts you can simple surrender to God, your higher power?  Thoughts of anger and resentment towards another, more importantly yourself keep us in the same place day after day, it keeps us from walking fully into our potential, it keeps us chained.  Our freedom lies in the power to understand forgiveness and letting go of all resistance in this life.

Day 80 to Transformation!  We hold the power to complete forgiveness and with it we hold the key to our complete joy and happiness.  The answer is in learning to embrace resistance and let it pass through us.