Are you resisting this moment? Self-Inquiry

You are invited to engage in a self-inquiry practice:

Observe your current experience – the sensations in your body, your emotions, and the thoughts that are present.

Would you prefer to be elsewhere, experiencing something else? Perhaps a different setting that signifies a distinct psychological or physiological state (for instance, swimming in the ocean might equate to feeling buoyant, relaxed, and free of pain, as opposed to sitting at home where you may feel tired, sore, and downcast).

Give yourself permission to "travel" in your mind between these varied states of existence. Does it alter how you feel, or does it remain unchanged?

Is there a state of being, you resist or favour? Does merely engaging with a more agreeable state in your imagination affect your current state?

It can be a painful experience by gaining understanding into moment by moment resistance … I am here, I have to do certain task but actually I do wish and long for something very different. I am here and not here.

Transitioning from being habitual and unreflective to becoming more intentional and self-aware is a process of self-discovery and it can be the catalyst for accepting where you are, what you do, who you are. And it can support you in opting for change. Because you managed to be honest about yourself and your life, what you want and what you do not want.

Change within you, your work, physical location, people that surround you.

My next blog will present the paradoxical theory of change - to accept who you are and where you are in your life in order to enable change.