http://www.jpdanna.com/blog Author of The Narrow Gate: A Journey Through Identity, Belief and Perception Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:32:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.jpdanna.com/blog/resistance-vs-allowing/77/ http://www.jpdanna.com/blog/resistance-vs-allowing/77/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 14:58:53 +0000 admin http://www.jpdanna.com/blog/resistance-vs-allowing/77/ There have been times when I’ve felt threatened and exhibited defensive behavior whenever someone directed his or her opposing thoughts toward me…especially when it had to do with spirituality. I humbled myself and took a good look at this. I noticed when folks around me were adamant that I should believe the way they do that I felt a need to “prove my point”. Rather than allowing people their beliefs, I felt like they wanted to control me; be it with fear or an “or else” attitude about God. I was not allowing. I was in a state of resistance. But as I looked closer still, I had to face the fact that although I believed these people resisted my way of thinking that it was really me who was caught in a form of resistance to them. I needed to stand in the light of my own truth and allow others to think what they wanted to. I am no longer affected. The resistance is gone and I’ve stepped into surrender. Not to anyone’s opposing beliefs, but to the peace of my own.

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