"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
My favorite part (at the end): "Everyone experiences resistance on a weekly, if not daily basis; there's nothing wrong, inherently, with people who experience resistance. The people most successful on this planet with regard to creating the life they want to be living for: they are the people who are capable of facing their resistance and resolving it so all aspects of themselves are not split, but instead, are facing the same direction and moving toward what is genuinely wanted."
"We cannot resolve resistance if we are in resistance to the resistance. Therefore, you cannot approach any part of you that is in the state of resistance as if it is invalid, as if you don't like it, as if you want it to go away. It has to be seen as valid and important regardless of whether it is true or not."
I can understand your argument from the point of view that one should not blindly follow a spiritual leader or a teacher with no regard to their own soul and consciousness, and with this I agree. This is toxic behavior and, like Teal herself said, it is also self-denial. I have never met a teacher, or a human being, who was a 100% correct, because this cannot exist. Everyone has a perspective, and Teal is only human with a unique perspective. Sometimes, I find Teal to be 80% or 60% resonant with what I feel to be true and helpful to me, and at other times even 2%, and that goes the same with every other human being on Earth. We don't always agree with everyone. We don't even always agree with ourselves. And I could be wrong, but when I read arguments like the one you made here, I feel like these arguments are coming from a perspective that we, as humans, should follow a teacher 100% and if the teacher is not 100% true, original and angelic, which can't ever happen, then we should mistrust them.
Oh Teal now I realize that I have chosen resistance at a very very young age and I feel like I am living in resistence since then! Thanks to you I became aware of what is wrong with my life. Thank you so much!
Teal is such a great teacher and able to explain everything so clearly and using great examples. God Bless Teal for sharing her knowledge. Thank you Thank you.
@@geoiselin Yes. She did. You are the only one can deal with your own resistance, nobody can do it for you. To deal with resistance directly, you need to be very honest with your own thoughts and feelings on the issue that created the resistance (negative feelings). Once you identify the feeling (or thoughts) of resistance (negative feelings) on this issue, let the thoughts (feeling /reasons) go and release them to higher power, DON'T fight with the resistance thoughts (or feelings), just let go the feelings (or thoughts), like paddle down the river. Human don't do this naturally. This Letting go requires practice. Hope this helps. God Bless.
I love that throughout this video I was able to recognize my ego and my resistance simply to the video and how I wanted to apply it to other people instead of myself. Once I stopped doing that and recognize my ego and let it take a backseat. I was able to truly apply and utilize this beneficial message. Thank you Teal Swan for all that you do. Your messages are incredibly powerful and beneficial to this world. As well as myself. I love admire and appreciate you. ❤
I spoke with the resistant part of me today and was able to see it for the first time, even though I've watched this video before and thought I was being present with it. Both met our needs and it did require me changing my original goal a bit to accommodate, but SO happy right now ♥️
I wish you had added more info about *how* to go about dealing with this resistance! But thank you of course for the video, maybe you could do one on how to deal with the resistance? :)
Parts work and the completion process ♥️♥️♥️♥️ also belief work. There are so many shadow work processes and she has many videos on them! Look up Teal's swan + shadow work, beliefs, parts work, healing the emotional body
Me, too! I know it's all "individual" situations, so of course can't give specifics for dealing with each person's life, but surely a simple tool exists to at least help you find the resistance, which is step one... I imagine that meditation(?) helps you to arrive at your own place of resistance... somehow...(?) and I also know that it isn't fast or easy, especially when you physically & spiritually feel awful. It's slogging through the thick mud of your life in agony, trying to find the one air pocket that leads to a door... while also cooking a casserole and vacuuming the living room. Nevertheless, I am very grateful for every help I get 💝.
I found 3 of Teal's videos that give specific helpful processes to find & deal with your own resistance. I invite you to visit my channel's playlist entitled "Inspiration for Lightworks." I've saved them on there. Be blessed, everyone 🌻✌️🙂
This is so disgustingly accurate. I have found that resistance is possibly the most difficult conversation to have with people and with ourselves. Sending much love to you Teal. Admire you greatly.
My husband is helping me with this resistance thing. He says, resistance is mostly originated during childhood. Most people don't change because on one or more fields, they stopped evolving and growing from a certain age, not maturing on those matters so they keep resisting. Go back to certain things in your past and see how it made you the way you are now. Be open minded about it and check out if you now still feel the same about it, or does that feeling and emotion not fit and serve you anymore. Does it align with your beliefs you now have and is it of any use to who and where you want to be now. If it is not of any use for you, think of what it is that is going to be beneficial to you and change it into that feeling. Your resistance will disappear. The child that got stuck will then grow up and evolve. The beauty of it is, that you have the freedom to choose the new emotion you want to put to it. Makes the coping easier.
You are sooo right, it is the child that is resisting, rewinding the timeframe; important to know that. I tell my child within to go sit in the other room. I can then be rational, you have to live the problem and see that it no longer fits your current environment, etc. you are no longer that child. Yes it takes work.....this is in my particular case of course. ❤️
It's not that it's hard so much as it's possible to feel compulsions to do things that are resistance to what one suspects one wants unwittingly@@gracejaklik2617 . Because, sans facts, it is easy to wonder would this be the stupidest thing to ever want? Yet something, a feeling, makes you want it nonetheless. I too will try putting my inner child in a time out. Maybe I will get a different result.
This was a great insight, thank you. Would you be able to expand on it, possibly with a specific process to face our resistance? The solution feels a bit vague. I’m resistant in almost every area of life!
Vanessa Spielman I totally agree! That would be super helpful! For myself, I ask myself why I’m feeling this resistance and sometimes I write a little about it and answers can come up.
The work of byron katie, the completion process, Abraham Hicks processes for questioning the validity of beliefs, how to find a core beliefs by teal swan, disidentification by teal swan, meditation specifically mindfulness, parts work/ voice dialogue therapy, somatic therapy, emdr, eft tapping (specifically for anxiety tho the completion process is a more long term solution). Those are my favorite processes and they have changed my life. Use whichever one your resistance needs the most to feel validated and seen.
I think Teal wants us to think for ourselves so that we'd get the stuff better, instead of having everything spoonfed to us. You dont have to think of everything by yourself, but doing some psychological gymnastics can be very benefical to your growth.
Stick with Teal. For every few videos you don't think apply to you, one comes along and swats you over the head at precisely the right time. It's like you, your situation, and the right Teal video all intersect... Wham ! Thank you, Teal !!
I can only apologise at the moment for my disturbing you with my energy related problems... One day I will have learned to control my life. I'm on the right path. I'm housed and 20 days sober. I hope you know your a inspirational person to me, I try to listen to every one of your words with a open mind. I lost that you know mental health has physical repercussions. So incredibly helpful. Thank you ❤️
Great timing for this video as so many other times before! I have been going through the stages of going through resistance to resistance, then going through resistance and then finally going through the things i was resisting. Each time the resistance and the resistance to resistance had a valid reason. This video only confirms my experience. It's also absolutely vital to acknowledge that all outside conflicts and resistance are a reflection of inner conflict and resistance that we are unaware of and often suppressing. Teal stressed it in the video and it is soooo important because let's face it, the resistance we are aware of is not really the biggest trouble, it's the one we are unaware of that keeps slapping us across our faces
TY for shining a much needed spotlight on the why. Now to find the blockage. Fear blinds & distracts me from ALL. Fear=absolute negativity=0%=no. YES=100%=I AM=ACCEPTANCE switch to the position of ON 100%
It truly is amazing how source works when you attune your focus and connect with it! I literally was reading a chapter from the book “the untethered soul” and it was all about letting go and the depths of pain and suffering we spiral into when we don’t immediately let go and surrender. This was perfect for me today I got the ability to witness my resistance to my resistance which I’ve never even thought to pay attention to and it immediately lifted the anxiety and depression that started to creep in! Thank you teal!!!! I am eternally grateful for your courage to share the truth that you know so well with all who are also seeking! This work is not easy and I’m so grateful to have such a wise teacher to guide me through the muddy waters.
trying to resolve resistance is also expression of resistance. healing happens through compassionate, loving integration of resistance, not resolving, damn it, did you not listen?
Sebastian Sebastian, you seem angry at her. If you do not accept who you truly are with your imperfections you will not be able to love yourself, and thus love others. Watch Teal's video How to overcome shame.
Plenty more on her channel. Ive been watching videos from many youtubers and not many break things down in depth and dive as deep as Teal. Ive been lost honestly the past few months and these videos just brought so many epiphanies. Beyond blessed for her wisdom.
acceptance can end resistance. Accepting that I am resisting, then starting to understand the root paradigm of the resistance, and then dismantling the underlying paradigm causing the resistance, and then I am free of the paradigm and free of the resistance. I am free to move in a new direction.
Teal. I want to thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart for all of your inspiring videos that really helped me recognize what resistance was and how much that information changed my life completely. You made me trust myself again and you helped me break the "Curse" that I had placed on myself for many years. If it wasn't for you, I would have given up. So for that I give gratitude to you. Thank you so much. Much love from Oceanside California, Eric Ramirez. P.s. I hope to one day meet you and converse about everything. :)
You save my sanity every time I’m struggling I’m involved in something that all I do is work at and it’s so obvious it is not something that wants to work with me I keep allowing myself to look like a fool for someone I know really does not want me 100% - I’m not going to lie to myself anymore lying is my resistance
When I talk to myself as well as other people about what their life streams are and they come up with excuses as to why they're not following their dreams I'll look at them square in the eye and say to them what is really stopping you. As for myself to be happy right in the moment is the best thing I've ever done to myself no matter what my situation is. I keep trying to motivate myself to live in the now and not in the tomorrow. Anxiety is one of my greatest enemies
Mindblown 🤯 That explains why I'm not manifesting things into my life. That's true I look for sources to add to what I do consciously want. I haven't thought about addressing my limiting beliefs or the dating energy of negative emotions that are telling me something. I suppress it instead of diving into it and exploring it. Wow. Thanks!
Wow Teal -you really nailed this one, thank you so so much. I am a sailor, so I can really relate to the picture of having the anchor down. I always enjoy your videos
I never have felt resistance (at least not on the level I feel now). I needed this video, it is helping me to understand and resolve what is going on within me.
So true that is also what Adyashanti said "Don't be in resistance towards the resistance". The psychological defense mechanism aka Ego is very smart in it's resistance towards everything that brings the consciousness towards truth. In meditation you sit with whatever there is including any shoulder tension or resistance and actually lean into it as Pema Choedron said. But the leaning into the now moment can not be at all forced. It requires a complete catharsis and letting go. Example from my own life: When I realize that I will not find a gallerist for my art work then I really let go of that whole idea of finding a gallerist. I will paint until my house flows over with my art work and until I die and that is the movement of non resistance when I say that to myself. I live for my art and my art is there for me. Nobody owes me Anything is one of the things I say to myself and really mean it. Then in that moment I am letting go of any idea or fixation. It really is a meditation practice for every day.
Completely agree, And once I surrendered resistance to one or two meditations, it really helped, a good example of being resistant to truth. Awareness if all the obstructions to the stream. There's also a resistance to uncertainty in terms of people's actions. The most common element of resistance is falling back on habits, for example, because they're familiar. But then that's a part of getting nowhere in knowing any resistance in any needs we need to meet.
3:20 I haven't watched your video on fragmentation yet, but what you're saying here reminded me about something I'd read in regards to the sephira Netzach: "A thread of energy is randomly cycled around an arbitrary list of needs and wants to produce the mixed-up complexity of the average person. Each activity is quickly replaced by another as the person attempts to reconcile all his wants and drives. Unfortunately there is no requirement that wants should be internally consistent or complementary; some wants can be in direct opposition, such as the desire to smoke and the desire to give up smoking. Each want can be treated as a distinct mode of consciousness - I can eat a slap-up meal one day and thoroughly enjoy it, while the next day I can look in the mirror and swear never to touch another pizza again. It is as if two separate beings inhabited my body, the one who loves pizzas and the one who wants to be thin, and each makes plans independently of the other. Only the magical glitter dust of unbroken memory sustains the illusion that I am a single person. When I view my own wants and actions dispassionately I can conclude that there is a host or army of independent beings jostling inside me, a crowd of artificial elementals individually ensouled with enough of my energy to bring one particular desire to fruition..." - A Depth of Beginning by Colin Low
I am openly working on speaking my truth and being open to being wrong as well but I decided that it's OKAY!. I realized recently that I have everything that I want. EVERYTHING I desired as a child is here now! The human brain is a tricky tricky place. I care about lots of things and I don't care about lots of things and I am just so happy to here right now. ❤️ I did a lot of nitty gritty uncomfortable work to get here. I'm so grateful. I am so happy. I love the experience of learning how to clearly and properly communicate. I'm obsessed with how I feel even watching people leave my life who I have never thought would be gone. I am so blessed to know I am not betraying myself and putting in the work. To be 26 and knowingly learning things some people never learn or only realize "past their prime.." is so surreal and profound. My resistance was the understanding my beliefs to be the truth. Now I am learning that I know nothing and I can only change myself. Nothing else. And that in itself is alright, at least I think so!
Yes you have a point. For instance, somebody might want good health, but there might be an aspect of them that doesn’t want the responsibility that goes along with a healthy mind and body. It might sound strange but there are people like that.
It's so funny that watching this video got me confused, because I couldn't find where the resistance was coming from. I was going to do a meditation so I could ask my spirit guides for an answer as to what the resistance was, but even before the video ended, it came to me in a flash. Thank you, Teal. I shall deal with the resistance the way you instructed.
This is absolutely wonderful. However I feel like it's all very theoretical and I need either more concrete examples or exercises to really put all this into practice. Very powerful video. Thank you Teal. Much love to you
Its basically Law of Attraction - Esther Hicks has been saying this for about 40 years now, using the same metaphor of oars and streams. There is LOTS of content on this online - go to the 'Animated Abraham' channel.
I know my thoughts are aligned when synchronicity is within moments! I had a realization this morning of what is been blocking me so much of my life and I had written about it in my journal even though I didn’t really want to write in my journal. By writing in the journal the answer came and then I saw this video! My revelation was from a memory I had upon waking this morning and then I decided to write about it a little bit. My memory was of an incident that caused me great shame and embarrassment and my realization was that these automatic emotions of shame and embarrassment kept me from seeing the truth, kept me from voicing it and kept me from acting upon it. Amazing that this video was posted this morning and I saw it right after I wrote about my revelation!! Thank you Teal! I may post it on your Facebook page to share with others who may have gone through some of the same things.
resistance is a powerful state of being. even if it's a negative one, release all worry and concern the fly! even for one minute can be so liberating and have amazing benefits
Teal, I've been following you for 4 years, and your mastering of various topics has increased, it shows. However, you speak so fast now, and you give so much theory that I get lost. I am trying to make the connections, but you no longer give as many examples as before. I compared this video with the one on hidden positive intentions, which deals with a similar topic. In that video, you gave so many powerful examples, so it makes it much easier to understand because we can relate emotionally with our own personal experience. And you were speaking a little slower. As I was working on resistance and acceptance today, I browsed and decided to listen to your videos dealing with the subject, and I found that the older one helped me better. Also, you clearly have a trend of giving more and more stuff nowadays, in the same short period of time. Am I the only one feeling that? Just a comment, from a guy who admires you work, which has changed my life in my ways. Forever grateful Teal
Thank you :') You helped me discover what my resistance is towards money with a video of a workshop you did, a man had a very similar belief system to mine... Im an anarchist. And I discovered by opposing the "upper crust" or 1% SO hard, I was creating a split within myself. I was creating resistance within myself by making them the enemy instead of acknowledging and accepting their humanity. I dont understand what my resistance is to moving out of my grandparent's house. Why I feel so stuck here. But, this video was very encouraging.
The anchor analogy helped me get it a lot. And now I see some of my energy is stuck and the rest is trying to make up for the anchor. Exhausting! Gonna go into depth within myself today. Felt stuck for five years like the two people canoeing opposite ways 💜💫🖤
Ahh wow the feeling is so much fuller with a real background! Maybe because you’re in nature but my whole body is responding and listening when you’re in this setting
I felt like i was the only one facing resistance and being internally torn in the whole world, watching this video made me realize like i am not an anomaly and to have hope
For me and many other this completely went over our heads ... And I also think many here only think they understood it and will be heading into really dangerous territory when they try act out what they got from it. (been there, done that myself). I have watched lot of Teals videos and some of them up to 3 times and this one I am just totally lost on.
I want to thank you for helping me heal much more effectively. I went to therapy for 1 year. 4 weeks of your videos helped more. My therapist is Also impressed!
Wow, you really try to help people...A LOT. I've seen your videos suggested but actually heard your name mentioned in a channeling the other day and decided it's time to check you out. Very glad I did. Lots of good stuff here. Thank you.
Rude awakening - I had a full on karmic review this morning - self imposed resistance. After a whole day of reflection and expounding the unpacked revelatiion to my kindred , I got to say, I am still learning and life here on earth is a remarkable journey. Worth taking notes. Gratitude always ahead of happiness.
Great lesson from Teal once again. I'm so grateful to watch this video. We all need practice to remove that resistance in order to achieve our dreams. Thank you Teal. 🙏🙏🙏
