Step into, or out of, the land of the Imagined Resistance. A scary place, believed to be real yet hidden in a fog of unknown fears.
Let us see what is in the Imagined Resistance.
Fear of something unknown? How can there be fear of the unknown when by definition I don’t know?
Is it fear of nothing?
Is it a garden-variety fear? Fear that is just floating, caught from a toilet seat, rubbed off from a doorknob type fear?
Is Imagined Resistance more important than a goal, a project, happiness, compassion, or fear of success?
Is it fear of being stupid and wrong or fear of embarrassment?
This is the un-slayable Dragon of Imagined Resistance.
This is the I can never win, never change, Never, Neverland of Captain Hook entrapping Peter Pan’s friends in a fear that does not exist.
It is an enduring my useless suffering fear!
For God’s sake USE your imagination!
It is Don Quixote waving at windmills, while Poncho is TOO BUSY to help his partner.
It’s the great obsessive-compulsive, bi-polar continuum of the 21st century.
The fear takes control and manifests as I tell my selves “I’m stuck.” Then I may feel a great release, the slingshot epiphany, of “I’m saved, it’s just my imagination, a negative mental attitude(NMA). I may mentally run the gamut of “I’m not perfect, I’m a sinner, it ain’t me-‘isms’ of excuses and fears, and finally releasing my Imagined Resistance and being present-NOW.
Here’s a recipe for concocting Imagined Resistance. You’ll need the following ingredients: a mishmash of beliefs about time, usually a lack of time and energy. Add some laziness. A large vat of ‘whatever’s’. Season with blame, excuses, and because. Lots of ‘I can’t.’ Add your favorite addictions, TV, drugs, alcohol, sex, sports, politics, and, or drama. Add more of our ever-present ego’s need to have to be right. Find a very large oven with a heavy door and climb in, like Hansel and Gretel, close your eyes, imagine the worst, then resist the cooking of your own creation. This is negative imagination, creator of Imagined Resistance.
One antidote to Imagined Resistance is to handle real resistance. Show up, step up, make the call, knock, ask, just do it! Tell your selves you can do it. It is most likely not gonna kill you. After all what is the worst that can happen? Say yes to life, to choices and risks, getting on with your real resistances.
Another antidote is not believing in resistance. If you must believe, and I love it when my attention is so FREE, I don’t need to create beliefs!
What about the belief in no resistance, only feedback, mere bumps on the freeways of life?
What about not believing everything that I think?
What about upgrading imagination, without the resistance, into a useful tool toward the goal.
I can imagine that everyone is on my side.
I can imagine I have the patience to participate and complete my goals.
I can imagine I have all the tools and skill I need to succeed.
I can imagine miracles, a great place to pay attention.
Visit The Checking Inn, get a room with a view, and see what’s outside your window, and For God’s sake USE your imagination, and trust your selves.