Let your body be your guide

Are there areas in your life where you’ve dug your heels in the sand? Where you’re either resisting doing something new, or resisting letting go of the old?

Resistance can be both a warning and an invitation:

• As a warning, it tells you that whatever you’re doing, contemplating, or observing is not in alignment with what your soul knows is right for you. Are you people-pleasing, compromising, or dimming your light?
• As an invitation, it asks you to explore what is stopping you from pursuing what your soul knows is right for you. Are there unconscious fears or self-limiting beliefs ready to be released?

“How am I supposed to know the difference?” I hear you ask.

The bad news is that there is no clear answer. The good news is that there is no clear answer. It’s through the sifting and the sorting of the trials and errors where we begin to learn what feels right for us.

The GREAT news is that our bodies keep the score!

For myself, I’ve learnt that resistance comes as a warning where I see signs of anger, resentment, and blame towards others. I feel that they’re “doing something to me.” I’m making my life their fault. Resistance as a warning also brings on more of a physical exhaustion as I exert my energy on everything that needs to be done to meet all those high expectations.

It comes as an invitation when I’m caught up in feelings of fear, self-doubt, regret, or shame.  The mental and emotional exhaustion, the ruminating and over-analysing, it tells me that I’m on a trajectory away from my highest self instead of towards it.

Either way, be it a warning or an invitation, it’s a gift. An opportunity to reevaluate my boundaries, beliefs, and relationships; my visions, my values, my purpose, and my passions.

Sometimes that means ushering in the new; sometimes it means letting go of the old. While it may not always be easy…change seldom is…it’s always worth it. Because I am worth it.