RELEASING THE RESTRAINTS OF RESISTANCE

One of the most common avoidable forms of our experiential suffering and mental anguish is based in the dissonance between our own ideas, perceptions and preferences around how life and everyone around us should be, versus our experience of how things actually are.

Indeed, Adyashanti describes the construct we commonly refer to as the separate individual “ego” to be the very process of this resistance to the broader unfolding of “what is” beyond the scope of our singular viewpoint, while most Eastern spiritual traditions agree that identification with this construct and these preferences lays at the source of almost all our inner suffering.

In this video, Emma draws from one of the many much-loved teachings within Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad’s beautiful book “I May Be Wrong” to illustrate how we can alleviate so much of the unnecessary suffering from our incessant mental narrative and come to embrace, accept and surrender into the flow of what is – not in a passive way, but through one of profound mindful awareness that preserves much of this wasted energy for taking solution-oriented right action, rather than exhausting it on how we may feel wronged.