Affirmations and Encountering Resistance

It can be a real challenge when you start working with affirmations. Suddenly you realize all the crazy, counter-productive thoughts you have running around your brain that tend to sabotage the things you are affirming.

So there you are, working on "I am financially prosperous and secure," and your brain is going, "I'll never have any money! WAAAH!" like a big old cry baby. You can have thousands in the bank and still find that strong resistance surfaces in your mind when you begin to work with an affirmation.

Or there you are, focusing on, "I am my ideal weight and I'm in perfect health," and about the time you finish this affirmation, you hear the voices of the Oreo cookies sitting downstairs, calling to you. "Come and eat me!" they sing to you seductively.

Resistance is a part of any affirmation work. You are going to encounter it, period. Just as athletes encounter resistance while they are training for a big event, trying to get their muscles into perfect shape, there is going to be some soreness, some need for ointment, and some crankiness as you push through to the next level. That's just a part of it all.

What you're really doing when you work with an affirmation is setting the intention that you are going to retrain your brain not just at the conscious level but at the subconscious level, too. And the subconscious mind is one unruly, lawless place. It's a zone of criminality, dark foreboding and collective, genetic fear.

The subconscious is the collective mind of humanity, with all its weirdness, flaws, and inadequacies. And it is an ancient and terrible beast. Within the subconscious lurks all of the survival concerns that we've carried forth since caveman times. We have an ancient genetic memory of pain, struggle, and fear, and all of that bubbles through the subconscious mind like a primordial stew.

But it is our destiny to heal the subconscious, to remind it that we aren't living in the Dark Ages anymore. We live in a global society now, and a lot of the subconscious mind's prime directives no longer serve us in this current world. The whole fight or flight reaction our ancestors felt when they encountered the unknown isn't working for us anymore.

Today's concerns over terrorism are stirring up ancient racial hatred that are stemming from a deeper, darker place, going back to humanity's past. In ancient times encountering members of a different tribe was a scary thing, because it meant competition for resources, potential violent conflicts, and it threatened the survival of your tribe. These fears are exaggerated within us.

So when an act of terrorism happens or someone of a different skin tone or religion does something unpleasant, the subconscious mind kicks in with its fear response and its tendency toward violent over-reaction.

The subconscious mind NEEDS to be healed, its primordial wounds needs to be transmuted. It's up to each of us to do our part in this species-wide proces.

When you begin working with affirmations, whatever you focus on is going to bring up resistance from the beast of the subconscious.

Don't let the beast scare you. Sure, he's hairy and has no manners and likes to roar and complain and act all fierce, but ultimately, if you are patient with him and take him firmly by the collar and give him lots of rubs under the chin and tell him he's a good beast, you love him and are going to help him, he'll stop getting in your way.

And then the things you are working to manifest through your affirmations will rapidly show up in your life.

When you encounter the beast of resistance, try not to be scared or freaked out. Give him a big hug, feed him a biscuit, and tell him that the two of you are in this together.

And together, focusing on the energies of healing and transformation, you can make it work.
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