{"id":44677,"date":"2023-04-29T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44677"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:21:37","slug":"resistance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44677","title":{"rendered":"Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-44678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Never_Change_By_Fighting-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Never Change By Fighting\" width=\"1123\" height=\"1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Never_Change_By_Fighting-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Never_Change_By_Fighting-768x817.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Never_Change_By_Fighting.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I listened to a fascinating lecture on resisting. What I got from it is that when you resist something you put up a barrier (spiritual, mental, energy or mass) between you and that which you are resisting.<\/p>\n<p>That which you are resisting flows particles at you. Those particles hit the barrier you have created. Particles building up on one side of the barrier create a vacuum on the opposite side of the barrier.<\/p>\n<p>When you resist and fail you get sucked into the vacuum and become that which you were resisting.<\/p>\n<p>That is one mechanism of how people &#8220;flip&#8221; from good to bad. They become that which they fought.<\/p>\n<p>So the key is to not resist that which you do not want but to flow energy towards that which you DO want.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the most aware people will always conclude a presentation by giving you things you CAN do towards creating a more desirable future outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Buckminster Fuller summarised it so well when he said: &#8220;You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I listened to a fascinating lecture on resisting. What I got from it is that when you resist something you put up a barrier (spiritual, mental, energy or mass) between you and that which you are resisting. That which you are resisting flows particles at you. Those particles hit the barrier you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resistance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44679,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions\/44679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}