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The primary issue of the Doing center is resistance (anger without a focal point). We can experience resistance toward internal factors, external factors, or both. Sometimes there’s a good reason to resist someone or something, but habitual or mechanical resistance cuts us off from the free flow of energy.
Whether we’re automatically resistant to certain thoughts or ideas, to experiencing or expressing certain feelings or physical sensations, or to behaving in certain ways, resistance limits and constricts us. It boxes us in to narrow ways of thinking, feeling, or acting.
Here are some questions you can use as journaling prompts to explore the issue of resistance.
- What thoughts do you resist?
- What beliefs do you resist considering?
- What ideas do you resist?
- What feelings do you resist?
- What memories do you resist recalling?
- What aspects or parts of your body do you resist?
- What do you resist doing?
- What do you resist changing?
- Who are the people you resist?
- What else do you resist?
Then choose something from your list and try to identify any underlying anger. What purpose does your resistance serve? What might it be like if you were to stop resisting that particular thing?
Since resistance is the primary issue for a third of the types, imagine how much impact it has on relationships and events in the wider world. Being aware of our own personal resistance is a small but necessary step toward lessening the overall resistance-at-large.
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