Hello and in today's

the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode,

we're going to talk about working with resistance.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. D' So all of us to some capacity are familiar with resistance. It shows up for people differently, but the feeling is usually the same.

There's something we know we should do, an action we should take, a conversation we should have, but a feeling that comes up that gets

in the way of that, that we put in the category of resistance. For me it typically feels heavy or there's a lot of energy to it and in

my worst moments when I'm hardly aware of it at all, it just feels like a quick deflection and pushes me into something else.

Usually a zoning out kind of pattern or behavior, like scrolling through my phone or aimlessly checking emails.

So I would argue that this kind of resistance is probably the key thing that gets in the way of the life we're most looking to create

and the work and projects we're most looking to accomplish. If you think of all of these resistance moments that have

come up in your life and how often they push you into something else that's not constructive, it's just a form of avoidance.

Think about if you could just cut down on those by 10%, imagine 20%, the things you would have been able to accomplish and not just in the sense of like

accumulating accomplishments but the conversations you could have had the decisions that could have been made earlier rather than later, that might have shifted the course of things.

Now, I'm not one to get caught up in regret.

This moment is always the beginning of the rest of your life and too much focusing on

coulda woulda shoulda is just wasted mental energy.

But we can use that reflection to inspire us to work differently with resistance moving forward.

And the key thing to remember when working with resistance

is that it's always happening in a single moment.

And it's always an experience that is arising in the body.

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