Sunday, February 21, 2010

Acceptance vs. resistance

There's time when we need to let something go.

Acceptance means make an agreement to take something offered.

Resistance instead means opposing or using force against.

If you could imagine that you've taken acceptance in one hand and resistance in other hand,what would you feel,which hand do you feel is much heavier and needs much more energy to stay in balance?

As the meanings say,when we accept something we may feel lightness and when we resist we are forcing something not to happen it means we feel burden.

Our belief system should be reconsidered so that we can manage our feelings in a better way.
What belief make you resist something?What's your perspective around it?
How can you re frame that perspective?
When we resist, mostly we are judging and according to our judgments we will try to control something,so can't let go of anything.
On the other hand when we accept we are not in a position of judging and new opportunities will come to us.
What do you think?

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The crossroads of life

What do you do if you face a crossroad in your life?
A difficult point of making decisions,recently I've been in that point several times,wandering what to do next?
It might be easy to deal with those situations if there's nothing to do with your feelings,even if you are the one who has decided to bring those feelings in her heart,still it's hard to manage those difficult times.
What could probably help you figure all those hard times out is mostly trust.
Trust to what has happened is perfect for you and there's something you should learn from it.Letting go of any doubt and negative thoughts coming to your mind and moving forward will be absolutely the best action you should do in those hard times.
I discussed detaching from the outcome with one of my sweet clients and we reached the point of being in the present and not judging anything is the best way of acceptance and enjoying the process regardless of what outcome will be.
So,in those crossroads of your life what will you do?
What could help you or your clients who are in such situations?
The question that I often ask is what are you judging at that hard time?
and to help them make a decision and move forward ask them about the opportunities each way can bring to their lives?
and then what opportunity brings more joy to your life?
What question would you ask?
What tools would you use supporting the client who is facing a crossroad?