Whatever we try to go around in ourselves guarantees it will come around again, which is why the things we fear in life and about ourselves always tend to reappear. Here's the law that governs this relationship: whatever we resist in life persists as it does because whatever we oppose grows!

Much like the strings of a piano that vibrate when its keys are struck, the events that we experience in our lives produce within us a natural resonance that is a kind of music. And yet there is an unpleasant interior disharmony whenever we resist events. Resistance to events that we say we do not want prevents us from seeing reality as it is. Resistance to unwanted circumstances perpetuates t...

Topic: Use Resistance to Reveal and Resurrect Your True Self (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 8/5/26)

Topic: Transform Painful Resistance into Your Personal Spiritual Assistant (10/6/21 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2020 - Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as "dead." Yes, it feels like we're alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that moment came to reveal...

Topics covered: There is no moment that does not have meaning. Every moment has meaning. The pain that we have experienced in most moments has been due to not understanding the meaning of the moment; We cannot be in psychological pain without resistance, which points to something outside of you as being responsible for the pain. The pain cannot be separated from the resistance...

Student Talks: 9/11/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as “dead.” Yes, it feels like we’re alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that...

Topic: Escape the Prison Called "The Path of Least Resistance"(Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 7/8/26)

Topics covered: self-destructive, resistance, attention, daydream, negative state...

Topic: Turn Painful Resistance into Self-Realization and Be Set Free (Classroom Talk 3/30/22)

"Letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how, most of the time, we don't know what to do in unwanted moments other than resist those moments. Resistance to whatever pains us does not separate us, let alone liberate us from that pain. In truth it binds us to the unconscious nature that creates it. Become the witness to the consciousness instead of the captive of it.