Ignoring what any unwanted moment asks of us -- resisting, or summarily dismissing the "question" inherent in our awareness of its disturbance -- guarantees the following: these moments will return, and keep returning... that is, until we agree to realize -- and so release -- the unconscious parts of us responsible for their repeated appearance.

One reason why so many of us spend so much time in a negative space, expressing negative states is because... we start there! After all, most of us meet life -- for the most part -- unwillingly: resisting, rejecting, or even resenting any moment that doesn’t unfold according to “our plan.”

There will always be those times when, no matter what we try to do, we will not be able to change things. We may either resist these moments and remain fearful of their telling, or we can allow them to change us into someone who discovers there is never anything to fear.

In moments of challenge, the tendency is to immediately resist the situation because of the pain it seems to bring with it. But, the truth of the moment is very different from this habitual perception and mechanical reaction to it. No moment, in and of itself, is the cause of our pain. What punishes us is what we want (from it), and not what it seems to deny us. Which comes first? The dark s...

Only what is "guilty" resists or otherwise fears having its character accused of some shortcoming, and actively denies whatever it feels has judged it unjustly; but what is innocent cannot feel condemned. It fears no judgment anymore than a sunrise fears the grip of the darkness it has come to release.

What happens in the moment where life throws something at you, or nothing goes as you had planned? You know what happens. Instant negativity! Unhappiness over what is unwanted ruins the day. Why? Because now you're resisting the event, wanting nothing to do with it. And how many possibilities do you have in such moments when you resist life like this? None... except to grow more and more n...

Exercise: When you feel resistance against an unwanted moment, don't try to escape the state but work to explore it instead. Don't run from resistance by quitting on your interior watchfulness and taking the easy way through whatever solution your mind offers you outwardly.

Guy explains during a recent Online Study Group meeting why this work is predicated upon creating, by our efforts, the inescapable presence of second force. The more we are earnest in our work, the more willing we are to meet what we have to because we've seen there is no other way.

Topics covered: The moment that a reaction gets named you have been set up to have a painful moment, because that consciousness resists the very reaction that it has named; Revelation of resistance is the release from the captivity of that resistance; "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare; An object or a condition cannot exist...

The past sits in constant judgment of the Presence moment; first comparing, then imprisoning it to the inevitable corruption inherent in the constant replay of one's own memory: (this is) a completely unconscious nature... that not only already "knows" how things should be, but that summarily resists any challenges to its carefully crafted reality.

The true purpose of any troublesome "mountain" that seems to appear out of nowhere -- standing directly between us and what we want -- isn't to make us into better climbers, or even to somehow claim its summit; such barriers exist for a single reason: to help us see that no impassable "mountain" exists apart from the unconscious mind that creates it.

Once we learn to see the recurring dissatisfaction with our present sense of self as a kind of spiritual thirst, instead of an endless spiritual desert, the temporary dryness of our heart will be seen, and recognized for what it is in reality: the necessary renewing -- and deepening -- of our innermost need for the Water of Life.