For me resistance has done its duty and sunk me into a depressed, piteous state of non-compliance to many suggested treatments. Or I may try the suggestion for a time (which could be a couple of days or years) then quit. Many get frustrated with me. Myself being the worst offender. I beat myself up continually, disabling any courage I might take sustenance from.

The fear I feel disempowers me. I don’t want to fight the demons and, hence, become a whimpering, whiney child. I complain, becoming a nagging mother and wife.

This is why I am reading Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles where he writes:

“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.

“Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That’s why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there’d be no Resistance.”

Maybe you would like to take a glance at Pressfield’s book, The War of Art (available from Amazon.ca or Amazon.com). It may surprise you what nuggets you may gleam from it.

—Nicole