Resistance — The Art of Letting Go

Bashar offers a deep exploration of resistance — the energetic mechanism by which we inadvertently amplify what we push against — and provides practical instruction on identifying and releasing resistance to allow flow.

There is a fundamental principle that most of your spiritual traditions point toward but that bears being stated as plainly as possible: what you resist, persists. What you push against, you give energy to. What you focus on — even in the mode of trying to eliminate it — you amplify in your experience. This is not a spiritual platitude. It is a description of how the physics of consciousness actually works.

Your reality is a reflection of your state of consciousness. Whatever you are holding in consciousness — as focus, as belief, as emotional charge — the field of probability organizes itself to mirror back to you. When you resist something, you are holding it in your consciousness with intense focus and emotional charge. The field does not distinguish between 'I want this' and 'I definitely do not want this.' It registers the intensity of the focus and the charge, and reflects accordingly.

This is why fighting disease often creates more disease, why fighting poverty consciousness often creates more scarcity, why declaring war on addiction, war on drugs, war on terror — creates more of what is being warred against. The war mind is a focusing device. It focuses on what it opposes. And what consciousness focuses on, physical reality tends to amplify.

So how do you release resistance? Not by suppression — that simply drives the charge underground where it continues to operate. And not by forced acceptance — the mind cannot simply decide to stop caring about what it cares about. The process is more subtle.

First: acknowledge the resistance honestly. Notice that it is there. Do not pretend it is not there. The resistance is real, and it is giving you important information about a belief or a wound that needs attention.

Second: trace the resistance to its root belief. Behind every resistance is a fear. Behind every fear is a belief that something bad will happen, that you are not safe, that you are not enough, that the universe is not friendly. Find the belief. Examine it. Is it actually true?

Third: consciously shift your focus from what you are resisting to what you want to experience instead. Not by force, but by gentle, persistent redirection. Water does not fight the rock — it flows around it and over time, the rock yields.