the enemy within -- it's quite popular!

Knowing how much I believe in the power of resistance and how it prevents our growth and success, a dear friend recommended the book The Enemy Within -- Conquering the Dark Side by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Claire Prophet.

So, as I often do, I went to Amazon and entered "The Enemy Within" as a book name to do a search on.

No kidding: the first page returned 1-12 books with that name, out of 29,949 results!!!

Good Lord, you don't need me to interpret the meaning of that, right?

It's pandemic: we all have dark sides within that torture us and hold us back. Have you ever stopped to look at how detrimental your own resistance is? Have you ever noticed how much energy you expend denying acknowledgement of that "dark side"???

In the work I do with clients, this is a univeral theme, with powerful results.

This is such a huge topic, I can really only briefly touch the surface in this tiny space provided by a blog. Here's the bottom line:

Stop resisting that enemy. Consider the wisdom on the threshhold of your mind. Notice what happens when you open yourself to heretofore considered "negative" emotions. Just pause a moment. Observe. And see what nuggets are there.

This is very powerful, if you'll allow yourself to see it.

For many of my clients, they resist success (yes, success), because they don't want to "make other people feel bad." Or they don't want to "appear cocky." Or they don't want to "be selfish." Just sit with those concepts for a little while. There's both wisdom and "ridiculousness" in that perspective.

For other clients, they resist feeling rejection or being hurt -- and they never take risks or "ask for the order." (Which, of course, means they never get the order either!)

Fascinating.

And Amazon evidently has some 29 thousand products that reference this topic. ...Lest you think I'm the only one encountering this...

So, what are you resisting???