America’s New Breed of Freedom Fighters: Law of Attraction Guide for Democrats, 3rd edition by Evelyn Roberts Brooks - HTML preview

2. WHY RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

"What you resist persists."

Carl Jung

When we push back at something unwanted and try our very best to make it go away, it's as if we unwittingly waved a wand and gave the command: "Multiply!"

Whatever we resist gets stronger. It flourishes like a weed.

Don't believe me? Take a look at the war on terrorism, the war on cancer, the war on teen pregnancy, the war on drugs.

Everywhere we put our attention, the focus of our attention grows and expands, whether we consciously want it to or not.

Our evolving understanding of the mental laws means we can stop resisting and start putting our attention and our intention on the issues that are of importance to progressive thinkers and caring people who want a better world for all.

"However, the man who is centered and established

in right thinking, the man who sends out only good will

to his fellow-man, and who is without fear, cannot be touched

or influenced by the negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good thoughts,

as he himself sends forth only good thoughts.

Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a 'state of torment.'"

Florence Scovel Shinn

We can feel compassion that others are misguided, that they are unaware and are still in the victimhood stage of un-awakened humanity. But compassion does NOT mean that we just go along with their program to placate their tempers.

There's a better way than resistance. We can be a new type of Freedom Fighter and attract the results we want. A better label would be "Freedom Attractor" but I felt that since we are in transition out of fear-based thinking habits that are as old as the human race, "fighter" would be more readily understood, and allows us to contrast the techniques we'll be using against the historic methods resistance fighters have used in the past.