Creativity Tip: Embracing Resistance

What’s striking to me is the paradox inherent in “embracing resistance.”  

Since paradox is often a driving force behind creative innovation, this directive may simply be a practical underpinning to grease our creative skids.

Or, on the emotional level, since resistance appears unfriendly and implacable, while embrace radiates connection, we might ask ourselves…when we put our arms around that which is unfriendly, what’s likely to happen?

Could it be that resistance is some part of ourselves that we have dismissed or dissed…some part that is trying to get our attention by putting the brakes on a particular direction another part of us has decided to head?  

Or could it be that resistance holds a jewel in it’s closed fist that melts open when we embrace it, when we befriend the scowl with a kind, attentive heart.

And, more important, what new and unimagined creative horizons might we cross with resistance by our sides?

When you feel yourself resisting something, how do you deal with it?