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Originally Posted by mercuryrising  When you resist something, you increase its power. Consider two people pushing against each other. If one pushes more, the other must push with the same force in order to stay balanced. We go through this battle with ourselves all the time.
That's what self-acceptance is about. You quit resisting who you are. |
And let it knock me over? No thank you.
Your metaphor is backwards. Consider one person being stronger. He naturally pushes harder. The other person must push hard just to KEEP the balance. If the stronger one says, "you are pushing too hard so I'm going to push even harder," THEN your situation comes up, but ONLY after the stronger person tries to offset the balance. It is the person who pushes to offset the balance that is in the wrong. I only resist what would knock me over. I resist to KEEP the balance.
If a circumstance, a personality trait, or a person is TRYING to push me over and I do not fight it then I will fall over. I HAVE to keep fighting or I get run over. Is this so hard to understand?