If you have the audacity to dream a new dream for your life (or the collective), you are going to face resistance.
If you can no longer ignore the ache of “not this” and, as a result, take steps to change your circumstances or your trajectory, you are going to face resistance.
If you claim something bigger for yourself, you are going to face resistance.
If you “opt out” of the cultural narratives, you are going to face resistance.
If you choose to break the generational cycles you inherited from your family or culture, you are going to face resistance
Other people are going to misperceive or misunderstand you.
Other people may assign all sorts of mal intent to you.
Often the fiercest resistance will come from the people who are the closest to you. Who have a stake (conscious or unconscious) in things remaining as they are now.
And if your nervous system believes it is not safe to change (which it does by default), then wrestling your own insides may be the thing that exhausts you the most. And the reason you never claim what could be yours.
You may be wondering …
Can you trust your voice?
Can you trust your vision (especially when it seems out of sync with everyone around you or outside the bounds of what is rational and logical)?
How do you know that the voice that is whispering to you is even yours?
What if you are kidding yourself?
What will you do when the obstacles seem insurmountable?
How will you stay purposeful and focused when the noise (internal and/or external) is really, really loud?
Will you stay the course when the thresholds feel like red flags (instead of invitations to develop the skills and capacities you will need to bring your vision to life more fully)?
Can you really step outside of what feels safe (the devil you know) and dare to claim something new?
You are going to face resistance. I will not promise you otherwise.
But I will promise you that you can expand your capacity to hold vision and navigate resistance from a place of grounded, integrated wholeness. And that if you do not build this capacity, your vision will be short-lived.
Not because your vision was wrong. But because your body will call you back to perceived safety. Whether you want it to or not.
Love,
Booth