@Sherice – It’s so true, as soon as we get ourselves into a space where we’re willing to take the first step, it seems to knock all the wind out of our resistance and the rest is a breeze.

@Kendra – glad I could help. I’m intimately familiar with that fog!

@Iain – great point! It’s hard to even think about changing our state when we’re barely in our bodies to begin with. I’ll put together a post on that one.

@Beth – and another great follow up post idea! Actually, I realized while driving yesterday that I would need to write another post to speak about how to actually do it. Stay tuned…

@Catherine – so sorry Catherine. I know it can be a real bummer to lose our last best excuse! = > I have every faith that your resistance is creative enough to come up with another one. (Wish we were all a little LESS creative that way!)

@Michael – isn’t it amazing how attached we can get to our “state”? It must be really frustrating to encounter that resistance in the people you really want to help. And I can relate to the “never the same river twice” idea around working on a creative project. I can get really attached to the state I was in during the first session and feel like I can’t continue the project without it.

I’ve tried 2 things to deal with that:
1) Spending time with what I created in the last session and breathing myself into a space as close as possible to that original one
2) Choosing consciously to bring this new state or energy to the already started project, knowing that the final product will be a combination of the energies I brought to each session.
See how that goes.

Now with my (electronic) musician hat on, I run into a constant barrage of the resistance. It’s almost impossible for me to run into the same mood twice, which makes it really hard to work on projects that require more than one sitting because I’m never standing in that same stream again.

However, what you say is true an I really should remember it in my own art: you can control more than just your reaction, you can control the emotion itself, and mind and body will respond accordingly.

Great post!
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How do you get around that ?
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I will try it. I find it easy to do the things I really want to do, those that I’m passionate about, like my blog. It’s doing my paid work I’m struggling with at the moment.

The method I had been using was doing one thing I don’t want to do followed by one that I did until I have my jobs done – think your idea may work better, especially as there are more thing I don’t want to do this week!

Thank you ;o)
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