SubscribeIf you are feeling the need for community, why not start a group in your area with people of similar interests.
Human beings, by their very nature, love to gather. Yet as much as we crave community, the rigors of real life frequently interfere with our efforts to come together with likeminded individuals. For this reason, [...]
Month: May, 2010
Fellowship with a Purpose-Starting a Group-Thoughts
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Supply Chain News: Manufacturing Sector Looks Bright across the Globe, but can Everyone Bank on Exports? Technology Spending Up 22% so far in 2010
An Outbreak of Positive PMIs; China Experiences Trade Deficit for First Time in Six Years – even as Exports Grow 22%
Although a bit uneven, the manufacturing sector appears to be recovering nicely across the globe, fueling hopes for a lasting and maybe even rapid economic recovery from this point on.
On the increasingly bullish environment, manufacturers [...]
Resistance Equals Persistence
Resistance Equals Persistence
The Wisdom Of Surrender
We can’t get rid of something we don’t want by pushing it away. The more we push away, the more we get pushed back.
We all know the feeling of being repeatedly haunted by the same issue, no matter how we try to ignore it, avoid it, or run away from it. Sometimes it seems that we can get rid of something we don’t want by simply pushing it away. Most of the time, the more we push away, the more we get pushed back. There are laws of physics and metaphysics that explain this phenomenon, which is often summed up in this pithy phrase: That which you resist persists.
Resistance tends to strengthen the energies it attempts to oppose by giving them power and energy to work against. Additionally, resistance keeps us from learning more about what we resist. In order to fully understand something, we must open to it enough to receive its energy; otherwise, we remain ignorant of its lessons. There is a Tibetan story of a monk who retreats to meditate in a cave only to be plagued by demons. He tries everything—chasing, fighting, hiding—to get the demons out of his cave, but the thing that finally works is surrender. He simply lets them have their way with him and only then do they disappear.
Now, this wisdom must be applied practically. We are not meant to get ourselves physically injured. Instead, this story speaks of how, in essence, our demons are inside of us. What plagues and pursues us on an inner level has a way of manifesting itself in our environment in the form of people, events, and issues that appear to be beyond our control. But all these external expressions are reflections of our insides, and it is inside ourselves that we can safely experiment with surrendering to what we fear and dislike. It may feel scary, and we may find ourselves in the company of a lot of resistance as we begin the process of opening to what we fear. But the more we learn to surrender, and the more the demons that plague us disappear in the process, the more courageous we will become.
Ramesh C. Manghirmalani
L’Entrepreneur En Residence at The Global Foundation
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