The process of realising this on a conscious level has started for me when I began practising Aikido. Aikido is a Japanese martial art, which encompasses in itself great deal of philosophy, which is manifested in physical terms – for example throwing an attacker on the ground.

In Aikido when someone attacks you, your purpose is to blend with the attack. Any resistance from your side leads to loss of energy as you are trying to counteract the movement of the attacker, but if you blend with the attack and just redirect it, you are preserving great amount of your physical energy. As I encountered this idea I started exploring it more with time and how it can apply to daily life where in general people will not be attacking you all the time, physically at least.

Do not resist your natural states just blend with them.



In life we change emotional states very often due to variety of reasons. I guess that you had a time where you needed to study for an exam or write a coursework and you felt sleepy in the afternoon, but you said to yourself I need to study at least 10 hours today in order to have a good grade or even pass. As result you were resisting the body need of sleep. From my experience when I did that I started feeling my concentration slipping away and found that a certain feeling of frustration was accumulating in me, which was slowing my thinking even blocking it and my efficiency dropped drastically. If I had followed the principle of non-resistance I would have taken a quick nap of 30 minutes or 1 hour, woke up naturally and I would have continued with my studying in high productivity state. Which one do you think is more productive – studying 5 hours with productivity 50% let’s say on average or studying 4 hours with productivity 80%.

Another example is when I feel fear or let’s say anxiety about something. A resistant way to deal with it would be to escape the feeling by thinking about something else. However here I would be wasting cognitive energy as the subconscious will be bringing the anxiety in my mind and I will be trying to supress it (fight it). Eventually what I realised, for me at least, is that it is very difficult for the anxiety to go away. Maybe only when the stimuli change, but it takes time and if the stimuli appear again in my life the anxiety will come again. A non-resistant way to deal with it is to accept the anxiety and follow where it is leading in order to discover the root cause. Once you do that then you can change your definitions or understanding about the stimuli on conscious level. With this approach you are not wasting cognitive energy and you are eliminating the anxiety faster.

Now imagine the endless applications of this principle in someone’s life. If applied, how much energy can be saved?

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