Feeling Resistance to Change? How to Listen to Your Body’s Hidden Clues.
Sometimes, trying to make progress feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill. When that happens, what do you do… push harder, give up, or pause to see what your body is trying to tell you? For example,
Maya had made the decision. She was finally launching her new business after years of dreaming about it. She invested in a branding coach, mapped out her offer, and scheduled her first announcement email.
But as launch day approached, she felt herself slowing down in ways she couldn’t explain.
Her neck seized up. She couldn’t sleep. Tasks she normally breezed through now felt impossible. The email draft sat untouched. The excitement she once felt dulled under a fog of procrastination and tightness in her chest.
“What’s wrong with me?” she wondered. “Why am I resisting the very thing I said I wanted?”
The truth is — her body wasn’t sabotaging her. It was trying to tell her something.