Is Your Stress From Resisting Where Life Is Going?
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Is Your Stress From Resisting Where Life Is Going?

B1IntermediateAugust 28, 202610 min

This episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering explores how resisting what is happening in our lives intensifes stress, anxiety, fear, and emotional pain, and how acceptance can help quiet the mind and create space for what comes next. Through a deeply personal story of heartbreak, an unexpected injury, and receiving comfort at exactly the right moment, this episode reveals a powerful lesson: life may still be moving in our favor even when we cannot see it. Listeners will learn how to recognize when resistance is increasing their suffering, slow down during emotionally overwhelming moments, question...

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I've been thinking about the moments that I get stressed.

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Hello, my name is Alison Corman and welcome to my podcast, 10 Minutes to Less Suffering. And the name of today's podcast is Your Stress from Resisting Where Life is Going. And this has been on my mind the last couple of days. I've been thinking about the moments that I get stressed.

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And they always have to do with a resistance to what's happening. And we all know that sometimes we're facing something that's so painful, that's so hard to be with, that to ask ourselves not to resist is almost impossible. when we remember this idea or at least hold the notion of it. Even during

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difficult times I find that there's a shorter period for us to get to that place of letting go. There's a shorter period that we hold our stress because we understand that we don't always know what's best, we don't always know where things are going and sometimes life has this nature to it, this flow and sometimes even

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