It’s Not Resistance — It’s Honesty

In spiritual circles, there's often a quiet pressure— sometimes loud—to treat every difficult emotion or moment of overwhelm as “resistance.” The story goes: if you feel like life is too much, then you're somehow not accepting what is. You're identified. You're not awake enough. You're in duality.

But what if that's not true?

What if that ache in your chest, that longing for a break, that exhaustion that runs bone-deep—what if that's not resistance at all? What if it’s just honesty?

Sometimes, the most authentic thing we can feel is: this is too much.

Not to push it away. Not to wallow in it either. Just to acknowledge the weight of this moment, this phase, this human life. Maybe that is what allowing means—not some blissed-out detachment from pain, but letting the rawness live and breathe without being judged or spiritually diagnosed.

And here’s something deeper:

Trying to escape the feeling that it’s too much—that’s often where the resistance lives.

Trying to “accept” too quickly.

Trying to be okay before you’re okay.

Trying to be a better version of a spiritual person.

That’s resistance.

But letting yourself feel it?

Sitting with the part of you that whispers, “I can’t keep going like this…”

Letting even that voice belong in the space of awareness…

That’s freedom.

True non-duality includes everything. Even the feeling of being separate. Even the ache. Even the prayer for relief. There's no need to cut out parts of your experience to make it more “spiritual.” It’s all already here. It’s all already allowed.

So if you’re tired, if you’re overwhelmed, if life feels like it’s asking too much—maybe that’s not a problem to fix or a resistance to dissolve.

Maybe it’s just the next layer of truth being seen.

And that’s enough.