The Lexicon
Shadow and obstacles
Resistance
Resistance is the inner no, the contraction of a self set against what already is. Tolle names it as the root of suffering: the mind's refusal to accept the present moment, the friction that turns mere pain into prolonged anguish. In Shinn's New Thought it is the clenched hand that cannot receive, and the teaching is one of nonresistance, the loosing of the grip so that good can flow. To resist what is, the traditions hold, is to fight the only ground on which transformation can stand.
The maps distinguish resistance from discernment. To yield is not to approve of every condition but to stop wasting force in opposition to the unchangeable, freeing that energy for aligned action. The contemplatives call this acceptance and allowing; the Taoist calls it the soft that overcomes the hard. What is surrendered is not the will but the war, and in that release the situation itself is often found to move.
In their words
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete.