If it feels icky, it’s sticky.

Saturday, December 13, 2025

If you’ve researched manifestation, the gurus talk about what keeps you from your desires – resistance. But what does resistance feel like? And is there anything wrong with it? Not really. It just feels icky. That’s all. If it feels icky, it’s sticky. If it’s sticky, you’re attached. If you’re attached, nothing flows. Plain and simple. If in doubt, pay attention to the icky feeling. Then, relax and release. Go on to something else.  

What does resistance feel like?
1. It feels like whatever you desire, you cannot live without it. Live without it until you feel no ickiness.
2. It feels like applied tension or force to something that cannot be moved, budged, or changed. Stop the icky force. Relax and allow.
3. It feels like demand and petulance when you seem to be “forced” to alter plans; scrap plans; adapt to new circumstances; or return to the drawing board. Go where you are sent, no arguing.
4. It feels like bitterness when you seem to be “forced” to pay bills; buy food; make repairs; or to give something away. Relax and release and smile when bills are paid in full.
5. It feels like foulness about made-up stories called “future” and “past.” Notice the foulness when thinking about the fantasy of yesterday and tomorrow. Return to now.
6. It’s an aversion to the inevitable – death and ephemerality. Accept death and the temporal nature.
7. It’s “stick-in-the-mud” living. It’s “my-way-or-the-highway” thinking. It’s “if mama-ain’t-happy-ain’t-nobody-happy” thinking. It’s a “stick-it-to-‘em” way of living.  

Resistance is victimization. Releasing, relaxing, and surrendering is victory. That means everyone is entitled to victory. Whatever you hold onto will be taken from you. It hurts less if your paws, your drawers, and your jaws are unclenched.

Relax, release, and allow. If you feel icky, you’re sticky. Simply loosen up, forget, and drop it. Then desires manifest into reality.  

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