Resistance gets a bad rap. It can be a natural, healthy
part of the creative process, and serve generative purposes. As the the unknown of what is emerging meets and the desire to maintain the known status quo, a dynamic tension surfaces and resistance happens. It's not about avoiding resistance, but learning to move through it. This can serve, among other things, to strengthen what actually is emerging. It's part of the expansion and contraction that comes with any new birth.
For more on this and ways to move through it, see my article on Natural Resistance in the creative process ...and learning from nature's creativity:
http://creativeemergence.typepad.com/the_fertile_unknown/2006/05/natural_resista.html
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