Resistance

Questions

1. How did your parents’ acts of resistance shape you?

2. Has your resistance to change grown or eased as you’ve gotten older?

3. What change in your life do you wish you had not resisted?

4. Have you been following the path of least resistance for so long that you no longer notice??

5. Is it time to heed the warning that “What you resist, persists”?

6. What problematic emotion is hardest for you to resist? Jealousy? Pessimism? Spite? Judgmentalism? Wanting to be right? Wanting to always win? (What is one thing you might do to get better at that?)  

7. How has art shaped and inspired your political resistance?

8. Is life trying to lead you down a road you’ve long resisted?

9. Is it possible that the form of resistance you need to take right now is rest?

10. How good are you at resisting the tyranny of the to do list?

11. Is your resistance animated by breath or by anger and despair alone?

12. Are you resisting looking at a truth in your life right now?