Stop fighting when you do not agree. Does that sound paradoxic? Only because the reverse approach might well be what you have been adopting all your life, albeit unconsciously. Here is the real picture: When you are fighting with something that you do not wish for, you are resisting your own reality. So in a way, you are also inviting and accepting that negative "product" in your life because of your focus, energy, and more importantly your emotional reactions to it. Whether you are drawn to something or away from it, you still leave an imprint on your mind every time you become emotionally involved; until it reaches a point so profound that you are trapped in a dissatisfied loop with repeated encounters of the same scenario. If you can bear no judgement, you will see that it is all to do with your personal preference of like or dislike, desire and aversion. So the antidote is to let it flow like water and allow yourself to accept what is. As Lao Tzu reminds us, "Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefitting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closes to the way."
Like your heartbeat, it will happen even if you do not order your heart to do so. Have faith.
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