My buddy Judith and I often talk about how what is most important to us, our art, is also our area of greatest resistance. It’s where our inner teenager comes out and says, "I don’t wanna!"

Judith is a writer who doesn’t write. Not unless she takes a class or joins a group where she has to show up and write. At the same time, writing is a great love of hers. Or, a great love-hate of hers.

But I know what she’s talking about. I claim music and singing are my great loves. But when it comes time to walk down to the practice room and sing, practice, work on music, a big whine of resistance wells up inside of me and my goth, spiky-haired inner teenager crosses her arms, slums back in her chair and says, "I don’t wanna!"

What IS that? That niblet of resistance that feels like an expansive abyss between "nothing is more important than" to "I don’t wanna?" It mystifies me.

I was reading Heather Vale’s post on Masters of the Secret blog today on Resonance. Heather waded through the different messages from supposed Law of Attraction gurus, including those from the media-darling, The Secret, about taking action. These Law of Attraction gurus all have something a little different to say about taking action in regards to attracting what you want, to making things happen.

Heather’s take was, if it feels good, do it. For example:

Heather states:

Should you set time-bound, specific goals and take calculated action steps towards those goals every day?

Well, does it feel good?  Does that get you jacked up, excited, driven to achievement?

Yes? Then do it.

No? Then don’t do it. Find a way to set your intentions and choose
your goals and aspirations that resonates with you; that feels good.

Should you take massive, focused action towards your desired outcome?

Does it feel good? Does it make you feel like one of the top 2% of
people in the world that are willing to do what other people won’t?

Good… then do it.  You’ll move mountains.

Does it frustrate you to start taking action when you haven’t received guidance towards what sort of action you should take?

Do you feel like you’re accomplishing more when you follow what Jack
Canfield and Joe Vitale call “inspired action” instead of random action
for the sake of taking action? Then listen to your inspiration and
follow what it tells you.

Sometimes inspired action can seem like it’s leading you on a wild
goose chase… does that confuse you and make you lose focus? Then don’t
wait for it.

Does it excite you and make you feel like you’re living a fun adventure?  Then follow it, no matter how ridiculous it seems.

Should you try to figure out “how” to do something once you set an
intention or goal? Or should you just focus on the “what” and the “why”
and leave the “how” to the Universe?

And she continues.

My argument, and my comment on this blog, is that sometimes taking action, even when it doesn’t feel good, even when it feels uninspired, can lead to feeling good and feeling inspired.

Once I get off my butt and go downstairs, do my vocalises and start singing, I feel so much better. I feel more inspired. And when my friend Judith signs up for that writing class and gets into writing, she feels better, too.

Sometimes, taking action in the face of resistance, is the way to resonance, rather than waiting to resonate and then take action.