Episode 435 - Why We Resist Change

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May 14, 2025

Change is often resisted, even when desired. The podcast explores the psychological and mythological reasons behind this resistance. Unconscious forces can create an internal struggle, where intentions clash with hidden oppositions. Understanding one's 'fatal flaw' can illuminate personal growth obstacles. The journey of the soul emphasizes discovering unique essence while overcoming forgetfulness of one's true potential. Resistance to change can ultimately lead to meaningful spiritual development, turning struggles into opportunities for transformation.

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Moon Symbolizes Change Cycles

The moon symbolizes change due to its constant phases, contrasting with the seemingly constant sun.
Lunar knowledge teaches us about trusting cycles of darkness and light in times of transformation.

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Unconscious Resistance to Change

Resistance to change often happens subconsciously, even when we are committed to changing.
This resistance acts like an internal struggle between wanting change and covertly fighting it.

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Fatal Flaw Undermines Transformation

Every soul has a unique purpose but also a fatal flaw that undermines it unconsciously.
This flaw inverts the soul's transformation and spiritual realization, causing resistance to meaningful change.

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Even when change is greatly desired, it is not easily accomplished. This episode of Living Myth considers the problem of resistance to change from psychological and mythological viewpoints. While we are facing radical changes that threaten both nature and culture, we are also challenged by the dilemma of human resistance to change at both personal and collective levels. The issue is not simply a lack of commitment to change. Rather, resistance arises precisely where we have the best intentions to change.

The problem becomes all the more difficult as we may not be aware of our resistance because it occurs at an unconscious level. Attempts to meaningfully change can feel like an internal struggle between opposing parts of ourselves; one part that overtly wants change and another part that covertly works against it.

What some psychologists call an internal “competing commitment” or a subconscious “immunity to change” was once known as the fatal flaw that leads us away from our soul's natural goal of transformation and spiritual realization. In terms of mythic imagination, each soul has an original intention waiting to be found and a life dream waiting to awaken. And each soul also has its fatal flaw, a kind of reverse attitude that works against that original intention.

Genuine transformation develops from the inside out. Thus, when change becomes essential, not just for ourselves, but also for life on earth, we are called to awaken to the true aims of our authentic selves as well as to the fatal flaws that work against meaningful change, both personally and collectively.

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