Resistance to Existence

What is Resistance to Existence? Existence is the way we live our lives—the totality of our human experience. Each moment is part of our existence, yet we often categorize these moments as either positive or negative. But what if we simply saw experiences for what they are—just experiences—without labeling or judging them?

How would life change if we stopped attaching thoughts and emotions to experiences, especially those that seem to threaten our sense of safety or control? Could we recognize that these experiences do not define our existence, nor do they necessarily endanger us?

The Three Vs: Value, Validation, and Vulnerability. Our perception of existence is deeply influenced by three core themes: Value, Validation, and Vulnerability. These themes govern how we interpret experiences and measure the quality of our lives.

Since we are ego-driven when it comes to these themes, we have a natural tendency to perceive any negative experience related to Value, Validation, or Vulnerability as a personal attack. However, in reality, these experiences are rarely ever truly personal. More often than not, they are reflections and deflections—projections by another person struggling with their own issues around these three core themes. Understanding this can free us from unnecessary emotional entanglement and allow us to navigate these experiences with greater awareness and compassion.

To determine our worth in these areas, we rely on our ego mind, which is constantly shaped by past experiences. The ego mind processes input received through our five traditional senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

You are not the shadow you perceive but the light creating the perceived shadow

Everything we perceive through these senses is filtered through the ego mind, translated into thoughts, which in turn generate feelings, emotions, and ultimately dictate our behaviors. This is the sequence that defines how we perceive and navigate existence:

Observation → Thought → Emotion → Action

Since the ego mind is programmed based on past experiences, we often react to life through a lens of past fears, believing history will repeat itself. This creates a cycle where our perception of existence is not based on present reality but on the echoes of past experiences.

The Mirror Analogy Consider looking into a mirror. What do you see? Most people would say, “I see myself.” But that’s not entirely true. What you see is a reflection—an image perceived through your eyes and interpreted by your ego mind as “you.” But is it really you?

Try looking into your own eyes in the mirror for one minute. Stay focused and look deep into your eyes.

After this minute, still staring at yourself, ask: ``What are you really here for in this existence? `` And see what happens.

Another little exercise:

Now, close your eyes. What do you see? Many would say, “Nothing.” But is that true?

If you pay attention, you might perceive something else: a sense of space—vast, open, and unlimited. Does this space feel cramped and claustrophobic? Or does it feel expansive and boundless?

Most people would agree that the space feels limitless. If it felt confined, we would not feel at ease closing our eyes to sleep or meditate. This realization suggests that our inner reality—our true awareness—exists beyond the limitations of our five traditional senses.

The Limits of Perception

With our eyes open, we are restricted by what is within our immediate scope of vision. Everything we see is instantly labeled, judged, and interpreted through our ego mind, which applies past experiences to our current reality. This process reinforces our conditioning, limiting our understanding of what is possible.

The phrase “Seeing is believing” may be common, but often, believing is also deceiving—because our beliefs are shaped by subjective interpretations rather than objective truth.

Shutting Down the Five Traditional Senses

Now, imagine that you instantly lose all five of your traditional senses—no sight, no hearing, no smell, no taste, no touch. Initially, this might seem terrifying. You might feel lost or unsafe.

But consider this:

When people lose one sense, their other senses often grow stronger to compensate. A blind person, for example, may develop enhanced hearing and heightened spatial awareness.

So, what would happen if we shut down all five traditional senses? What senses would emerge to compensate for the loss?

The answer lies in our five supernatural senses:

Intuition
Gut Feeling
Dreams
Inspiration
Heart Coherence

These senses, which we have been conditioned to suppress, would become our primary means of perception.

The Suppression of Supernatural Senses

Society emphasizes the dominance of our traditional senses, filling our minds with perceptions, judgments, beliefs, and assumptions rooted in past experiences. This conditioning causes us to trust a limited, past-conditioned mind instead of our infinite, creative, and intuitive potential.

When we rely solely on our five natural senses, we reinforce a self-limiting cycle:

Observations shaped by past experiences
Thought patterns based on those experiences
Emotional reactions to those thoughts
Behavior driven by those emotions
Repeating the cycle with each new experience

However, if we embraced our supernatural senses, we would develop clear knowing—a deeper, more authentic understanding of existence that is not bound by past fears or limitations.

The Cosmic Joke

The irony of our human experience is that we primarily trust our five natural senses, despite the fact that they feed an ego mind conditioned by past traumas. This keeps us locked in repetitive cycles of limitation, fear, and reaction.

Meanwhile, our true supernatural creative power—intuition, gut feeling, dreams, inspiration, and heart coherence—remains dormant because we have been taught to reject it.

But what if we flipped the script?

What if we lived from inner knowing instead of external perception?

What if existence—when freed from the distortions of our traditional senses—was actually the REAL KNOWING?

Embracing Relax-sistence

When we let go of resistance to existence, we step into a state of Relax-sistence—an effortless flow where life unfolds without force or struggle.

Instead of resisting experiences, we can learn to observe, trust, and create.

Instead of fearing existence, we can begin to insist on relaxing into it.