You Get What You Resist - Roundtable

This Roundtable examines the podcast 'You Get What You Resist'. A short summary of the podcast covers how resisting things often makes them worse. We tend to get fixated on things that we are trying to resist. Practical examples include the experience of pain, stuttering, panic attacks, tinnitus, jealousy and getting the 'yips' in golf. General solutions are acceptance and shifting attention to things more salutary. Topics explored in the Roundtable include: parenting and how our resistance to our children primarily upsets ourselves, and how an attitude of playfulness or experimentation can help; tinnitus and pain and how mindfulness works to help via the power of the mind, as also evidenced in the placebo effect, and can radically change our life experience; the way we resist each other in relationship and how our own resistance causes resistance in others. This was followed by a discussion about how the species, thankfully, has ways of transcending such disagreements and allows us to soften, accept and change.