Thanks for leaving this comment. After also getting your email, I think get where you’re coming from.

First off- I’m sad that what I wrote didn’t have the intended effect- I missed the mark with that one- I was intending to be light-hearted, and it didn’t work- and I’m glad you let me know.

I think the miscommunication came in with my mis-use of the word ‘psychobabble.’ It sounds like you understood me to be referring to the person’s own thoughts as ‘psychobabble.’

That’s not what I intended. What I meant by ‘psychobabble’ was mis-used and little-understood pop psychology terms that get tossed around, and that psychobabble can cause us to interpret our own feelings and reactions in a way that’s not helpful.

But, I see where it missed- thanks for bringing it to my intention. -oops- and yucko. My apologies to anyone else out there who read it that way.

I’ve been meaning to response to this article of yours — “There’s no such thing s ‘resistance’” — specifically this line:

*** Frustrating as all git-out, ain’t it? You’re just being resistant, and you’ve got your heels dug in because of some deep psychobabble problem from three lifetimes ago…***

For the most part I agree with your analysis — that “resistance” is really about some legitimate need other than what you think you need.

But I take exception to your condescending use of the word “psychobabble.”

First, it’s beneath you — at least the you I’ve been reading. It certainly isn’t a very heart-centered characterization of those for whom that word is meaningful.

And then you tag it with “three lifetimes ago” which is a petty slam. I wonder what need you have to write in such a hostile, and inaccurate
language.

You have no trouble invoking the “divine” — which some people might call “divinobabble” — and they would be equally as condescending.

Your point is about the not forcing through a felt “resistance” and searching out the legitimate need. But many people feel the confusion as resistance, in which case they need to be re-directed not mocked.

And I agree that they should not force but go deeper as the most effective way of getting through the “resistance.”

I’m surprised at how casually you overrode your spiritual teaching to be so casually dismissive of others.

Jim Sniechowski

I’m glad that hope has come back in for you. Enjoy!