The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine December, 2016 | Page 6

?It t akes as long as it t akes you t o r elease t he RESISTANCE. Could be
30 year s, could be 40 year s, could be 50 year s, could be a week .
Could be t omor r ow af t er noon.? ~Abr aham-Hick s
` A recent

phone call with a potential client still
frustrates me, and not because of her reluctance to
commit to the help she sought by calling me, but
because her resistance reached out to me as she told
me her story. A victim of sexual abuse as a child, she
packed on the pounds to protect herself from
?attracting? that kind of attention as she matured
into adulthood. After years of therapy, dieting, and
training programs that produced the yo-yo results
we are all familiar with, she opted for bariatric
surgery to control her intake of calories. When she
contacted me, she called out of apparent desperation
for my experience in giving my clients the confidence
they need to continue their commitment to
themselves.
After the exchange of emails and phones calls
explaining our one-on-one coaching process and the

guarantee of my support through a successful
outcome; she continued to provide reasons she could
not commit to the body knowledge system. As I met
her every objection with a solution, she indicated she
would get back to me with her commitment in a
week. A week later, she called with another
reservation, another excuse, another reason to resist
the help she had sought when she first contacted me
as a reference from her close friend, one of my
successful clients.
What disturbs me is not her reluctance to commit to a
coaching program, but the paradox of her seeking me
out to help her, and then when help is offered, her
resistance to accepting it.
There are many roads to a goal: each path presents
specific challenges and obstacles, so it is up to us to
decide which route offers the best possibility for

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