Real World ApplicationWe are confronted daily with myriad changes-some small and some life-changing. It is about looking at change, recognizing the human tendency to resist in these aforementioned ways, leaning into this resistance and embracing the resistance, and not automatically trying to blindly accept the change.
Conversely, we also sense what resistance to change looks like-avoiding, complaining, ignoring, bargaining, expressing frustration, being anxious, and perhaps rationalizing and explaining.Įmbracing resistance, however, is about something much different. We lean into it, we move toward leveraging the new possibilities, and we may be quick to let go of our old ways to doing things. It even raises the possibility of embracing the resistance.Įmbracing Resistance to ChangeSo, what is embracing resistance to change? Everyone has a sense of what embracing change looks like. It raises an interesting perspective around what we embrace and what we resist. In other words, “We can embrace this change because we don’t have a choice.” Are we less likely to resist and embrace change when we don’t have any other options? The conversation focused on the change being thrust upon us in the form of the global pandemic and whether or not the level of resistance was affected because this change was not something anyone had chosen to undertake. Recently, I was chatting with a friend about the massive amount of change occurring all around us and the topic of resistance came up.
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