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‘Just be who you are and don’t care a bit about the world. Then you will feel a tremendous relaxation and a deep peace within your heart. This is what Zen people call your ‘original face’ - relaxed, without tensions, without pretensions, without hypocrisies, without the so-called disciplines of how you should behave,’  Osho writes.

Scroll down your Instagram or Facebook feedback: who wears their ‘Original Face’?

Look around at your office: who wears their ‘Original Face’?

Look in the mirror: do you wear your ‘Original Face’ or are you reflecting what your followers want to see, what schools and colleges trained you to be and what your mind contrived your image to be?

What if you drop it now?

The facade.

The representation.

The image.

What would happen?

Take 5 minutes. Pick up a pen. Try and jot down the answer.

This is what my samurai teachers and I will challenge you to do at

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What creates stress is resistance.

Resistance immediately constricts your natural flow.

Perpetuated resistance takes you further out of the flow.

It blocks you.

It causes panic attacks and depression.

It cuts you off from the center of yourself.

Resistance to what is happening, is what ruins your day, your job, your relationship.

Resistance is defined by denial and negativity.

Resistance is anti-life.

So, how do you deal with resistance?

How do you outwit it?

By dancing with it.

Resistance will arise - always.

However, what it fears the most is acceptance.

You only have to accept WHAT IS right now, at this very moment: a task you have to accomplish, a certain thing your partner did or said or the fact your job is, in your opinion, the worst on the planet.

Acceptance doesn’t mean defeat.

Accepting whatever is much like becoming a willow in a snowstorm: it goes with the wind, it bends, it dances, it obeys, it doesn’t resist.

The burden of snow glides off...