I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How Resistance Controls Your Life and What to Do About It

Whether it's a choice, such as a class we’ve signed up for, or a chore we feel we have no choice about, resistance (a voice in the head saying "I don’t want to, I don’t feel like it") can rocket us from commitment to inaction in a matter of seconds. Employing the tenets of Zen Awareness Practice, this book provides numerous exercises and tools for working through resistance. It reveals how the voice of resistance operates in everyday life, the many forms it takes, and how to be free of it. Transcending resistance is a practice of recognizing it as a process that happens to everybody and not taking it personally. Included in this book is a 30-day retreat with exercises for practicing having the life we want.

Cheri Huber is the founder of the Zen Center in Palo Alto, California, and the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, California. She is the author of There Is Nothing Wrong with You; Transform Your Life; What You Practice Is What You Have; and When You’re Falling, Dive. She lives in Murphys, California. Ashwini Narayanan is a student of Cheri Huber, has cofacilitated and created workshops with her, and currently runs the operations of the two nonprofits that Cheri founded. She lives in Cupertino, California.