I just got off a call with a client. He is a remarkable physician. Not only is he technically proficient, he is remarkably compassionate and humble. Parents have been known to airlift their children across country borders to be an as gentle healing care.

He does not fully realize that his compassion and humility are his superpowers.

They are also his Achilles heel.

He overextends himself.

He hired me because he believes that I have the skills to help him expand his practice.

To become more effective, he needs to let go of a few habits that are holding him back.

But I keep butting up against his resistance. A professional hazard.

He did not get to be so effective as a physician without a good deal of tenacity and confidence.

And now my work is challenging him and some of his unconscious beliefs.

This past week I’ve been noticing resistance all around me.

1st I noticed my subtle resistance to changes I wanted to make. Subtle the resistance might be but it was very real.

On self-examination, I discovered unexpected and even embarrassing beliefs that I had acquired carelessly. These beliefs act like syntax errors in my operating system. And although hidden they continue to instruct my behaviour until identified and removed.

If I try to behave contrary to these beliefs, they resist mightily to return me to a place of alignment with their beliefs regardless of the suffering the beliefs create.