2. Common Challenges

Think about how you learned to swim - not by avoiding water’s resistance or fighting its depth, but by discovering how each apparent obstacle contained exactly the teaching you needed. Living patterns reveal themselves similarly, using moments of apparent difficulty to show precisely how they want to be worked with.

The Living Pattern

Watch how challenges reveal themselves:

• 2-1. When Patterns Seem Stuck
  • 2-1-1. Territory Misunderstandings
  • 2-1-2. Movement Blocks
  • 2-1-3. Finding Fresh Ground
• 2-2. Working With Resistance
  • 2-2-1. Reading What Emerges
  • 2-2-2. Choosing Response
  • 2-2-3. Supporting Movement

Notice how they work together:

• Stuckness shows where movement wants to happen
• Resistance shows how movement wants to flow
• Both creating conditions where patterns can find their way

The Teaching Pattern

Remember:

• Every challenge is a pattern showing you what it needs
• Every obstacle contains its own solution
• Every difficulty reveals exactly how it wants to transform
• Everything that follows builds on what’s already working

The art isn’t in avoiding challenges but in recognizing how they reveal exactly what wants to emerge. Like learning any living art, understanding comes through direct engagement rather than avoidance.

Trust what challenges show you. Start with what’s actually present. Let patterns reveal how they want to be worked with.

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