Webinar 4 recording Cosmic self series – The grit of the mystic

The Grit of the Mystic

What happens when you know you want to change, begin moving towards something new, and meet resistance?

In The Grit of the Mystic, Jost Sauer explores a different approach to grit. Instead of fixing on an outcome and pushing harder until you get there, he looks at resistance as part of the architecture of creation: information that can reveal what needs to change in the goal, the situation and in you.

Building on the Claim Your Cosmic Self series, Jost explores how resistance appears as we move through the five stages of Restriction → Awakening → Expression → Expansion → Creation, and why each stage brings its own challenges.

Drawing on the eight forces of the Bagua, internal cultivation and his own experience of bringing ideas into form, Jost shows how to read resistance, hold it without collapsing or attacking, and begin converting force into power.

The webinar also explores thesis → antithesis → synthesis, four different forms of resistance, the role of recovery and practical ways to develop the substance and stamina required to stay engaged with the process.

Topics include:

• Conventional grit vs the Grit of the Mystic
• Why resistance is part of the architecture of creation
• Manifestation and cosmicization
• The four forms of resistance: external, internal, developmental and soul
• How resistance appears through the five stages of the Cosmic Self
• Reading the eight Bagua forces when resistance appears
• Thesis, antithesis and synthesis as a process of expansion
• Converting force into power
• Why adaptation and recovery matter as much as endurance
• Practical approaches to developing grit through cultivation, food, movement and the Chi Cycle

The aim is not simply to endure until you get what you want, but to stay engaged with the process long enough to discover what is genuinely yours to create.

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