What does it mean that resistance patterns?

Example: You notice that every time you need to write a difficult email — a negotiation, a boundary, a hard truth — you suddenly remember you should reorganize your desk, check analytics, or research something tangentially related. The task itself takes twelve minutes. The avoidance ritual consumes ninety. And it's the same ritual every time: not random distraction, but a signature sequence of evasion behaviors that fires reliably under specific conditions.

Try this: Pick a task you've been avoiding for more than 48 hours. Don't do it yet. Instead, write down: (1) what you feel when you think about starting it, (2) what you did instead the last time you avoided it, (3) what story you told yourself to justify the delay. Now look at the last three instances of avoidance in your life. Compare the patterns. You're looking for the repeating structure — the same emotions, the same substitute activities, the same rationalizations.