Actually Waggs, that's one of the best explanations of the technique I've seen - I'm definitely going to try that. There was a thread here not long ago which mentioned Bob Cooley's book (The Genius of Flexibility) which suggests resisting during the entire stretch, but this sounds like might work even better - thank you!

Rachel Jade mentions visualization, and I've made just about every mistake possible as far as that goes. Imagine vividly *being* flexible in the way you want - really dwell on how that would *feel* to you - and *know* that it is coming to you. If you're always focused on how stiff you are you cannot become flexible so there's a discipline involved - whenever you catch yourself thinking about being stiff, as best as you can stop and recreate that feeling you had when you visualized flexibility. You know it's coming so you don't need to worry about how far ahead the others in class are - like a seedling, give it time to grow.

The real key is your feelings; again, if you're in any kind of negative emotion surrounding flexibility you are counter creating - creating the very thing you don't want. Don't wallow in what the current sorry state is; stay fixed on the thing you want, dwell on that flexibility you want, and really live the feeling of being flexible. That's what will produce results.