STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
How
it Works... Our "Whole" (4).
Translation Draft
The time has come to address, in the most general "accents" (now and probably the next post), the technique of positive mental imagery.
The time has come to address, in the most general "accents" (now and probably the next post), the technique of positive mental imagery.
To
know what mental image we need to build, we first need to really
get to know each other. yes, you read it right, let's really get
to know each other. A lot of us have heard something like, "Know
yourself." It's truer than you might think. Many of us,
especially adults, have a well-reinforced opinion about who we
are but it is certainly not the right one, the real one
(especially in modern times when life barely allows us to
integrate at all, what to discuss self-analysis).
There are numerous procedures to do this, starting with the psychological ones "approved" and studied at "school" (genus NLP or SNLP), continuing with the rest, which we will discuss at length when the time comes (alpha therapies, teta, etc.). But, as a constant line of these, it is first necessary to be in a state of relaxation, except in the case of psychological tests where direct approaches are carried out which are often carried out without initial preparations and, for this reason, give truncated interpretations of the reality of the individual, often disfavoring to him (in the sense of a completely erroneous orientation or , worse, 'homogenised' to the capacity of the tests concerned, the presentation of partial indications which easily attract erroneous interventions either external or internal).
From here, you are in a state of relaxation, depending on the "interests" of the moment, we will turn either to a series of "efforts" to identify and clarify existing problems and perceptions (either with the help of special sheets necessary for such an organization, or with the help of feelings and feelings of the moment that "guide" us towards specific objectives), often incomplete, subjective , or to bring into the picture the film of our entire life, in the most complete version, in stages. In the case of both "incomplete" efforts and complete efforts, an effort to clarify one's own language is first necessary. yes, another surprise.
The vast majority of us believe that he uses clear, concrete language but, for the purposes of mental imagery, we must not forget that the language is quite different, that all the words that will be used must express for sure what is, without possibility of interpretation, confusion. Otherwise, all we do are vain efforts (see at the appropriate time what it is about – that is not the purpose of this post that wants to address only general notions). Let's get back to the movie of our lives! So with this "movie" we'll start where we want, either by rewinding it back or in a natural way, starting from the first memories of us.
Thus, we realize the one who remained in us including those around us, their manifestations in relation to ours, their degree of understanding towards the child who did not know how to express exactly what he wanted, what he wanted or, on the contrary, tyrannically imposed his desires, their effective attitude towards us, the possible difference in the behavior of the two parents (or their replacements) , their decisive role in our education, the emotional consequences of the absence of one of the parents (physical or perceived), our relationship with the other brothers or children in the near environment, the spontaneous desire to study or oblige by the family, our desires for affirmation in the social environment, frustrations, fulfillments and non-fulfillment, especially those of an affective nature, in a word everything that constitutes our life. We will thus discover a strange character who resembles us and who, at the starting point, at the age at which we impose our ideals, we would have wanted it differently. This man must be reconstructed by the technique of mental image.
Once we have inventoried our frustrations, our unfulfillments, our sufferings, our relationships with the world, our involvement in the world and the world in our lives, we begin to build those images that correspond to our real, ideal desires. Through repeated exercise we will impose them as subconscious programs that, over time, will make them working tools, models of functioning for our body. The image can be formulated in logical or metaphorical language. If the objective is the healing of a disease, the imagination can reproduce the entire healing process or, effectively, the state of health, literally.
If we want to fine the suffering of an area or organ, after we have relaxed, we focus on that area and we are aware of all the signals it sends us. We then build a therapeutic image and stay focused on this image for 5 – 10 minutes, depending on our training. The exercise will be repeated twice a day until the desired effect is achieved. Those who can impose a certain state of mind, have a minimum power of mastery, can achieve an indisputable therapeutic or corrective effect. This is the mechanism of self-transformation, self-improvement, self-healing.
It is obvious that the objective of the imposed image can be of any order other than the therapeutic one. It is a huge literature that deals with this subject and crosses all esoteric knowledge. It is certain that ancient times have given us a way of retrieving and updating the self with effects that are proportional to the degree of mastery of one's own spirit, of self-control of thoughts that assail us like the sparks of stars on the dark canopy of the night. An example of the use of positive mental imaging is given by Dr. J.A. Sage, who invites us to his birthday in 2029 when he turns 250, which he constantly supports through imaging techniques.
Sage discovers this method at the age of 76. Initially he applied it to lower his blood pressure figures by building an appropriate picture of it and within a month would have achieved the desired effect. In his recommendations he begins with the adjustment of the respiratory rhythm, then with his eyes closed he "clears his mind of thoughts" and forms suggestions that he repeats until the subconscious accepts them. When the second edition of his book "How to Be 100 Years Old and Enjoying Them" came out, he was 96 years old and had amazing health. Moreover, there are many authors who talk about the existence at the level of our subconscious of a true "inner guide" or "internal adviser", saying directly that, "in us lives the best doctor" and we just have to "find the way to him". A famous example of this is Edgar Cayce who, in a self-induced state of consciousness, provided information on diagnosis and therapeutic remedies for tens of thousands of patients, including him, astounding the medical world of his time.
It can be seen, through our own experience, the existence of two types of decision-making in our brain. One is that of rational conscious censorship where the decision is made on the basis of rational criteria. The second is intuitive, without a seemingly logical report. It's our inner guide that tells us yes or no whenever we need advice. Most of the time, and despite arguments imposed by reason, the guide that seems to be more about our affective structures turns out to be right. Depending on the individual imagination, this guide can even take the appearance of known or unknown persons with whom it establishes a dialogue during the state of deep relaxation with the achievement of a transpersonal consciousness.
Whoever gets here has at his disposal an exceptional source of information, without being total, because no one can have as much as he is allowed. But it is incomparably extended in relation to other sources of knowledge. We will not now insist on the details of the method, because it must be presented as fully as possible (in future posts, with certainty) because it poses a great risk to those with a precarious psychological balance of interpreting their own erroneous or delusional ideas as realities about which they have heard or read. Unfortunately, many of them, genuine mentally ill, are unknowingly accredited by various means of popularization by building around them an atmosphere of sensationalism, when it is only a simple mental illness (or a mistaken, unfounded conviction, etc.). It is very important to establish the boundaries between normal and pathological and between normal and paranormal. These limits are extremely low and to establish them requires a lot of honesty and knowledge.
And at the heart of all these "powers," these experiences, lies the feeling of being or the "joy of living." Beyond the desire to be, expressed through personal possibilities and levels of aspiration, beyond the desire to "have" that is a matter of necessity and critical sense, there is still something left. It is the background of our consciousness, expressed in common language by the question "how do we feel". It is the state without desires, without discomfort, it is a reflection of the spirit itself or what we notice when the spirit turns on it through the phenomenon of introspection.
We can consider this line to be the zero line, the starting point of our psychic life. Normally this state expressed by the feeling of "being" must be slightly above the zero line, towards a slightly positive affective motivation. It is the state corresponding to the feeling characterized by the "joy of living", "the joy of being". We want or do not want to admit, in the present state of knowledge we must say that the psyche is in itself, like the body, a sphere, an energetic field, every state of our psyche, every feeling being nothing but a step, a certain energy level.
There is, as a result, a very well-defined energy level, conducive to our health, a level that corresponds to our affective motivation, the feeling characterized by the joy of being. The psyche, the brain, all our cells need to maintain a physiological balance and to have optimal functionality of biochemical reflection of our affective motivation, the joy of being. This psychological level with related energy, informational, biochemical and neurophysiological reflected to the last cell in us, corresponds to our internal and external harmony. There can be no optimal health, development and functioning without there being a functional harmony between our conscious and our subconscious, between our internal functions, between us and our fellows, between us and the Cosmos. All these links are closely linked and interdependent.
For people in the "Asian space", especially those in medieval Japan (but also the whole Oriental space), the terms "harmony" and "karma" were widely used. Their great concern was not to disturb their harmony and all the unfortunate events were blamed on "karma", fate. They accepted them, therefore, as coming from another conditioning of their lives which, since they could not change, it is not rational to disturb themselves, to spoil the harmony of their spirit, the preservation of psychic harmony being the essential condition for health and functional optimization.
The man of our time seems to have long forgotten what harmony in his spirit means, every moment whether he is reading a book, turning on the TV, walking down the street or at work exposing himself to the "claws of disharmony" that are in his heart. It really takes a great force of self-control to remain undisturbed in the uproar of the present world. With a few exceptions, and those without success today, our entire life is built on disarmonic structures.
Political anger, blackmail of the big ones over the little ones, sensational literature, syncopated music, horror movies, "street news", the intolerance of people hardened by poverty in a world that shows their opulence, can only cultivate hatred, anxiety, deviant behavior, all ultimately leading to the well-known "happiness" of modern man. It is precisely for this reason that the great sages have felt the need to withdraw from the world and meditate quietly. From the point of view of pure psychological experience it doesn't matter what we have and how much we have. Beyond the minimum necessary we remain only with ourselves, with the feeling of contentment or desolation of our being.
In the modern world, the authority of religion has been lost to most people, being replaced by that of science. Let us listen at least to its reason, to the existence of a godliness, to the need for introspection, to prayers, etc. (and not to respect rituals), and not just to the passion that seems to motivate the modern world. Perhaps this will give us a small chance to discover what is inside us, what matters and then to act accordingly. Looking at things from the strict angle of science, there is, as I said, an "art of living" or more precisely "a science of being". Everything that has a reflection on man must be based only on science, on knowledge derived from science.
Any other motivation means subjectivity, individualism and a source of discord, of conflict in all its forms, by the acceptance of those who have other interests and another way of thinking and interpreting the world. Science must be the only objective criterion, the only common denominator of all human judgments. The science of living means the art of living in harmony with the laws of the universe, as I have already pointed out, because no one can live independently of his fellowman and the universe, all being just cogs of cosmic gear. By respecting the laws of nature, they will work in our favor, and not by mastering the laws of nature, but by using them, through deep knowledge and well-thought-out action.
To act against the laws of nature is to act against us, because nature does not forgive, as we can easily sense from the ecological consequences and pathology faced by the present world. The laws of nature cannot be circumvented because they are prior to us, and we are only their reflex. Man is the only being who has been involved, with adverse consequences, in nature's endeavor. It is true that not always out of bad intention but out of ignorance, out of ignorance of all the links that are back to the first appearance of which he used.
But let us return to the need to keep harmony and the consequences of its disruption! The consequences of our functional disruption are those explained by the pathology of stress and these must be seen constantly in energy and biochemical terms.
Opposite the desire and joy to live is the feeling of depression, discouragement, futility of life, which can sometimes go as far as the desire for self-suppression. Of course, living conditions, dramatic events, catastrophes, etc. can lead to loss of the desire to live, self-care and abandonment in the face of these difficult moments (like many others) means self-condemnation to early aging, illness and suffering. So the moral support of those around us, as well as our own awareness of the situation, can be useful to us.
We must mentally realize that, since we have appeared, there is probably a sense that escapes us, that we must live if not for ourselves, then for life itself, as a cosmic event offered without our will but remaining in the power of our will. There's a paradox here: we didn't want to be born but we're forced to live. With these thoughts and feelings many people resisted in detention, where they arrived either to defend an ideal or through errors committed, then resume their life from the beginning. Everything is to be overcome the moment and time then heals them all, as they say, but only with our help. It is obvious that there is a power in man that can overcome the unfortunate circumstances, it, with will always rising above them. This is where you see the greatness of man.
In terms of energy, depression means a low energy level, with humans no longer having the resources to live the normal. The further processing of negative thoughts, thousands of "whys", only consumes the extra energy needed for all our cells. Hence their suffering. Let us look at the tense, dark and immobile face, let us observe the faded and lost gaze of those who suffer. The appetite disappears, the activity becomes inactivity, the sky wobbles, everything seems to collapse. We infer from this the need for an effort to defeat us, whatever its cause. By accepting it we punish ourselves twice, by cause and by effect.
Fear also consumes a large amount of energy, while having negative effects through the catecholamines it discharges. I mentioned earlier Avicenna and Cannon's experiments to demonstrate the consequences of feelings of fear on the body. The discharge of catecholamines can be so violent that it can induce death or trigger latent diseases such as epilepsy, various forms of neurosis, etc. From this we can draw many conclusions about the anxieties of the modern world, but let us only discuss the fact of stopping to think in moments of silence about imaginary or probable dangers.
If the moment we lived gives us peace, what's the point of making our lives come twice, and "now" and "sometime"?!? It's a simple wisdom to actually live only in the moment. The fear without object (anxiety), the fear of being sick of something serious when you have nothing, the fear of not having a heart attack when you have only a simple embarrassment in the heart area, despite the assurances given by the doctor (or someone else), are circumstances that put the nervous system in a state of tension, cause a decrease in the capacity of intellectual effort, exhaust the secretion of the endocrine glands and create favorable terrain for various types of disease and It certainly shortens our lives.
Anger, anger, intense panic, continuous agitation, assume the same energetic and biochemical substrate and therefore have the same immediate and late effects through persistence over time. Hate, envy, jealousy, desire for revenge, even not expressed verbally but only mentally processed act in the same way. Let's note that these last feelings are aimed at other people. According to esoteric conception, these are negative thoughts that are reflected back to those who issued them. Therefore, the negative effect manifests itself on the source and not on those who issued them, on those concerned. The same interpretation is offered by religious conceptions when they put them under the prohibition of the commandments. There is therefore a truth here demonstrated by modern sciences but surprised in other terms by all the moral codes developed so far, regardless of how they were motivated. As a result, there is only one knowledge that only needs the mind capable of accepting and encompassing them all.
Pride and selfishness have also been the subject of much discussion on moral issues. Opposite them, the Christian religion proclaims humility, Buddhism non-involvement, classical morality modesty and generosity. Why is hubris harmful?!? "In terms of energy, hubris means a closure of the ways of communication, of dialogue with the world and with the universe," almost all sources tell us, especially religious ones. The consequences are easy to understand. Opening up to dialogue, accepting people as partners, respecting the Law by which the universe is expressed are conditions without which we cannot evolve. Morally, hubris means closing in a narrow space, it means intolerance to the opinions and actions of others, it means a source of conflict, aggression, division and inefficiency. We don't have to look too hard to see the disasters that cause them.
Selfishness is one of the character traits that can never go unnoticed. It leaves an embarrassing impression and brings you out of the affection of others. Selfishness opposes the principle of the self-consistency of matter by virtue of which each of us must live only in interconnection with others. Through selfishness we isolate ourselves from context and stagnate our evolution. A natural question arises here: to what level is self-care not selfishness? To the point of decency, we think it would sound like the best answer, without forgetting that this limit depends on both us and those around us. Selfishness seeks happiness to have as much and to be as high as possible. But you can have everyone at your feet and be unhappy.
Happiness is not about having more than you need, it's about accepting to have as much as you need. The wish fulfilled calls for another desire and happiness remains a chimera. To stop where selfishness does not break is to fight yourself, with the demon inside you who continually demands. That's where wisdom comes in. To appease not only the thought, but also the one behind the thought. All these manifestations related to our affective involvement in the world, adaptation, the way we receive it, are sources of parasitic consumption of our energy, of disturbance of harmony, of that psychological state conducive to health.
I'll continue tomorrow (enough for today)...
There are numerous procedures to do this, starting with the psychological ones "approved" and studied at "school" (genus NLP or SNLP), continuing with the rest, which we will discuss at length when the time comes (alpha therapies, teta, etc.). But, as a constant line of these, it is first necessary to be in a state of relaxation, except in the case of psychological tests where direct approaches are carried out which are often carried out without initial preparations and, for this reason, give truncated interpretations of the reality of the individual, often disfavoring to him (in the sense of a completely erroneous orientation or , worse, 'homogenised' to the capacity of the tests concerned, the presentation of partial indications which easily attract erroneous interventions either external or internal).
From here, you are in a state of relaxation, depending on the "interests" of the moment, we will turn either to a series of "efforts" to identify and clarify existing problems and perceptions (either with the help of special sheets necessary for such an organization, or with the help of feelings and feelings of the moment that "guide" us towards specific objectives), often incomplete, subjective , or to bring into the picture the film of our entire life, in the most complete version, in stages. In the case of both "incomplete" efforts and complete efforts, an effort to clarify one's own language is first necessary. yes, another surprise.
The vast majority of us believe that he uses clear, concrete language but, for the purposes of mental imagery, we must not forget that the language is quite different, that all the words that will be used must express for sure what is, without possibility of interpretation, confusion. Otherwise, all we do are vain efforts (see at the appropriate time what it is about – that is not the purpose of this post that wants to address only general notions). Let's get back to the movie of our lives! So with this "movie" we'll start where we want, either by rewinding it back or in a natural way, starting from the first memories of us.
Thus, we realize the one who remained in us including those around us, their manifestations in relation to ours, their degree of understanding towards the child who did not know how to express exactly what he wanted, what he wanted or, on the contrary, tyrannically imposed his desires, their effective attitude towards us, the possible difference in the behavior of the two parents (or their replacements) , their decisive role in our education, the emotional consequences of the absence of one of the parents (physical or perceived), our relationship with the other brothers or children in the near environment, the spontaneous desire to study or oblige by the family, our desires for affirmation in the social environment, frustrations, fulfillments and non-fulfillment, especially those of an affective nature, in a word everything that constitutes our life. We will thus discover a strange character who resembles us and who, at the starting point, at the age at which we impose our ideals, we would have wanted it differently. This man must be reconstructed by the technique of mental image.
Once we have inventoried our frustrations, our unfulfillments, our sufferings, our relationships with the world, our involvement in the world and the world in our lives, we begin to build those images that correspond to our real, ideal desires. Through repeated exercise we will impose them as subconscious programs that, over time, will make them working tools, models of functioning for our body. The image can be formulated in logical or metaphorical language. If the objective is the healing of a disease, the imagination can reproduce the entire healing process or, effectively, the state of health, literally.
If we want to fine the suffering of an area or organ, after we have relaxed, we focus on that area and we are aware of all the signals it sends us. We then build a therapeutic image and stay focused on this image for 5 – 10 minutes, depending on our training. The exercise will be repeated twice a day until the desired effect is achieved. Those who can impose a certain state of mind, have a minimum power of mastery, can achieve an indisputable therapeutic or corrective effect. This is the mechanism of self-transformation, self-improvement, self-healing.
It is obvious that the objective of the imposed image can be of any order other than the therapeutic one. It is a huge literature that deals with this subject and crosses all esoteric knowledge. It is certain that ancient times have given us a way of retrieving and updating the self with effects that are proportional to the degree of mastery of one's own spirit, of self-control of thoughts that assail us like the sparks of stars on the dark canopy of the night. An example of the use of positive mental imaging is given by Dr. J.A. Sage, who invites us to his birthday in 2029 when he turns 250, which he constantly supports through imaging techniques.
Sage discovers this method at the age of 76. Initially he applied it to lower his blood pressure figures by building an appropriate picture of it and within a month would have achieved the desired effect. In his recommendations he begins with the adjustment of the respiratory rhythm, then with his eyes closed he "clears his mind of thoughts" and forms suggestions that he repeats until the subconscious accepts them. When the second edition of his book "How to Be 100 Years Old and Enjoying Them" came out, he was 96 years old and had amazing health. Moreover, there are many authors who talk about the existence at the level of our subconscious of a true "inner guide" or "internal adviser", saying directly that, "in us lives the best doctor" and we just have to "find the way to him". A famous example of this is Edgar Cayce who, in a self-induced state of consciousness, provided information on diagnosis and therapeutic remedies for tens of thousands of patients, including him, astounding the medical world of his time.
It can be seen, through our own experience, the existence of two types of decision-making in our brain. One is that of rational conscious censorship where the decision is made on the basis of rational criteria. The second is intuitive, without a seemingly logical report. It's our inner guide that tells us yes or no whenever we need advice. Most of the time, and despite arguments imposed by reason, the guide that seems to be more about our affective structures turns out to be right. Depending on the individual imagination, this guide can even take the appearance of known or unknown persons with whom it establishes a dialogue during the state of deep relaxation with the achievement of a transpersonal consciousness.
Whoever gets here has at his disposal an exceptional source of information, without being total, because no one can have as much as he is allowed. But it is incomparably extended in relation to other sources of knowledge. We will not now insist on the details of the method, because it must be presented as fully as possible (in future posts, with certainty) because it poses a great risk to those with a precarious psychological balance of interpreting their own erroneous or delusional ideas as realities about which they have heard or read. Unfortunately, many of them, genuine mentally ill, are unknowingly accredited by various means of popularization by building around them an atmosphere of sensationalism, when it is only a simple mental illness (or a mistaken, unfounded conviction, etc.). It is very important to establish the boundaries between normal and pathological and between normal and paranormal. These limits are extremely low and to establish them requires a lot of honesty and knowledge.
And at the heart of all these "powers," these experiences, lies the feeling of being or the "joy of living." Beyond the desire to be, expressed through personal possibilities and levels of aspiration, beyond the desire to "have" that is a matter of necessity and critical sense, there is still something left. It is the background of our consciousness, expressed in common language by the question "how do we feel". It is the state without desires, without discomfort, it is a reflection of the spirit itself or what we notice when the spirit turns on it through the phenomenon of introspection.
We can consider this line to be the zero line, the starting point of our psychic life. Normally this state expressed by the feeling of "being" must be slightly above the zero line, towards a slightly positive affective motivation. It is the state corresponding to the feeling characterized by the "joy of living", "the joy of being". We want or do not want to admit, in the present state of knowledge we must say that the psyche is in itself, like the body, a sphere, an energetic field, every state of our psyche, every feeling being nothing but a step, a certain energy level.
There is, as a result, a very well-defined energy level, conducive to our health, a level that corresponds to our affective motivation, the feeling characterized by the joy of being. The psyche, the brain, all our cells need to maintain a physiological balance and to have optimal functionality of biochemical reflection of our affective motivation, the joy of being. This psychological level with related energy, informational, biochemical and neurophysiological reflected to the last cell in us, corresponds to our internal and external harmony. There can be no optimal health, development and functioning without there being a functional harmony between our conscious and our subconscious, between our internal functions, between us and our fellows, between us and the Cosmos. All these links are closely linked and interdependent.
For people in the "Asian space", especially those in medieval Japan (but also the whole Oriental space), the terms "harmony" and "karma" were widely used. Their great concern was not to disturb their harmony and all the unfortunate events were blamed on "karma", fate. They accepted them, therefore, as coming from another conditioning of their lives which, since they could not change, it is not rational to disturb themselves, to spoil the harmony of their spirit, the preservation of psychic harmony being the essential condition for health and functional optimization.
The man of our time seems to have long forgotten what harmony in his spirit means, every moment whether he is reading a book, turning on the TV, walking down the street or at work exposing himself to the "claws of disharmony" that are in his heart. It really takes a great force of self-control to remain undisturbed in the uproar of the present world. With a few exceptions, and those without success today, our entire life is built on disarmonic structures.
Political anger, blackmail of the big ones over the little ones, sensational literature, syncopated music, horror movies, "street news", the intolerance of people hardened by poverty in a world that shows their opulence, can only cultivate hatred, anxiety, deviant behavior, all ultimately leading to the well-known "happiness" of modern man. It is precisely for this reason that the great sages have felt the need to withdraw from the world and meditate quietly. From the point of view of pure psychological experience it doesn't matter what we have and how much we have. Beyond the minimum necessary we remain only with ourselves, with the feeling of contentment or desolation of our being.
In the modern world, the authority of religion has been lost to most people, being replaced by that of science. Let us listen at least to its reason, to the existence of a godliness, to the need for introspection, to prayers, etc. (and not to respect rituals), and not just to the passion that seems to motivate the modern world. Perhaps this will give us a small chance to discover what is inside us, what matters and then to act accordingly. Looking at things from the strict angle of science, there is, as I said, an "art of living" or more precisely "a science of being". Everything that has a reflection on man must be based only on science, on knowledge derived from science.
Any other motivation means subjectivity, individualism and a source of discord, of conflict in all its forms, by the acceptance of those who have other interests and another way of thinking and interpreting the world. Science must be the only objective criterion, the only common denominator of all human judgments. The science of living means the art of living in harmony with the laws of the universe, as I have already pointed out, because no one can live independently of his fellowman and the universe, all being just cogs of cosmic gear. By respecting the laws of nature, they will work in our favor, and not by mastering the laws of nature, but by using them, through deep knowledge and well-thought-out action.
To act against the laws of nature is to act against us, because nature does not forgive, as we can easily sense from the ecological consequences and pathology faced by the present world. The laws of nature cannot be circumvented because they are prior to us, and we are only their reflex. Man is the only being who has been involved, with adverse consequences, in nature's endeavor. It is true that not always out of bad intention but out of ignorance, out of ignorance of all the links that are back to the first appearance of which he used.
But let us return to the need to keep harmony and the consequences of its disruption! The consequences of our functional disruption are those explained by the pathology of stress and these must be seen constantly in energy and biochemical terms.
Opposite the desire and joy to live is the feeling of depression, discouragement, futility of life, which can sometimes go as far as the desire for self-suppression. Of course, living conditions, dramatic events, catastrophes, etc. can lead to loss of the desire to live, self-care and abandonment in the face of these difficult moments (like many others) means self-condemnation to early aging, illness and suffering. So the moral support of those around us, as well as our own awareness of the situation, can be useful to us.
We must mentally realize that, since we have appeared, there is probably a sense that escapes us, that we must live if not for ourselves, then for life itself, as a cosmic event offered without our will but remaining in the power of our will. There's a paradox here: we didn't want to be born but we're forced to live. With these thoughts and feelings many people resisted in detention, where they arrived either to defend an ideal or through errors committed, then resume their life from the beginning. Everything is to be overcome the moment and time then heals them all, as they say, but only with our help. It is obvious that there is a power in man that can overcome the unfortunate circumstances, it, with will always rising above them. This is where you see the greatness of man.
In terms of energy, depression means a low energy level, with humans no longer having the resources to live the normal. The further processing of negative thoughts, thousands of "whys", only consumes the extra energy needed for all our cells. Hence their suffering. Let us look at the tense, dark and immobile face, let us observe the faded and lost gaze of those who suffer. The appetite disappears, the activity becomes inactivity, the sky wobbles, everything seems to collapse. We infer from this the need for an effort to defeat us, whatever its cause. By accepting it we punish ourselves twice, by cause and by effect.
Fear also consumes a large amount of energy, while having negative effects through the catecholamines it discharges. I mentioned earlier Avicenna and Cannon's experiments to demonstrate the consequences of feelings of fear on the body. The discharge of catecholamines can be so violent that it can induce death or trigger latent diseases such as epilepsy, various forms of neurosis, etc. From this we can draw many conclusions about the anxieties of the modern world, but let us only discuss the fact of stopping to think in moments of silence about imaginary or probable dangers.
If the moment we lived gives us peace, what's the point of making our lives come twice, and "now" and "sometime"?!? It's a simple wisdom to actually live only in the moment. The fear without object (anxiety), the fear of being sick of something serious when you have nothing, the fear of not having a heart attack when you have only a simple embarrassment in the heart area, despite the assurances given by the doctor (or someone else), are circumstances that put the nervous system in a state of tension, cause a decrease in the capacity of intellectual effort, exhaust the secretion of the endocrine glands and create favorable terrain for various types of disease and It certainly shortens our lives.
Anger, anger, intense panic, continuous agitation, assume the same energetic and biochemical substrate and therefore have the same immediate and late effects through persistence over time. Hate, envy, jealousy, desire for revenge, even not expressed verbally but only mentally processed act in the same way. Let's note that these last feelings are aimed at other people. According to esoteric conception, these are negative thoughts that are reflected back to those who issued them. Therefore, the negative effect manifests itself on the source and not on those who issued them, on those concerned. The same interpretation is offered by religious conceptions when they put them under the prohibition of the commandments. There is therefore a truth here demonstrated by modern sciences but surprised in other terms by all the moral codes developed so far, regardless of how they were motivated. As a result, there is only one knowledge that only needs the mind capable of accepting and encompassing them all.
Pride and selfishness have also been the subject of much discussion on moral issues. Opposite them, the Christian religion proclaims humility, Buddhism non-involvement, classical morality modesty and generosity. Why is hubris harmful?!? "In terms of energy, hubris means a closure of the ways of communication, of dialogue with the world and with the universe," almost all sources tell us, especially religious ones. The consequences are easy to understand. Opening up to dialogue, accepting people as partners, respecting the Law by which the universe is expressed are conditions without which we cannot evolve. Morally, hubris means closing in a narrow space, it means intolerance to the opinions and actions of others, it means a source of conflict, aggression, division and inefficiency. We don't have to look too hard to see the disasters that cause them.
Selfishness is one of the character traits that can never go unnoticed. It leaves an embarrassing impression and brings you out of the affection of others. Selfishness opposes the principle of the self-consistency of matter by virtue of which each of us must live only in interconnection with others. Through selfishness we isolate ourselves from context and stagnate our evolution. A natural question arises here: to what level is self-care not selfishness? To the point of decency, we think it would sound like the best answer, without forgetting that this limit depends on both us and those around us. Selfishness seeks happiness to have as much and to be as high as possible. But you can have everyone at your feet and be unhappy.
Happiness is not about having more than you need, it's about accepting to have as much as you need. The wish fulfilled calls for another desire and happiness remains a chimera. To stop where selfishness does not break is to fight yourself, with the demon inside you who continually demands. That's where wisdom comes in. To appease not only the thought, but also the one behind the thought. All these manifestations related to our affective involvement in the world, adaptation, the way we receive it, are sources of parasitic consumption of our energy, of disturbance of harmony, of that psychological state conducive to health.
I'll continue tomorrow (enough for today)...
Love,
Gratitude and Understanding (Namaste)!!!
Dorin, Merticaru