| Tensely.....................5 | |
| the problem is twofold: outwardly and consciously you tensely desire something, while inwardly and unconsciously you hesitate | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| of, and so on, the more rigidly and tensely you construct illusory forms, in the hope that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| or whether it manifests only indirectly -- and tensely hold on to life, pushing away and opposing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| are too active -- moving too much, too tensely and anxiously -- there is no pleasure in | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| -- one being grasped at, the other being tensely denied -- puts people in a constant state | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Tenses......................3 | |
| tremendous fear of joy and relaxed happiness. Everything tenses up when things go well and I am | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| reaction in your soul movement, how it automatically tenses up. By remaining open and relaxed to the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| gone into your physical functioning, so that it tenses up as a conditioned reflex. The error may | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Tensing.....................7 | |
| to understand by visualizing a soul movement of tensing and letting go. When you struggle away from | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the wrong way. You often attempt it by tensing your outer will and trying to assert it | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| shrinking. As you observe your automatic shrinking and tensing up, the shrinking will lessen. The frozenness will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| I would like to react differently; instead of tensing up against it and freezing myself, I will | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| important inroad. You will also see that by tensing up against frustration you cause much more frustration | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| much frustration as you inflict upon yourself by tensing up against it. The flow of your feelings | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| state takes in. The active state is a tensing of energies; the receptive state relaxes them. If | 228 BALANCE |
| Tension.....................193 | |
| be in them no torment, no bitterness, no tension, nor any sadness or world weariness. Going back | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| very distinct ways. One creates a pressure and tension that will rob you of your peace; it | 18 FREE WILL |
| coming from the brain region will lead to tension, unless it is substantiated by will coming from | 18 FREE WILL |
| As long as you do not relieve the tension, it will be difficult for you to awaken | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| awake through the days for an answer, without tension, just being aware, the answer may come through | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Furthermore, by doing all this without haste, without tension, but with steady perseverance, you will see all | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Confusion creates doubt; doubt impatience; impatience anxiety and tension. In addition to this chain reaction, we have | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| is a poor substitute. It is full of tension, anxiety, and impatience. Since it cannot function, it | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| necessary that is bound to create an inner tension. The better way to go about it is | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| health and the letting go of the inner tension that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that self-will produces. Any deviation produces an inner tension, whether it is self- will or any other | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| is also conceivable that one relieves an inner tension to the maximum, but the outer manifestation is | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a degree of death. The weakness, resulting from tension and fear, indirectly creates a weakening of the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| urgent, and therefore you will suffer correspondingly less tension and anxiety. Incidentally, another misconception or illusion, which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| illusion, is bound to bring you unhappiness, confusion, tension, and fear. Reality, or truth, is bound to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| strenuous effort on your part. Illusion always causes tension and strain, for it cannot stand by itself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| current and become free of a great inner tension, to that degree will you be free to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| Patience is not hindered by the pressure and tension and anxiety of the soul. If you analyze | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| whenever felt, is accompanied by such feelings as tension, anxiety, inner pressure -- all of which are | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| into a healthy growing pain, free of bitterness, tension, anxiety, and frustration. There are also those who | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| interest in what is around you without feeling tension within yourself. QUESTION: You have stated that emotional | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| professional fulfillment, marriage, or friendship. Indetermination may create tension and conflict in a particular personal relationship. Check | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| -- the forcing current. It creates constant struggle, tension, and anxiety. The more unaware you are of | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| illusion, or untruth, there must be constant uncertainty, tension, anxiety, struggle, and doubt. A part of you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| inner clamoring, I want, I must. When the tension is relaxed, you float, you do not fear | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| up and pull away. This very pull in tension pushes you into it. Courage, an honest facing | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| with its resulting shame, fear of exposure, secretiveness, tension, strain, guilt, anxiety. It will take some progress | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| exposure you fear and sometimes feel, of the tension, strain, and compulsion. If you have an occasional | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| personality also becomes self-centered. Self-centeredness brings frustration, anxiety, tension, compulsion, guilt and insecurity, to name but a | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you. This conflict will create more anxiety, more tension and impatience with yourself and others. Should you | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| further incentive, hope, strength, and inner push, without tension or anxiety, so as to free yourself from | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| no doubt, no confusion, no anxiety, and no tension. You are not concerned with the appearance of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the lesser evil. That such a situation creates tension, anxiety, hostility, and discontent is only natural. To | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| answer and will thus not only relieve the tension but lead to important further insight. You will | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| bound to become acutely aware of an inner tension, a cramped closing up. This prevents you from | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| extended time dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and hostility -- all these | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is limited in this earth-dimension creates a special tension. You, therefore, strive to get out of this | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| back. Needless to say, the soul suffers from tension, a useless and destructive waste of energy. Some | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| reactions you restrain the natural movement and create tension, setting your soul forces to work in opposing | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| consciousness germinate and accumulate and create great inner tension and pressure. You are then often driven into | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| new height, being executed in peace and harmony. Tension, frustration, irritation -- these constant companions that result | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| factors which at last unquestionably explain discontent, unfulfillment, tension, frustration, and other hindrances to full living. The | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| become noticeable, after extensive progress in self- awareness. Tension, frustration, discontent, inexplicable hostility, overreaction -- where one | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| course, such fulfillment was limited, problematic, fraught with tension and, in the end, disappointing. It cannot be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| not a satisfactory solution. These ventures, fraught with tension and anxiety, always failed without your really seeing | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of it. This saves you from undue overreaction, tension, frustration, and the inner disorder and imbalance which | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| a true experience, will not relieve the real tension. The only way to truly overcome fear and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| from certain facets of their innermost selves. The tension and disturbance is then glibly explained away. These | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and consciousness. The two opposing forces create such tension through the pressure of two opposing energy currents | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in two opposite directions, creating stronger and stronger tension and pressure. The way to eliminate the short | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| happens here too. Understanding brings a relief from tension, fear, and anxiety. It infuses hope: not wishful | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| greed, the inability to stand frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate, the inability to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to express happiness, to fully desire it, without tension, without urgency, without guilt, without the fear of | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Apart from this relaxed wanting, without urgency, compulsion, tension and fear, it is necessary for the self | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| that lack of acceptance breeds disharmony, anxiety, and tension, increases the difficulties, and destroys peace of mind | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| grabs at is a pseudo-control that merely increases tension and anxiety. It prohibits peace and confidence in | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| channels. As this happens, mobility will exist without tension and anxiety, and relaxation will exist without stagnation | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and relaxation. Where do you have mobility and tension? Where do you have relaxation and stagnation, immobility | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| see the evolutionary process. QUESTION: Do mobility and tension, and relaxation and stagnation lessen as you remove | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| life or pleasure principle and a negative situation, tension must exist; anxiety must exist. To the extent | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| must exist. To the extent that anxiety and tension exist, immobility appears a welcome relief from the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| away from what is now -- hence effort, tension, fear -- or not wanting to change, out | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| what it cannot control. This struggle causes more tension, anxiety, sense of failure and fear of defeat | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| situation you find yourself in. Outer pressure -- tension and forcing currents -- have not accomplished anything | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| but the imbalance and a special sort of tension caused by the opposite direction. This is what | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| plane, of course. Therefore, physical pain ceases when tension ceases -- and this happens in death. On | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| Whenever there is some negation in one's makeup, tension and conflict must exist, and so must pain | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| would protect them from negativity and the resulting tension between the positive and negative pulls. If it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| conflicts. This creation of irreconcilable opposites generates a tension within and therefore with the outside world. Let | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| opposites, so that there is no longer any tension, conflict, or fear. Consequently, the world becomes alive | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| be torn between fighting or submitting. Both create tension, anxiety, and inner and outer disadvantages. Thus, a | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| deep and sincere commitment. It brings release from tension. What you then find out is always totally | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the unified way of thinking and being, the tension will mount, for as long as you remain | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| your dualistic plane is the greatest danger. The tension will mount as your conflicts escalate. But the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| transcends both of your little truths, a specific tension will be removed in your psyche. The way | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| ignorance that there is another approach. The resulting tension blurs the view that other aspects exist which | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| you see no solution. This often causes unbearable tension and anxiety. This basic mental insecurity, with all | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| When human beings suffer from discontent and inner tension they, fundamentally, always do so because they deeply | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| the guilt, the shame, the anxiety, and the tension. Opposition grows, conflict increases, and the vicious circle | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| inner forces activated in the process. Once the tension is abandoned, pleasure follows. The flexibility of relaxing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| I must have it, they cannot materialize. The tension itself is hostile to the necessary harmony that | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| of these. But it is entirely free from tension due to fear, pride, and selfwill. People's habitual | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| are so used to a state of inner tension that only repeated focusing of one's finely attuned | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| become aware of the many little areas of tension in your body, of intensity of muscle tissues | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| observe your reluctance to relax and know that tension and intensity are the immediate blocks to self-realization | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to ego- control can only create imbalance, pressure, tension, anxiety, and will finally manifest negative effects. This | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to avoid truth about the self. An inner tension and rigidity exist that separate the personality from | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| cured by shrinking back from this fact in tension, fright, and contraction? Certainly not. This would only | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Relaxation must be combined with full commitment. Often, tension replaces a lack of full commitment to the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of anything accumulates, the surfeit will create more tension. The overfullness exists, my friends, whether or not | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| boredom. Excitement excludes peace and brings anxiety and tension. You are confronted, as in so many other | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| not understanding what goes on increases the inner tension. The more hopeless it all seems, the more | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| toward the desired goal -- defeats it, for tension arises from hopelessness, doubt, and an urgency which | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| for in that moment a great deal of tension disappears. I would like to discuss this a | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and insecurity. The longing for escape from the tension of the ego, as well as from perpetual | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| denominators. One of them is the alternation of tension and relaxation, of firmness and softness. The fertile | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| springs from the pulsation and rhythmic movement of tension and relaxation. This kind of tension is not | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| movement of tension and relaxation. This kind of tension is not the painful tension a person feels | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| This kind of tension is not the painful tension a person feels when the two forces are | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the two forces are in disharmony. This pleasant tension is a springboard from which action flows forth | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in its own time. The proper interaction of tension and relaxation is the pulsation, the breathing, of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the same principles and laws. The pulsation of tension and relaxation expresses the integration of these two | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| identity -- the more pleasurable and blissful both tension and relaxation inevitably are. At a certain stage | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| hinders the natural rhythm. For striving creates more tension -- even when one strives for the open | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is inertia. Misapplied will and action produce excessive tension. Where the mind should be receptive, not only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| are too impatient, their pathwork is stopped. Excessive tension is always an expression of misunderstanding the processes | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| results--sometimes alternately but often simultaneously -- in excessive tension and anxiety on the one hand, and in | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| initiating, active, masculine principle distorts into the tight tension of impatience, anxiety, and ego pride which thinks | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| separation, frustration, and unhappiness -- to the painful tension produced by trying too hard in an ineffectual | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| understanding brings you into the state in which tension is no longer pain, so that you no | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| will be reconciled, and the pulsating movements of tension and relaxation will be nothing but two different | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the transition from the pleasure/pain pulse beat of tension and relaxation to the liberated state in which | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and relaxation to the liberated state in which tension and relaxation are different aspects of pleasure. Unless | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| if the situation were truly so painful. The tension becomes more painful than the pain itself. Once | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| so that you establish the proper relationship of tension and relaxation in your approach to yourself. Such | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| they appear as opposites, so that the inner tension diminishes. Some opposites are no longer experienced as | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and consequently in a state of delight. For tension breeds unpleasure, making bliss impossible. Tension is inevitable | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| delight. For tension breeds unpleasure, making bliss impossible. Tension is inevitable as long as one is under | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you, you live in a perpetual state of tension when you assume one opposite to be good | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| puts people in a constant state of painful tension, anxious grasping, needless denial. The consequences are pain | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| The opposites people struggle with create a tremendous tension. Humanity has been geared for centuries and centuries | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| and deeper entanglement and error. At times this tension leads to eruptions, as stated before. At other | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| leads to error and suffering, to confusion and tension -- and away from all true solutions. The | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| All falsity and, with that, much suffering and tension will fall off. The kernel that is so | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| such confusion, helplessness increases, the thus mounting inner tension seeks an outlet. To look for scapegoats who | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| as filled with anguish. It never produces anxiety, tension, hopelessness, bitterness, or torment. It never puts you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| individual person. In a state of constant inner tension, you pull simultaneously in opposite directions -- on | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| important element. The soul movement of fear is tension, cramp, and stopping of the flow from the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| As I said, the dynamics of fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits the creative | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| on the individual. Not knowing this makes the tension and suffering infinitely greater. One feels a victim | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| cannot help but live in a state of tension and fear of others and life. From practically | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| willingness to let go, there is such inner tension and fear that the good of life cannot | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| mental, spiritual -- without a trace of apprehension, tension, tight greed or separateness. It is the capacity | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of either pain or pleasure. Your states of tension have become such second nature that you are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| quite so difficult. When you start with muscle tension in the outer body, it is necessary first | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| necessary first to feel, be aware of, the tension, in order to subsequently relax it voluntarily. This | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| aspects of practice to observe your state of tension on all levels. Once outer relaxation has become | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| them. Concentration exercises to observe your state of tension in order to relax it are therefore extremely | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| listen into yourself, you will find an emotional tension and cramp; you will see how your mind | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| overagitated or sluggish -- additional manifestations of underlying tension that has become too unpleasant to bear. Only | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| bear. Only after you are aware of the tension is it possible to deal with it in | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| in your growing self-awareness, your inner blocks of tension and cramp only cover another state in which | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| ideas, false fears, and unnecessary defenses create the tension and the error in the smaller life matter | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| worked out that every state of fear creates tension and is a result of error. Every state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| error and creates other negative feelings, thus again tension. When you are tense, for whatever reason, you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you must be in fear. And every slightest tension closes the centers. Every exercise -- physical or | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you adopt unproductive and often even destructive attitudes? Tension must always be related to error. In all | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| frustration is an important example of error creating tension and negative emotions. What human being is not | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| this either/or duality, you are in error and tension. Since life cannot flow into you in this | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| frustration appears to be disaster. Hence fear and tension; hence closed life centers; hence unhappiness and unproductivity | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| much more frustration for yourself, for the very tension is a denial of life as it now | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| instrument. Do not slump down, yet sit without tension, completely contained within yourself, without stiffness. The spine | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| a sharp concentration without the least bit of tension. You will then find yourself seeing the thinking | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it. What is the fear that creates this tension? Ask yourself: What is the direct relationship between | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is the direct relationship between the specific body tension and fear? Send the thought into these cells | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| own consciousness. What is the misconception behind the tension? Answers will come to you. You will probably | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| attention to, you not only will recognize body tension, but will do the same in the area | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and the body expresses all this with contraction, tension, stiffness, rigidity -- which are also behind the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| against your own creations augments the pain and tension in your being. This is inevitable when you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| is essentially incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction. It comes from an excessive ego-orientation | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you find yourself divided, and this always creates tension, pain, anxiety, as well as inner and outer | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you fear frustration, unfulfillment, and their consequences, the tension of your soul movement will prohibit the fulfillment | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| It is actually this opposition that creates the tension and strain of crisis, not the giving up | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| good; on the contrary, it increases the critical tension. The momentary relief is illusion of the most | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| yourself in a frenzy of frustration, bitterness and tension. Alternatively, you may manage also to deny -- | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| No exists. Instead of wasting energy in inner tension and frenzy to overcome what appears to block | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| an urgency which, in turn, manifests only indirectly. Tension, anxiety, inability to concentrate, absent-mindedness, a sense of | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| that blindness. To the degree that struggle and tension exist in a personality, the various aspects of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| experience, you put yourself in a state of tension. Guardedness is tension. Pleasure and creativity can thrive | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| yourself in a state of tension. Guardedness is tension. Pleasure and creativity can thrive only in a | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| times the original residual pain. It creates painful tension in the system, which is always blamed on | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| way a person can lose fear, anxiety, and tension. As long as you hope against hope that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| example, a physical symptom such as pain or tension with the corresponding mental attitude, with the thought | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you begin to sense that a specific bodily tension comes from a feeling of hate and rage | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| inadequate? Do you feel an inexplicable anxiety and tension? Do you suffer from guilt feelings which you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| receiving? Are you plagued with resentments, anxiety, and tension, or with loneliness and a sense of isolation | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you wait in fear? Do you wait in tension? Or do you wait in quiet trust? Or | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| a forcing current which prohibits fulfillment because its tension and its emotional mind-content defeat creation? If the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| mean. A completely fearless state, without contraction and tension, is the state that makes a personality susceptible | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| far from being a passive state. Lack of tension does not imply flaccidity or motionlessness. It is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| ever-moving state in which the pulsatory changes of tension, in a different sense, alternate with openness and | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| endure any kind of frustration creates an inner tension and defensive structure that close up the vessel | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| or die. Such a demand creates an unbearable tension that is often a direct block to the | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| painful duality. You erroneously attempt to reduce the tension of this painful state by pressuring life into | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| enrichment given to you. There exists a tremendous tension between the male and female energy currents. This | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| between the male and female energy currents. This tension can manifest in a positive or a negative | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the total personality is being thwarted and the tension is so powerfully accumulated that nonsexual violence is | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| but understood in its true meaning. When the tension manifests positively, it is truly a psychic nuclear | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| incomplete development. The explosive force of the male-female tension and its release permeates the total personality and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| exists, you must live in fear, in inner tension, and you cannot realize your ultimate state of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and oppose -- is in a state of tension and therefore unable to heal itself. The state | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| necessary to have no expectations whatever: expectations create tension, and tension prevents the necessary state of total | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| have no expectations whatever: expectations create tension, and tension prevents the necessary state of total inner and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |