| unconscious fixation of the pleasure experience on a negative situation. You then fight against this for any | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| outgoing energy current. The current then becomes either negative or numbed. This means that you are either | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| psyche, pure pleasure must be rejected. Hence the negative pleasure is the only way the entity can | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| which has closed your access to transforming the negative pleasure and forced you to reject pleasure that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| life itself, when your response to life is negative in any form and consequently your sense of | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you run away from the nucleus of your negative pleasure principle, as explained in this lecture. It | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| submissive, not assertive enough and thus encourage a negative situation in a very different way from that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| I am weak and confused and therefore where negative emotions come into existence. Where is it that | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| far as they go. They may result from negative childhood experiences, from misinterpretations of childhood events, from | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| distrust, and other destructive feelings, must then create negative contact. All human beings experience some counter-pull, even | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| blocks and throws the cosmic stream off course, negative and painful contact has to ensue. The pleasure | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| The pleasure principle will be attached to a negative situation, born out of childhood experiences. This makes | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| where this force is distorted, the pleasure becomes negative. Since contact appears to hurt, pleasure manifests either | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and experience this vicious circle without misjudging the negative connection between contact, pain, and the pleasure principle | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| for your deepest nature. Do not mistake the negative emotions you first encounter for the ultimate reality | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the shameful attachments of the pleasure principle to negative situations is not your deepest nature. It is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and abstinence in order to avoid revealing the negative traits. He thinks that in this way he | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| outwardly, rebels against postponed gratification is angry, exclusive, negative, tense, and stubborn. All these traits defeat the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| QUESTION: You discussed the cosmic pull that becomes negative in the individual at a certain period of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the negation combines with the original force, and negative contact ensues. The actual contact taking place expresses | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| may manifest on any level of the personality. Negative contact manifesting in the desire to hurt expresses | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the sexual level, such an individual is sadistic. Negative contact that manifests in being hurt, expresses itself | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you examine the nucleus of power in its negative manifestations and see that this same energy can | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| conclusion, each erroneous opinion, each destructive attitude, each negative emotion stands directly in the way of the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| life and yourself so seriously, in such a negative, despairing, heavy way. You can take life and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| do not have to be intense in this negative sense. Become aware of the difference. Focus your | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| much of your involuntary processes lead you into negative experience, due to the presence of unconscious false | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| ignore that these forces are only dangerous or negative because they work according to your own ideas | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| imbalance, pressure, tension, anxiety, and will finally manifest negative effects. This applies not only to the body | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| that this is quite possible. Unhealthy desires and negative emotions exist indeed. They are the result of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| they force upon you. Once you allow the negative material fully into your consciousness, you must soon | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in you than you are of all the negative feelings and desires put together. Anyone who goes | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| seem to be even more threatening than the negative ones regarding the loss of control and individuality | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| still exist. A will to be destructive and negative must still exist. A desire to cheat life | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the areas of unhappiness, the will to be negative and destructive -- to cheat, to defy, to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| what I say here as undisputable fact. When negative outer experience comes to those who have not | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| how to react meaningfully and adequately to a negative experience in a moment. This apparently theoretical discussion | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not according to reality. No matter what the negative -- or whether it appears in one's private | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| about psychological reactions to outer experiences that cause negative, destructive emotions and reactions in you. I do | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear of experience does not only exist regarding negative, painful experience. There is as much fear, and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| two possibilities. There is the possibility that something negative and destructive would come out. And there is | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| only the former is feared. Fear of the negative is, of course, one very substantial reason why | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| in human living. Because positive forces are restricted, negative forces grow. Or, to put it more accurately | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| twisted, disturbed, converted, distorted, and thus becomes a negative force. This is not a different force that | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| so. In fact, it is easy for the negative emotion to reconvert to its original manifestation, for | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| sadness, self-pity, pain, healthy aggression, and self-assertion. All negative energy currents must be experienced and owned up | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| a vague theoretical way the existence of some negative feelings. It does not suffice to make abstractions | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and how you refuse to budge from the negative position because you feel deprived. You must feel | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| feelings and made you turn them into a negative force. In other words, it is not so | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| realizations must be made, or new and different negative emotions faced. It is more a question of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| beauty. The more you hold in check the negative reactions and confusions by covering them up, denying | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| flow. This begins to operate even before the negative condition has ceased to exist. The attitude one | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the courage to experience the power in its negative aspect -- so that no one is harmed | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a destructive, erroneous state and then the negative effects become worse and worse. The immature believe | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you will find primarily that you conceive of negative possibilities which you naturally fear, wish to avoid | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your psychic energies to defend yourself against possible negative experience, your motivation is negative. Negative motivation does | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| yourself against possible negative experience, your motivation is negative. Negative motivation does not necessarily imply a destructive | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| against possible negative experience, your motivation is negative. Negative motivation does not necessarily imply a destructive intent | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| aim. The avoidance of a feared possibility implies negative motivation. Upon close examination of your mental and | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| often true that you have simply accepted a negative idea that really makes no sense and has | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| psyche, it is essential to let out these negative emotions in the way you learn to do | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to do. Even if you admit to such negative emotions in principle, you still prefer to act | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you. Also, you cling for dear life to negative emotions because you fear positive feelings. This is | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| less you see yourself as responsible for the negative feelings you still possess as well as for | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| must do something to eliminate that fear. Thus negative motivation comes about. You live a makeshift life | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to avoid the threat of expressing your own negative feelings because they would spoil your obtaining from | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| from the fundamental necessity of recognizing all these negative aspects -- must always begin with the willingness | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| This weakens you and creates a host of negative emotions which cause you to lose contact with | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| inadvertently. So you must seek to understand the negative creation as your own product. Unless you do | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Unless you do this you cannot undo the negative creation, nor can you ever find the glory | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| constantly at your disposal. Not seeing that the negative creations are your own product makes you inevitably | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| within yourself, often reveals itself first in its negative manifestation. Even when you believe in the creative | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to extricate yourself from then untruths. Therefore various negative emotions, tensions and distortions of concepts come into | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| connect with that in you which causes your negative experiences. Only then can you resolve the problems | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Somewhere within you exists a will to be negative and destructive. This will is quite deliberate, once | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yourself: Where am I destructive? Where am I negative? Where do I refuse to accept the universal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| topic? QUESTION: I am becoming aware of some negative chain reactions in myself and of the harm | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| out in what way you cling to a negative attitude. This is precisely why you fear the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| good feelings. To the degree you cling to negative attitudes, and therefore negative feelings, to that degree | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| degree you cling to negative attitudes, and therefore negative feelings, to that degree you must fear the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the positive before you recognize the connection between negative reality and negative beliefs. Only when you realistically | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you recognize the connection between negative reality and negative beliefs. Only when you realistically accept a limitation | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| experience one as positive and the other as negative. The deep psyche, in which not all old | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| As long as the feeling world is predominantly negative and destructive, its self-perpetuating nature creates highly damaging | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feelings to stay safe from its self- perpetuating negative creativity, they also erect a barricade around the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to experience spiritually. Your emotions seem far more negative than positive. Even your preaching about love and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| Then you will experience a wonderful process: The negative, painful feeling will dissolve naturally, as every living | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| existence is free from a conglomerate of strong negative feelings. There is hopeless agony, there is violent | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of not being able to ever exhaust these negative feelings, nor being able to handle them -- | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| until the circle is broken. In such a negative cycle, the vital glow of your energy and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| as you are unwilling to give up this negative attitude toward life, in which you hug resentments | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| exist, because you learn, as you face the negative temporary truth, to also call upon the forces | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to life and others -- will have a negative reaction to all this only because your self- | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| what you express to others be anything but negative and destructive? Moreover, how can your perception of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| at least in certain areas -- to remain negative toward life and others. As you give up | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| As you give up the wish to remain negative and exchange it for a wish to be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| threefold principle governing relationships will change from the negative to the positive. You will perceive yourself correctly | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| know that it is precisely by accepting the negative emotions that you dissolve them. Even while you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| dissolve them. Even while you still have your negative feelings, you simultaneously begin to experience an aliveness | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| life makes the negativity eventually superfluous. Rejecting the negative experience binds you to it for as long | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| fear. When I speak of not rejecting your negative feelings, I do not mean that you are | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to welcome pain. What I mean is that negative experience ceases only when you do not shrink | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| something that feels -- even if it be negative now -- you eliminate the possibility of feeling | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| love, find how you defend yourself against any negative feeling and experience. There you will have the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| new friends here: When I speak of accepting negative emotions, I do not mean masochistic, self-denying, morbid | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| do not mean masochistic, self-denying, morbid attitudes toward negative experience. You are not required to welcome it | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| your feelings. Do not morbidly dwell on a negative emotion, but do not shrink in fear from | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| path. As you discover the root of your negative experience within you, you become capable of transforming | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| though it brings forth the most violent and negative actions. Only when development proceeds further and the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| unless you first come to terms with your negative emotions and desires. When you fully face these | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| let the active principle out and sow its negative seeds. Thus, in a transitory state of evolution | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| to allow the destructiveness to rule and precipitate negative actions. The individual does not know yet, however | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| activity because they are justifiably afraid of the negative components in it, and those who dim this | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| lifeless, and trapped in apathy. They are distrustful, negative, and withdrawn from life. They have a great | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| is unreality, and unreality cannot help but produce negative emotions such as anger, hopelessness, and distrust. Moreover | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| but throws off the effects without deeply imprinting negative patterns. It is these negative patterns that are | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| without deeply imprinting negative patterns. It is these negative patterns that are directly responsible for the unhappy | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| understand this point clearly and work through the negative patterns to overcome that which holds you back | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| believe we want, our life situation, in its negative manifestations, reveals a contradictory unconscious desire. Life cannot | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| may even discover that there are fewer hidden negative attitudes than overt healthy attitudes. But by virtue | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| attitudes. But by virtue of being unconscious, the negative attitudes exert much greater power than the conscious | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| vague reactions, the contradictory wishes, hidden fears, and negative desires will surface. When they are recognized, they | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| realistic conscious goals. Recreating Soul Substance by Changing Negative Imprints to Positive Imprints After you become thoroughly | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| conscious of your misconceptions and actively experience your negative emotions without acting out the negativity, the recreating | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and is capable of relating to others. Its negative, distorted version is pushiness, the manifestation of the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| flow? When emotions tighten up because of such negative feelings, the physical structure must eventually also tighten | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| This fundamental duality creates the chain reaction of negative emotions, limited concept, conflict between self and others | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| as you are concerned. This deepening conviction increases negative feelings, tightens your defenses, closes the centers. As | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of life are geared to deprivation and thus negative feelings, which you must fear to expose? Therefore | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the false ideas, which create fear and other negative emotions as well as the fear of feelings | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| paying attention to all the errors that create negative feelings and destructive actions. You know already from | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is a result of error and creates other negative feelings, thus again tension. When you are tense | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| an important example of error creating tension and negative emotions. What human being is not, to begin | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the misconception; the feeling responds to it by negative, destructive emotions; and the body expresses all this | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| how can you confront, accept, and admit those negative, destructive traits, weaknesses, little selfishnesses, cruelties, and vanities | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are so bad, so unacceptable, so destructive, so negative, find themselves in the error of perceiving and | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| automatically fall into the old conditioned reflexes, your negative approach, without paying attention to what you are | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| failures on the one hand, and your one-sided, negative automatic reactions, on the other. As long as | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| must be convinced that change is impossible. The negative conviction makes it also impossible to summon the | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| as fatal ways as giving vent to those negative instincts. This lecture will give you an additional | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| depth, you need to see what positive and negative directions consciousness can take. You have within you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of your creative consciousness with which you will negative and destructive results. One could also say that | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the part of your consciousness that has become negative and destructive. We have concentrated heavily on accomplishing | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| self when you are still blind to your negative creations. Sometimes certain channels happen to be unobstructed | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| how your thoughts run in the same unproductive negative channels. Nor do you see that you derive | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| inattention to go on. When you observe your negative thoughts, it is important to realize (a) what | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| tidings. But first you must see yourself pursuing negative thoughts. See yourself brooding in the same vicious | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| convinced you can experience only this or that negative manifestation in life. Once you observe the tenacity | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| see how you have taken the experience of negative manifestation for granted. Perhaps you want a positive | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you nevertheless insist on hanging on to your negative will. You can see how all-important it is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| creativity, both in the positive and in the negative sense, this can be achieved only to a | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| to stop. Creation then takes place in a negative sense, until the results are so unpleasant that | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| They still find fascination in the exploration of negative creation, at least to some extent. Some separated | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |