| Overcompensate..............5 | |
| you do not love yourself properly you do overcompensate by misdirected self-love. QUESTION: What about narcissism? ANSWER | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| influence of the mass image of self-importance, you overcompensate by scrupulously proving the decent side in you | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the measure the inner readiness is lacking, you overcompensate with a superficial outer readiness, which however can | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| more it is hidden, the more you may overcompensate for it by going in the opposite extreme | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| a sense of waste ensue. You may then overcompensate by blindly, rebelliously, misusing your life force. This | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| Overcompensation............6 | |
| activity may be all the stronger as an overcompensation, they are being lured to sink into a | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of self-love, your self-contempt, and choose the sick overcompensation. Actually, your rebellion is never directed toward others | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| children. Such spoiling and pampering may be an overcompensation and a sort of apology for a deeply | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| wrong, but is in reality a spiritual factor. Overcompensation and mischanneling are further results until the soul | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| overboard and exaggerate this image of masculinity. This overcompensation would not exist if you were deeply ready | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| others are not. In such a case an overcompensation can occur on the level where movement is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Overcontrol.................3 | |
| as a warning to justify his or her overcontrol. They will say, You see, this is what | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is so exceedingly difficult to let go of overcontrol by the ego. If self-realization is to be | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| false lack of control, and vice versa. The overcontrol on the feeling level will be easier to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Over-control................3 | |
| the outer ego faculties, when to relinquish tight over-control, and when to use outer will in the | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and let the inner self manifest. Where such over-control has existed for some time and exhausted the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| could the next evolutionary step be taken. The over-control must now be loosened up. In former times | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Overcontrolled..............3 | |
| glorifies his way. The person who is fearfully overcontrolled and rigid will use the example of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| one, who evades self-honesty as much as the overcontrolled person, will claim the rightness of that course | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| see-saw. Realize the extremes of the heavily guarded, overcontrolled, rigid, unspontaneous, unfeeling, overwatchful person as opposed to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Overdeveloped...............6 | |
| yours continue to nurse and cultivate the already overdeveloped aspect. That, of course, is not healthy; it | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| underdeveloped in one area of your personality and overdeveloped in another. In this way nature tries to | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| godlike state to some degree. QUESTION: Regarding the overdeveloped and underdeveloped parts of the ego: would they | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| trust in God, is where my ego is overdeveloped. Where I fear self-responsibility, that is where my | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| future decisions. The refusal to surrender creates an overdeveloped self-will which takes its toll on the personality | 254 SURRENDER |
| enrichment must follow it according to natural law. Overdeveloped self-will always brings strife. You can see in | 254 SURRENDER |
| Overdramatize...............4 | |
| causes you to dramatize yourself. You not only overdramatize the world around you as it relates to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| I have also talked about how you artificially overdramatize your life, your emotions, and everything pertaining to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you are expected to feel, or, if you overdramatize, what you think another person should feel or | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| from within. Those who have a tendency to overdramatize, to be willful and to counterfeit feelings, should | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Overeager...................4 | |
| they are allowed some further time. Others are overeager and desire to incarnate too quickly. Then, too | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| how you break these laws. If you are overeager or overanxious, if your desire for communication is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| inner forces restrict, and seem to reject, the overeager attempt at communication. In your everyday observations you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| you and are relaxed about both -- not overeager and not frightened -- then manifestations can appear | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Overemotionalism............6 | |
| can happen in many subtle ways. A forceful overemotionalism, overdramatization, exaggeration, talking yourself into stronger feelings than | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| experience of your soul. You put on the overemotionalism, perhaps because, quite unconsciously, you thus wish to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| deep, inherent fear. QUESTION: Would you say that overemotionalism is destructive? ANSWER: Of course, everything that is | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| be attained by investigating the particulars of this overemotionalism. When the personality does not dare to invest | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| false defense mechanisms -- then, as always, an overemotionalism occurs in other areas. Nature tries to reestablish | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| individual is allowed to fill this void, the overemotionalism will cease. Both manifestations are painful, the emptiness | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Overemphasis................22 | |
| for their lives and development. Due to their overemphasis on the emotional side, they neglect the equally | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| activity, which excludes the possibility of a disharmonious overemphasis. It is the same with the highest representatives | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| not be understood properly, will be misapplied by overemphasis on one, so that the other two are | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| two will be influenced. Let us say, your overemphasis is on the principle of expansion, which works | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| works both positively and negatively in you. The overemphasis causes a negative effect, a deviation in the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| another. None is ousted. Only the deviation or overemphasis is smoothed out. Certainly there is a predominance | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| evil of earth life is always the individual's overemphasis on outer actions, while ignoring and neglecting the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| these mass images have resulted in a deliberate overemphasis on the allowed trends fitting the sex in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| added to it. In society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect are the outcome of | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| superimposed level, vastly inferior to the intuition. Such overemphasis on the reasoning power constantly prevents the real | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| who asked the last question: he places an overemphasis on thinking and reason rather than on feeling | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| token, if you encounter in a human being overemphasis on independence, hostile domineering tendencies, toughness, and denial | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and will bring approval. Whether or not the overemphasis brings an imbalance to the life of the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| one is usually too involved to see clearly. Overemphasis on those aspects of the personality that function | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| in your world, are so conditioned to an overemphasis on thought process, intellect, mind, and willpower, that | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| into it by artificially holding on to an overemphasis on the mind, intellect, and the outer will | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| not try to cut out by force the overemphasis on the outer intellect and will. Use them | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of love may, in other personalities, create an overemphasis, an exaggerated need for purely sexual expression. A | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| frustration of not giving what you have. The overemphasis of one psychological aspect has created a generation | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| stepping stone in humanity's evolution. By now, the overemphasis has gone on too long. This does not | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| your path teaches primarily, and with an apparent overemphasis, self-discipline. True self-purification and transformation on this path | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the pendulum swing into a new balance. The overemphasis on activity now is the balance that you | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Over-emphasis...............3 | |
| It is true that no introspection and an over-emphasis on the outgoing quality hinders progress. This imbalance | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of the whole, you become rigid in such over-emphasis. You thereby neglect other faculties and are thus | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| constructive such self-expression may be in itself. Such over-emphasis may be an indication of a denied need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| Overemphasize...............9 | |
| no further emphasis. In less severe cases, you overemphasize that which you truly are, while you neglect | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| others -- better by finding out whether you overemphasize that in you which is predominant at the | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| your predominant nature, on the other you may overemphasize it. Both decisions happen unconsciously out of your | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you put things out of proportion when you overemphasize the good or the bad, according to the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is with inner safety, you are bound to overemphasize and therefore distort the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| experience certain facets of them which you may overemphasize in proportion to how these facets seem to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| scale, they could do much more. Yet they overemphasize parts of their being which are already developed | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real self, you will not fear and consequently overemphasize your ego faculties. Nor will you leave important | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| concentration appears justified to you. You may subtly overemphasize one side of an interaction, or exclude another | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |