| clings to the supposed safety of the negative reaction. This holds true particularly with people who do | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| drive becomes to make them work. This defensive reaction causes the rigidity. Growth, development, maturity and the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| success in social life -- will generate this reaction in your unconscious. Only close analysis of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Only close analysis of the incident and your reaction to it will reveal the truth of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This is one aspect. The guilt is the reaction of your submissiveness to your power drive. An | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| That endeavor, however, was accompanied by an unavoidable reaction, not so much of anti-religion, as you may | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not an intellectual, conscious judgement, but an emotional reaction. This extreme, negative view arising from certain negative | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| not show. Yet, on some level of emotional reaction, such exaggeration always exists. When you learn to | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| but this would be an over-simplification. The chain reaction goes a little further. In other words, because | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| prohibits truth, spontaneity, and reality. In a secondary reaction, you focus your inner, often unconscious attention solely | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not to what actually exists. In a primary reaction, free of the illusion of hoping to bring | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| like the other person. This is a secondary reaction. Your liking the other person may be in | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| will be liked, or, in your spontaneous primary reaction, seeing the truth you will perceive that approval | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| twists? ANSWER: When there is such a strong reaction, such a negative experience, something in you still | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| disadvantage of some sort. Your battle, your severe reaction, is partly due to trying to force it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you will finally experience this automatic, spontaneous new reaction. It is never a forced and deliberate thing | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to notice the difference in your behavior and reaction when you feel the defensive wall in you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| threatened. The feeling in you, coming as a reaction to the instances just mentioned, is your defense | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this mechanism in you reacts and how such reaction is against your interest. You have to observe | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a new and different way of action and reaction after you have gained a sufficient amount of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| another person or to your own dreams, your reaction to both is often the same. You turn | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| I face all these truths about myself? Such reaction indicates exactly the attitude of perfectionism about your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| leaving it vague and not registering any particular reaction. In reality, there is a reaction on your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| any particular reaction. In reality, there is a reaction on your part. This process of ignoring your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| you really and truly react. Perhaps your outward reaction is not that different from your inner reaction | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| reaction is not that different from your inner reaction, your feelings are simply dulled and you react | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| find that you become aware of a certain reaction on your part perhaps only a few days | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| might never have become aware of your real reaction. You might have passed it by in utter | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| have passed it by in utter blindness. Delayed reaction is certainly progress compared with no conscious reaction | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| reaction is certainly progress compared with no conscious reaction. In this respect, too, only if you accept | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| between the incident and the awareness of your reaction. The synchronization of these two factors can come | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| do with the rest of your life. Your reaction to real life creates a split that could | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| understood in their dynamics -- the impression and reaction must change in you. This does not mean | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| timing -- who is affected first. The secondary reaction is then a delayed one. Psychology has used | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| are no longer dead inside. But the first reaction will not be pleasant. It cannot be. All | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| new patterns become an integral and almost automatic reaction in you. Your old patterns have been in | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| up, meaning to protect yourself. However, this defensive reaction is so imbedded in you, and has become | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and become more intensely aware of the defensive reaction so that you may get over it. When | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| point, to heighten the speed of the appropriate reaction, and to quicken the power of your perception | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is necessary to protect yourself. With the glandular reaction, however, you will develop more strength -- physical | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and meaningful life, will be excluded. If this reaction happens in isolated moments of actual danger, it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you immediately repress the hurt -- your primary reaction -- and you substitute anger and hostility for | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the original hurt, but only of the secondary reaction -- the anger. Repressing the truth institutes a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| effect. Only after you have tried this new reaction will you see how much more constructive and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| some truth in the criticism? Observe your inner reaction of fright. You will soon discover that your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| cover self-defense, but it is also a natural reaction against someone who has made promises to you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Because in anger, when it is a secondary reaction, you no longer know what you truly feel | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| extend this strong, demanding force and observe your reaction when it is repelled. See the force in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it nature's plan that a child develops a reaction, a neurosis against a parent or parents, regardless | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| laws and the significance of creation. 2) a reaction to the superstitious God- Image and self-projection of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or stagnation. It may be a necessary, temporary reaction to an unhealthy submissiveness, to the craving for | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| may be a temporary necessity because of a reaction to previous withdrawal, and, as such, the seeking | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| words. In individuals of the love-starved variety another reaction exists that also has to be brought to | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| I am glad that others suffer too. This reaction often produces such shock and guilt that it | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| thought process, and the proper observation of your reaction whenever you come close to this phase. When | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| temptation to pamper yourself by the very strong reaction of hurt you produce, then you have an | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| self-knowledge daily and mean it sincerely, your extreme reaction to certain destructive tendencies, which you have so | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| subtle -- and sometimes not so subtle -- reaction of shying away from facing yourself in this | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| your daily living. Also, look at your disproportionate reaction that says, Now I am no good, which | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| is the overconscience, an oversensitivity. It is a reaction of being hurt due to the hurt one | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| find a warding-off process in such a suffering reaction. The psyche says, I cannot take it. I | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| of a lover. If you discover such a reaction in yourself, it represents a valuable clue to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| in such a case is to detect the reaction of fright, or anxiety, or feelings of loss | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| subtle procedure is set in motion, an automatic reaction that is not commensurate with the outer occurrence | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| distort the relationship between the event and your reaction to it. I have shown you a new | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on you, and you have this or that reaction to it, then you can go a step | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| inquiry. The rejection is not so much a reaction against the demands themselves as against the temptation | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| discriminate is what makes you insecure. Keeping your reaction hidden will make discrimination even less possible. Your | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| fright and refusal to engage are unjustified. Such reaction indicates an excessive demand on your part: wanting | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| healthy soul-substance will not even have a negative reaction if the story is misinterpreted. False myths will | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| I mean is the automatic response, the stereotyped reaction that you repeat throughout life, reacting to others | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you force the other person into the very reaction that would not have been forthcoming had you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| not, it becomes so only because of your reaction, which is based on a false premise. Therefore | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| on you. Response to one parent may be reaction to, and correction of, an unwanted situation with | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| So, my friends, look at this inevitable chain reaction. It would be useful if my friends participated | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| is upset; conflict and confusion perpetuate the chain reaction. Illusion and misconception create a duality which appears | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is evidently the result of a long chain reaction of negative beliefs and misconceptions, you will no | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the foreign body and beginning to sense another reaction coming from the real self. The fact that | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| can be as healthy and necessary an occasional reaction as love is. It forms part of love | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| others and therefore ultimately to myself. This vague reaction also has to be brought to the surface | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| one might often observe that the first spontaneous reaction to others is a feeling for and with | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| a participation of the soul. But the second reaction restricts this emotional flow. Something clicks inside and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| orientation of the pleasure principle. In their spontaneous reaction, more and more individuals will respond to positive | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| deadens the rich life substance. A negative chain reaction is triggered by your refusal to give up | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| whole self. The first link in the chain reaction is a narrow choice between good and bad | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| unreal. The next link in the negative chain reaction, following self-alienation, is that these apparently good and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| you become one with yourself. A further chain reaction of self-alienation is losing oneself in the illusion | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and again that you started the negative chain reaction deliberately at one point. Then it got out | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| to retrace all the points in the chain reaction of various causes and effects. It is easy | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| This is the nature of the self-perpetuating chain reaction. When a negative chain reaction is activated, each | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the self-perpetuating chain reaction. When a negative chain reaction is activated, each link -- which is simultaneously | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| original level. Correcting each link in the chain reaction fills people with dread. They unreasonably fear this | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| a considerable degree in such a negative chain reaction, with all its pain and frustration, will you | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| point of departure through the self- created chain reaction until you reach the level of origin with | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| focus. This is the point of the chain reaction where the majority of you now stand -- | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| you into the next link in the chain reaction. When we understand the fear you have of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| need to question the meaning of a particular reaction and look behind the facade, beyond what it | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| have you conditioned yourself to a pattern of reaction, to an orientation and a way to operate | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| False feelings are the result of a chain reaction that must weaken the self, waste life, and | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| do with sexuality. Now, my friends, the chain reaction I have just explained must be personally understood | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of pain. If you have not verified this reaction in yourself you may find this contention unbelievable | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| in the way one does and why the reaction exists in the first place, instead of leaving | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| or expresses on the physical level, the emotional reaction to and the apprehension of falling and crushing | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| aggressive, cruel. All human beings have a similar reaction to their real self. This does not apply | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| when you merely register a sensation or a reaction to your surroundings. Something that is not spontaneous | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| -- remain inwardly relaxed. Observe the automatic reflex reaction in your soul movement, how it automatically tenses | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| on, when you ceased being a child, your reaction to what took place, to the sense of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for you are still frightened of facing the reaction you have to feeling frustrated and rejected. If | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by your mother, but mainly because of your reaction to that. This was -- and still is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hurt. It is a response, an automatic reflex reaction and, as that, it is blind. This makes | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is allowed its free flow, the first instant reaction will be to restrict it -- and that | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ever-wakeful presence of your real self flashes its reaction into a mind that is unable to interpret | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| I had felt as I pretended then their reaction would indeed be unjust. This thinking harbors the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| collective labels come from and why. The first reaction often is that you do not even know | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you believe a situation or event or someone's reaction means, then you will know why you are | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you produce waves of pain by your very reaction, as if the situation were truly so painful | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| conscious mind. The next link in this chain reaction is difficulty in asserting oneself, difficulty in taking | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| removed itself from its divine kernel. A chain reaction set in and humanity's striving away from the | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| perception of yourself is faulty and limited, your reaction to what you are must be very disturbing | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| life and others -- will have a negative reaction to all this only because your self- perception | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| do not perceive in truth, so that your reaction to it when it indirectly manifests must be | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| other side battles it. In that battle your reaction becomes even more painful: greater dissension with yourself | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| off in this life. Much of the painful reaction is produced because you battle yourself as you | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Wrong perception of self leads to wrong, destructive reaction and, further, to destructive expression out into the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your self-image, others will reflect this negativity. Your reaction to that reflection must also be faulty, since | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| to perceive yourself correctly? The triad of perception, reaction, expression works quite differently in truth and creative | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| faculties intact. As you perceive yourself accurately, your reaction automatically becomes favorable. For then you will want | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| that adds up to a sort of shock reaction. A child responds to a protracted painful situation | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| shrinking and numbing defense. This is a shock reaction. You will see, with your new awareness, your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| new awareness, your soul movements, when this shock reaction is recreated in your present-day reactions. Starting from | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| involved with abandonment. ANSWER: Wherever the inner shock reaction has frozen the life center, this must be | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| specific point that is the trauma. The shock reaction in the soul may in one case exist | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| that triggered off most strongly your soul's shock reaction. In the last analysis it is always the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to. Find that obscure, hidden, and yet available reaction that wards off pleasure. Cultivate a purposeful willingness | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and guilt. This fundamental duality creates the chain reaction of negative emotions, limited concept, conflict between self | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| possibilities is a result of such a chain reaction. The real human sickness is the failure to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| willing, your energies, your possibilities of action and reaction. Each situation you are in contains new possibilities | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| situation you are in contains new possibilities for reaction. You have choices all the time. You can | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| life experiences. The more you experience the chain reaction of this process, the more you also perceive | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| aware of a new constructive, positive way of reaction. This is spontaneous unification. When it occurs you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| would like to discuss a very specific chain reaction -- both in its natural, unhampered, and therefore | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the moment. The links in the negative chain reaction are: life's limitation and enmity against humanity; humanity's | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| defensive pettiness of spirit; self-alienation; the false, destructive reaction to frustration; living for the sake of approval | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| these characteristics. The next step in the chain reaction is self-possession versus self-alienation. If it is true | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| by which we can determine whether the chain reaction is positive or negative in any aspect of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| us to the next link in the chain reaction. What are the elements that determine self- possession | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| When you are involved in the negative chain reaction, the limited, bleak nature of life you experience | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| view either the positive or the negative chain reaction as the only truth of your condition; you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| switch from the negative to the positive chain reaction seems impossible. In this battle you have to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| first established an awareness of a positive chain reaction within yourself. You then have a good basis | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| game with life, thus fortifying a negative chain reaction. But once you have challenged your negative outlook | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| this key. Although every link in the chain reaction is, in itself, not a new discovery, their | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| person really knows the intricate levels of action, reaction and interaction until the threads become so enmeshed | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| problems and unresolved conflicts. As long as the reaction is blind and the projection of guilt unconscious | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| you need a receptive attitude, instead of a reaction that what comes forth is devastating and catastrophic | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| done and must prove a disappointment. This extreme reaction takes place in the innermost layer of the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| of your undesirable attitudes, traits, and characteristics. This reaction must be understood in a much deeper way | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| granted and glossed over by simply giving the reaction a name and then letting it go at | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| that. The meaning of such fearful, uncomfortable, anxious reaction is plainly an expression that says, Such and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| put it differently, when you acquire a new reaction and approach to both life movements. Contrary to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| on. As I mentioned, the usual, automatic reflex reaction to negative experience is blind contraction with its | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| -- can you proceed to acquire a different reaction. Begin to first want to not contract, but | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it in the best possible way. The habitual reaction of the average human being to pleasurable experience | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| note that, in addition to the welcoming joyful reaction, there are others present, for instance a vague | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| hardship. As I said, becoming aware of this reaction should make you look at the opposite picture | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| make you look at the opposite picture: your reaction to pain. As you react, are frightened of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| very important concept to comprehend, my friends. Your reaction to pain -- the denial of it and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| stating and acknowledging in clear-cut words your contracting reaction, with all that this implies. Indicate the momentary | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| be self-annihilation, self-punishment, and violent self-hate as a reaction to perceiving the self as only the negative | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| eliminate it from your psychic system. Your initial reaction to pain with anger is totally normal and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| healthy. If you can understand that such a reaction does not require you to act destructively against | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| reinforced. When the path requires the opposite, your reaction can often be panic, resentment, struggle, resistance, and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| The difficulty is that your understanding of your reaction that equates catastrophe with the unfulfillment of your | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and approved of by everybody is vague. The reaction is not conceptualized, but rationalized away, so that | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| or rather the misconception, entrapped in your strong reaction to an unfulfillment, to a hurt, a criticism | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| track, provided you do not overlook your emotional reaction to the thought you issue forth. Thus the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and do not really constitute an answer. This reaction is predictable and even inevitable. It should not | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| more hide it from yourself than any other reaction. Rather, confront these thoughts and again use honesty | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| they may not be actually conscious of their reaction. It is up to them, whether to make | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| power is ignored. Thus you can ignore a reaction of ill will, envy, or blaming resentment in | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| still react to the past and bring your reaction into the present. The past pain and anguish | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you deny to yourself, becomes a present distorted reaction. And these reactions must be seen for what | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| out if the assumption that underlies a feeling reaction is valid. It is not enough, I repeat | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| but this is not a clean and clear reaction that comes from deep self-knowledge and from understanding | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| power, and you get involved in a chain reaction of error and distortion. You are then in | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| You set up continuous chains of action and reaction of which you often lose track: when an | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| because you have decided to opt for this reaction, my friends. Whenever you so wish, you can | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| inner stillness for the possibility of a new reaction. Yes, you will feel the pain of guilt | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| other, back and forth, in an endless chain reaction. It is in your power, any time you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| selfwill. Envisage yourself in a new state of reaction in which you are neither self-willed nor spineless | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| order by examining carefully every single attitude, belief, reaction and feeling, he or she will continue to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| the hurt that arises in you from this reaction, you can truly risk this event and battle | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| that one's perception of life and hence one's reaction to it are unrealistic. Positive identification can never | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| furthers inner spiritual life. This distortion is a reaction to the equally distorted opposite extreme, which position | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| accepted. Give up your stake in your negative reaction, in the stubborn opinions of your little mind | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| which, in turn, engender specific and distorted action, reaction, and volition. When this connecting bridge is established | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| forth an action. That action brings forth a reaction. That reaction brings forth another reaction. It is | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| action. That action brings forth a reaction. That reaction brings forth another reaction. It is a continuous | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| forth a reaction. That reaction brings forth another reaction. It is a continuous process. These chain reactions | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| always countermanded by an opposite force, the chain reaction must be less intense. Even if it seems | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| The fact that you are convinced your present reaction is an appropriate one to the now is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| inner climate, or a particular state of emotional reaction -- as one of those things that happen | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| negativities strung together. It is an ongoing chain reaction -- really a vicious circle. You may start | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| opposed to continuing in the particular negative chain reaction that has been discovered. Let us suppose you | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| occasionally hear a word that evokes a negative reaction in you. Evil exists in degrees. Many varieties | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| conscious of this fearful thought. Then the first reaction is very often, I do not even want | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| find, in one way or another, a blind reaction that expresses the belief that to be safe | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| I be thought of. The fear of negative reaction from others causes a tremendous amount of anxiety | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| point that creates movement and a systematic chain reaction, one link logically and inexorably following another, until | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| step is to make room for relaxing your reaction of utter disgust and outrage about frustration, your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| about it, and to challenge and question this reaction, to consider it as being possibly faulty and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| like to shed light on a similar, related reaction, and that is your innate rebellion against any | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| only misplaced, but, because they are an inappropriate reaction, they also increase your frustrations and restrictions. So | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| restrictions. So you need to develop a new reaction. First, you need to distinguish between the two | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| thoroughly misplaced. Then you can develop a knowing reaction instead of a blind one. The knowing, conscious | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| you contract in these moments in a frightened reaction, finding yourself unable to endure the state of | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| close yourself up involuntarily, in an almost unbidden reaction on an outer level, against this state. In | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| in which all are equalized was clearly a reaction to the abuse of monarchy and feudalism. The | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not true dignity; it is merely a blind reaction based on emotional reflexes and turbulent feelings that | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| applies to all phases of expansion. But the reaction to your emphasis of the role of Jesus | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| begin with individual Christians who feel a strong reaction against Jesus Christ. They rebel against their early | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| addressed to you. Consider the meaning of this reaction. Can you perhaps take distance from it for | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| against wrong conclusions creates a negative action and reaction pattern which affects others adversely. The misconception is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the word, fails to elicit as strong a reaction from you as the name of Jesus Christ | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| spirits. You have come in touch with a reaction which at first seems inexplicable: where you retract | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| later you learn to see and observe this reaction in you, just as you learn to observe | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| learn to observe any other irrational and destructive reaction. Often this seems to make so little sense | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| that you become discouraged when you see this reaction in you again and again. You meditate, you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| happiness, love, and fulfillment and yet this automatic reaction continues. Is it not clear to you yet | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| extreme. For example, today's sexual freedom is a reaction to the shackles of former times. To a | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| and reconsider some of your previous patterns. Their reaction should not be your inflexible rule to abide | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| manifestation may excite and gladden you, but this reaction is a result of the knowledge your mind | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| disappointments which, in turn, set off a chain reaction of further negative emotions, such as doubt, fear | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| it is a result of a long chain reaction whose origin is precisely the pain of denying | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |