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| motion a new chain reaction. Or the person represses knowledge about the childhood incident but realizes intellectually | 38 IMAGES |
| process of will, an outer mental decision which represses what is still a part of your emotional | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be that he is unlovable, and so he represses. While doing so, he not only represses the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| he represses. While doing so, he not only represses the painful fear, but he also represses the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| only represses the painful fear, but he also represses the entire process of image-formation, the needs, false | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| opposite of the type I discussed before, who represses feelings. The two types often get into conflict | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| energy. He cannot separate the two. Simultaneously, he represses his need for affection and love, for he | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
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| be in control of evolving negative emotions without repressing them, but expressing them constructively and learning from | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emotions to reach surface awareness. Once you stop repressing your emotions, you will find not only definite | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| becomes even less likely. But you go on repressing your needs, your hurts, and your disappointments. Perhaps | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| To a degree, you may occasionally succeed in repressing these emotions, but only with the result that | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| about the root of your problems. Instead of repressing daydreams or indulging in them without trying to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| only of the secondary reaction -- the anger. Repressing the truth institutes a process of self-alienation, of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| face it, examine it, grasp it, instead of repressing it, and then come to terms with it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| fact, it causes the opposite to happen. By repressing and hiding them, the forces that could easily | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| she often, artificially, create a false femininity by repressing her so-called masculine trends. These trends are no | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| This is one of the predominant reasons for repressing needs -- believing that thereby they will cease | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| that thereby they will cease to exist. By repressing needs, the imagined pain of frustration is supposed | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| does not mean that you are suppressing or repressing your negative, destructive helplessness. Repression is merely another | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and react according to a destructive trend means repressing it and superimposing a constructiveness that is not | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of pleasurable feelings and negative events. Instead of repressing it, denying it, looking away from it, you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of feeling guilty about this pleasure and consequently repressing it, you will be in a position to | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| liberation -- is so much more effective than repressing it and then becoming impatient and putting pressure | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of running away from feeling and thus of repressing your vital energy. There is no pain that | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| be careful what thoughts you think without either repressing or suppressing undesirable and destructive thoughts. This does | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| back. This leads to repression. The step after repressing is making it conscious but not acting it | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| discover my heart. For years I have been repressing them and now that I want them, I | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
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| the unconscious. It is precisely this split and repression which give rise to the unhealthy soul currents | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| fleshly impulses and spiritualize them. This leads to repression, and when you view repression with a fresh | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| This leads to repression, and when you view repression with a fresh outlook, you will see that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| This is not due to sublimation, resignation or repression. It happens because the instincts grow within the | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| harmony, or whether it is a sign of repression. It may be either artificial or genuine. The | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| their various emotional reactions. You will unlearn the repression of forbidden feelings and will acknowledge them without | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| It is the long, drawn-out result of consistent repression. Due to such repression, the emotions that come | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| drawn-out result of consistent repression. Due to such repression, the emotions that come out first will appear | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| of your being able to govern them without repression, it is a form of temper tantrum in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| misused, and leads to and often actually means repression. The necessity of channeling powerful destructive emotions exists | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| I explained today, the means are those of repression and therefore obstruction of growth occurs. That you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| channel and to neutralize, one often resorts to repression and the crippling of an essential part of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with what still exists in you leads to repression and therefore to a false self-image. It leads | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| observing such emotions without self-contempt and therefore without repression and without self-moralizing. The nagging, mostly unconscious suspicion | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you want it, it cannot be valid. The repression of these two sets of emotions consumes a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a little further. In other words, because of repression of negative emotions, as well as of positive | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| futility -- and both are a result of repression. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes. How can I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are the only one leads to further repression. My dearest friends, be blessed, each one of | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| necessary. Once you free yourself of resistance and repression, it will be a great relief to recognize | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| misconception about the meeting of real needs produces repression and, subsequently, a defense mechanism which is very | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| for you. The ability to relinquish indicates maturity. Repression, on the other hand, creating blind needs and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| becomes necessary and can be endured. Unawareness and repression, on the other hand, create such an urgency | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| empty and dissatisfied. In this nucleus of division, repression, and therefore self-destructive activities and undesired results, you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| The inability to have them comes from the repression of needs, the clinging to illusion, and the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| need away. This would only lead to further repression. Find out why these needs exist. You are | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| another essential part of your being, resulting in repression, discontent, anxiety, a sense of failure, and self-contempt | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| You are now trying to retain it without repression. But instead of retaining it, you have to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| might lead to misunderstanding. It may lead to repression, suppression, to a forceful, superimposed action that cannot | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| your reactions to an imperfect situation -- and repression causes the conflict and confusion to increase rather | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| generate by being unaware of your unfulfillment. The repression is harmful for two reasons: first, if you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| protective defense mechanism. By observing emotional exaggeration versus repression you will finally see how the real self | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is connected with the pseudo-solution of power. The repression of feelings is connected with the pseudo-solution of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| your capacity to experience real feelings, and necessitates repression and self-deception. QUESTION: In a previous lecture you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| exaggeratedly strong and therefore immature, because of your repression of it and the consequent frustration of the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| of it. It has to come out of repression and reach surface awareness in order for you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| are, and therefore resolve conflicts -- not by repression and escaping from them, not by pseudo-solutions and | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and again we have discussed this entire condition: repression, self-deception, non- acceptance of who you really are | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for whisking it away. That can only produce repression, and repression is self- deception. You think you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it away. That can only produce repression, and repression is self- deception. You think you do not | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to self-knowledge, yes. But discipline connotes compulsion, suppression, repression, and forceful action -- all shortcuts, all illusions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| going about it -- namely, being free from repression and having the willingness to calmly and unjudgingly | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| soul to be able to stand frustration without repression or anger. This has the healing effect of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| with his hidden selfishness and cruelty due to repression, is unable to attain the desired positive result | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| that you can visualize the damage done by repression. You need a new impetus in order to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| as to make this process quite clear. The repression of the lower self falls in three categories | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the lower self falls in three categories: (1) repression of the actual lower-self in its distinct and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to the exclusion of all other interests; (2) repression of creative and productive aspects and trends; (3 | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of creative and productive aspects and trends; (3) repression of instincts which are as yet unproductive and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| conditions of your emotional life that show how repression creates rigidity. Rigidity is the opposite of life | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fostered as an antidote to forbidden pleasure, and repression of hate and anger occurs only subsequently. Thus | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| need to find the entanglements among your guilt, repression, fear, early childhood fixations of the pleasure principle | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| into something bad. This fact requires hiding, denying, repression. The existing energy does not dissolve into thin | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| are suppressing or repressing your negative, destructive helplessness. Repression is merely another word for deception. But when | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| are unable to prevent it. From suppression and repression, as you all know, strange and even more | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| together of fantasy and reality does not mean repression of fantasy life, but true overcoming of it | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| I shall neither deny this inner refusal by repression nor give in to it. I shall meet | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| for this particular distortion. Consequently, there is denial, repression, and further alienation from the nucleus where these | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| diminish and disappear. This is altogether different from repression: the latter binds vital life energy, whereas the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| inferiority from the world and himself, which increases repression and pretenses. And on and on it goes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| misunderstood and lead toward a renewed suppression or repression of the destructive part that is beginning to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| help you. Both views of evil lead to repression; yet acknowledging evil also leads to the possibility | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| hand, or, on the other, of self-indulgence, denial, repression and evasion. Such understanding requires continual inspiration from | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the open, you can deal with it. All repression and all hiding create vicious circles and negative | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and tight selfwill, and by the negation and repression of feelings and thoughts. Hardened insistence must not | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| guilt, so that it keeps you cowering in repression and misery, nor belittle it. Allow yourself to | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Not doing so need not lead back to repression and denial. Often you admit your behavior but | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| which is holding it back. This leads to repression. The step after repressing is making it conscious | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| present state -- only leads to self-hate, denial, repression, self-justification and projecting onto others. This in turn | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the denial of your present state. Denial and repression lead to self-justification, destructive guilt and blaming of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| human state, anxiety is always a sign of repression. Such a state is a gauge for you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| which I described earlier, was a complete suppression, repression, and denial of the spiritual power currents. In | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| shame. Today the misunderstandings about sexual guilt and repression in your world are almost as great as | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| sexuality is fraught with denials such as homosexuality, repression, asexuality, impotence, frigidity, or with negative expression as | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the angry feelings themselves as their suppression and repression that cause the strain. The fact that you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |