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| through the stream of life. Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your natural feelings. Maybe your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| blindness, ignorance, stubbornness and fear is bound to cramp and hinder you where you least desire it | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| plane, you must be in a constant soul cramp. You may remember how often I discussed the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| contraction in the sense that it is a cramp. But in pure pleasure there is also contraction | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| If you follow through, you will dissolve the cramp such intensity causes on all levels. The misconception | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| at any given moment. You register when you cramp up in fear, for example. I discussed the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| threat soon vanishes. The restricting movement does not cramp up and congest. It remains organic. During the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| chemical medication attempts to artificially loosen up the cramp and reestablish an easy, smooth, vibrant, flexible pulsation | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| them to function naturally; do not let fear cramp up the natural pulsation. Let the involuntary, self-regulating | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| accessible in this life when you do not cramp up against fearful experience, but allow your innermost | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| suddenly permit yourself pleasure. You will no longer cramp up against it, as you inadvertently continue to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| exhausting by its very nature. It makes people cramp up in order to hang on desperately. The | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| prove a way of error and disappointment. You cramp up against that which you fear. The more | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| against that which you fear. The more you cramp up against it the more you alienate yourself | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| something very bad. The duality makes a painful cramp inevitable. Anything you do not want, you intensely | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| than ordinary intensity. It knows no fear, no cramp. It involves the total personality. In order to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| a threat so that the personality does not cramp up and shrink into itself, you cannot detect | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| element. The soul movement of fear is tension, cramp, and stopping of the flow from the inner | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| I said, the dynamics of fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits the creative flow | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits the creative flow. If you go deep | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| everyone must experience death. Therefore, you fear and cramp up against this limit. But denying the result | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| cramped state, and by letting go of the cramp. Meet the fear head on instead of evading | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| more constructive pattern of life. Then the hard cramp relaxes. You will feel it. This action always | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| wanting and not wanting creates not only a cramp, but contains also the duality -- yes versus | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Most people are usually in a state of cramp because their centers are closed. Your misconceptions, fears | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| closed. Your misconceptions, fears, and negativities create this cramp. It is the task of each incarnated entity | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a relaxed state in which there is no cramp. Let us examine what the words inwardly and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| yourself, you will find an emotional tension and cramp; you will see how your mind is either | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| growing self-awareness, your inner blocks of tension and cramp only cover another state in which you are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the vicious circle continues. The fear induces a cramp that becomes a denial of desire. These very | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| your psychic forces, to let go of the cramp that denies truth and change, therefore self-expression and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| unacceptable. You will endure it without the terrible cramp you inflict upon yourself. Then the second aspect | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| are such indispensable prerequisites for the pathwork. The cramp of hardened selfwill intensifies many times the original | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| principles that must unite in harmony. As you cramp yourself into any desire that is too strong | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the doors to joy and relaxed inner creation. Cramp always indicates negation, doubt, a negativity that you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| into action is harmonious, effortless, not like a cramp. When your mind is receptive, it can be | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| when there is a tight holding back, a cramp, a refusal to flow and give out. This | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
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| will is very important, but to exercise a cramped, overintense will on a specific detail could be | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| reason may be that the personality is so cramped, so unfree, that he or she cannot let | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| universe. The outer will is tense, impatient, and cramped. The inner will is calm, relaxed, unhurried. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| attempts to negate death. These artificial, forceful, and cramped attempts bring you so much nearer to what | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| to press the energy under in a hard, cramped, downward movement. Then, when the pressure became too | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| it shoot out, but still in a tense, cramped motion. Both movements were tense and cramped, one | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| tense, cramped motion. Both movements were tense and cramped, one pressing down, the other shooting out. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| try to dispense with the hardened wall, the cramped movement, either pressing down or pushing out, you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| find the answer much sooner than through the cramped and compulsive drive that says that you already | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| become acutely aware of an inner tension, a cramped closing up. This prevents you from meeting others | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| possibility of connecting with it; and a tight, cramped psychic state with tight, cramped soul movements. These | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| and a tight, cramped psychic state with tight, cramped soul movements. These two factors make contact impossible | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| but the ensuing inner battle gives you the cramped inner movement that debilitates you. It paralyzes your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| reached when the soul is in a tight cramped state. Letting go induces relaxation, without which contact | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| reveal itself through a laborious process or a cramped, overconcentrated state. Its manifestation is always an indirect | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| it cannot do so, since it already is cramped, hardened, and so exaggeratedly contracted that pulsating life | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self-assertion can only happen when you are not cramped up inside, when your natural pulsebeat functions according | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| overt at all, but the emotions are all cramped up with it. This must inevitably affect others | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| The various false ways of relief from a cramped ego always mean the weakening of the ego | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| pleasure exists -- is completely free from the cramped intensity in either grasping or avoiding. One grasps | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| the entire personality is freed from the painful, cramped state. Freedom does not mean the cessation of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| recognize that it comes from a very strong, cramped, stubborn desire for something. Some philosophies even advocate | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| with the unfolding, inwardly imploding life energy. The cramped desire is the one that says, I must | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| view, for the greatest inner pain is the cramped soul movement. Only as you give up the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| desire per se. It is giving up the cramped soul movement that is connected with having the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| it and where you hold on in a cramped state, and by letting go of the cramp | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| its reality. If you are in fear, therefore cramped, therefore alienated from the life force within you | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| on the deepest level - - find the cramped desire behind your fear, and then see the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| fear, and then see the meaning of the cramped desire. It spells out, I do not trust | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| centers. For in fear these centers are necessarily cramped and closed, and the life force cannot penetrate | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| but still believes that the pseudo-safety of this cramped, fearful position is preferable to annihilation. Only after | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| it is in the universe -- the false, cramped no, creates a harsh, tight soul movement, a | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| different from the pain that comes from the cramped space within you. Once you enter into this | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| by the universe when your condition is a cramped, forcing, hopeless, negative one. Nor is the attitude | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the eternal flow of being, of not being cramped and tight and overactive with the ego forces | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| wonderful new experiences awaiting you. You are too cramped up in blindness and fear. You must learn | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
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| cramping-up that blocks off the universal power. The cramping is then often confused with seriousness, concentration, wholeness | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and healing perspective. You can then see yourself cramping up, numbing yourself, denying the experience of abandonment | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| will come to you -- no longer a cramping and shrinking, bit a relaxed activity that leads | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| end your frustration by fearing it and thus cramping up against it. You have to learn first | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| meaning, their significance. You can also observe the cramping contraction and become intensely aware of this state | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |