| God! See also Lecture 49 109. SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT Greetings, my | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| bypass mere intellectual understanding and reach the underlying emotional layers. Nevertheless, it may be that the new | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| easy to make restitution for subtle attitudes and emotional reactions. In the former case atonement can take | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| have to repeat that guilt exists also in emotional reactions, not just in behavior, which one may | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| may be unable to let go of its emotional impact, unable to forgive and forget. But, mainly | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| The language is often confused. One speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement, of expressing one's emotions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| often confused. One speaks of emotional maturity or emotional involvement, of expressing one's emotions when feelings too | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| You then grasp the difference between intellectual and emotional understanding. For my new friends, this lecture will | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| for its physical existence, but also for its emotional, intellectual, and spiritual existence. Children need love as | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| in yourself, you now know that it indicates emotional immaturity. Love is an essential ingredient in life | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| often in precarious, hidden, and distorted ways. Unfortunately, emotional independence is often misunderstood as isolation, whereas withdrawal | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| identification is a cause. Whenever you find an emotional dependency on others, you can be sure that | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the very thing you rebel against. When the emotional and spiritual umbilical cord has not been cut | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| this fear and of your childish insistence. The emotional maturity we seek is the ability to tolerate | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| the cosmos, as well as in the mental, emotional and spiritual waves of being. Genuine self-searching will | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| best way to describe it is as an emotional climate of egocentricity. Regardless of good intentions, unselfish | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| you by this parent. In this investigation, the emotional atmosphere and climate is important, not the actuality | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| By thwarting this creative instinct, not only is emotional fulfillment hindered and impaired, and the ability to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| as too shameful to admit, you will feel emotional ease and comfort. Those who have reached the | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| with your helper? The degree of ease and emotional comfort with which you can do this indicates | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| facts in your past life than to an emotional pretense, a falsification of personality. The latter is | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Any personal choice and decision, any action or emotional direction or attitude, is dependent on whether or | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| past plays a role in your mental and emotional makeup. You will see how you strive to | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| exerted upon you by one parent and your emotional response to it. An entirely different influence by | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to it. An entirely different influence by and emotional response to the other parent produces the other | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is now involved and gradually recognize that the emotional climate in which one lives is not applicable | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| not move. Thinking is a movement. On the emotional level movement is generally more difficult to observe | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| are becoming aware of inner conditions of your emotional life that show how repression creates rigidity. Rigidity | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| On this path, you often detect how your emotional life either stagnates or is uncontrolled. Your awareness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| gradually regulates this and brings harmony into your emotional life. Frequently, you neglect physical and mental movement | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| movement. But much more frequently, it is the emotional movement that you neglect. And even your neglect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| mental movement is only too often due to emotional stagnation. The effort to increase consciousness is itself | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| may develop, but the spirit suffers when the emotional level is not infiltrated with movement and consciousness | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| consequence of the lack of consciousness on the emotional level. When the movement of searching, thinking, discriminating | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| thinking, discriminating, evaluating is not directed to hidden emotional areas, the movement of the emotions is off | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| itself, seems to hinder the unfoldment of your emotional depth in experiencing pleasure, your inner being is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| principle becomes, at least partly, a substitute for emotional growth and awareness. You need to find the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and procedure for the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual organism. They apply to the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| range of experience -- do not exist on emotional, intellectual and spiritual levels. The infant is not | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its intellect, its reason, as well as its emotional nature. When all of them mature in harmony | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| brute force in the absence of mental and emotional development, the weaker they became. Their God-concept was | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| areas within which completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or are split | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to force yourself by blind compulsion, while certain emotional reactions rebel. This does not mean individuation and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| recognitions, it is an absolute sign that some emotional needs or specific feelings have been shifted into | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| creates an unhealthy climate that makes the healthiest emotional need into something bad. This fact requires hiding | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| many more forms of expression -- in your emotional life. Your fear of acknowledging the original need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to distinguish between distorted and healthy needs and emotional attitudes -- but acknowledging them for better or | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| or everyday life, but more specifically in his emotional life, out of fear of carrying too great | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| erroneous conclusions, will automatically change your innermost, subtle emotional reactions. It does not work that way, because | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| it is, try to take these vague, hazy emotional impressions and question them in the daylight of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in this direction. Observation and questioning of your emotional reactions must extend in width and depth on | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| known language. The half-conscious material comprises your immediate emotional reactions as well as your fantasy life. Comparison | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| requires the training of becoming aware of hidden emotional reactions, of subtle, elusive, vaguely felt emotional movements | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| hidden emotional reactions, of subtle, elusive, vaguely felt emotional movements. But once your mind is accustomed to | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| depriving yourself of a very necessary spiritual and emotional medication. Every tight or too firm conviction in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| life force. Every cell of your physical and emotional organism will be filled with this stimulating and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| to be aware of the many levels of emotional reactions. As long as so many unconscious or | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| find it. In the very complex physical, mental, emotional organism of the human creature lies the proof | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| phase people respond according to automatic reflexes -- emotional reactions based on deeply imprinted wrong conclusions and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| life exerts its influence on you. Translate your emotional reactions into concise words. Analyze their significance and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| self, with courageous confrontation of the most ingrained emotional reactions. Then awareness of life and others grow | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| false, superimposed, intellectual maturity -- not cemented by emotional experience in certain respects. The outer maturity must | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| in what specific ways this manifests in your emotional reactions. Something deep inside you clamors to have | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| that, your fear will vanish. And gradually these emotional attitudes themselves will disappear, because they are faced | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| time in a new guise. You ascribe your emotional discomfort to factors outside of yourself, which is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the soul. But the second reaction restricts this emotional flow. Something clicks inside and seems to say | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| active deeds of either indifference or cruelty, and emotional tendencies. The indifference or numbness may not be | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| problems, hazards, difficulties that manifest in the physical, emotional, or mental system, or in the outer life | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| formulation of this particular melding point into your emotional experience, when you experience with courage how the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| psychology refers to as integration, mental health and emotional maturity -- has taken place in these areas | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| this happens in death. On the mental and emotional planes, something similar exists. When the struggle is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| rightness of these consequences -- the mental or emotional pain ceases. This does not happen when the | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| but by understanding the now. Then mental and emotional pain cease, just as physical pain ceases when | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| result. On the physical as well as the emotional and mental levels, it is possible temporarily to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| identical laws operate. By nature, your mental and emotional life is meant to function perfectly, just as | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| understand the laws governing the physical, mental, and emotional systems, comprehend the perfection of the laws and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| spiritual beliefs are unrelated to his or her emotional attitudes. Whether or not you believe, what and | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the two wills exists on a mental and emotional level. It is an exercise in futility to | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| It is the same with your mental and emotional faculties. You human beings often adopt the wrong | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| affected by illness, due to corresponding mental and emotional blocks, distortions and misconceptions. When you are sick | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| self on all levels, physical as well as emotional and mental. QUESTION: I have reached the point | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| specific expectation of life and create a specific emotional climate. Wherever such negativity exists - - hidden | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| offhand, may have nothing to do with your emotional life or with any sexual problems. I have | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| from making peace with your innermost physical and emotional instincts. The peace between body and soul is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| simple opportunism plays a dominant role on an emotional level. To obtain approval or admiration from others | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| way. It is a specific soul movement, an emotional climate that I wish to describe. In order | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| In the deepest sense, all mental illness, all emotional imbalance is a result of a deliberate intensification | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| life force is prohibited. If there is unreal emotional intensity, the life force cannot enter the emotional | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| emotional intensity, the life force cannot enter the emotional realm. If the physical realm is muscularly tense | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| by the cosmic powers into the mental and emotional realms. However, it must be understood that no | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| parallels, or expresses on the physical level, the emotional reaction to and the apprehension of falling and | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the ego and the involuntary processes of the emotional life, of the creative functions within, of the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| not want to let go. By consulting your emotional, irrational motive as to why you still hold | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| not three-dimensional, as the physical organism is. The emotional or mental or spiritual organism belongs to another | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also live up to this commitment with your emotional self by allowing the healthy pulsebeat of the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| short time and is the exception. If an emotional condition recurs regularly in your life, that is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and in the observation of your mental and emotional processes. In time, using various new approaches on | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all levels of your being -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual -- that is, your total being | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| before, when this was not the case. Certain emotional experiences come out from the depths of your | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not an intellectual, theoretical understanding but an actual emotional experience, when you are truly affected by the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God. 157. INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY Greetings, my dearest friends. Again, I shall | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| motivation. Upon close examination of your mental and emotional processes you will find that you are negatively | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| achieve in this life. It exists on the emotional level, where you do not allow the spontaneous | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| within your right. But when using a hidden, emotional forcing-current, you go about seeking satisfaction in the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| way in such cases only because on certain emotional levels you do not grant this same freedom | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| already accept this in theory, but when the emotional awakening comes, it is world-shaking. It is as | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the soul substance, you will become aware of emotional tensions that prohibit the free-flowing feeling of the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| experience that involves all levels of being: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. Therefore it is the most | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and ruthless selfishness somewhere underground as far as emotional inclinations are concerned. These underground tendencies may erupt | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| your thinking processes, later to the most subtle emotional reactions and perceptions. More and more you will | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| spirituality generally has little to do with true emotional experience. More often than not, these are ideals | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| reason and will generally are overgrown and whose emotional life is thwarted, union with the divine kernel | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| mean merely an intellectual admission, but the actual emotional experience and volitional expression of it. For if | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| by little, you will recondition your perceptions, your emotional reactions, your deep inner knowing of the way | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| immature mind unequipped to comprehend and handle certain emotional experiences realistically, temporary anesthesia is needed to survive | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| the key. It becomes obvious that fear of emotional experience breeds frustration, discontent and emptiness which, in | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| is possible and necessary, though, to reconstruct the emotional experience by comprehending the problematic reactions that you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| to a protracted painful situation or a subtle emotional climate with an intense shrinking and numbing defense | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| human beings do constantly in their spiritual and emotional lives. Inner anesthesia eventually affects the capacity to | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| by little in the deeper realms of your emotional being. Meet the pain with a new attitude | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| inroad can be made that leads to an emotional experience of these truths. First a vivid new | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| to the most painful of all mental and emotional states: a double bind from which there seems | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a new direction, a new awareness of the emotional reactions you were so accustomed to glossing over | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mental attitude. Each center determines certain mental and emotional ways of being. Each has its own function | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| base of the spine represents all the physical, emotional feelings -- sexuality, partnership love, personal love. The | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| been obtained; after certain basic resistances, fears, mental, emotional, and physical blocks have been eliminated. Only then | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| most intense pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual. Most human beings are not ever | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| imperceptible at first. It may be a purely emotional manifestation. For example, the individual may assume responsibility | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| necessarily in overt action; it may lie in emotional attitudes, such as an expectation to get more | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| worked through, both in intellectual understanding and in emotional experience, before the process can be reversed; a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| therefore imperative to make the unconscious conscious. Vague emotional reactions or passing thoughts one usually ignores may | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to experience pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, mental, spiritual -- without a trace of apprehension | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| surge through your entire system -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. They will work in full harmony | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| attuned to yourself -- your thinking processes, your emotional responses, and your body state -- you will | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| This is quite similar to the mental and emotional levels: You have become so accustomed to thinking | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| subsequently relax it voluntarily. This parallels mental and emotional functioning: There, too, it is necessary first to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the same holds true on the mental and emotional levels. When you become very quiet and listen | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |