| Exercised...................4 | |
| activity, and when should free will not be exercised -- which is a state corresponding to passivity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| harshness. You inflict iron rules upon yourself as exercised by the cruelest ruler and far beyond the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| There is a great difference if restraint is exercised because of demands from the outer world, or | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| helpless children. But these powers must now be exercised from within by one's spiritual center and not | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Exercises...................59 | |
| a number of people who, through certain meditation exercises -- similar to what I will eventually teach | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| and inspiration. QUESTION: Perhaps he would need loosening exercises? ANSWER: Yes, very true. It always depends on | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| spiritual world if you merely do certain prayer exercises. If I were to tell you such things | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| knowledge of God or by doing certain spiritual exercises. If this is the only way you seek | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in your world that advise particular, separate concentration exercises. My advice however is that prayer and concentration | 36 PRAYER |
| My advice however is that prayer and concentration exercises can be combined. There is no better way | 36 PRAYER |
| this cannot happen by forceful means and special exercises. It is the product of the labor of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| hold. QUESTIONER: That is done in the yoga exercises. The holding is the most important. ANSWER: Exactly | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| important. ANSWER: Exactly. But not only in particular exercises. Even in normal breathing, when you are completely | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| later, the control of your thought process. The exercises need not be strenuous, nor will they have | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| be in God! 71. REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES Greetings, my dear friends. God bless all of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| completely in the moment. Here! Now! The concentration exercises I discussed a while back can be a | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| a comparatively high degree of efficiency in these exercises by mere discipline, while neglecting to find your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to the goal without the help of such exercises, the latter will be a helpful addition. This | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| understood. The difficulty you encounter when doing these exercises should not discourage or deter you. If you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| will be a good beginning. The effects the exercises will have on you are much more valuable | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to give some further advice about the concentration exercises. I must observe that, unfortunately, my friends are | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| miss by spending a few minutes on these exercises? See the unreality of this haste. There is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| for long. Then do either one of the exercises I mentioned previously. Or try another one, which | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your question, your confusion, is after these concentration exercises. This is always the first step toward gaining | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| lecture. In the second part, about the concentration exercises, you repeat the term instructing the subconscious. I | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| never said that you should do these concentration exercises for twenty-four hours a day. I said you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| process which develops organically. In doing the concentration exercises, you will eventually discover a very gradual and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| a crisis to which you cannot apply these exercises, what was repressed reappears on the surface. So | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is no need to use discipline or any exercises, for what is not there does not have | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| steady observation, formulation of vague feelings, and meditation exercises, cannot be a permanent one. Do not believe | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| practice that is mechanical, that deals merely with exercises of concentration, breathing, and so on, cannot possibly | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| or less mechanical, such as concentration and breathing exercises. As I have indicated before, if you put | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| before, if you put more emphasis on such exercises than on your underlying attitudes -- your current | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| would exist in a perfect person -- these exercises at best bring few results, and those are | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| there, only you have not noticed them. Concentration exercises to observe your state of tension in order | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Now let me give you two specific meditation exercises for opening your centers. The first I described | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| must either be disappointed or experience delusions. No exercises, efforts, or hope for grace intervening from outside | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Many movements exist which have practices, teachings, and exercises which actively and effectively help you reach this | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| when this channel was established. I have given exercises for learning concentration and ways to still the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| various lectures I have given about these specific exercises and use them for a few minutes each | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| minutes each day. Whether you do these specific exercises or use others perhaps more to your liking | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS -- MIND EXERCISES Greetings and blessings for all of you, my | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| would give more vital material and specific spiritual exercises that will help you move further on your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| personality requires a different approach. Also, before certain exercises can be used, there must exist some agility | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| flux. By the same token, when the mind exercises itself by trying out new alternatives of seeing | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and to counterfeit feelings, should abstain from these exercises because they must first shed the mask that | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| those feelings must be worked out before any exercises should be attempted. It will not be difficult | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| they wish to be at the moment. Gradually, exercises should be done with this in mind, and | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| easily emote. Let yourself be inspired about these exercises; do them deliberately. Of course they do require | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| It is much more difficult to do these exercises alone, although eventually you will even be able | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| Eventually, I will also give you some mind exercises to do. In the meantime, I will give | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| that must be dealt with in active, focused exercises. The more you are willing to do this | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| without selfwill, pride, and fear. These are preliminary exercises, my friends, to practice for your further development | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| few minutes' exercise daily. I have given concentration exercises several times over the years. Now I want | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| possible. This explains the long eras when spiritual exercises were used to restrain natural instincts. On the | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| it makes the personality plunge into hell. Meditational exercises are another way in which human beings often | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| almost always entails a lengthy practice of concentration exercises and sometimes even a quite ascetic way of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| every so often an illusion. Extended fasting, concentration exercises, chanting and self-hypnotic reiteration of meditational phrases can | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| destructive escape routes we mentioned before. If meditational exercises are mechanical, the way is an illusory one | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| points by artificially induced means. I include mechanical exercises and practices as such means. There is only | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| inspiration only when he goes through the finger exercises and the hours of practice that make his | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| knowledge, or even as a result of specific exercises, methods or disciplines. The change of consciousness happens | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| This is also why all meditational practices and exercises focus on inner space. A long time ago | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Exercising..................3 | |
| need for survival only by breaking the rules, exercising power, and becoming the dictator in your environment | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fluctuates between discipline and letting go of herself, exercising both in the wrong way and thereby prohibiting | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| whatever degree you can in a spirit of exercising your mind. But the insights must primarily come | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Exert.......................30 | |
| less severe. It is, of course, possible to exert some control over their outward manifestations, in crises | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| them. The intention may be for you to exert a greater spiritual effort and, if you do | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| with the complete rulership you unconsciously wish to exert, you prefer to destroy that which is within | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| Become very calm. Relax completely, without trying to exert any force, strain, or pressure. Begin to follow | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are parents who never dare to punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is due to | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| may be too severe, too strict. They thereby exert a domineering authority by bullying the child, and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| experience by proper assimilation, you are bound to exert a similar effect on others. On the other | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be yourself. By making yourself deliberately weak, you exert the strongest tyranny over others. There is no | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and to strengthen your self-pity. Thus you subtly exert a forcing current upon the world. Furthermore, depression | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| troubled soul than the one who may actually exert less effort in the direction of individual development | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| control. Each individual resorts to different means to exert control. Now each one of you has to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| carries you and you no longer have to exert discipline? In this case, you no longer feel | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fact, into experienced reality. If you wish to exert control over areas inaccessible to your outer will | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| my friends, with a false control you constantly exert over your guards to keep the secret part | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| to own, and you do not need to exert a tight control and pressure. You therefore cannot | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| as movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain; passivity promises relief from strain. In other | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| to be, the more control they ought to exert over their involuntary processes. This misconception makes them | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| You would waste your willpower, your energy, to exert a pressure that would eventually affect the good | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you realize that you do not have to exert any willpower, any pressure with your outer ego | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| I am talking about. A human being must exert discrimination and choice. You have the freedom to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is a compensation for underactivity where he should exert his masculine activating force, but does not. Conversely | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| by virtue of being unconscious, the negative attitudes exert much greater power than the conscious positive attitudes | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| yourself to be safer through the control you exert when you are contracted. To the degree that | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to a very set mind. You can always exert your right to go back where you were | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| knowledge of the deeper self, so as to exert all energy, courage, honesty, and self discipline toward | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| others and hide the domination you wish to exert, you may find it extremely difficult to give | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| generous enough, humble enough, honest enough, not to exert force over others, no matter how subtly this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| self-discipline that the self-indulgent do not desire to exert. The often necessary and voluntary giving up of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| an integrated process. This means the ability to exert a certain amount of discipline, of firmness, of | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| not be particularly destructive or outright wrong -- exert through their unrecognized parts a greater attraction to | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |