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and inner extremism. You are so conditioned to manipulate your emotions that it will take considerable time 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
first let us look at another way you manipulate your emotions: by prohibiting their full force, and 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the result of looking away from yourself. To manipulate your will according to what you know or 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
want to relate, but both, for various reasons manipulate, or one manipulates, where does the element of 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you would then do would be to further manipulate your feelings and superimpose attitudes that are not 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
with it. You would then not need to manipulate time by holding it back or pushing it 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
fulfillment. The need for control causes you to manipulate others, yourself, and your vital natural feelings. By 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
its natural and healthy form by trying to manipulate it according to circumstances. Thus it cannot flow 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
of your feelings cramps you and makes you manipulate them in a subtle but distinct way. You 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
it seems expedient, false unhappiness in order to manipulate, or punish others. The false, superimposed tendencies have 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
frustration, fearful withdrawal, tension, the compulsive need to manipulate, the inability to lose. All these are, of 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the disapproval of others. When one ceases to manipulate one's feelings in order to control and manipulate 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
manipulate one's feelings in order to control and manipulate others, one will be self-centered in the sense 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
you are in control, and then you must manipulate life, the world around you, your own most 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
deny the hurt, even to yourself. You often manipulate it into an elaborate accusation -- sometimes even 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
can let your soul movement be, rather than manipulate it. In that way, you will increase your 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
pliant, but use these assets in order to manipulate others and hide the domination you wish to 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
or indirectly rule, coerce, pressure, command, demand, and manipulate -- and cheat! The open energy system which 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
I can have, unless I push, pressure, cheat, manipulate, and force it to come to me. When 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
that the fear of death is given to manipulate you into further initiative. But I say to 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
and by your assumption that you have to manipulate reality around you to suit your most infantile 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
no matter how much you try to force, manipulate, and cajole. You become the slave of unreality 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
 
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Any living organism not left alone, but constantly manipulated, will suffer a very crippling effect. This is 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
how your real feelings, when they are not manipulated by unconscious needs, will create a very different 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of your genuine feelings, as opposed to the manipulated emotions, will come when you relax by yourself 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
is not there does not have to be manipulated. This is simple logic. The only way to 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
the real self, the intellect can be directed, manipulated, and governed by the will; the real self 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
to add this: Channeled emotions are negative emotions manipulated. Only by letting them free will you be 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
of defensiveness and pseudo-needs. The one that is manipulated, whether or not he or she is aware 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
are movement, too. When feelings are prohibited, or manipulated so that they cannot function according to their 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
cannot, due to blockage. Hence, the feeling is manipulated, artificially exaggerated or dramatized. Again, this may apply 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
person who has a great problem with those manipulated feelings differentiate between the false and the genuine 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
according to reflexes. I also recognize how I manipulated myself in producing false fears. The moment I 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
again be smashed by life, which cannot be manipulated by the fearful, small, controlling mind. When you 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
 
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The expediency is, of course, another way of manipulating the other person to feel obligated to love 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
All of you have both these ways of manipulating your emotions. The overdramatization is connected with the 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
secondary reactions are the ones that come from manipulating emotions, while the primary reactions are from the 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
the real self by curbing the will, by manipulating thought, by disciplining emotions. When they achieve a 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
How does that tie in with a person manipulating his reactions to other people? ANSWER: Actually, this 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you undermine the organic process of emotional growth, manipulating your feelings in a most negative and destructive 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
control; through the apparent risk of floating without manipulating anyone or anything. Of course, this sounds like 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
is humanity bent on destroying, dominating, denying and manipulating creative life -- that is, the involuntary processes 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
amass more, you try to cheat life by manipulating circumstances so that you gain as much, and 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
When you let it happen to you, without manipulating it by exaggerating or denying it, it will 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
is. In experiencing real pain, you stop controlling, manipulating, hiding -- the pain simply is. You approach 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
what is and to deal with it without manipulating facts and feelings to be what they are 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
that every kind of pushing, domineering, forcing, or manipulating amounts to cheating. The translation of such an 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
give out in order to accumulate in a manipulating way what you believe you do not deserve 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
 
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different effect on your personality than the artificial manipulation, even if the goal is the same. At 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
deviations and basic false premises. In an artificial manipulation you prevent your soul from growing in harmony 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
important to understand the implications of the artificial manipulation of your feelings, either making them bigger or 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
Be in God! 97. PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
condition yourself to observe your real feelings without manipulation one way or another, a new strength, a 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
needs. It is, in the true sense, a manipulation. As for choosing withdrawal, which is connected with 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
of spontaneity -- and this is due to manipulation. QUESTION: It is a very subtle thing I 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
voluntary act. Attempting that would amount to a manipulation of your feelings, and, in the last analysis 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
be a martyr. All this is an unconscious manipulation in order to get one's own way. Since 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
people? ANSWER: Actually, this question is already answered. Manipulation happens out of defensiveness and pseudo-needs. The one 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
in? Does this not dissolve or alleviate the manipulation? ANSWER: To the degree a person feels the 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the degree a person feels the need for manipulation -- which is an unconscious protective measure -- 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
two elements are mutually exclusive. The pseudo-need for manipulation, if you examine it, stems from egocentric fear 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
letting go to feeling and to being. Therefore manipulation prohibits love, even though some measure of real 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
experience, without aggrandizing or diminishing it, without any manipulation, do you really master it. Only when you 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
released through the absence of fear and of manipulation even on the subtlest of levels is enormous 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
either by sheer force, clever persuasion, or dishonest manipulation. In that case, you use some of your 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
wants to love you freely without your coercion, manipulation, and domination. That is the true richness you 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
enormous difference between creating a closed system by manipulation of others, of facts, of events, of the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
superstition or perhaps in a spirit of emotional manipulation. You become so involved in what you have 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
followed who took the rulership by power or manipulation and then abused their position and took advantage 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
 
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to all sorts of unhealthy reactions, symptoms, endeavors, manipulations of emotions, and even to actions which indirectly 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
between the real feelings underneath and the compulsive manipulations, drives, and impulses which you confuse with your 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
distortions, conflicts and fears, unconscious defensive measures and manipulations. It is not as easy as all that 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
need and have to use because without such manipulations you feel yourself sinking. You feel you have 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
 
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an enforced and ungenuine reaction. Nothing ungenuine and manipulative could ever be truly beneficial. It would only 62 MAN AND WOMAN
attempted under a misunderstanding, it becomes an artificial manipulative act that can lead only to self-deception. It 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
fear because I know that they are only manipulative tricks of the childish mind to avoid accepting 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
a forcing current. The forcing current is a manipulative process that expresses into life and toward everybody 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
hidden self can be deciphered and admitted, the manipulative, artificial hopelessness -- which is always unbearable -- 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
in an undefended way that is free from manipulative interpretations of the pain. Such interpretations only aim 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
Would you be envious, jealous, petty, self-serving, spiteful, manipulative, malicious, denying others their own Godself -- in 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
deal with his or her covert, dominant, and manipulative traits. They are inevitably two sides of the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
how negative, destructive, mean, malicious, spiteful, dishonest, and manipulative you discover a part of you to be 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD

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