Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior (Power vs. Force, #1)

by David R. Hawkins

behavioral kinesiology.

Such beings, gifted with a direct realization of Reality (by whatever name), have always confirmed the central importance of the “unseen.”

The outer work can never be small if the inner work is great. And the outer work can never be great if the inner work is small.

To know the patterns is the Subtle Power The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name.

love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.

That which weakens life energy is to be avoided: shame, guilt, confusion, fear, hatred, pride, hopelessness, and falsehood. That which uplifts life is to be realized: truth, courage, acceptance, reason, love, beauty, joy, and peace.

“Be kind and forgiving to everything and everyone, including yourself, at all times without exception.”

“We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become.”

The radical Reality is: to understand the essence of anything is to know God.

Understanding does not proceed simply from examining data; it comes from examining data in a particular context. Data is useless

until we know what it means. To understand its meaning, we need not only to ask the right question; we also need the appropriate instruments with which to measure the data in a meaningful process of sorting and description.

Society constantly expends its efforts to correct effects instead of causes, which is one reason why the evolution of human consciousness proceeds so slowly.

From the human record, we may note that answers never arise from identifying so-called “causes” in the world. Instead, it is necessary to identify the conditions that underlie ostensible causes; and these conditions exist only within man’s consciousness itself.

actual causes within the observable world. As we shall demonstrate, the observable world is a world of effects.

Man’s two basic types of operational faculties, reason and feeling, are both inherently unreliable, as our history of precarious individual and collective survival attests.

Although we ascribe our actions to reason, man in fact operates primarily out of pattern-recognition; the logical arrangement of data serves mainly to enhance a pattern-recognition system that then becomes so-called “truth.”3 But nothing is ever “true,” except under certain circumstances, and then only from a particular viewpoint, characteristically unstated.

Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact, he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is experienced through the senses;

power can be recognized only through inner awareness.

Kinesiology exposed, for the first time, the intimate connection between mind and body, revealing that the mind “thinks” with the body itself.

everything in the universe is connected with everything else,

The subjective and objective are, in fact, one and the same,10 as can be demonstrated without resorting to nonlinear equations or computer graphics.

The world conventionally assumes that the processing of problems requires starting from the known (the question or conditions) and moving on to the unknown (the so-called answer) in a time sequence following definite steps and logical progression.

Nonlinear dynamics moves in the opposite direction: from the unknown (the nondeterministic data of the question) to the known (the answer)!

The problem is seen as one of definition and access rather than of logical sequence (as in solving a proble...

Attractor is the name given to an identifiable pattern that emerges from a seemingly unmeaningful mass of data. There is a hidden coherence in all that appears incoherent. This inner coherence was first demonstrated in nature by Edward Lorenz in studying computer graphics derived from weather patterns over long courses of time. The attractor pattern he identified is now quite famous as “Lorenz’s Butterfly.”

the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

moralistic judgments are merely a function of the viewpoint from which they emanate.

By taking responsibility for the consequences of their own perceptions, observers can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that “nothing out there has power over you.” It is not life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, which determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on one’s life, whether they are experienced as opportunity or as stress.

Psychological stress is the net effect of a condition that you are resisting or wish to escape, but the condition does not have any power in and of itself.

The key to Joy is unconditional kindness to all of life, including one’s own, which we refer to as compassion.1 Without compassion, little of any significance is ever accomplished in human endeavor. We may generalize to the greater social context from individual therapies, wherein patients cannot be truly cured or fundamentally healed until they invoke the power of compassion, both for themselves and others. At that point, the healed may become a healer.

It is very important to remember that the calibration figures do not represent an arithmetic, but a logarithmic, progression. Thus, the level 300 is not twice the amplitude of 150; it is 300 to the 10th power (10300). Therefore, an increase of even a few points represents a major advance in power; the rate of increase in power as we move up the scale is therefore enormous.

Apathy is the level of the abandonment of hope, and few have the courage to really look it in the face.

fear of danger is actually healthy.

Fear runs much of the world, spurring on endless activity. Fear of enemies, of old age or death, of rejection, and a multitude of social fears are basic motivators in most people’s lives.

Desire is also the level of addiction, wherein desire becomes a craving more important than life itself.

Some people become addicted to the desire for attention and drive others away by their constant demands.

The desire for sexual approval has produced entire cosmetics, fashion,...

In order to “get,” you have to first have the energy to “want.”

Anger can lead to either constructive or destructive action.

Desire leads to frustration, which in turn leads to Anger.

Pride, which calibrates at 175, has enough energy to run the United States Marine Corps.

Pride is defensive and vulnerable because it is dependent upon external conditions, without which it can suddenly revert to a lower level.

The downside of Pride, therefore, is arrogance and denial. These characteristics block growth;

One is not driven to prove anything.

safe to be around and associate with, because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.

With their capacity to bounce back from adversity and learn from experience, they tend to become self-correcting.

Characteristic of this energy field is the capacity for enormous patience and the persistence of a positive attitude in the face of prolonged adversity.

Near-death experiences, characteristically transformative in their effect, have frequently allowed people to experience the energy level between 540 and 600.

This awesome revelation takes place non-rationally, so that there is an infinite silence in the mind, which has stopped conceptualizing.

Although the levels we have described span a great variation, it is not common for individuals to move from one level to another during one lifetime. The energy field that is calibrated for an individual at birth only increases, on the average, by about five points. That an individual’s level of consciousness is already in effect at birth is a sobering fact with profound implications. And consciousness itself, in its expression as human civilization, evolves slowly indeed, through numerous generations.