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‘drop in pressure’. Dependent relationships are determined by
a statement of conditions such as: “if you ...this, then I …that”. There are endless examples of the conditions peoples place on relationships: “If you loved me you would drop everything and come with me to the end of the world.
In the second type of idealization, a person’s attention is focused not on a person with illusory qualities but on rose-tinted dreams and castles in the air. The dreamer lives with their head in the clouds as a way of escaping the ugliness of the reality of life. Obviously, excess potential is created in this situation. To tear down the castles in the air, balanced forces make the romantic individual face harsh reality.
Often people find they have to deal with the things they find totally unacceptable because in addition to creating excess potential their thought energy radiates at the frequency of their non-acceptance.
The best principle in bringing up children is to behave towards the child (and not only towards children) as if they were guests, i.e., giving them attention, respect and freedom of choice, without creating excess potential and without letting them run the show or make your life a misery.
Try loving without expectation of reward.
There is only one solution in a situation like this. If you want your love to be mutual you have to love simply without thought of whether you are loved or not.
Firstly, in taking this approach you avoid creating excess potential which means that the fifty percent probability that the forces will work against you is avoided. Secondly, when you are not obsessed with the idea of whether your feelings will be reciprocated, you are free of the dramatic and uncontrolled thoughts about unrequited love that pull you into corresponding life lines. Quite the opposite; if you simply love, without thought of possession, dependency is avoided and the parameters of the energy you radiate will correspond with those life lines where requited love exits.
Would you not be drawn towards a person who loved you simply for the sake of it without demanding anything in return?
Judging other people is a very powerful way of destroying balance, particularly when we have contempt for them.
On an energetic level there are no good or bad people; there are simply those who observe the laws of nature and those who unsettle nature’s ‘status quo’.
Of course, situations often arise in which a person deserves to be judged; the question is whether you should be the one to judge them. This is no superficial question. If someone injures you personally then they have probably also destroyed the existing balance. In this case, your judgement is less likely to represent a source of unhealthy excess potential than it is a tool for balanced forces striving to restore balance.
If you say what you think and take any necessary reasonable measures the disturber of the
peace will get what the...
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The majesty of animals and plants lies in the fact that they are unaware of their greatness.
In actual fact, misfortune is an anomaly and not a normal phenomenon.
To free yourself from the action of balanced forces you have to stop buzzing like a fly against a pane of glass. Switch your intention from increasing your own sense of self-importance to developing the qualities you admire.
You also have to let go of any lurking idea that you are capable of controlling the external world.
Everyone, just like you, is focused on
themselves and their problems and so a good listener who will let you pour your heart out to them is a real treasure.
“If I don’t do this, I’m worth nothing”, “If I got this, it would be great”, “It will be terrible if I don’t get this”; and so on. Once you become dependent on the object of your desire you are drawn into such a violent whirlpool that you will exhaust yourself in the struggle.
The energy of pure intention
The greater an event is valued the more likely it is to fall through in some way. If you attribute huge value to what you have, sooner or later balanced forces will take it from you.
If your desire has become dependent, like a kind of psychosis, or you are hysterically driven to obtain something whatever the cost, then somewhere deep down inside you do not really believe that you can achieve it.
You always get the things you love to hate.
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have behaved badly, became aware of it and then started to feel guilty (I should be punished) you will have created potential. If you have acted well, become aware of it and started feeling proud of yourself (I should be rewarded) then you will also have created potential. Balanced forces have no concept that some things should be rewarded and others punished. They simply eliminate inhomogeneity in the energy field.
In general, people whose conscience does not bother them are not affected by balanced forces even if they have committed a wrong doing.
Nonetheless, there is no ‘justice’ as such in nature and so, sad as it may be, the opposite happens; decent people who have an inherent feeling of guilt are the ones who constantly face misfortune, whereas the shameless and the cynical often go through life not only unpunished, but successful.
If you consider yourself guilty of being worse than others, even for a second, it will most certainly be used against you.
The opposite is also true. If you are free of the feeling of guilt, it will never occur to anyone to assert themselves over you.
Boldness indicates the absence of guilt.
Even the faintest, most deeply hidden feeling of guilt can open the gates to punishment in the subconscious mind.
Asking for forgiveness, admitting your mistakes, praying for forgiveness and confession are all ways of eliminating the excess potential of guilt.
It is with good reason that the unspoken rule: “Trust no one, fear nothing, and ask for nothing” exists in the criminal world.
Many people are strong physically, but strength of character is a rare trait. The key to personal dignity is the absence of guilt. True personal power rests on the ability to remain free of guilt and not on the ability to take someone by the throat.
No one has the right to judge you and you have the right to be yourself.
If you allow yourself to be you, the need for self-justification will fall away and the fear of being punished will fade. Then, something truly remarkable will happen: no one will dare insult you.
Be happy if money has come to you but never kill yourself worrying about not having enough money, or spending it, otherwise you will have less and less of it.
Take the position of the gambler who could at any moment just as easily hit the jackpot as lose everything.
In pursuing their own interests, pendulums have created the myth that in order to achieve your goals you have to have money. As a result, people replace their original goal with the artificial substitute of money.
Money can be gained from different pendulums and so people shift their focus from the goal to money and come under the influence of a pendulum that is alien to them. People then lose a sense of what they really want from life and focus on the fruitless search for money.
This state of affairs is very profitable for the pendulum but not so profitable for the individual who becomes dependent and loses their way. No-one will ever make a lot of money working for a pendulum that functions outside of the context of their true purpose because they just end up ser...
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In actual fact anyone can become rich if they serve...
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Money is not the goal nor is it really even the means to reaching the goal. It is simply an accompanying attribute. The goal is what a person really wants in life such as to have their own house and grow roses; travel the world and...
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If your dream is to travel round the world then obviously this requires a lot of money. To fulfil you dream do not think about the money; keep your thoughts on the original goal. The money will come to you because it is an accompanying attribute to the goal.
Money is nothing more than an accompanying attribute on the path to your goal. Do not
worry about money and it will come to you of its own accord.
The idealist has a tendency not only to place high demands on themselves but to expect high standards of others too, which can poison the life of those they are close to. Their high expectations manifest as an intolerance towards other people’s habits and tastes, which often causes small conflicts that easily escalate into bigger ones.
We are all guests in this world. We have the freedom to choose our own path but no-one has the right to judge others, to sentence them or to label them (with the exception of criminal law).