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Confidence like self-belief cannot be acquired by the means of auto-suggestion. You can repeat affirmations on how self-confident you are until you are blue in the face but it will remain a naïve and fruitless exercise.
Wherever you look for confidence you will not find it. Neither will you be able to maintain the corresponding thought transmission necessary to be on a constant wave of confidence.
The secret to the labyrinth is that its walls will crumble when you give up looking for the exit and abandon importance.
The paradox lies in the fact that to acquire self-confidence you have to let go of
wanting to acquire it. The labyrinth’s walls are made out of importance.
Confidence is nothing more than temporary excess potential.
When there is freedom without struggle there is no need for confidence.
Confidence has only one origin–importance.
Confidence as a support would no longer be necessary, because where there is no importance, there is nothing to guard or conquer.
When you carry the belief that you are an important person the desire arises to prove it to others and excess potential is created.
Simply let go of the battle and observe what happens: the people around you will start treating you with more respect as if they valued you more highly. As soon as you appreciate the fact of their attitude the need to convince yourself or try to believe in something will fall away and you will simply know.
The battle for self-worth drains your free energy and channels it into the battle with the alternatives flow and the creation of excess potentials that drums up the winds of balanced forces.
stop justifying yourself to others.
Having abandoned the battle for self-worth and given up justifying yourself you will have settled the score with a significant portion of inner importance as feelings of guilt and low self-worth are the predominant manifestations of inner importance.
taking pleasure in thinking about the goal as if it had already been reached; letting go of the grip of control over the script and going with the alternatives flow, helping it along with the oar of pure intention.
When you go with the flow in conscious awareness everything falls into place without excessive effort.
When you act in accordance with coordination, what you previously wanted to believe in but could not because it frightened you with the unknown will soon appear from around a bend in the current.
absolute coordination is achieved as a result of harmony between heart and mind.
It is sufficient to shape the individual’s worldview in such a way that they have no notion of their freedom.
The most important principle in the battle with the pendulum is to refuse to fight them.
All you have to do when this happens is wake up and remember what the game is and then instantly reduce importance. If you do this with conscious awareness the pendulum will fall through into emptiness.
You can break the game rules as long as you are not day dreaming. In non-lucid dreaming the dreamer is always a victim of circumstance. The dream just happens and you cannot do anything about it. In waking life people have long been accustomed to reacting just as automatically to any negative influence, and I do not have to explain what follows.
You just have to come to your senses in time and break the rules of the game. You will see for yourself just how pleasant it is when you realise that you are aware the pendulum is desperately trying to provoke you and you do not take the bait.
When you give your energy to a pendulum you become weaker, but when a pendulum tries to provoke you and you resist you become the receiver of the energy the pendulum channelled into the provocation,
making you stronger.
Do not fight your reaction to being provoked. Look at it from a different perspective. The emotions you experience are the effect, the cause of which is your relationship to what is happening.
The reflection in the mirror is your importance. All the time that something has exaggeratedly important meaning you have an opponent that constantly looms at you in the mirrors. Whilst importance is kept at zero there is nothing to fear, nothing to protect and no-one to attack.
You do not need toughness in the battle with the pendulum. Emptiness is considerably more effective.
Love God in yourself and others without worshipping pendulums. This is all that the Commandments urge you to do.
Generally speaking, your task comes down to consciously breaking the rules. This can be done in two ways. Either drop importance and scupper the pendulum in the emptiness of your indifference, or still its sway by reacting in an inadequate manner. If you struggle with reducing importance you can always stick with the second method. Any inadequate reaction to provocation is a gross violation of the rules of the game.
The mistake of the warrior is that they think they have to fight for their freedom. They spend their lives at war always putting off their main fight until later. Warriors do not believe that you can just walk up and take your freedom.
The Transurfing Pilgrim does not get involved in the fight for freedom because they know that freedom is already theirs.
When you end the battle and give yourself permission to have outer intention will find a way of giving you what you need. I cannot prove this to you right here and now but you can test the principle for yourself and do not try it, just do it and not tomorrow but today.
Allow yourself to have from this moment onwards, unconditionally and unreservedly and not occasionally but all the time. If you do not expect instant results and continue to allow yourself to have one fine day something will happen that others will want to call a miracle.
Earn the will to have, not the money. If you concentrate on the goal as if you had already achieved it your doors will open and the means will take care of themselves.
As soon as you allow for the idea that achieving the goal is simply a matter of choice you will begin to feel just how absurd the customer’s concerns are in the alternatives space shop. It is just a matter of being willing to have. That is all.
You might fall into the trap of battling with yourself for the will to have. Whatever you do, do not force yourself to allow yourself to have.
What is required is more like a carefree, light-hearted resolve.
Importance is the underlying cause of effort and compulsive grip. You cannot relax the grip if you are battling with it. Abandon importance and the grip will relax of its own accord.
Two things get in the way of allowing yourself to have. The first is conflict between the heart and mind. The second is the excess potential of inner and outer importance, which use up free energy.
The conflict between heart and mind arises because the mind doubts the goal can be realistically achieved. As soon as the grip of control weakens the limiting conditions of the mind fall away to reveal unity between heart and mind.
When you are dragging inner and outer importance around with you, you waste ninety nine percent of your energy on supporting excess potential. How can you source free energy if it is all tied up in potential?
The answer then is to take action because the power behind excess potential dissipates in the process of doing. The action you take can be turning the target slide round in your mind; visualising the process and calmly placing one foot in front of the other in the direction of your goal. How not to be afraid? – Get a safety net.
How not to worry or get anxious? – Act. The potential of anxiety and panic is dispersed through action. Idle worrying will continue to plague you until you take proactive action. The type of activity you turn to does not necessarily have to be related to the cause of your stress. As long as you do something your anxiety will be reduced.
How not to desire? – Accept the possibility of defeat and act. It is just as difficult to eradicate the potential of desire as the potential of fear because letting go totally of your desire to reach your goals is almost impossible.
If you do not automatically rush to protect your sense of self-esteem it suggests that you have a healthy sense of your own worth.
If you choose to perceive seemingly negative changes in the script as positive, that is what their outcome will be.
every event on a life line has two branches of potential realisation: one favourable and one unfavourable. Every time you come up against one event or another you make a choice about what your relationship to that event will be. If you choose to perceive the event as something positive you position yourself on a favourable branch of the life line.
The trail of trouble does not follow on from the initial irritation so much
as from your attitude towards it. How the pattern is formed depends on the choice you make when you are standing at the fork in the road. It might only be a minor irritation that has shaken you out of sorts but irrespective of the magnitude of the irritation, you are already radiating energy at the frequency of the unfavourable branch in your life line.
