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Chapter 9
Chapter 9 - Laws of Psychological Life
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Only if you set and sustain a goal/attitude/visualization combination as
your most important mind-set, to love unconditionally
yourself,
all others, and
the Source of Life,
independently of the behavior of others, will the outcomes always and
reliably be positive, enhance life energy, and will you grow into
expressing the fullness of who you truly are, a Being of spiritual love,
wisdom and strength.
All contrary mind-sets must be removed. If not the results will be
negative, or only partial fulfillment. It is the cancellation or removal
of mind-sets that are blocking the flow of love which is the forgiveness
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To love the Source of Life is to keep in tune with the fact
that love is the basis of universal laws. It is both magnetic and
radiatory, like gravity.
To love the Source of Life is also to be willing to accept
and receive what life offers with gratitude and wonder, and to contribute
fully of your own gifts.
To love your whole Self (as a creation of the Source)
unconditionally includes:
1. To love your body, to nurture it, and your capacity to
use it in productive service,
2. To love your emotions, the liveliness they can bring,
and to nurture your capacity to be sensitive and express love and
goodwill,
3. To love your mind and nurture your capacity to perceive,
learn, reason, set goals, plan, think creatively, and turn negativity into
positivity,
4. To love your Higher Self and its qualities, and to care
enough for bringing it's capacity for wisdom, unconditional love, courage,
compassion, strength, etc., and the capacity to forgive, right down into
expression on earth.
To love all those of whom you are aware - for they, too,
are creations of the Source. This includes the ways in which you think, as
well as what you do. |
The Forgiveness Processes and the
Goodwill Patterns, or transpersonal mind-sets (see
Patterns of Unconditional Love in Action - The Goodwill Patterns
in the next section), enable you to do this. They enable you to make conscious
the dynamic power that is available to you from the transpersonal level of your
being.
The following are drawn
from "The Act of Will" by Roberto Assagioli.
1. Images or mental pictures and ideas tend to
produce the physical conditions and external events that correspond to them.
Energy follows thought. Thoughts are living entities that tend to actualize.
(Thus take care what images and mental pictures you create).
2. Attitudes, movements, and actions tend to
evoke the corresponding mental images and ideas; these in turn tend to evoke and
intensify the corresponding emotions and feelings. (This is the basis of
Gestalt, psychodrama, catharsis and other action therapies).
3. Ideas and images tend to awaken emotions and
feelings that correspond to them. (This, and the next two are used in
advertising).
4. Emotions and impressions tend to awaken and
intensify ideas and images that correspond to them or are associated with them.
(Repeating negative memories increases their harmful effect upon us).
5. Needs, urges, drives, and desires tend to
arouse corresponding images, ideas, and emotions, and thus behaviors. These
patterns can cluster around specific unmet needs and form "subpersonalities".
6. Attention, interest, affirmations, and
repetitions reinforce the ideas, images, and psychological formations on which
they are centered. (This can be used to overcome resistances from the lower
unconscious, and thus overcome habits. It is also the pathway whereby habitual
negative thought, inner and outer speech continues to generate negative
effects).
7. Repetition of actions intensifies the urge to
further repetition, and renders their execution easier and better, until they
become performed unconsciously. (This is how habits, good and bad, develop and
can be reversed. e.g. lying v. being truthful).
8. All the various functions and their manifold
combinations in complexes and sub personalities adopt means of achieving their
aims without our awareness, independently of, and even against, our conscious
will. (Until you become aware, and make a conscious choice!)
9. Urges, drives, desires, and emotions tend to
demand to be expressed. (That is, they have energy and force).
10. The psychological energies can find
expression (a). Directly , on a task, or by direct verbalization (b). Indirectly
(through symbolic action or catharsis), (c). Through the process of
Transmutation, (lifting to a higher correspondence, e.g. anger (passion) to
compassion, fear to courage etc.)
Exercise: Write
about the action of these laws in your own life,
what you have
learned about them,
and how you
could apply your knowledge of them more skillfully in the future.
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