Re: Another question - step one breathing

["David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>]

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "lux xul" <luxxul@h...> wrote:
> Consider what would be accomplished when that "resistence" is 
accepted and 
> comprtehended (not just understood intellectually) as a normal and 
expected 
> *be ye unsuprised* trait of your human nature. All negative traits 
wish to 
> remain alive and to influence. Experience it, accept it, let your 
> attachment to its resistence go, give it less importance by not 
fighting 
> it.. not validating its *control*, and do the exercise successfully 
all the 
> while in spite of it. You can always come back to it later.


Yeah, that makes sense. I think that Bardon's language confuses me 
sometimes. He can sound pretty forbidding (ie "Hold onto ___ with 
all your strength. Vigorously refuse all the other thoughts in your 
mind," etc.) and that has misled me to strain, and of course 
straining is based on opposing an equal pressure.

I think that every time I did a one of the wish-impregnation 
exercises, somewhere in me there was a guy saying, "Well I'm NOT 
going to let some external force change ME," never mind that I was 
the "external" force doing the changing. Kind of funny.

Instead of fighting myself, I should be making friends. But it's so 
much more habitual to do the former than the latter.



David