Re: Karma Kybalion - 2nd order equilibrium of emotions

["JoePass" <jcanslim@...>]

Daniel...in respect to soul mirrors, how does a beginner deal with 
the "grey areas" of soul mirror work? Many flaws are obvious, but 
what about those that actually aren't flaws, but rathe misperceptions?

John


--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Alter 
<daniel_b_alter@y...> wrote:
> Dear RM and all,
> 
> > Dan, you certainly have a knack for raising
> > interesting issues! :) 
> 
> Thank you. One of the great joys of this Work is that,
> for every issue that is resolved, another takes its
> place. It certainly keeps life interesting!
> 
> > Method 1 (shamanic): Become aware of where your
> > emotion seems to 
> > reside in the body. Imagine it is a kind of Astral
> > object that can be 
> > independently manipulated by your Astral self. Use
> > your Astral hands 
> > (just imagining yourself doing this is sufficient)
> > to reach inside of 
> > your body, grasp the emotion and carefully draw it
> > out of yourself. 
> > Now throw it away. When you first try this technique
> > you will feel a 
> > kind of tingling sensation in the body where you are
> > grappling with 
> > your emotion. Once you throw it away it will (at
> > first) generally 
> > come right back. As you gain experience you will be
> > able to throw the 
> > emotion away and it stays away. Back here in the
> > physical plane - low 
> > and behold, the troubling emotion is gone.
> 
> I like this method a lot although, as you mention, it
> is probably more suited to forceful emotions. One
> concern I have is that one may become reliant on the
> technique. The constant use of this exercise to
> eliminate negative emotions may not help the aspirant
> to deal with the underlying issues causing these
> emotions to arise. However, I can see a good use being
> made from this if one encounters, say, a hostile
> situation and uses this technique to "rip" out the
> anger from other people. Have you tried this
> particular application?
> 
> > Method 2 (quasi Hermetic): English is a poor
> > language for describing 
> > inner states but I'll do my best. In this technique
> > you learn to 
> > become "transparent" to your emotion. You let if
> > flow around and 
> > through you while your consciousness remains very
> > still and does not 
> > interact with the emotion. You still feel the
> > emotion but in a more 
> > abstract way. I call this "quasi Hermetic" because
> > it is very similar 
> > to the thought observation technique described in
> > IIH. The emotion 
> > flows through you, then away and then it is gone.
> 
> The similarities between this technique and some of
> the exercises in IIH are loud and clear!
> 
> After writing my last post, I meditated further on
> this issue. The clear message was that we, as
> students, must always bear in mind that
> self-transformation is an iterative process. It is not
> simply a case of creating the Soul Mirror in Step 1
> and working through the major and then minor character
> flaws. As Rawn notes in his commentary to Step 1 of
> IIH, the Soul Mirror work should be periodically
> updated. However, what one should find is that, in
> creating the second Soul Mirror, the flaws that are
> considered the most major (and requiring immediate
> attention) are less pervasive than the most major
> issues identified in the first Soul Mirror exercise.
> Subsequent Soul Mirror exercises should highlight
> progressively less fundamental flaws (although the
> number of flaws themselves may not change, and may
> indeed increase!).
> 
> Kindest regards
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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