Author: Veritas Administration

Q: The attractions of the world seem endless.  Is it really safe to go there? I often just want to escape.

A. The attractions are not innate to the world, but reflect projected values and the expectation of the payoffs of ego satisfactions.  In actuality, joy stems from within and is not dependent on externals.  Pleasure is associated with what is valued and esteemed.  Much of projected value arises from imagination, and values reflect desires.  In reality, nothing is more valuable than anything else other than spiritual fulfillment.

Daily Reflections from Dr. David R. Hawkins, pg. 133

We could say that force is a movement….Force always moves against something, whereas power does not move against anything.

Power stands still.  It is like a standing field that does not move. Gravity itself, for instance, does not move against anything.  Its power moves all objects within its field, but the gravity field itself does not move.

Power vs Force Card Deck

Added excerpt from Power vs Force book, Ch. 8, pg. 154

Power is total and complete in and of itself and requires nothing from outside itself. It makes no demands; it has no needs. Because force has an insatiable appetite, it constantly consumes. Power in contrast, energizes, gives forth, supplies, and supports.  We notice that Power is associated with compassion and makes us feel positively about ourselves.

Read how  Dr. Hawkins describes how he transcended his own severe fear of heights.

Another technique to eliminate negative emotions is to let go of their associated mental images that attract and amplify associated emotions.  Just refuse the image and cancel the temptation to indulge in it.

While doing research and experimenting with this technique, I had an experience that demonstrates one of the principles being described. I had a lifetime fear of heights which was so severe that when I went to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time, I literally could not walk within one hundred feet of the edge. It created that panicky feeling even when I saw somebody else get near the edge.  I was using this technique whenever I could and enjoying the progress I was making with it, but I had never gotten around to working on my  fear of heights.  The next time I went back to the Grand Canyon about two years later, much to my amazement, I could walk up to within about 20 feet of the edge before the tight feeling occurred in the stomach again. I continued to use the technique over the next year or two and again went back to revisit the Canyon.  Much to my surprise, I could walk right up to the very edge….What I had been releasing was the accumulated pressure and energy of all that fear from a lifetime.  Similar to a pressure tank, as it released itself, there was less and less to spill over into life experiences.

The letting go of resisting is so effective because resistance traps us into a certain state of consciousness; resistance is within.  Fear is a negative energy that calibrates at 100, and traps us in the field.  We can not get beyond it so we become the victim of our own fears unless we own that we are the source of them. As long as we rationalize and say that the source of fear is ‘out there’, we cannot overcome it. Once we begin to own that we are the experiencer, that we are the one who sets up the way in which we experience things, then we become the one who is master of the situation.

Healing and Recovery, Ch. 9, pgs. 275-276

The relinquishing of judgmentalism greatly increases the capacity of Love, as does surrendering the wanting of anything from others. Thus, people are not perceived according to what they have or do but by appreciation for what they are and have become. Love is self-fulfilling and thus does not seek gain or to compensate for lack.

Love is self-fulfilling  and thus does not seek gain or to compensate for lack. Because it does not need to ‘get’, it is therefore free to peacefully ‘be with’ and appreciate. To Love, the world is more benign and its people appear more friendly and available. There is an increased feeling of safety and identification with mankind in general and concern for the welfare and happiness of others.

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, Ch. 14, pg. 252-253

Acceptance/Humor

To transcend the world requires compassion and acceptance. They are the result of inner humility by which the world is surrendered to God with increased peace of mind. One of the most valuable spiritual tools about which, historically, little has been said is the great value of humor. Comedy arises as a result of the comparison that is made between perception and essence, and the resolution is a consequence of the acceptance
of the ambiguity.
Humor is quite different from ridicule or malice as it is compassionate in that it accepts human limitations and foibles as being intrinsic. It therefore assists ‘wearing the world like a light garment’ and illustrates that in
being like the reed that bends in the wind, one survives
instead of being broken down by rigidity.

The relief of laughter via a joke expresses the pleasure at dissolution of conflict, and the capacity to laugh at oneself is essential to positive self-esteem. To respond to everything as though it were highly important is a result of the vanity of the narcissistic core of the ego (e.g., being ‘sensitive’ or ‘offended’). Humor recontextualizes experiences and events and thus facilitates enjoyment without moralistic judgmentalism. Humor evolves as philosophical acceptance and has a healing effect. It thereby decreases suffering, conflict, and negative emotions.

Life presents endless ambiguities that, without humor, are not resolvable. Judiciously used, humor via acceptance leads to peace and an increased capacity for adaptation rather than frustrated resentment or
defeatism. By humor, we ‘rise above’ circumstances and retain inner dignity instead of shame, anger, resentment, or lowered self-esteem. Humor also facilitates wisdom in that it recontextualizes human frailties as
being intrinsic to the human condition itself and therefore not primarily personal.

Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, Ch. 16, pg. 312-313 Veritas Publishing edition