Explore the exercises
Often, students engaging in the Charisma School exercises, whether in the free or the bigger courses, tend to approach them merely for the sake of completing them. It’s as if the exercises themselves were something like magic rituals, believed to automatically bring about changes, or like brushing your teeth, where they could be done mindlessly yet still yield benefits.
However, reality paints a different picture.
As much as I’d like to portray these exercises as simple and effortless, like brushing your teeth, the truth is quite different.
If you do them mindlessly or merely out of “obligation”, the benefits will likely be minimal.
It’s necessary to explore what you are doing. For example, the seemingly straightforward exercise of the magnetic gaze — staring at a point on the wall — can lead to profound revelations when approached correctly.
What happens as you are doing it? How do your eyes respond? How is your energy moving internally? What about your thoughts? Are they drifting or can you be focused? If not, why? What happens? What sensations do you experience in your eyes during the exercise? Do you perceive any changes? Do you feel the energy projecting? Or is it contracting? What stands out in your energy? How is it being projected? What kind of energy is it? Where and how precisely in your eyes do you detect this?
The insights you can get over this simple exercise are endless. The same can be said about pretty much every other exercise.
However, these insights are only attainable when approached with full awareness and a mindset of curiosity and exploration.
Naturally, the more awareness you cultivate regarding different aspects of yourself, the more you’ll gain from these exercises.
If you think you don’t feel anything or feel very little, your awareness is not yet well-developed. Energy movements unfold continuously throughout your day, even when you perceive nothing happening.
That’s why we created the course Advanced Energy Science – to equip you with the vocabulary and sensitivity needed to feel and comprehend more about your true self.
Thoughts are shadows of our feelings
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote:
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, and simpler.”
It’s a very thought-provoking quote, especially when we consider how much emphasis is placed on thinking and intellect everywhere we look.
It’s also interesting to see an intellectual giant like Nietzsche ditching on thoughts.
But let’s go further and – most importantly – understand the implications for our own lives.
Thoughts often serve as shadows of our feelings, meaning we feel first and think later. Initially, we experience a feeling, then we rationalize it.
If our body is craving candy, we find rational reasons to justify buying it: “I need it for studying,” “It’s my reward,” “I’m feeling down, so I need a pick-me-up,” and so on.
But the true reason was the body craving – an energy that surged within us and drove us toward sugar. Therefore, we should examine that energy to uncover the genuine motive, rather than relying solely on intellectual justifications. Notice how we’ve crafted a “shadow” of the feeling with our intellect.
Similarly, when we dislike someone, our body and energy revolt against them, leading us to seek intellectual reasons to distance ourselves from them.
You might ask: “What’s the harm in that? What’s wrong with rationalizing something?”
Well, the harm lies mainly in our tendency to identify with those thoughts and construct elaborate narratives in our minds based on them.
Yet, this narrative is merely a “shadow” of the real reason, leaving us in the dark about what truly influences us. Thoughts don’t faithfully reflect our feelings and energy; in fact, they often constrain them. By probing deeply within ourselves—not just into our thoughts but, crucially, into our bodies and energy, which lie at the essence of our being—we can access far greater wisdom.
That’s what we work on in the course:
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Enter into the state, don’t think of it
Here’s an interesting quote by Neville Goddard:
“To enter into the state and not simply think of the state.
Thinking from it differs from thinking of it. I must learn to think from it.
A man who this night came into a million dollars, from that moment that man is made aware that he has a million, when prior to that he had nothing.
He is thinking from the consciousness of having a million dollars.
He is not thinking of it; he is walking in the consciousness of having a million dollars.
He is not hoping for it, wishing for it; he is actually in it.
That is what the vision revealed to me. Even though at the end of my journey I will leave my things behind me and they will all be as though they were made of clay – all cheaply made, at that, every man, not knowing this? In fact, how many know it or care to know it?
They still want to realize their earthly dreams, and I am all for it; I teach it. But I cannot change the Promise. The Promise is fixed. That is something that will come to every being in this world, for it has been predetermined. But when we are here in this world of Caesar, I can cushion the blows, the inevitable blows, by learning the technique of Law and how to apply it, how to use it.”
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