Getting rid of the pain
When you’re in pain, the quickest and easiest route is to eliminate it as soon as possible.
What you’re trying to resist, what you’re attempting not to feel, is weakening you.
You are wasting energy trying NOT to feel. Naturally, no one wants to experience something unpleasant.
If you touch a burning kettle with your hand, the initial reaction is always to remove it. You don’t even need to think or decide; it’s an automatic response.
Similarly, you’ve developed many of these automatic responses to other emotional pains in your life. Perhaps it wasn’t a burning kettle, but rather related to your parents, siblings, or early relationships, and so forth.
Eventually, you found a way to react and distance yourself from the pain. However, while this method protected you, it likely wasn’t the best approach. Especially if you now live as if you’re constantly pulling your hand away from the fire. In other words, you’re living as if you’re under constant attack, thus keeping your defense mechanisms always active.
This is quite exhausting. You’re spending energy defending and resisting what you don’t want to feel, leaving you with less energy for other important aspects of your life—perhaps people or situations you’d prefer to invest your energy in.
Yet, your energy is being drained by old defense mechanisms that no longer serve a purpose.
That’s why you need to dismantle them. You must allow yourself to feel whatever you’re feeling to regain energy. Yes, you might have to experience the metaphorical burn so you notice that it won’t burn as badly as you remember.
The defense mechanisms need to recognize that they’re no longer necessary. Once this is realized, more energy will become available to you.
That’s what we work on in the course:
>>> The Unblocking Process
The laws under which we live
Here’s an interesting quote by Charles Haanel:
“The laws under which we live are designed solely for our advantage. These laws are immutable and we cannot escape from their operation.
All the great eternal forces act in solemn silence, but it is in our power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative peace and happiness.
Difficulties, inharmonies, and obstacles, indicate that we are either refusing to give out what we no longer need, or refusing to accept what we require.
Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better; it is a conditional or reciprocal action, for each of us is a complete thought entity and this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give.
We cannot obtain what we lack if we tenaciously cling to what we have. We are able to consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract, and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our further growth. Our ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness we attain.
The ability to appropriate what we require for our growth, continually increases as we reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater our abilities to know what we require, the more certain we shall be to discern its presence, to attract it and to absorb it. Nothing may reach us except what is necessary for our growth.
That we reap what we sow is mathematically exact. We gain permanent strength exactly to the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties.”
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.
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