Anxiety is the opposite of some imagined "comfort" just ahead. Rushing is the vain attempt to close the gap between these opposites that exist only in an imagined time to come. Impatience "validates" the level of self that's identified with its pressurized need to reach the "end" it has imagined. And, in the end, sorrow is the result of realizing -- in most cases, too late -- that one...
Part 1So great is the need of the false self to feel itself as being "important" that it never stops imagining the scenarios it needs to give itself the feeling that something vital is almost always at risk. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing, self-created state of tension and anxiety -- a pain that drives it from pillar to post -- as proof that the peace it seeks..
It is a Truth: we must be moved along by life, for we all play a role of one kind or another in the world of passing time. Each must mount some appointed stage in that hour of need. But it is not true that one must feel anxious and rushed; such anxiety, and its painful expression, is not a natural part of passing time, for all there dwells in its place accordingly.
Whoever can begin to see the truth of the following insight, whoever will work to understand all that this revelation implies, will soon be free of fear, impatience, and painful anxiety: The mind asleep, to itself, is the trap...ceaselessly ensnaring each (sense of) "self" it continuously creates via an unseen set of opposites that, in turn, create the illusion of time and space that each cor...
The more any thought pushes you to run toward a time of some anticipated rest, the more you should work to slow down to see the following truth: with one hand, an unconscious self points to a “peace just ahead,” even as its other hand is stirring up some form of anxiety that you might not get there!
So great is the need of our lower nature to feel itself as being "important" that when it can't find some unwanted event seen as a threat to its fictitious position in life, then it simply imagines -- on the spot -- whatever conditions it needs to feel as if something vital is at risk. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this self-created state of tension and anxiety -- a pain that pushes...
Part 1 The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- "I" to "I" -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a "peace just ahead"... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense of anxiety from whose painful grip you can't wait...
We must recognize the almost endless cycle of pressure, anxiety, anger, and regret that always appears with the promise that if we follow that branch of negativity, it will lead us back to the source of understanding where we'll be free at last. In fact, that branch we're tempted to follow belongs to something that can never complete itself, and that requires our energy to sustain it.
Learn the "why" of stress and the "how" of ending it. Here's the secret to taking command of your life. Helpful pocketbook version of the new material added to the revised Design Your Destiny. Where Stress Becomes Unnatural Natural stress and tension keep the earth orbiting the sun. They test and strengthen trees that struggle upward against gravity, wind, and rain...
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