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# Re: What does it mean to become noble concerning passions?

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- Subject: Re: What does it mean to become noble concerning passions?
- From: luxmagus@...
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:20:02 -0000
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    Hi,
    Lori....great post once again. I felt much the same regarding the
    work of enobling the character. I had a great dread of it for a long
    time. I would look ahead at the work and get the feeling that it was
    almost impossible to do that. I simply had too many obstacles and
    too many things to overcome. I didn't feel like it was possible at
    least until I had lived quite a few more years. Something in me did
    not want to change. Once I started though, I found that the work was
    a little easier than expected, as long as you apply yourself and use
    the techniques given by Bardon, then the work isn't really all that
    difficult. It takes a certain diligence, but not really that much
    sweat. I did discover too, that many of my faults came in groupings.
    In other words I had maybe 20 faults related to lusts and maybe 25
    related to anger and irritation in some form or other. I learned
    that it is fairly easy to work with the base
    problem.....Lust.....Anger...etc. Rather than taking each little
    case separately. This has made the work go much faster than before
    because whole rows of the dominoes are falling rather than one fault
    at a time. For me the exercise of imagining the fault leaving you as
    you breathe out...from the whole body, seems to work wonderfully
    well. It has seemed to de-energize some of the larvae. I have had
    some success with the cold shower exercise and also with the
    autosuggestion, and concious food reception, but the breath exercise
    seems to work the best for me. I suppose there is also a component
    of willpower to it. Being aware of the negative habits and stopping
    them just as they start to come into existence on the mental level
    has helped too.
    I understand your resistence to changing your reactions based upon
    a fear of losing your strength and command presence. I am a police
    sergeant and I felt much the same. I didn't want to lose my edge, as
    sometimes a display of furious anger can overpower people and get
    them to lay down a gun or knife etc. I did find that once I dropped
    that, I really seemed to have a better command presence. I was
    relying on a crutch that simply was not needed. A sort of quiet
    power came into being that wasn't there before in my personality. As
    you mentioned about yourself, I have discovered new ways of dealing
    with a crazy world. I am a long way from perfection yet, I still
    have many faults, but one by one I am working with them, and some of
    the biggest ones have already fallen away. I definitely see light at
    the end of the tunnel:-)
    Blessings,
    Jerry

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