1 result for (book:nopr AND session:642 AND stemmed:energi)
6/56 (11%)
aggression
violence
passive
beliefs
animals
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
Your feelings always change the chemical balance of your body and alter its hormonal output, but the danger comes only when you refuse to face the contents of your conscious mind. Even the intent to know yourself, to face the reality of your experience, can be of great benefit, generating emotions that will provide an energy, an impetus to begin.
[... 23 paragraphs ...]
As a rule the animals have better sense. Your mind and your body, therefore, are quite equipped to handle aggression. Violence occurs only when the natural expression of aggression has been short-circuited. The sense of power felt during such episodes is the result of repressed energy suddenly released, but the individual is always at the mercy of that energy then — submerged within it, and passively carried with it.
The fear of your own emotions can do far more damage than their expression, because the apprehension builds up a charge that intensifies the energy behind them.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
(11:25.) When you try to be spiritual by cutting off your creaturehood you become less than joyful, fulfilled, satisfied natural creatures, and fall far short of understanding true spirituality. Many who say they believe in the power of thought are so afraid of it that they inhibit it in themselves, avoiding any that appear negative or harmful. The slightest “aggressive” expression is blocked. Thoughts can kill, these people think — as if the individual against whom such an impulse was directed had no protective life-giving energies of his or her own, and no natural defense.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Each person has his own built-in energy and protection. You accept only those ideas and thoughts that fit in with your own system of beliefs, and even then there are various safeguards. No man dies unless he wants to die, and for a much better reason than that you may want him to.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
(11:40 p.m. Jane yawned again and again. “I feel exhausted — and yet I’m charged with energy at the same time,” she said. The paper Seth had referred to concerned some of her own work with beliefs. My writing hand ached.)
