An Aid
Sometimes it can be quite useful to have a procedure very
present in our mind about how we can effectively deal with certain egos that
pop up within us. This post is about giving you some of these short procedures
summarized in the form of a more or less easy to remember acronym.
Short Procedures
If you have these acronyms that represent very short
procedures of how to counteract the ego, very present within you especially
when an ego is about to react they can be of enormous help.
Effectiveness Can Depend on the Person
Once again it depends on the person, such things may be
useless to one person but helpful to another.
Create Your Own Work Aids
Even a particular acronym maybe not be helpful to a
particular person, however in such a case one may take the idea and create
based on their own observations and work, new acronyms that are more effective
as an aid to help them to counteract the ego on the spot.
What Experience has Showed Me
What experience has showed me, is that if we don’t have
knowledge of how to counteract the egos on the spot we end up being a victim of
the egos.
S.W.A.T Anger
S: Stop
W: Wait
A: and
T: Think
This is so handy to deal with anger. If you just stop
and wait for a short while and begin to think creatively about the solution, you will see how much
this helps. The only thing is to know how effective it is one has to give it a try. Unfortunately you
have to get angry to see how effective it is.
S.C.A.L Confusion, Procrastination, Hesitation, Inertia, Laziness etc.
S: Stop
C: Collaborate
A: and
L: Listen
This is a verse from a song that is not very constructive
for the consciousness, however it can be helpful in dealing with such internal
states as confusion, procrastination, hesitation, vacillation, inertia,
laziness etc.
By collaborate I mean to work with ‘the work’ or work with
the Being in you and think based on the work or for the benefit of the Being
and then go inside of yourself and listen to what you really want to do. What
comes from the depths of your Being or in other words what comes to you to from a place
that is deeper than the personality, mind and the egos. This more authentically
you and is more of what you truly want to do and not what the ego wants to do.
S.I.T Lust
S: Stop
I: Inhale
T: Transmute
This is extraordinarily helpful. We get into trouble because
we just don’t do anything. We have to do something and when we do we will reap
the benefits of having done something.
So that ‘s the key with lust, physically transmute the
sexual impulse and then also psychologically transmute it, seeing that sexuality is a unifying factor it connects us to ourselves and to the Being and
therefore to the cosmos. It enhances us and dignifies us when we transmute it.
Conclusion
Feel free to give these or your own work aids a shot. This
is a very good way to teach beginners in the work on the ego. It presents them
with a concrete method of counteracting the ego and once they have some
experience they can drop the work aid.
Even though a person has been studying Gnosis for a long
time, there are times where one is like a beginner when it comes to working
certain egos that have not been worked on before. And so having such a work aid
for a while is helpful.
End (1494).
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