Ch. 3 ~ Stress

As we examine the Map of the fields of consciousness more closely, our awareness of this subject will advance rather rapidly because it is easy to understand. It is something we already know; it is just necessary to bring it into our awareness.

The energy fields at the bottom of the Map are adverse or destructive to life and can be called stress because of their intrinsic nature, which indicates a stressful direction.

p.86

It is often said that the sources of happiness and stress are 'out there', and thus the hope for releasing stress is by 'changing the world'. Stress does not exist in the world. Instead it is an inner experience within consciousness itself. There really is no way one can basically change the world to relieve stress. What, then, can be done?

We can begin to own the truth about it and have the courage to look at the facts. The minute we do this, we change the energy fields. As we move to Neutral (250), we move into a more positive space. Now there is the willingness to face, cope, and handle the situation, thereby bringing re-empowerment. The means reclaiming our power and living closer to the truth.

p.91-92

*Doc discusses each of the levels and their concordant perceptual views of the world, God, and onesself.

As we talk about these energy fields as levels of consciousness, it is obvious that they determine how we experience life. They determine what kind of a God we think exists in the universe as well as the kinds of emotions we express. All of this expression is a process going on within conciousness itself. It is now clear that there is nothing 'out there' that has the power to create stress, and that we ourselves are the creators of stress by our positionalities and attitudes.

p.97

Stress is resisting what we do not want and not stressed is getting what we do want. The problem is within ourself. The solution is to merely shift our attitude by choosing lovingness towards life, which includes an energy field called humor that contains the capacity to laugh at ourselves and at the nature of life itself, and to love and laugh at the comedy of it all. That is the value of the great humorists who also tend to be long lived.

Disturbed people are like Don Quixote - fighting their own projections in the world. The comedy of it all is the basis of humor, laughing at those qualities of life, holding them from a position that exposes the paradox, because humor is in seeing the paradox.  It is by inner decision whether life is experienced as joyful, harmonious, and easygoing, or experienced as an enemy.  We begin to admire instead of envy people who are capable and easygoing, which means acceptance and being adequate. To feel adequate and solid results from realizing ourself as the source of how life is experienced. ..

When we stop identifying with the events 'out there' and giving them power over our lives, then we experience an inner serentiy as a consequence of having transcended the world.

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