Power vs. Force

With America I had all my possibilities revealed. They appeared just like that, before me, naked and plenty, all at the tip of my fingers. I knew about them for a long time, I had either heard or read about them, but I had never looked at them with enough interest. Maybe out of lack of time, maybe out of surfeit or too much self seclusion. With my departure I experienced the explosion of the shell and the joy of breathing consciously. And not because Romania constrained me in any way or hurt me in any other, but because that was the moment when I tasted the power of option.

 

I felt that it was changing, that my eyes began to see differently, that the expression of my own mind had become richer in a way. I started a sort of half conscious groping about things in my life, I started the listing and labeling of all the old and new experiences, and of course, I had the realization of the fact that it all had to do with a change of level, a sort of spiritual growth. But the newly found land was very unsteady, it moved in all directions, almost incapable of self sustenance and hard to place between the patterns of my experience. 

 

I went through the process of chewing upon the newly acquired information, of placing things on a familiar path, harder to shake; a process of going back and analyzing, comparing and reshuffling. That’s how I got here, trying an infinitely simple explaining exercise that now seems almost impossible to realize. I tried in a way to contradict Hawkins, the author whose book I am going to write about. 

 

“Power vs. Force”- The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior”(Dr. David R. Hawkins, Hay House, Inc., California, 2002) is the book that managed to place between guidelines all the spiritual ballast that kept me from moving on for good months. It doesn’t talk about something totally new, and I think that’s the goodness of it, the fact that it reveals the obvious; it endlessly repeats what you already knew until you finally begin to see. That I am only affected by what my mind believes and that the power to evolve comes with the power of consciously controlling your attitude and the courage to have an option and constantly coming out of the box.

 

We, humans, get to know by placing things between pre-existing patterns and the best way to understand a completely new concept is by referring it to the familiar. We learn by repetition. Things become obvious by repetition. Therefore, we operate with patterns that are easily recognizable, easy to enclose in our personal or collective experience. Patterns organize themselves into systems of patterns that lead to the admittance of a fact as being a personal or collective truth.  

 

Stripped of all the heaviness of a specialized language and logical arrangements, the books speaks simply and for anyone who has their eyes open to read, about Enlightenment.

It speaks about levels of consciousness, and the emotions involved, about negative and positive emotions, about the force that always reacts against something and the power that resembles gravitation and springs out of understanding, out of action, I would say, about reactions and about how they depend upon the world we react at.

It strengthened my opinion that is good to want more, but not with foolish desire that limits and leads to frustration in the end, but with the courage of exploring new possibilities, by keeping the dream in focus, by adopting a detached attitude towards things, without attachments and useless anchors so that you lose the tendency to judge and control. You can feel the frustration going away, anger almost  disappears and you become yourself hard to control by the others. In this way appears the desire for self-correction and self-improvement.

 

A simple definition of genius says to ‘Do what you like to do best, and do it to the very best of your ability!’

The question is: ‘Are we the best of what we can be?’

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