Attaining the Power for Growth

Developing mental discipline, understanding your body, and working on your spirit are the keys to attaining the power for growth.

The first step in developing mental discipline is to be able to silence the mind when required. Activities such as meditation can help. Once you have the ability to silence your mind, you can begin to explore the polarities that exist within your mind. To help you identify these polarities, begin by identifying those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove, those things which you like and those things which you do not like. Once you’ve identified your polarities, you can balance your polarities by accepting those things of which you disapprove or do not like. This is done in order to remove the source of blockages and confusion within your mind. As you smooth out each distortion, accept the completeness of your own conscious mind. Next, repeat this process, only this time examine your feelings toward other people. Balance how you see these people by seeing the opposite qualities in them. Once you have done this, accept these people as whole and complete.

An important point to understand is that the biases and distortions of your mind are made manifest by your body. Study your own body well and develop an understanding of how your biases and distortions are manifest by your body. Then, within your mind, take the opposite biases and distortions and see in your mind’s eye the result of how these would be manifest by your body. Once you have completed this exercise, accept your body as whole and complete and balanced.

With your mind balanced and single-pointed and your body balanced and comfortable with its distortions, the greater work on balancing your spirit can begin. Your spiritual body is an energy field that provides a channel for intelligent energy from the intelligent infinity source to flow through you and back again. Any blockages in your energy centers need to be eliminated in order to permit the free flow of energy between yourself and intelligent infinity. Balancing your spirit to achieve this free flow is subtle work and relies on the foundation laid by the work on your mind and body.