06-05-2009, 08:59 PM
Exactly Vince 
When you say mirror wrestling I say shadow boxing. But it's the same thing offcourse. The way to deal with these types of adversaries is to release our hold..
Any conflict involving the psyche is an energetic interaction. Incoming energy is transmuted by our interpretation of it. An angry child cause us feelings of compassion. An angry adult mixed feelings of fear anger and the feeling of "being denied by virtue of not being able to properly communicate your value". Sorry my English fails me.
The difference is the psychic stress caused by the incoming energy. We easily transmute a childs negative energy. We do not fight, we do not grapple. And so there is no pressure build up.
But it's difficult to do the same with someone who is strong and whom we hold in esteem. Yet the same principles apply. Our attempts to control or grapple in many cases end up in doing the exact same thing that the other side is doing. So a raised voice is answered with a raised voice. Or we take the more introverted route of blocking ourselves (we grapple with ourselves) and the pressure builds up inside. If enough negative energy accumulates we start projecting the shadow. It's a sort of jekil & hyde switch that effectively stops us from dealing constructively. And usually leaves us drained and regretting the situation even more. "Did I really do that?"
There is a third way for the energy to flow. Down into the dan tien into the legs and into the earth. Keeping you squarely centered, out of your shadow and fully in the here and now and thus able to consciously reason about the situation and take steps to reduce the psychic heat around you by figuring out what is the cause and constructively trying to work on that cause and not engaging in shadow boxing or mirror wrestling.
If that fails it allows us to stick to the moral high ground.
When you say mirror wrestling I say shadow boxing.
But it's the same thing offcourse. The way to deal with these types of adversaries is to release our hold..Any conflict involving the psyche is an energetic interaction. Incoming energy is transmuted by our interpretation of it. An angry child cause us feelings of compassion. An angry adult mixed feelings of fear anger and the feeling of "being denied by virtue of not being able to properly communicate your value". Sorry my English fails me.
The difference is the psychic stress caused by the incoming energy. We easily transmute a childs negative energy. We do not fight, we do not grapple. And so there is no pressure build up.
But it's difficult to do the same with someone who is strong and whom we hold in esteem. Yet the same principles apply. Our attempts to control or grapple in many cases end up in doing the exact same thing that the other side is doing. So a raised voice is answered with a raised voice. Or we take the more introverted route of blocking ourselves (we grapple with ourselves) and the pressure builds up inside. If enough negative energy accumulates we start projecting the shadow. It's a sort of jekil & hyde switch that effectively stops us from dealing constructively. And usually leaves us drained and regretting the situation even more. "Did I really do that?"
There is a third way for the energy to flow. Down into the dan tien into the legs and into the earth. Keeping you squarely centered, out of your shadow and fully in the here and now and thus able to consciously reason about the situation and take steps to reduce the psychic heat around you by figuring out what is the cause and constructively trying to work on that cause and not engaging in shadow boxing or mirror wrestling.
If that fails it allows us to stick to the moral high ground.