How does one heal (open up) the orange-yellow ray blockages?

[Ankh]

For example, when I was younger, I believed that I was physically weak and had little energy. At one point in my life, I realized that this might only true because I believed it was true. So I decided that I would start imagining that I was strong and energetic, and behaving as if it were true. It was not long before it became true.

Another example: I used to think I was sexually depraved because I found desires within myself which, according to the religion in which I was raised, were considered sinful to act upon. Eventually, after letting go of the restrictive religion, I allowed myself to act upon my desires (so long as they didn't hurt another), and have progressively discovered that I am really quite sexually normal and healthy. Although it was a long process, accepting my sexual self exactly as it is without attempting to judge or change it alleviated the more "degenerate" of my sexual desires.

Healing, huh?

In all seriousness, what you are writing above can be done in meditation, and faster, or as soon as the self becomes aware and conscious of a catalyst. For instance, you said: when you were younger, you thought you were weak and had little energy. When you grew up, you decided to imagine the opposite. This is exactly what Ra said we can do when balancing mental disciplines in 5.2, beginning exercises of the mind: "Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself." This "completeness" Ra speaks of is also mentioned in 4.20 imo, and is that realization deep within that "all is complete and whole and perfect", which is the Law of One.

My understanding is that if faith and will are used to simply jump over the above steps, but to jump right into the realization/visualization of this completeness without first knowing the self and working with all the details, or as anagogy put it: "Basically, you have to stop seeing the imperfection. Believe you are healed, and so you are." - I don't think that it will work...? Are we not in this case repressing the self which is already perfect? We jump into bigger realization/visualization, but without understanding or balancing the foundation, thus building the firm ground, so it will simply not work...? But if we use the faith and the will to have this visualization anyway, are we not then overcoming?

This quote is interesting in this discussion:

Questioner: Jim has a personal question that is not to be published. He asks, “It seems that my balancing work has shifted from more peripheral concerns such as patience/impatience, to learning to open myself in unconditional love, to accepting my self as whole and perfect, and then to accepting my self as the Creator. If this is a normal progression of focus for balancing, wouldn’t it be more efficient once this is discovered for a person to work on the acceptance of the self as Creator rather than work peripherally on the secondary and tertiary results of not accepting the self?”

Ra: I am Ra. The term efficiency has misleading connotations. In the context of doing work in the disciplines of the personality, in order to be of more full efficiency in the central acceptance of the self, it is first quite necessary to know the distortions of the self which the entity is accepting. Each thought and action needs must then be scrutinized for the precise foundation of the distortions of any reactions. This process shall lead to the more central task of acceptance. However, the architrave must be in place before the structure is builded.

Jim tried to jump from the work of peripheral matter into realization of the self as the Creator, but Ra said that it is first necessary to know the self which one is accepting, which will then lead to the more central acceptance.

caycegal, my understanding of healing of orange ray is that understanding of the self and then balancing is what is necessary. Consciously becoming aware of each catalyst and then in meditation feeling the energy center where this catalyst is seated. Orange ray, in my experience, is although a bit more simple than the yellow ray. Yellow ray which I am trying to understand now is more complex because it is a primary ray, and it involved all other selves, and the society we are living in. I've had my own very intense shower of catalysts in regards to yellow ray recently, and to be honest I am still confused about this ray.

My question is: if orange ray involves an understanding of the self and then balancing, does yellow ray involves then an understanding of the society and balancing it in some way?