The Veil in the Body

[APeacefulWarrior]

You brought up a good point:

Controlling the body by sheer force of will

vs

Raising the vibration of the body so that it resonates more harmoniously with the mind and spirit, rather than being veiled from them

...

I don't see those as dichotomous, actually, but rather as harmonious. My basic understanding is that as vibration levels rise, the will automatically vibrates in sympathetic ways. The will becomes "in tune" with the rest of the mind/body/spirit/S-M-C/etc complexes, such that the will becomes a will to do as the vibrations call it to do.

If I speak of control somewhat bluntly, it may be because I did find -earlier in my inner journeys- that it seemed to take a lot of force of will, as you say, to overcome various blocks and other messed-up things in my head. I ended up sort of pushing through them, and then only later coming to see the more subtle\flowing ways of obtaining those same ends. I'm not sure whether this is something I "had" to do or not. I'm aware that it's fundamentally a choice, but at the same time, it seems that I had to go through the pushing-through stage to see what was on the other side, and I'm not sure I would've been able to go straight to the flowing without the pushing.

If that makes any sense, LOL.

Or perhaps I've developed enough force of will that I have to do something with it, and I find that, well, being willfully unwillful is the best focus I can find for those energies. In any case, I don't find that my "force of will" is going away, but rather needs to be carefully directed so it doesn't get used as a blunt object as much as I can avoid it.