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Cosmic Fusion
One practical way to effectively deal with the negative emotions
is to distinguish between them, so that they can be separated and
sorted so they receive the attention they require and they become
manageable. We may see them like our children who each have
their specific needs. We can give to each one the particular attention
they deserve. To deal with them all at once is too difficult and
leads easily to discouragement and a sense of powerlessness
and defeat. In such a way you more easily work with them.
For each of us, the relations among and between positive and
negative emotions is a unique one. So are our needs and styles to
deal with them, depending on the culture we have grown up in, our
different kinds of education and the ways we have responded to
them and have evolved. So we will need to rely on and develop our
own imaginativeness to use the formulas creatively so that they
may be helpful rather than become an obstacle, as we apply them
mechanically. We need to learn to feel what is good for us, and
what helps us to be centered, in balance and at peace with ourselves.
Practice of Humor and the Humor of Practice
Crucial to our practice is a sense of humor and playfulness: to
avoid the Fusion Practice becoming a reproduction of old patterns
in a new form, as we use it as a device to track down our weaknesses
in a spirit of self-condemnation. Humor is essential for balancing
the energies of and in our organs. Humor is the great regulator
which helps us to look with a sense of relativity, playfulness
and lightness at ourselves. It is an expression of the compassionate
energy of the heart which helps to look with a sense of detachment
at ourselves and not to take ourselves so seriously that it
becomes difficult to relax and be a witness rather than a severe
judge.
With little humor, the Fusion Practice would become an accounting
practice in which we record the drawbacks which prevent us
from advancing. In focusing on the negative as if it were evil, we
lose sight of our creative potential and prevent ourselves to gradually
free ourselves from old patterns. Without humor we see no
way out except by relying on some external power or force which
only further undermines our own original power of self-transformation.
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