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Date: April 28, 2018 at 16:03:46
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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Maurice Nicoll
Amwell, 11.2.50
THE INFECTION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
On one occasion one of my teachers said to me: "Try to express
your unpleasant emotions in the most pleasant way that you can so as
not to hurt." Of course, at that time I did not understand even that I
had unpleasant emotions or that I
talked bitterly, and so on. When I
began to understand how important self-observation was I began to
realize that I had unpleasant or, as we
call them in this Work, negative
emotions, and that hitherto I had never realized this, nor had I made
the slightest attempt to express them as pleasantly as possible. Now a
person who is really negative is more dangerous than a virus or a
bacterial infection. A really negative person can infect twenty, thirty,
or even a hundred people with negative emotions, and if speaking in
public many more. So understand that the dangerous things we suffer
from are first of all things called bacteria, which can be seen under the
microscope, and then viruses which are so small that they cannot be
seen under any ordinary microscope
and are even more infectious; and
finally there is a person who is thoroughly negative and can infect
people in a much more dangerous
fashion than bacteria or viruses.
For that reason in the Work we can bear one another's bacterial infections and we have to put up with them as best we can, but if there
is in the Work a really negative person, a person fast asleep, a person
full of envy, bad moods, and evil will,
I say that such a person is much
more dangerous from the Work point
of view than any physical infection. Physical illness often opens
things, but negative states shut
things. Do you understand that a person in the Work who is struggling
with the development of himself or herself may have an infection, or
whatever it may be, and this will not necessarily destroy their attempts
to form in themselves a new psychological body of thought and feeling
which depends on a new view of
everything, including themselves,
gained from the ideas of this Work? But if such a person who struggles
in the Work to change his mind and live in another way internally
meets someone in the Work who is full of bad states, who is always
negative, and all the rest of it, this person may infect not only him,
but a lot of other people, as the poison is far more dangerous than
bacteria or viruses. These people are generally on the borderline of the
Work and think they have not been treated rightly. So we see that
infective poison starts in the bodily realm but goes up to the psychological or spiritual realms.
Now what kind of infection in the psychological or spiritual realms
do we have to protect ourselves against? What is the subtlest infection
in the psychological realms as distinct from the ailments to which our
physical body is exposed? What, if we want to make a psychological
body, must we guard against? What
can destroy the beginning of the
formation of the psychological body as
distinct from the physical body?
Everything that the Work says will teach you about its high prophylactic power. It is an anti-toxin. What is one of the answers? I
mean, what is the most infective psychological thing that we have to
resist and deal with at all costs? I repeat, it is negative emotion. And
I repeat again, that it is your fault if you are negative. You cannot
grow in your internal side, or your internal Man, you cannot build up
something that will resist
life in your psychological side, if you have an
open cesspool of negative emotions
always. That will destroy everything in the delicate formation of
a new understanding and a new body
within the physical body. O. compared it with an explosion in a
laboratory. Now what do negative emotions do as regards your internal
psychology which is at present in complete chaos in every ordinary
man and ordinary woman, for which
reason people feel so wretched
and unhappy and cannot make conscious relationship with one
another? Negative emotions twist everything, they make wrong connections in your psychological side. When you are negative you are
filled with lies. What is a lie? A
lie is wrong connections internally.
What is Truth? Truth is right
connections internally. When you
begin to see how negative emotions
lie, when you begin to distinguish
what they say to you, then you are beginning to make it possible to
have a basis for the second organized body within you that I will call
for the moment a psychological body as
distinct from the physical body.
So therefore consider, observe what happens when you are negative.
Notice how everything is wrongly connected in you, as regards seeing
the other person, and notice how when you are not negative towards
this person everything is differently connected. Begin to see this for
yourself and then you will begin to see that the Work is Truth and
something perfectly real that you have to do and not listen to only.
How can you expect to make right relationship to one another if you
are all governed by negative emotions, and how can you expect to
advance in this Work and get in touch with Higher Centres if you will
never face your own negative emotions with the strength that will
give you a new mind and a new understanding of life?
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Date: May 03, 2018 at 11:57:55
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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Negative can be subjective. Also if there were no
negative how can there be positive? We need the
opposites to keep perspective.
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Date: May 04, 2018 at 10:44:29
From: et, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: by the fact there are positives.(NT) |
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Date: May 03, 2018 at 12:16:08
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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that is a different topic...
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Date: May 01, 2018 at 12:32:06
From: Swampy/NM, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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Several quotes come to mind. The best in this case is,
"My, what a tangled web we weave." Don't recall who
said it, but my mom used it on occasion (God rest her
soul).
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Date: April 29, 2018 at 20:39:13
From: kemokae, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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I don't call it negative anything as it's most often people wanting to control others for the negativity
factor. Much of my negativity is of two things...people whom think I can live my life better by their..lies and wants...for my own needs...or people whom don't really listen to an thing I do say....and merrily go off their own way and forget what it was I had an need for. I have had years of college classes in supervising other people, and the first thing they told us was people won't listen to anything they don't feel favors them first....so they have created this kind of bogus society of false help to others...to get others to do things. One reason when trump spouts his views people listen, cause he can back up what he says most likely....and money counts these days more then anything else...and that includes being right...or saying the truth.
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Date: April 29, 2018 at 20:28:40
From: et, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the inoculating antidote to negative emotions ... the positive |
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in a way yea to what you said salve for the way that was
presented ... that did not focus on the ways that be positive...
or not so not positive ...
express emotions in the most pleasant way that you can so as
heal and delight and be as best as possible
Of course, each has to understand which emotions
accompany us and the language we each employ ... is it
bitterly,or sweet or tart of what?
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Date: April 30, 2018 at 10:56:46
From: JimW, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the inoculating antidote to negative emotions ... the positive |
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Preaching to us and giving us unasked for advice.
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Date: April 30, 2018 at 17:04:32
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ...what would Yogananda say about dealing with negativity? |
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... I suspect it came up from time to time.
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Date: May 01, 2018 at 01:04:52
From: JimW, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ...what would Yogananda say about dealing with negativity? |
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Why are you asking me. That is easy to look up.
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Date: April 30, 2018 at 16:47:48
From: et, [DNS_Address]
Subject: the present some will appreciate and keep others will throw out(NT) |
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Date: April 29, 2018 at 14:01:31
From: JFF, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the infection of negative emotions (or why rig had to go) |
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Ryan/Bopp, this is appreciated for the delicious, golden meal that it is and hey, dude it's on a Sunday! ;)
I can appreciate and ride-along with this author so easily. This, " the second organized body within you that I will call for the moment a psychological body as
distinct from the physical body." is in christian parlance simply the body and soul, referred to.
Thanks to the meaty things you present, I've learned to look for your name, to show these eyes value that I've not read before.
thanks~
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