CALISTHENICS MARCH 1980 - CANCER AND HEALING -- MAJOR DEATH -- PERSONALITY AS A SAMPLE OF MANKIND --MIND/SOUL --ABDOMEN CENTERS ALLOW DOER
Discussing Cancer and Healing
There is one psychological point that is very important, very important: If you fight because you are afraid, being afraid is your base, and then your fight is mainly artificial. I would call it a form of panic. That's no good, it creates a lot of toxins. The body already has very much to handle with the toxins already present. Actually the word "fight" is no good, because it implies that you acknowledge a condition you don't like and you want to get rid of it and this is not what you want to do. So try to follow: In any condition you are in with pain or no pain, with whatever, there is always somewhere, somehow a side that is harmonious, that you can like... This is what you can expand on. This means you start from something that works, not something that does not work. It's a very i- important point. You take that in hand and you suffuse the whole condition with it. If, during our sessions, you feel a higher condition, work aalways from the highest condition. In the higher condition you are fully aware that you are not the ego, or more precisely the ego image, your mind has. Whatever the ego image your-mind has, when you live the higher condition you are something else. And this takes the situation in hand. You introduce, you enhance, you cultivate this positive action, this positive condition, until it suffuses the whole situation. From my own observation with cancerous people, there is practically always a mess in the negative polarity. And a mess, whatever the polarity, is always a lack of directionality. You can work from higher than yourself, if you need that kind of symbol. The higher the condition, the more positive it is, so the more directionality it will give. When that works you will notice that the aA center will become more active. You will also notice that by working on your body from a higher condition, and having to work with the body, you gain something you might not gain in other ways because you might have too many concepts, i.e., the centers of the abdomen begin to respond. That's a serious gain, whatever the outcome of your situation. You will introduce a positive directiveness within the body.
In the book we speak of Major Death. I have to remind you, and I'm quite serious about it, routine death is not major death, it's just plain routine death. Everyone on earth is used to it; Major Death is something else. We call it Major Death because it looks to the consciousness like routine death. You die to this condition; you die to that condition. Someone who dies consciously is giving up everything here: personal ties, personal belongings, even your spiritual efforts. And now you know this has to go, and you let it go. If you are able to do that, death is easy. After death is much easier, because one of the problems of after death is to get rid of those ties. This is why, for instance, in Western training you learn to see your day in the morning and to look back in the evening. When you do it correctly, there is a deep meaning behind. When you really do it --I mean really, like when you face life and death -- and it's a real situation, you die to the old condition right away. Next day is a new day. When you die you are not tied up in that in between situation that has many names, you can go right through. Trouble is that most people don't take it as a real situation, and practice it as a real situation.
For how many years have I told you to work on your personality as a sample of mankind. It's a point so easily forgotten. When you, the real you, takes the situation in hand, it takes it as a sample of mankind. You might not realize it, you might put it in other words. You take it as a situation with which You deal, and you make something out of it. Now this situation has a personality related to the situation, and this personality has strong points and weak points and whatever in between. You don't like those weak points, but this is the situation with which you work. You balance the situation until you come through, little by little, until the directiveness that is you pervades the whole system . Obviously then you change.
I can give you another example which answers to your situation in a way: I know of a person who had a hysterectomy and she was surrounded by lots of friends; she could feel them at a distance and so. After I don't know how many days the doctor said she
Group Powers
You have to remember when one person works alone there is the power of one. When two persons work together it works to the square of the number, that means it has the power of four; with three persons it has the power of nine.
Mind--Soul
There is one calisthenics of the mind that you have to learn. when the mind finds a way of looking at things - you have to lear to always challenge it. ---always. Your outlook might be really working in that way, but you can challenge your mind. Tell the mind to look for another one. The so-called soul is at work constantly.
The abdomen centres are related to what is called physical awareness. The awareness you have now is not physical. it's etheric. I mean the sensory awareness With the sensory awareness you cannot feel like your liver or your spleen feels, for instance. But this can be done. I told you a hand is intelligent by itself. It's not just a concept, its absolutely real. If you as a whole think, just realize that any part of that whole thinks also. You simply don't call it thinking, because thinking is applied to that whole. But there is awareness. In this direction it might help you to understand that if you open the centers of the abdomen, that kind of awareness awakens. Actually we are referring to much more than that, because it allows the Doer to step in, and the Doer works completely differently from anything you know. This is where we have the hardest time coming through. When you suddenly realize that in order to do --you do. Sounds silly, but look closely, most people can't understand that. They think that in order to do you first have to learn this or that. Not true for the Doer. With a true Doer, the seeing, the knowing and the doing is one ... not stages.
For now you depend on the three centers of the thorax which is a U function (shaping), which is related to knowing - so you are bound to have to know first in order to do. Look around, look at your own mind. If I tell you that in order to do you do, it sounds kind of silly. If you accept the words conceptually you say OKay. Face the practical situation. There is no "how" that you have to learn. Not with the Doer. And this is the weird side. The function of the Doer is to Do, not to learn. Learning is knowledge. I prefer to refer to the center of the abdomen as being symbolically the opening needed for the presence of the Doer.