1-416-561-5780Pain is the result of conflict. It occurs when two opposite directions exist in a personality. The direction of the universal creative forces is toward light, life, growth, unfoldment, affirmation, beauty, love, inclusion, union, pleasure supreme. Whenever this direction is counteracted by another, a disturbance is created. It is not the disturbance itself that creates the pain, but the imbalance and a special sort of tension caused by the opposite direction. This is what causes the suffering.
The pull of the two directions creates the pain. You can tell that this is what actually causes the pain because when the struggle is given up and the individual lets go and gives in to the pain, the pain stops. If the personality were conscious of wanting non-health as well as health, the struggle would cease instantly. It is the unconsciousness that creates a gap between cause and effect. The cause is the negative wish; the effect, the disturbance in the system. The two pulls continue and pain comes into being.
The pain that stems from the conflict between conscious and unconscious desires applies to the physical plane, as well as for the mental and emotional planes. If the conflict becomes conscious and the negative desire is no longer supported, the pain (physical, mental or emotional) will stop. On the spiritual plane things are different.
The spiritual plane is the cause, while all other planes or spheres of consciousness are effects. The spiritual plane is the origin of the positive direction. It does not, and cannot, contain a negative direction. The negative direction creates, and is created by, various attitudes incompatible with the origin of all life. The spiritual plane is unity itself, therefore conflict, opposing directions and, consequently, pain are unthinkable and illogical there.
On the physical, emotional and mental levels, where negativity can exist, it is possible to accept it as a temporary disturbance deriving from the conflict with the positive, which will always be present.
Negativity can exist and be accepted on the physical, mental or emotional planes, as a temporary condition that exists without finality. On the spiritual plane this is not possible, since it is a plane of unity.
It makes all the difference for an individual to be or not to be aware of his negative desires. There are, of course, degrees of awareness. The more the awareness of a deliberate desire for the negative exists, the more you will be in control of yourself, of life, and the less you will feel victimized, helpless, and weak.
The work on this path involves becoming aware of deliberate negative desires, or of the avoidance of positive results, which amounts to the same thing. It is, as you can see, an essential milestone on your whole road of evolution. The principle of cycles or circles — whether benign or vicious — is always the principle of self-perpetuation. Autonomy is positively self-perpetuating, set in motion by reality consciousness.
Take, for example, any healthy, positive attitude. When you are outgoing, constructive, open, inclusive, all things go easily. You do not have to work hard at them. They perpetuate themselves. You do not even have to spend energy on any deliberate kind of meditation. By themselves, your positive thoghts, attitudes, and feelings create more positive thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. These, in turn, create fulfillment, productiveness, peace, and dynamism. The principle is exactly the same in negative situations. The self-perpetuating forces, in this instance, can be changed only by this deliberate process which sets something new in motion. The Pathwork method effectively accomplishes this.