A short one here. No larger context just a thought:
From session 5.2:
To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.
This is an interesting quote. I never had any particular success with it previously which was likely due to, because of medical reasons, I was always in fight or flight and didn't have any particular emotional depth.
However, it is something I am looking at now. It strikes me it might have some relevance to interpersonal dynamics that relate to manipulation. If you have someone in your life. You have a part of you that desires excessively to gain favour, codependent, loving etc. and another side which is cold as hell.
This is interesting because the part that wishes to gain favour, if you are not aware of it, it will tend to motivate you behind the scenes. Then obviously, the other side is something we would not tend to be aware of if we are stuck in the more compassionate side.
Anyway, if this process genuinely got changed emotions that would be pretty amazing.
But I'll leave it there for the moment. It's early days.
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