Making a sharp turn in your Life.
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
by the spirit Eugênia-Aspásia.
Yes, indeed there are sudden changes. They are complex and require preparation time, but they happen. The History of the great figures of humanity, as of the human race itself, has plenty examples of them.
And, to ease your participation in this curious phenomenon (who would not want their famous new year’s diets to work?), we’ll present some practical and brief suggestions, to make your change successful.
First, for a change to be real, it has to be durable; to be durable, it must be sustainable, within the scheme of possibilities of the individual, that is: respecting his current evolution level, his personality structure, his whole psychological frame. It is from this elementary reasoning that we are going to attack on two fronts our effort of war (is there any greater and more necessary effort than the one which concerns our evolution?) First: increase immediate transformations within our present limits of evolution. And, second: aggregate evolutionary potential to our conscience, consequently increasing the potential of change.
Regarding the second block of initiatives, they demand time, energy and lots of work, by the detachment from immediate results, since that one cannot control the rhythm of progress and of complexification of the soul, and the intricate mechanisms of conscience. In this context, we think of the quantum leap principle, a concept from modern Quantum Physics, which states the possibility of an electron to move from one orbit to another, within an atom, without passing by the intermediate ranges of space that keep these orbits apart. To do so, however, the electron accumulates electrical charge up to the point of reaching the correspondent level of charge of the orbit to where it is projected instantaneously. In this way, the sudden change of position within the atom, as well as historic revolutions, seems accidental, but it was happening in the course of a long period of time, cumulatively.
By bringing this idea to our experience of catalysis of transformational processes, is implied a series of continued and persistent initiatives, which prepare the ground of the psyche, in order to extend its fertility potential to bear the desired fruits. Reading, psychotherapy, professional counselling, group support and, especially, a strong experience of God, through religion or any other form of spirituality that better suits one’s ideological and psychological predispositions. All this, however, without seeking immediate results, but trusting in good fate, and, as in a mental gestation whose duration of the psychic pregnancy is not known, one needs to endeavour for as long as necessary, indefinitely, or there will be a consciential abortion of new achievements that would occur.
But with respect to the first battlefront, the one of immediate initiatives, and of greater effect, because it’s also an excellent evolutional exercise, take a look at the following four simple but fundamental suggestions that we present here to catapult your change for the better:
1. Consider minor changes. Do not covet the unviable much. Think of the little that can be sustained for an indefinite period of time. Desiring a lot, may simply block your mind and even generate counter-productive effect in the unconscious, which undermines initiatives excessively audacious, through the reinforcement of exactly what you want to overcome.
2. Define change in a way it can be measured. Reading more, for example, is not a measurable goal, it’s a frustrating abstraction, beyond the control of reason. Reading half an hour per day or reading for five hours per week, in contrast, are goals that can be measured, not only to attest the success in accomplishing it, but also to quantify how close to it you get, or how much progress you make over time, depending on the ideal set.
3. Begin immediately. It is very common to expect for an ideal moment, for the right time, for the positive emotional condition, a companion, an incentive, greater inspirations. But those who really want to change make their own time and, the propitiating conditions are attracted or discovered, afterwards, as a consequence. The famous proposal of change at the end of the year, as we showed in the frontispiece of this digression, gives an idea of this false concept that there are special occasions in which changes can occur. It is your decision that makes the occasion.
4. In the eventuality of a fall, get up immediately. Another misconception is that you either make a complete change, perfectly, or you simply return to the point of origin, often with added imbalance. That is the well known case of those who start a rigorous diet and, because they cannot keep up with the Spartan measures they have adopted for themselves, they surrender to binge eating, soon after realizing this lack of vocation for a naturalist regimen.
Follow, dear friend, these simple recommendations that we have brought to you, at the coming of the New Year, the century or millennium, but without losing the referential that dates are mere human conventions, although they have a symbolic power (and therefore psychic) that deserves to be respected and put to use. Special dates represent mere reminders of what can and should be done all the time in your life, at every day of your physical or extra physical existence. In this manner, the most important decision that you can make, either on New Year’s Eve or at any other moment of your life, is to take into your hands the control of your destiny and direct it towards the future that you outline for yourself, with balance, ponderation, lucidity, humility, but also with a lot of drive and determination to achieve your goals and reach better levels of happiness and peace, for yourself and for those you love.
The choice to journey towards happiness or remain slave of the circumstances is, really, yours.
(Text received on December 30, 2000.)