File: 13 - Seminar 1

One's Ego can be strengthened with:

• pride,
• shame,
• abandonment,
• abuse,
• power,
• reward,
• deprivation,
• denial,
• hatred,
• sacrifice, and
• the demands of others --- (imposed coercively as requirements for either acceptance or for avoidance of pain or penalty).

A strong Will is the outcome.

Without the discipline and management of the Personal Spirit, such a will adopts dictatorial power and denies access to one's Higher Self as well as dominating the Unconscious and enslaving the Personal Spirit.

Conversely, an Identity built upon balanced principles exhibits a Flexible and Moderate will.

A strong Will is created and developed by the influence of Energy Blocks.

Releasing those blocks provides an opportunity to the Personal Spirit to assert its identity management capability over the Will and build an Identity Team. If a Strong Will can be guided and appreciated from that point, Power will be added to the Purpose of the individual's identity. A strong Will can be:

obeyed,
denied,
frustrated,
destroyed, or,
managed.

Origins:

1. Challenges to physical survival from biological sources;
2. Emotional abandonment or a confining of emotional expression;
3. Loss of personal autonomy through co-dependency expectations;
4. A reality confused by the fantasy of idealistic perfectionistic expectations;
5. Emotional traumatization from the criticism, gossip, victimization from others;
6. Felt rejection by self and others resulting in an intense need for acceptance;
7. Other Energy Blocks of a spiritually weakening nature.

Benefits:

1. Socially rewarded for achievements and aggressiveness/passivity;
2. Politically rewarded for one's intolerance, pride, perfectionism;
3. Reality is simplified to a game of win-at-all-costs --- end-justifies-the-means;
4. Achievements are simplified to personal material gains and benefits;
5. Enforced powerlessness is converted into obsessive demands for power/control;
6. Most of one's negative and hurtful experiences are simply forgotten in amnesia;
7. One's Higher Self is shut out to enable a robot like safe predictable existence.

Challenges -

• Passive-aggressiveness results in abuse from/to others;
• Intolerance and pride encourage emotional, spiritual, and physical violence;
• Reality constantly defeats, complicates, frustrates, depresses, and angers;
• Achievements of true global benefit are non-existent;
• Sustaining relationships are rare, limited, role-driven, unsharing;
• Failure of identity growth = energy block compulsions/addictions;
• Denial of Higher Self results in failure of one's Life Goal.

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