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    Intentional Adjustment

    Nirodha-Ārambha-Pravṛtti — Cessation-Beginning-Continuation

    Conscious choices about your practices and patterns.

    Positions

    1. 1

      Stop

      Question: What pattern must I intentionally cease?

      A mechanical habit, negative emotion, or wrong work of centers that requires conscious non-doing.

    2. 2

      Start

      Question: What new practice is called for?

      A new exercise, conscious effort, or way of working that serves awakening.

    3. 3

      Continue

      Question: What effort must I maintain?

      The practice or quality that must be sustained. What not to abandon in enthusiasm for the new.

    Jungian

    Dissolution-Coagulation-Integration

    Fourth Way

    Conscious labor

    Sanskrit

    Vairāgya-Abhyāsa-Dhāraṇā

    Related Concepts

    Conscious Labor

    Fourth

    Working at any task with full attention and presence—deliberately injecting consciousness into normally mechanical activity, creating internal unity.

    Integration

    Jungian

    The psychological process of bringing unconscious contents — the Shadow, the Anima or Animus, repressed capacities, disowned qualities — into conscious awareness and incorporating them into a more complete sense of self.

    Conscious Faith

    Fourth

    Faith arising from consciousness brings freedom; from feeling brings weakness; from body brings stupidity.

    Conscious Love

    Fourth

    Love arising from consciousness evokes the same in response; from feeling evokes the opposite; from body depends on type and polarity.

    Conscious Hope

    Fourth

    Hope arising from consciousness is strength; from feeling is slavery; from body is disease.

    Real I

    Fourth

    The unified, authentic self developed through long work—a state of continuous consciousness and will where all centers are balanced under permanent individual direction.

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