Intentional Adjustment
Nirodha-Ārambha-Pravṛtti — Cessation-Beginning-Continuation
Conscious choices about your practices and patterns.
Positions
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1
Stop
Question: What pattern must I intentionally cease?
A mechanical habit, negative emotion, or wrong work of centers that requires conscious non-doing.
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2
Start
Question: What new practice is called for?
A new exercise, conscious effort, or way of working that serves awakening.
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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
Working at any task with full attention and presence—deliberately injecting consciousness into normally mechanical activity, creating internal unity.
Integration
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
Faith arising from consciousness brings freedom; from feeling brings weakness; from body brings stupidity.
Conscious Love
Love arising from consciousness evokes the same in response; from feeling evokes the opposite; from body depends on type and polarity.
Conscious Hope
Hope arising from consciousness is strength; from feeling is slavery; from body is disease.
Real I
The unified, authentic self developed through long work—a state of continuous consciousness and will where all centers are balanced under permanent individual direction.