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Challenges
up. He has a latent readiness to react to this stimulus, which often manifests in form of intense aggression towards the one who dares to smoke. The emotional attachment still present in the new 'non-smoker' breaks out as soon as supportive conditions arise.
In contrast to this a 'real' non-smoker may feel annoyed at the infringement on his quality of breathing, but the smell of a lit cigarette would never prompt him to light up as well. He has no latent attachment to this kind of theme and thus the stimulus passes without initiating any kind of action or emotion.
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Positive Challenges
In a similar way we deal with challenges we feel positive towards. We keep on attracting the respective situations as long as we react emotionally to the corresponding themes of life.
Our attachment to positive challenges dissolves,
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once other themes begin to interest us more or
⚫ when we shift to a higher stage.
once we experienced them so often that we get bored by them
Here it often happens that the theme of life (e.g. a longing for ever deeper insight) does not fall away, but reveals itself in a new, more fascinating form or dimension.
What Challenges Are Active in Us NOW?
That's easy to find out: Whenever we notice appreciation or rejection within us, love or hatred, longing, or disappointment
