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The Psychology of Enlightenment
environment. If you don't take that 60 percent with you, the 40 percent will not affect you very much, especially if you eat and drink sensibly.
In order to overcome the anxiety that some trouble or illness or inner lack will prevent you from accomplishing your goal, focus on the surge of creative energy at the second center. Gradually you will develop a keener sense of purpose and direction. From your new perspective, you will see risks as challenges which call forth your inner store of energy and lead you to realize your full creative potential.
Now you are ready to move to the third point of meditation at the navel, the center of power, expression, and expansion. Just as the mother gives a child to the world, nurturing it for nine months in her womb through the umbilical cord, so, psychologically, we become expansive and giving as we meditate on this center through which we were originally nourished.
Life has two requirements for us: that we commune with the inner Self, and that we communicate with the world. In order to experience true outward communication with society, with friends, and with family, we must first experience deep inner communion with our real nature. One of our obstacles both to our Self-knowledge and to our ability to communicate is the power game of the ego. Ego is contraction. It is the fear of losing something. It is the need to control and manipulate others. Those who try to control others, however, are, in reality, controlled and limited by their own ego trips. When you become in tune with this
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