The Dynamics of Movement and The Resistance To Its Nature

By The Pathwork Guide

Beloved friends, blessed be everyone of you. Let the love and the truth pouring forth permeate your whole being.

In our world of spirit and truth there are certain high points, certain very concentrated focal points whose task it is to connect with the three-dimensional world wherever this is possible. These connections consist of many entities -- entities of very different talents and specialties. These nuclear points in our sphere of consciousness are in constant communication -- both directly and indirectly -- with your own paths, with your personal guides, and with your guardian angels. In other words, with those entities who are closer to you and who surround you. We focus on the overall needs of the total path and on the overall phase to be worked through. All your individual paths create one entity, one wholeness. This is why it can happen that you receive a lecture that is the answer for so many of you. In other words, that so many individualities -- with different needs and different problems and who may have started this work at different times and therefore find themselves in different phases -- all receive what they need most just now. From the human point of view this seems logically an impossibility, but from our vantage point it is not. But in order to find this one common point serving everyone, a great deal of work needs to be accomplished first in our world.

This is why any given lecture fulfills the needs of every one of you, even though some of you may deeply connect with the topic only a year or two later. Nevertheless, the lecture will evoke an echo in everyone who is truly open. It will be exactly the answer you need in order to put all the pieces together. So try to realize that the topic is always carefully chosen and carefully prepared. The preparation is not easy, for the topic has to be squeezed into human terms, into human concepts, into human terminology, and into human language. That is not an easy task. We have experts. Yes, this may seem strange to you, but it is not so strange, for whatever you have on your earth sphere is but a minute representation of what exists in our world.

This lecture will deal with the topic of movement: the nature of movement, and the nature of the resistance to movement. You have all noticed on your path, each in your own way, that in spite of the ever-awakening and ever stronger urge to change, urge to grow, and urge to expand, there is another aspect in you. It is the resistance to move. In other words, the resistance to change, the resistance to grow, the resistance to expand. You have made many recognitions in this regard. You have found many misconceptions, both personal and general, that create this resistance to movement.

Let me first speak about the nature of movement in cosmic terms. I have said before that whatever is alive moves. You see this right in your own sphere. You see that anything that is alive is in a state of movement. Even when it is still it is in movement. The breath is movement, the bloodstream is movement, the heartbeat is a continuous movement. But when a body is dead, then the movement has gone from it, along with the spirit that is alive. It has withdrawn from the shell.

An inaminate object is motionless. But since there is nothing in this universe that does not contain life, then even the seemingly dead objects contain movement. Only, at this level of aliveness its movement occurs at a different vibratory rate, one which is not perceptible to you. The frequency of the vibratory function is so slowed down that the movement is imperceptible from your vantage point. We are speaking here of degrees of aliveness. This brings us to the obvious conclusion that the more aliveness exists, then the more movement must exist. This movement can exist on an inner plane, and therefore be subtle. In other words, it may not be observable from the outside. But it can still be strong, alive, and vigorous. I am not speaking of the movement that is inherent in inanimate objects. I am speaking of an organism that is alive from your human point of view. For example, a tree is still. In other words, its movement is imperceptible when you look at it. Nevertheless its inner movement is intense.

A human being who is in a state of movement may not always move outwardly, but his movement is being felt even during periods of outer rest and quietude. The movement is being felt in his joyousness, in his aliveness, in his ability to change, in his flexibility, in the ever-pulsating nature of his whole organism. By the same token, you may have outer movement and inner deadness, or relative deadness and relative movement. Movement exists on all levels. Some levels may be in a healthy state of movement, while others are not. It is then often the case that an over-compensation occurs on the level where movement is not being resisted.

The movement that I am speaking of is an innate expression of life. Let us look at movement in terms of evolution, of development in the life of the individual. In another lecture, and in another context, I used a symbolic analogy that a person's life is like going on a train journey. This is why human beings often dream of trains. They are on a train, they miss a train, and so on. This almost always applies to a specific attitude they have toward their own path. When you move in the train according to the rhythm of your innate nature and of your own plan, then there will be harmony and your own train -- the train of your thoughts, the train of your energy system, the train of your whole being, the train of your direction -- will move forward and will go through stages that constantly change. When this is harmonious, then each psychic space that your inner train reaches is an expansion. In other words, it is a deeper and wider expression of divine life. The results of this expansion are joy, fulfillment, freedom, and happiness.

At another time I used the vision of expanding your space, of transcending the narrow circumference that some of you either feel content with or believe yourselves safe in. But you also feel stagnation. You feel that you miss out on your potential to realize more of divine life, to realize more of self-expression, to realize more of creative living. In other words, to realize more of the unfoldment of what is innately in you. This requires the courage of moving ahead into what is at first apparently an unknown space. As you move in your earth train through one country and toward another new country -- in other words, toward an environment that is unfamiliar -- then you may temporarily feel anxious. But the healthier you are, the more you trust, and the more joyful is both your anticipation and the confidence in yourself to make this new area familiar. As you familiarize yourself with it, as you become accustomed to it, as you become acclimatized to this new environment, your safety expands into a greater sphere of self-expression. You have made more of the foreign territory your own. You now see more and you comprehend more. You now inhabit more of the space available on your earth. More homeground has been created for yourself.

In your inner life this is even more important, more dynamic, more vital, and more essential than on your outer journey. Your life plan consists of your inner expansion and your movement toward an ever greater unfoldment of what is innately in you. This is what every human being is meant to do. Outer journeys and earth travels are merely symbolic representations and messages to be applied to the inner life. Only when the individual makes new psychic space familiar, new states of consciousness familiar, new modalities to react to familiar, new approaches to life familiar, and new approaches to the self familiar can he realize the riches that are contained within him. This is the movement of all life.

In strictly human terms, on the physical level you can see this clearly in the cycles of a human entity. The baby is capable only of very little movement, and is therefore very confined and very dependent. Its experiences are extremely limited. As the baby grows older, then he makes his first movements out into the world. He learns to stand on his legs, the legs learn to walk, the hands reach out. New space becomes available as a result of his growth and he is making use of his powers to conquer it. The little entity has now discovered a new part of the world and has made it his own.

As the child grows older, more abilities emerge so as to make more experience accessible. The older the child, the more independent he becomes. He gains more experience, and therefore he has more fulfillment. The fully adult person has reached a freedom and a range of experience that no child could ever possess. This is a normal phenomenon on the physical level of your life. Yet it is widely denied that the inner reality follows identical rules and laws. If these rules and laws are violated because the entity inadvertently and unwittingly stops the movement, then damage follows. The entity is being forced by the ignorant personality into a narrow space that it should no longer occupy, a space which he has literally outgrown. It is as though you were to force an adult into the circumstances of an infant. This would be incongruous, perverse, and confining, to say the least. But this is what humanity unwittingly does. Inner movement is being stopped to a large extent. Hence a sense of futility and a fear of missing out on life is created.

When the New Age education will spread and deepen in your world, then all these matters will be very important topics, so that the human beings will grow up with an understanding of these processes, and therefore will become aware of the need to expand. They will encourage the movement inwardly. They will recognize the resistance to it, they will understand its nature, and they will know how to overcome it. As a result of recognizing the resistance, the conscious personality always has the possibility and the choice to overcome it.

If you confine yourself to a state you have outgrown and you stay static, then your sense of missing out will create a fear of death. This is a familiar fear. However, no person who lives his life totally and fully, namely according to his potentials, will ever fear death. There is a misunderstanding connected to this which is a common misconception that contributes to the resistance to movement.

Since movement in your life is also the passage of time, then movement brings you closer to the end of your physical life. You resist the movement with the irrational idea that thereby you halt time and thus prevent your death. Yet you would not fear death if you would move joyously and live fully. So we have a vicious circle here. Because you fear the movement, you stop the movement. As a result, you miss out on living. Deep inside of you a voice says: "When your time comes and you leave your body behind, have you done what you should have done -- and what you could still do now -- to fulfill both yourself and your life?" The misunderstood and therefore mistranslated message of this sense of futility creates the fear of death on the conscious level. The irrational meaning of the fear would read: "If I stop the movement, then time will stand still and therefore I will stay in the same position."

But this is only one -- and actually a superficial -- aspect of this resistance to movement. There is a deeper and more important one, which I want to explain now, my dearest friends. When you move, then every movement implies that you must leave one thing in order to get to the next. In other words, you cannot move if you do not give up something in order to gain what is to come next on your train ride. Imagine a train ride in which you want to experience a place you have not been in yet, but you refuse to allow the train to move into it. You do not want to leave the place you are in now, even though you know that the place your train will take you to is a happier one, without many of the drawbacks of your current abode. You are in the impossible position of greedily holding on to what was -- insisting on not giving up the old familiar environment -- and yet you desperately strive toward the new place at the same time. You chafe against the old stricture while complaining that you cannot arrive at the new place. This is the absurd position in which many of you find yourselves. Thus you create a contradictory movement or a contradictory attitude. On the one hand you push forward in impatience. You wonder why you do not grow faster; you wonder why you do not succeed in resolving your problems more effectively, more fully, more deeply, more speedily. So you become discouraged. And you do not want to see that, at the same time, there is a strong voice in you that does not want to move because you do not want to let go and give up something. It may be an attitude, a defense, a familiar behavior pattern, a way of reacting, a personality trait. Whatever it is, holding on to it prevents you from attaining the new freedom, the new joy, and the new fulfillment that are beckoning to you.

This not-wanting-to-let-go is of tremendous significance. It applies to many levels of your being and to many expressions of your life. Whatever it is -- for example, your capacity to give love, your capacity to give feelings, your capacity to give an object of material nature, or whatever -- you believe that you are safer and richer if you hold it back. You want to hold back time, you want to hold back your feelings, you want to hold your heart tightly. You do not realize that by holding it back you prevent the movement that another part of you longs for. In other words, you make it absolutely impossible.

You do not want to let go and give up this holding because you do not trust. But you know that you cannot have an attitude toward life or an attitude toward other people that differs from your own deepest, most hidden suspicions about yourself. You may consciously manage to deny and ignore the fact that you hold back and that you do not wish to give. In other words, that you are ungenerous, unloving, and ungiving, at least in that respect. In many ways you may also be a loving and giving person. But if the part of you that is not so remains unrecognized, then you may inwardly accuse yourself much more than you deserve, because then you make that stingy, ungiving part of you your whole reality.

Therefore you must distrust the universe. You cannot believe differently. You must assume that the universe is no different: ungiving, stingy, witholding, hoarding, tight, ungenerous -- thus leaving you poor. You expect from it the same as what you sense yourself to be: just as rejecting, just as unloving, just as ungenerous, just as over-cautious. That suspicion, which you project from your own unmoving, witholding, ungiving attitude, makes you fear life and makes you see life as similar in kind to you. You cannot wish to move freely and trustingly into such a universe. You cannot wish to release your bounty into such a projected universe. So no wonder you want to stay in a confined, narrow, fenced-in place in which you feel trapped and in which you are not happy, but which nevertheless you refuse to leave behind.

There is always the greed that says: "If I leave behind this thing, this state, this hour, this experience, then I will lose something irreplaceable. So, I do not want to let go of anything. I want to hoard it all. I want to experience the next hour, but I do not want to let go of this hour. I want to receive love, but I do not want to pour out my heart." Your hands are clutched symbolically, as it were. Therefore the next experience cannot come to you. The expanded state of consciousness that you long for -- a state in which you experience both life and yourself in so much beauty -- cannot come. It can come only when you have the faith, the generosity, and the courage to let go, to give up, to open your inner hands and your heart and trust. Giving up is a form of giving. You need to let go of here in order to go there.

Visualize how each state that you leave behind brings you into a better one. There comes a point on the path when you have already dissolved quite a bit of your lower self, when much of its energies have been transformed, when many of your problems have been resolved, and therefore when there is already an active purification process at work. Thus you have created a much more positive experience than you ever had before. And yet, you must not stay and dwell in this new improved state. Still better states are to come. In order to let yourself go into this movement, you have to meditate, to claim it, and to feel into yourself very actively. The intent to let go even of this much improved state in order to attain a much better state must not be confused with greed. It is not a greedy, impatient attitude I advocate here. It is rather a deep inner knowing of the infinite nature of life, of the infinite expansion that is every living being's destiny.

When you observe your negative visualization -- it exists at first only on an unconscious level and later on a semi-conscious level -- then you will see that your fear of movement translates into the following message: "If I move, then what will come will be worse. So I had better stay where I am." Challenge this message that comes from a corner of your hidden being. Challenge it and then replace it with the truth. The truth is that as a result of your total giving and of your commitment to the movement of your innermost being -- of your path -- you can rightfully claim the abundance of the universe. In this spirit of total devotion, of total commitment, of giving all of yourself to life, you will not find it difficult to feel your deservingness so as to know that only better can come. So you can move both joyfully and trustingly. As you sincerely and truly wish to give to all that is around you with your heart, with your hands, with your mind, and with your being, then you will know the truth that giving is the road to receiving. When it is no longer split off, then it becomes one and the same. Letting go is giving. Movement is therefore a substantial part of both love and trust. Surely you must have noticed that when you are in an ungiving state of mind, then you cannot receive anything, even if it is right at your doorstep, ready to enrich you. You do not perceive it, or if you do, then you misunderstand it, and therefore you miss out on it, and so it passes you by. Yet it it is so eager to enrich you. For that is the nature of the universe.

Everything that is -- both within and without -- is the richest stuff of life. Every particle contains every conceivable possibility of the richest experience that you can imagine. Or much more than you can imagine.

Even your imagination must expand and grow on your journey, on your path of moving. Since everything grows and everything moves, then your capacity to visualize, your capacity to expand your range of personal fulfillment, your capacity to experience happiness, and your capacity for enrichment must also grow. If you cannot perceive it as a possibility, then you cannot experience it. So you must have at least some inkling of it. Then what will come will be even better and richer. It will always be better than your imagination. But your imagination must keep pace and must open its buds, so that more can come to fill in what you are unable to imagine.

If you still feel that you would like to move more on your path, in your development, but you feel stuck, then look for that part in you that is still stagnant. This is the part in you that halts the movement because it does not want to let go of something. You want to retain the state you are in because you do not not trust the fact that its good aspects cannot ever be lost. Yet at the same time you want to go into the next state. That is an impossibility, my friends, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It is a contradiction in terms. Just as you need trust for your positive intentionality to first take root and then to flower -- in other words, just as you must give it time to sprout -- so must you have patience and trust for the letting go process, so that the moment in-between -- between the letting go of the old experience or the old state of consciousness and the unfoldment of the new experience or the new state of consciousness -- becomes in itself a joyous experience. A journey can be very joyous while you are in the process of moving. Again, the train ride can be a useful analogy.

Imagine that you step into a train. The train leaves the station. There is an interim period before you arrive at your destination. In this period you are in a sort of no man's land. You have left the old place, but you are not yet in the new place. You are on your journey to the next stop, where you will find a temporary abode, where you will make yourself familiar, where you will create new experiences, and where you will make yourself ready and strong enough for the next place. But if you never let the train leave, then you can never arrive. And even if you do let it leave, but full of apprehension, of fear, and of distrust, then chances are that you will not enjoy the ride, nor will you be able to appreciate all the wonderful new experiences that are awaiting you. You are too cramped up in your blindness and in your fear.

You must learn to trust. In other words, you must learn to let go of this in order to go there. This is an inner movement that you can observe in yourself. You can practice it in your visualizations in the areas which you find most resistant. This is a very important approach for you. If you use this message -- and if you apply it where you need it most -- then you could easily make the decision, again and again: "I will let go of my resistance and I will move ahead inwardly. I will move ahead in my state of consciousness. I will move ahead in my attitude. I will move ahead in my approach to life. I will move ahead in my value system. I will move ahead in my thought processes. I will move ahead in the feelings with which I am accustomed to respond to my experiences," or whatever the particular movement may be. In your pathwork you need to find -- with the assistance of your helper -- where this attitude needs to be applied most urgently. There are specific areas where you can practice this. I venture to say that where your problem seems most painful in your life manifestation, then that is where you are most unwilling to move. That is, to change an attitude or to change a habitual approach to the situation. Once you make an open attempt to see the situation differently, then much will begin to happen. You will have released the inwardly-held movement. At first this movement may create a temporary turmoil which is the result of much negative accumulation that has never been allowed to move. But sooner or later it will fall into an orderly new place and into a state that will give you a harmony, a peace, a joy, and a richness that you never believed possible -- both generally and specifically, in the areas that have given you trouble for so long.

Practice the courage and the faith to go into a new space with a vision to expand your life and to deepen the range of your experiences. More energy and more lifeblood -- spiritual lifeblood -- will go into this movement and it will make it an even more blessed event than the movements you have already allowed.

There is one more aspect about the dynamics of movement that I should like to mention. Where the organic movement is being denied, then an imbalance often accrues in this area. The denied movement -- where it is appropriate and part of the growing organism -- seeks an outlet and then it manifests as a compulsion to move where this is not appropriate and not organic. For example, if a person rigidly holds on to an obsolete defensive attitude -- in other words, if he does not want to give it up, to let it go -- then he inevitably stagnates inwardly as a result of it. Consequently, a compulsive restlessness may develop that may then manifest as an inability to be still, an inability to be totally there, an inability to follow through with anything, an inability to have perseverance. Then such an individual may either begin many things and never finish any or he may be unable to endure staying in the same place. A compulsive restlessness may make him travel all over the earth, looking for the new place outwardly.

Now, my dearest friends, let us relax. Let go, center into yourselves, become very quiet. Feel the powerful blessing that is here. Visualize that this powerful force can aid every one of you in your commitment. And now let all of you speak these words in unison:

I commit myself to the will of God.

I give my heart and my soul to God.

I deserve the best in life.

I serve the best cause in life.

I am a blessed manifestation of God.

[Every one of these sentences was repeated in unison by the 130 or so people present. The energy that was given and that further resulted from this common venture was the strongest yet experienced at these meetings.]

My beloved friends, strong transmuting forces have been released by you in unison. The blessings that are created, that are given, and that are then received will further permeate your life and your task. Go in peace.

May 5, 1976