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How can one overcome sufferings and pains in his or her life? What should be done to get rid of them forever?

While most people envy individuals with greater success, fulfilling friendships and a vast amount of money - no matter who you are looking at, they too are suffering. The richest and most successful people are also having to suffer. And the poorest and least conventionally successful individuals also are suffering. What is the reason why people suffer and experience pain? rnThe science of karma states that whatever we encounter or experience in this life is the result of our

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Occult Forces: Their Development and Proper Use

When a scientist studies the physical properties of matter and energy, and thereby creates an invention that can do things such as communicate voice or sound wirelessly across the world, or predict general weather patterns, or develop pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines that can cure, mitigate or prevent serious diseases, we seem to take these things for granted.

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Stress May Trigger High Blood Oxalates and Pain

Stress May Trigger High Blood Oxalates and Pain Stress May Be The Cause of High Blood Oxalates. And Stress We Know for Sure Increases Oxalate Urinary Stones. I’ve Seen a Huge Amount of Stress in People Who Have High Blood Oxalates and Sensitivity to Oxalates. Stress They Had Before They Came Down With High Blood Oxalates. We Know for Sure Stress Triggers Metabolic Pathway Changes. Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist for 33 Years and Health and Wellness Instructor. See References Below. See References Below References:

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The Power of Thought to Shape Our External Existence and Its Significance

When we begin to reflect on the role of thought in the creation of forms in the world, it becomes clear that it is an important part of the process of converting pure conscious awareness into the world of vital action and physical substance. Thought is a tool of consciousness. When properly utilized, it has the power to shape matter and life. We see this in the way we manipulate material substance in the modern world.

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Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force

If we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants to turn solar energy into life-energy. The plants then store the produced energy, using some of it for growth and some for life activities. Animals, in turn consume plants to obtain a share of this physical energy which they need to survive and thrive.

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Reverse Aging With Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

Become Younger! New Studies Show You Can Reverse Aging With a Therapeutic Plasma Exchange. Decreasing Biological Age By 5 to 9 Years! Wow! Your Blood Liquid is Cleaned of Toxins and Put Back Into Your Body. This Has Been Used for Years With People With Liver and Kidney Failure. Now This Therapy is Being Used to Revitalize Your Body… Amazing! A Fountain of Youth, More Energy, More Vitality, and Think Clearly. Watch Video, Lots of References - See Below. Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist for 33 Years and Health and Wellness Instructor. References -

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The Benefits of a Prepared Mental Instrument for Action in the World

Many spiritual seekers in today’s world dismiss the need to develop the mind and its inherent powers. The mind is seen as the obstacle to the attainment of the greater knowledge that accompanies spiritual development. This understanding is rooted in the larger belief that spiritual growth implies a separation and abandonment of the life in the world, a belief that took hold with the ascendancy of Mayavada and similar schools of thought around the world that placed primacy on spiritual realisation at the expense of the development of the inherent powers of the mind to develop and refine the lif

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Empowering Thought Forms Through Linking of Will and Emotion

Perhaps the biggest impediments to the exercise of the occult powers native to the human condition is our lack of willingness to acknowledge these powers for what they are, and our lack of attention and focus on understanding, developing and exercising them. When extraordinary circumstances arise, and we actually concentrate our minds, things may take place that we do not associate with the direct action of our minds. Perhaps they occur out of sequence with our action, or at a distant place, or in an unexpected manner.

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Fear: Its Effect on the Vital Sheath and As a Cause of Illness

Several years ago there was a world-wide pandemic that affected many tens of millions of people, which was called the covid-19 pandemic. It provided us a clear opportunity to see the impact of fear on the reactions of people. Panic ensued. Stores closed, public access was shut down in many places, people tried to avoid the pandemic by staying at home and minimizing their interaction with other people, keeping their distance, using face masks, protective gear such as plastic shields and using a lot of hand sanitizer products.

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From Junk Food to Bodybuilder - Testimonial

From Junk Food to Bodybuilder - Testimonial This is Gabrial Hill, He Came to Me Hooked on Junk Food and Felt Terrible. Now He’s a Powerful Bodybuilder and Feels Fantastic. Watch Video and Find Out Everything. #From_Junk_Food_to_Bodybuilder_-_Testimonial rn#Bodybuilder #Testimonial rn#Food rn#Addiction

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How To Save $750 and Get Healthy

Studies Show You Can Save $750 a Year and Get Healthy. Plus Help Prevent Heart Attacks and Other Diseases. Plus The Money You Actually Save Preventing Diseases. It’s Simple and Anyone Can Do This. Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist and Health and Wellness Instructor for 33 Years. Watch Very Short Video. References Below. References: NIH - 2021 - Remission of long-standing livedoid vasculopathy using a whole foods plant-based diet with symptoms recurrent on re-challenge with standard Western diet

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Regimented and Mechanised Social Life Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis

Some societies have attempted to solve the the complex problems humanity is facing through massive attempts to educate and regiment the life of the individuals making up that society. These attempts rely on the idea that by controlling the education the society can create more or less “cogs in a machine”, and they try to develop patterns of living that essentially effaces individual uniqueness or creativity. Massive experiments have been tried.

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The Conditions of an Effective Faith

In his book The Mother, Sri Aurobindo defines the conditions and qualities of faith needed to overcome all obstructions or disasters: “To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together — the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect.

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Becoming Aware of and Distinguishing the Source of Vibrations Impacting our Lives

Our consciousness tends to be so fluid and so mixed that it is difficult, if not practically impossible, to distinguish what represents our own internal process and what is coming to us from outside, from our interaction with others, from environmental influences. None of these things remains pure and unadulterated. There is a constant mixing process that goes on. We can observe the thoughts. We can observe the emotions. We can observe the vital reactions. We can observe the physical responses.

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Great for Coughs, Mucus, and Asthma - See Video

This Sweet Formula for Coughs, Mucus, and Asthma Works Great. Called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, Studies Show it Helps Coughs, Breaks Up Mucus, and Helps With Asthma… Even Sore Throats. Plus it Helps With the Underlying Inflammation of the Lungs. See Reference and Watch The Video to Find Out More. NIH - 1994 - Pharmacological studies of nin jion pei pa koa #Great_for_Coughs,_Mucus,_and_Asthma_-_See_Video rn#Mucus rn#Coughsrn#Asthma rn#Inflammation Let’s Get Healthy! I Have over 1000 videos now on Youtube!

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Religion Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis

Throughout human history, mankind has turned to religion in an attempt to address or solve the problems of human life. In many cases, charismatic leaders have arisen who, through their teaching and their personal example, have inspired people to make changes in their individual lives, and there is no doubt that in this sense, religion has played a role in helping to guide and enhance the lives of individuals, and in some cases, through various disciplines associated with the religion helped to foster an opening to spiritual experience and development.

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The Action of the Higher Planes Is Needed to Bring Forth the Manifestation of Life, Mind and Spirit in the Material World

Matter, prepared and encoded with the dataset required to bring forth Life, does not spontaneously, on its own express the life-form for which it is encoded. The seed, or the egg, remains potential, latent, until it is acted upon by a force exte al to it. In the case of the seed of a plant, the sun’s force combined with the action of moisture, leads to the sprouting of the seed. In the case of an animal’s egg, we find that a heat source is needed to warm the egg until it is ready to hatch.

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Vital Vibrations and the Response to Them

We are able to perceive and respond to specific frequency ranges. Anything above, or below the frequency ranges to which we are attuned, does not register with us consciously, although there may be some subtle impact and energetic action that takes place, even so. We see that in the case of the opera singer who can shatter glass when she reaches a certain note and pitch, that the glass vibrated only when that frequency was attained and otherwise, remained stable in its constitution of being a vessel of glass.

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Becoming Aware of Cosmic and Universal Forces That Impact Our Existence

Enormous forces are at work in the universe. Vast numbers of stars and their planetary groupings move at high speed. Radiation of various sorts streams throughout the universe. There is a cosmic background radiation that scientists can now measure as they develop ever-finer instrumentation to try to understand the universal creation. Here on earth, we exist due to the radiation provided by the sun which provides the energy needed to sustain life on the planet. We are subject to gravitational forces including the influence of the Moon.

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Preparation and Training Needed to Consciously Draw on the Universal Vital Force

We recognise that there are ocean currents which circulate ocean water world wide and regulate the climate. We also recognise that there are air currents which we can partially observe through the soaring of birds who let the air currents carry them along, and experience directly if we are participating in the sport of hang gliding, or operating an air balloon or small airplane. Meteorologists refer to the jet stream and the movement of air in consistent patterns is a well-known and accept phenomenon, on which we rely and which we utilize constantly.

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The Influence of Unseen, Unperceived Beings and Forces in Our World

When we can once appreciate and accept the fact that forces, unseen by us, unperceived by our senses, can, and do, act upon us, pushing us to act in certain ways, pressing on us to move in certain directions, it is but a small step to recognize that there are beings who inhabit these unseen and unperceived regions and that they have their own goals, objectives, agendas which they carry out, but in their own sphere, and in their action upon the physical world.

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Accessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With Others

The Mother clarifies a distinction between receiving the universal vital forces directly and receiving them through a vital interchange with other individuals. These two methods represent two entirely different statuses of consciousness. To receive the universal vital forces directly, a wide and receptive consciousness is needed. Many people do not appreciate that this is an actual, palpable experience of wideness, not restricted to a mental status.

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Awakening the Kundalini Energy From Below or From Above

Traditional paths of yoga describe the various chakras, or subtle energy centers, that act as collecting and disseminating points for various specific vibrational patterns related to the action of that specific chakra. Certain paths, such as various Tantric disciplines as well as the well-know Kundalini Yoga, take up this knowledge and apply it to the growth of consciousness and the realization of the Divine and liberation of the individual from the exte al personality and the ego.

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Conolindine Helps With Chronic Pain

Conolindine Helps With Chronic Pain Conolindine Works for Chronic Pain and Inflammation, Without Addiction Like Other Pain Agents. More Studies to Come! Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist and Health and Wellness Instructor for 33 Years. Watch Very Short Video. References Below. References: Topics in Pain Management - 2024 - Conolidine: A Magic Morphine or Just Another Scam? NIH- 2021 - Conolidine: A Novel Plant Extract for Chronic Pain NIH - 2021 - Major Bioactive Alkaloids and Biological Activities of Tabe aemontana Species (Apocynaceae)

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The Development and Progression of the Supramental Force in Human Activity

The imposition of the exte al world on our mind and senses is so powerful that we don’t pay attention to the vast universe of galaxies and stars. In former times, before the world was widely illuminated by lighting at night, there was at least some opportunity for people to be outside at night, and see the broad array of stars, and wonder about what it all meant. In today’s world, however, one would have to go to a remote location, or to a place that had no electrification, to even see the stars most of the time.

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The Action of Spiritual Force Is Generally Conditioned by the Field Within Which It Works

We tend to operate under the fallacy that any spiritual force that is operative will automatically, and completely, achieve its intended result without difficulty. We forget, thereby, the way forces actually work in the world. There are always starting points, conditions, limitations, and opposing forces, as well as the object upon which the force is working and its status, and the overall situation within which the operation is taking place.

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The Awakening of the Yoga-Shakti and Its Unification With the Divine Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo describes the very traditional understanding of the awakening of the yogic force in the being and its ascent upwards from the Muladhara Chakra to the crown of the head where it meets the Divine Consciousness and thereby brings into the being the higher force to transform the life and the nature. He points out elsewhere that the Force can also enter from above and work its way downward, and that method may prove safer for the seeker.

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Addressing the Fallacy of an Individual Perfection in the Absence of Collective Progress

We start from the ego-consciousness and we treat ourselves, from that standpoint, as independent, separate and “walled off” from all other beings, interacting with them from our insulated status. When we then turn to spiritual growth and development from this standpoint, we start by looking at it as something that the individual can “accomplish” regardless of the status of the rest of humanity or the world as a whole.

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Illness and the Vital Sheath

There are historical examples of individuals who were caught in the middle of a major epidemic, such as the plague, who worked daily among the infected populace, yet failed to become ill. Invariably we can see that they maintained a strong vital envelope, or aura, around themselves and never accepted the suggestion of the contagious illness. There are also examples of those who maintained this strength for some time, but got worn down, and through stress and exhaustion, weakened their vital sheath sufficiently to eventually succumb to the disease.

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Telia Antiseptic Salve Great for Irritated Skin

Telia Antiseptic Salve Great for Irritated Skin This All Natural Ointment Smells Wonderful and Works Great for Irritated Skin. Even Helps With Cold Sores, Shingles, Insect Bites, Rashes, and Any Kind of Skin Problem. Contains Many Wonderful Herbs for the Skin. Watch Video and Find Out Everything. Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist for 33 Years and Health and Wellness Instructor. See Short Video #Telia_Antiseptic_Salve_Great_for_Irritated_Skinrn#Skin rn#Natural rn#Healing

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Determinism in the Exercise of Free Will — Free Will in the Carrying Out of Determinism

We generally jump to extremes in our way of looking at things from our normal, mental viewpoint. Thus, we either want to accept that everything is absolutely determined and thus, every move we make, every action, every reaction, is choreographed down to the slightest detail; or else, we want to believe that we are totally free and independent and we are basically “self made” in our decisions and actions. The reality however is somewhat more complicated than this view.

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Majestic Yang Tea Pills for Stress and Energy

These Pills Help With The Stress and Give You Energy. Used Successfully for Thousands of Years. Watch Video and Find Out Everything. Dr. Paul Haider - Award Winning Master Herbalist for 33 Years and Health and Wellness Instructor. See Short Video #Majestic_Yang_Tea_Pills_for_Stress_and_Energyrn#Stress rn#Energy rn#Natural rn#Health Let’s Get Healthy! I Have over 1000 videos now on Youtube! And 6000 Articles on My Website. Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great!

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Mycotoxins or Mold Toxicity - What Can You Do?

Mycotoxins or Mold Toxicity - What Can You Do? Mold Toxins or Mycotoxins in Food are Common and Can Cause Widespread Damage to the Liver, Kidneys, Brain, and Other Organs. If You Have This Toxicity What Can You Do to Get Healthy? I Will Go Over This in Detail. Watch Short Video. Dr. Paul Haider – Award Winning Master Herbalist and Health and Wellness Instructor for 33 Years. See Science References Below, Watch a Very Short Video. Science References:— Lots of Studies - Here are Just a Few NIH - 2024 - Mitigation of Mycotoxins in Food—Is It Possible?

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The Characteristics and the Power of an Integral Faith

With our standpoint based in the mental consciousness we tend to believe that if we think something, it is ‘real’. This viewpoint fails to account for the different parts of the being, and their different modes of response. For example, we may hold a mental conception to not fear something, and yet, when confronted with it, despite the mind’s best efforts, we find our vital being reacting with fear and we feel palpitations or weakness in the body itself, symptoms of a visceral fear that we are experiencing despite the mind’s effort to overcome the fear.

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The Spiritual Aspirant Has the Potential to Overcome the Limits of His Birth and Social Circumstances

We are born into a family, a culture, a society, a given economic and political system, an educational process, and a vast number of social habits, customs and predilections which create for us a framework within which we are expected to take up our destined place in society and carry it forward, meeting the expectations of the society within which we are born and responding to the pressures from family, friends, peers and co-workers to conform with the norms of our social environment.

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Conscious Powers of Light and Darkness Oppose One Another in the External World We Inhabit

Everywhere we look, whether in material Nature, or in the vital or mental domains, we see a play of forces, attraction and repulsion, centrifugal and centripetal, positive and negative, dark and light, etc. It appears to be a core principle of the creation to utilize these opposing forces to create the dynamic needed for a progressive evolution of consciousness. Opposition appears to strengthen the forces of growth. We find that trees and plants subjected to somewhat strong winds, for instance tend to root themselves more firmly.

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Mental Formations Are Created All the Time Even Without Our Conscious Recognition of Them and Their Action

An individual in the business of wholesaling products to stores reported the following phenomenon he had experienced with one of his wholesale customers who ran a metaphysical bookshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a number of years. He would get a feeling that the buyer was reaching out to him to place an order, and he would regularly call after that occurred and be told that she wanted to place an order. This went on regularly for some years. One time, he was travelling in Europe and got the feeling from this customer but could not respond immediately.

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Healing Modalities, Faith and Our Societal Biases

The prevailing wisdom in today’s world holds that science has understood enough about the etiology of disease to be able to intervene and take steps to mitigate or cure disease using drugs or even, at the cutting edge, various forms of genetic intervention. The practitioners of that science envision a day when they will be able to change the genetic makeup of an individual to eliminate certain diseases, or even use this science to alter the mechanism of disease.

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Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development

If we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the eventual breakdown and thus, the movement toward the death of the body, we also have taken steps to learn how to increase health, wellness and longevity.

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Lower HBP 22% by Earthing - No Pills - Studies

Lower HBP Greatly By Placing Your Feet on Grass or Soil Daily. No Supplements, No Herbs, No Pills, and Extremely Healthy in General. See References and Watch Video to Find Out Everything. References: Alte ative Therapies - 2018 - Grounding Patients With Hypertension Improves Blood Pressure: A Case History Series Study J Alte Complement Med - 2011 - Earthing (grounding) the human body reduces blood viscosity-a major factor in cardiovascular disease.

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Powers Within — Introduction

We are a civilisation obsessed with the idea of power. In the exte al world, we fixate on economic power, political power, military might, physical strength and various forms of magical and sexual power. We recognize the power of ideas, of charismatic leaders, of religious teachings and many tens or hundreds of millions of people have died as a result of the exercise of one power or another through the history of humanity.

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Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force

If we observe the way we receive energy normally, we can determine that the sun is the immediate source of physical energy and it then gets transformed, or converted, into other forms of energy including life energy. The first step in this transformation comes about through the ability of plants to turn solar energy into life-energy. The plants then store the produced energy, using some of it for growth and some for life activities. Animals, in turn consume plants to obtain a share of this physical energy which they need to survive and thrive.

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Poke Root Herb for Infections and Inflammation

Poke Root Herb for Infections and Inflammation Poke Root Herb or Phytolocca Americana Has Been Used for Thousands of Years Successfully. Works Great for Infections, Inflammation, Blood Cleanse, and Other Traditional Uses. Used Sparingly It Can Be Another Great Herb to Have on Hand. See Benefits and Side Effects. See Scientific References Below. Watch Short Video. Dr. Paul Haider – Award Winning Master Herbalist and Health and Wellness Instructor for 33 Years. See Science References Below, Watch a Very Short Video. References:

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The Hidden Forces of Life: Summary and Conclusions

We tend to live our lives in the belief that we are separate and isolated from one another. We struggle to survive and thrive in a world where every other being is competing with us for their own survival and self-aggrandisement. In such a world, we suffer from self-doubt, anxiety, fear, and pressure. We subject ourselves to internal judgment when we fail to meet the standards we believe govern our lives, and we project our desires, needs, thoughts and conce s onto others and judge them on that standard as well.

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The Need for Understanding the Power of Thought Formation

What is thought formation? For many people, the constant stream of haphazard ideas, thoughts, reflections and perceptions represents thought. Their minds are constantly bombarded by thoughts of all types without a consistent flow or theme. They jump from one subject to another without even a transitional link. They have not discovered the true power of thought, when it is organised, focused and directed.

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The Question of Possession of an Individual by Vital Beings

Once we acknowledge the idea that forces, beings or entities from the vital planes can act upon and through human individuals, the question then arises as to how we can identify this action and distinguish it from what we might call normal actions of a human being under the impulsion of the action of the gunas and the attempt to achieve certain objectives either presented to him by desire, or created in him through fear.

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Infinite Grace: Overcoming the Law of Inertia to Effectuate Change

The law of inertia holds that it takes energy to move something that is stationary, and the more massive the object is, the more energy required to move it. A similar principle operates in human actions. We have our fixed habits, whether physical habits, instincts, trained responses, preconceived notions, biases, determined routines, etc. that represent our ‘status quo’. This all operates essentially on its own, as the same law of holds that a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

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