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- Yes, I experienced such moments when there was not enough of Power of Spirit, and in such instances the Willpower gets activated.
- Here at Ayfaar very often I encounter situations when the Power of Spirit is lacking. Say there is a conflict situation. Even if there is no conflict, I may experience some discomfort, for example, some sensuous manifestation of some person. I may not understand it, I may think that these manifestations are silly, narrow-minded, inappropriate. And I can not change such my state at once. I can approach that person talk to him, exchange opinions. He will explain, "why" does he show such emotions, “what” is it, but the Power of Spirit is lacking to approach him, and to recognize the fact that I experience negative perception, negative reactions. What have I done in such situations? Either I was able to find the Power of Spirit, by overcoming myself, understanding that if I do this, then this discomfort will go away. Or, if it did not work, then Ayfaar "sun days" practice had helped, when you do heavy physical work, for at least three days, and by the way of overcoming a variety of selfishness levels, for example, overcoming the lower animal manifestation. And of course, if you really want to overcome it, you can find the Power of Spirit, to address this conflict situation, you finally find in yourself such levels, such motivations that give you this Power of the Spirit, and you approach this person and solve this situation: you talk to him, and then conflict goes away, and you start to better understand each other, accumulate more interrelations, and you no longer perceive him that way.
- In my life there were few serious moments, when I seriously lacked the Power of Spirit, when I realized that on this depends not only my destiny, but and lifes of others, and I felt a huge burden of responsibility. I realized that I could not follow my conscience, it was too undoable for me. I understood that it was a cowardly decision, that it was my weakness, but I followed it. Followed because could not overcome something. My conscience said “Do this" - but I could not do that. I had some weaknesses, and was not ready to overcome them. Yes I had such problems. These are real problems. Now I would have done differently of course. I already know now "how" is possible to react more wisely. And of course there are situations where the Power of Spirit lacks a little. So conscience always tells the best, the right thing, the kindest, the most intellectual solution. But to reach the highest is very difficult - but conscience always offers the highest, the best. As a rule, I, for example, tend to choose a compromise: to give up here a little bit, and to give up there a little bit. Therefore, to reach the pure Power of Spirit is very difficult.
- Yes I experienced such moments. I felt that I was lacking the deep understanding, which is based on the knowledge - and there is a lot of knowledge, and it is necessary to choose - or I in some degree was too lazy to learn this knowledge, or, vise versa, pursued this Knowledge too much, without supporting this Knowledge with altruism or acceptance, with Love. When I had imbalance in other one or other direction, I had difficulties in life. I would say that at that time I lost Myself and could not follow my goal, and therefore did not cultivate, did not accumulate the Power of Spirit.
- There was such a moment, maybe even more than once, although I cannot it happened often. Such a situation, when suddenly the Power of Spirit disappears, associated with significant moments on the personal development path. I mean the appearance of disappointment in own path. I think that this situation arises, when a particular breakdown occurs. Due to the fact that for a long time you do not see any results of you efforts, or you find something, that as a future perspective does not satisfy you on this way. And yes, I for sure had such moments. There were few of them. During many years around three or four times such situations arose. I mean for long time. It was not easy to get out of these situations. It required some time and some efforts. It is necessary to accept the outcome and to realize its necessity, meaning to change yourself in order to be able to stand firmly on your feet again. And the important moment here is to understand that that it is not the Goal that needs to be changed, but I must change myself. Because if you seriously and for long period of time work on improving yourself, if you are internally aspired, then it may seem to you that all the details and nuances of own aspirations, are understood, and that everything is clear, but it later may turn out, that serious flaws or failures exist in your self-consciousness and in your aspirations. Thus such inner work gradually brings you back to your Path, to bearing your own “Cross", as they say in Christianity. Thus by changing yourself you restore your strengths and restore yourself on the way to the Power of Spirit.
- Yes. I experienced it. I had to make a choice, to relocate, and by applying own strength, the strength of my motivations to change myself, in order to make this choice and move there, where people were waiting for me, where it was more interesting for me, where live such people, with whom I would like to spend my Life. For this it was necessary to leave connection, relationships, some accustomed living conditions. At that moment I felt I had to do for myself some more qualitative, meaningful, internal jump, to give myself the inner push, some impulse, and to find this Power of Spirit, and to do what I wanted, to materialize my state, so that what I wanted would manifest itself. For that I needed the Power of Spirit. Motivations are very important. Motivations should be higher, more qualitative, and more stable - precisely at that moment the Willpower is being transformed into the Power of Spirit. In order to do something, it is necessary to hold your attention on this desire for a long period of time. I had to do it: for some period of time to keep my concentration, to focus myself on this desire and to get where I wanted to, to make this choice.
- I had experienced many such moments, when I felt that I was lacking the Power of Spirit, when I felt confused, despaired, did not know what was the best thing to do, I thought that the “earth was moving under my feet” and that everything is bad, and that it was the end of the world. Probably, helped the understanding, that to look for external support is meaningless, that it is all - an illusion: it can be destroyed at any moment. All my attempts to rely on something external - on the idea that something external can help me, attempts to create the illusion of safety, the idea that something indestructible exists on what I can rely - are meaningless: at some point it all collapses. And the only thing that remains - is to seek for support inside you, to find the Power of Spirit. So only in yourself you should search for answers and for that foundation, what you can rely on. Because it is - the only thing that will exist forever, will not collapse, will not change, the only thing you can rely on. And also helps the search for more information and simple communication: to talk about things that excite you, that are of interest to you, that are not clear. To trust the world, to understand that all of this Information, and simply at any moment It may come from everywhere.
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