This is Part Two of the introduction to the fourth of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Understand Our Life Circumstances as Spiritual Effects. The point of this practice is to understand the ways we might actually bring adversity upon ourselves, even when it seems as though we’re unlucky or life is being arbitrarily cruel. This gives us the opportunity to approach life differently, and generate more positive outcomes. In this episode, Karl lays out a detailed sequence of questions for unpacking unpleasant life circumstances designed to highlight the hidden ways in which we brought adversity upon ourselves.

1:25 - Start 3:11 - A recap of the daily review technique as discussed in prior episodes 6:13 - Unpacking unpleasant life circumstances to highlight the hidden ways in which we brought adversity upon ourselves 15:06 - Karl’s list of “images” (expectations, basically) he has or used to have about life) 26:24 - Karl runs the unpleasant story from the previous episode through the list of questions designed to unpack such experiences

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 211 Outer Events Reflect Self-Creation—Three Stages https://pathwork.org/lectures/outer-events-reflect-self-creation-three-stages/

PL 38 Images https://pathwork.org/lectures/images/

PL 39 Image-Finding https://pathwork.org/lectures/image-finding/

PL 40 More on Image-Finding: A Summary https://pathwork.org/lectures/more-on-image-finding-a-summary/

PL 41 Images: The Damage They Do https://pathwork.org/lectures/images-the-damage-they-do/

PL 73 Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts https://pathwork.org/lectures/compulsion-to-recreate-and-overcome-childhood-hurts/

PL 119 Movement, Consciousness, Experience: Pleasure, the Essence of Life https://pathwork.org/lectures/movement-consciousness-experience-pleasure-the-essence-of-life/

PL 140 Conflict of Positive Versus Negative Oriented Pleasure as the Origin of Pain https://pathwork.org/lectures/conflict-of-positive-versus-negative-oriented-pleasure-as-the-origin-of-pain/

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

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This is Part One of the introduction to the fourth of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Understand Our Life Circumstances as Spiritual Effects. The point of this practice is to understand the ways we might actually bring adversity upon ourselves, even when it seems as though we’re unlucky or life is being arbitrarily cruel. This gives us the opportunity to approach life differently, and generate more positive outcomes. In this episode, Karl describes a messy, unpleasant event in his life, followed by a detailed breakdown of how it mirrored various lower self energies of his, and how he benefited from making these connections.

1:25 - Start 1:43 - How our life experience mirrors to our inner states 6:20 - A messy, unpleasant event in Karl’s life, with a detailed breakdown of how it mirrored various lower self energies of Karl’s

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 211 Outer Events Reflect Self-Creation—Three Stages https://pathwork.org/lectures/outer-events-reflect-self-creation-three-stages/

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

** Connect and learn more at: https://thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

This show is also on YouTube. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/YUKsUi-ZN2g Please subscribe and tell your friends about the show.

Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com

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This is the introduction to the third of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Own Our Judgments and Reactions as Reflections of Our Selves. The point of this practice is to question the stories our brains tell ourselves, especially about our interactions with others, which can be distorted by a tendency to overgeneralize from past experience. Karl provides a very specific step-by-step technique to unpack unpleasant experiences and interactions, so we can see how they were driven by not necessarily reliable interpretations of reality. In this way, we can tame our tendency to enlist the lower self to protect us against imagined “threats.”

1:25 - Start 1:44 - How our brains normally interpret reality 13:42 - The benefits of understanding our mental and emotional patterns in order to change them 16:45 - What is integration, and how do we integrate and transform lower self energies? 24:30 - The technique of “clearing” with life circumstances

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

** Connect and learn more at: https://thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

This show is also on YouTube. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/qOZ4x357PBk Please subscribe and tell your friends about the show.

Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com

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This is Part Two of the introduction to the second of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Observe Ourselves with Maximum Honesty and Compassion. The point of this practice is to discover the lower self energy which every single one of us carries in one form or another, and bring it into the light of consciousness so that it can mature and transform. This episode covers the vital qualities of honesty and compassion, and what interferes with them; and making a list of our “faults” (characteristics which inhibit our growth and happiness and which cause pain to ourselves and to others).

1:25 - Start 6:29 - The vital qualities of honesty and compassion, and what interferes with them 22:50 - Making a list of our “faults”

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 26 Finding One’s Faults https://pathwork.org/lectures/finding-ones-faults/

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

** Connect and learn more at: https://thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

This show is also on YouTube. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/-j7sGy95YqI Please subscribe and tell your friends about the show.

Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com

Logo background photo by Luke Richardson

This is Part One of the introduction to the second of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Observe Ourselves with Maximum Honesty and Compassion. The point of this practice is to discover the lower self energy which every single one of us carries in one form or another, and bring it into the light of consciousness so that it can mature and transform. This episode covers the nature of the higher self and the lower self in general; how we typically cope with having a lower self, and the negative consequences of these strategies; and the daily review technique for bringing lower self energy into consciousness.

1:25 - Start 1:44 - The higher self and the lower self, in general 13:56 - How do we typically cope with having a lower self? 24:22 - How can we effectively transform lower self energy into higher self energy

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 14: The Higher Self, the Lower Self, and the Mask https://pathwork.org/lectures/the-higher-self-the-lower-self-and-the-mask/

PL184: The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence https://pathwork.org/lectures/the-meaning-of-evil-and-its-transcendence/

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

** Connect and learn more at: https://thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

This show is also on YouTube. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/JkuQ4Wy44OQ Please subscribe and tell your friends about the show.

Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com

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This is Part Two of the introduction to the first of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Feel Our Feelings. This episode focuses on specific techniques to allow emotional energy to flow in its natural, organic pathways, rather than obstructing or manipulating it. The techniques include surrendering to feelings in the moment, daily journaling which includes activating feelings which were interfered with during the day, accessing long-thwarted feelings, and overcoming the tendency to numb ourselves in general.

1:25 - Start 2:26 - Practicing surrender in the moment 21:44 - Daily journal 34:10 - Accessing thwarted feelings 37:32 - Overcoming the tendency to numb ourselves

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 197: Importance of Experiencing All Feelings, Including Fear—The Dynamic State of Laziness https://pathwork.org/lectures/importance-of-experiencing-all-feelings-including-fear-the-dynamic-state-of-laziness/

PL 200: The Cosmic Feeling https://www.thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

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Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com/

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This is Part One of the introduction to the first of the seven practices of the Way of the Higher Self, Feel Our Feelings. In order to lay a foundation for the practices in Part Two, Karl explains what feelings are; how we interfere with the natural, organic flow of our feelings; why we interfere; what are the costs of interfering, and what would the benefits be if we stopped interfering, concluding with a note about anxiety and depression.

1:25 - Start 3:30 - What are feelings? 12:00 - How we interfere with the natural, organic flow of our feelings 20:00 - Why we interfere 22:21 - What are the costs of interfering 28:55 - What would the benefits be if we stopped interfering? 34:29 - A note about anxiety and depression

Pathwork Lecture references (not necessarily complete):

PL 197: Importance of Experiencing All Feelings, Including Fear—The Dynamic State of Laziness https://pathwork.org/lectures/importance-of-experiencing-all-feelings-including-fear-the-dynamic-state-of-laziness/

PL 200: The Cosmic Feeling https://pathwork.org/lectures/the-cosmic-feeling/

PL86: The Instincts of Self-Preservation and Procreation in Conflict https://pathwork.org/lectures/the-instincts-of-self-preservation-and-procreation-in-conflict/

ABOUT THIS SHOW:

The Way of the Higher Self is hosted by Karl Oakes. Drawing on the wisdom of the Pathwork Lectures, as well as some of the protocols of the Mankind Project, Karl has developed seven practices designed to help us live more fully and transform our lower-self energies into more rewarding and productive higher-self energies.

** Connect and learn more at: www.thewayofthehigherself.com As you’re there, sign up for our email newsletter.

Send Karl a message with any questions or suggestions: karl@thewayofthehigherself.com

This show is also on YouTube. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/9BaoU8wjyaY Please subscribe and tell your friends about the show.

Theme music by Ketsa: https://ketsamusic.com/

Logo background photo by Luke Richardson