Confidence Energy ~ inSelf Yoga™
In inSelf Yoga™ the confidence energy must be monitored closely because it controls the rate of integration of practice. If a student does not have the confidence energy invested in the practice or in certain sectors of the practice, then that lack of investment will cause other factors to upset the progress.
The confidence energy must be invested in some aspect of the student’s life. It is not a detached power. It always attaches itself to some aspect. Hence one must carefully invest it in practice and never let it go into other aspects or be hanging in the middle of nowhere.
The natural investment for the confidence energy is material existence, especially the physical world. People are endowed by nature with this tendency to place their confidence in physical existence, in the physical body and its relations. Therefore to change this natural way requires effort and vigilance.
Many deceased people in the astral existence have more confidence in the physical material world than they do in the very astral existence which they are forced to experience due to loss of the physical body. This is proof that nature supports the investment of the confidence energy in material existence.
Whatever is natural is what will be resumed as soon as a counter effort ceases and as soon as one is not alert. Therefore students will have a hard time keeping the confidence energy in the yoga practice.
Some student practices just after they meet an able yogi who takes the time to train them in how to do the various aspects of yoga but that does not mean that the confidence of those students was lifted from the material world and placed in the practice.
I find that many students express a superficial confidence but deep down inside they are unable to transfer their allegiance from material nature to the yoga practice. This problem causes outright failure or slowness of the progress. It eats away at the possibility of having very high experiences during meditation.
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Some students are of the view, that if the yoga teacher teaches them, they will make progress. This view is underpinned by a dangerous idea which is that if the yoga teacher does not teach or grace the student to the student’s satisfaction, then the student will make no progress and the teacher will be responsible for that. Out of this energy comes resentment, bickering and such negative emotions which are hurled at the teacher in the course of time.
However there is another angle to this which is that even if the teacher spends much time with the said student, if that student does not invest confidence in the teacher and in the yoga process, then there will be no progression no matter how much the teacher invests in the student.
I find that some students just naturally do not have the confidence or naturally have the confidence energy but cannot apply it to what the teacher does or says, while that some students might be able to give the confidence to some other teacher or process.
Even then, where the student is dissatisfied with a teacher for one reaon or the other, for justifiable causes or in error, even then, if that student does not properly invest in the new teacher and process, he or she will also become stagnant all over again.
A student should carefully catalog the confidence energy in the psyche and get it under control, so that it serves the purpose of the core-self and becomes freed from its natural allegiance to the adjuncts, especially to the kundalini psychic life force which rules the psyche with an iron hand.
