There are times I am just very "hard-headed"....not willing to negotiate or change regardless of whether I am right or wrong.  It's my way or the highway.  I also know this mindset takes a lot out of me energy-wise.  If you find yourself holding rigid patterns of behavior, you just might want to try some ways to loosen that grip and reduce the high cost in personal energy you are paying to maintain your rigidity.  Energy arises from a source, takes movement via a plus/negative polarity relationship, finds expression in some form and then returns to its original source.  In our personal experience, energies create three basic qualities of form - thoughts, emotions and our physical body.  Problems in the flow of energy from the source (involution) and back to the source (evolution) seem to occur at the point of completion where energies can become stuck or bound up in the forms they are creating.  This results in the form becoming rigid and subsequently trapping energy in maintenance of the form.  Thoughts can become rigid beliefs, opinions, and judgments held for any number of years.  Emotions can become rigid in the form of indulgence, suppression and physical tension.  The physical body can hold onto energy in a rigid manner through ongoing patterns of stress, tension, toxicity and overall rigidity.   This is compounded by our tendency to hold onto things we identify with whether they be ideas, feelings or objects.  We create a sense of ourselves, our ego and our self-image by this process of identification and attachment.  Eventually we start to believe that we are our thoughts, we are our feelings and we are our physical body - we begin to claim ownership for the forms which we created.  This locks in an incredible amount of energy in the maintenance of this ego structure.  We end up defending that which we identify with and are attached to in any way we can so that we end up seeing the world through it, instead of perceiving our thoughts, feelings and physical body as an on-going process or flow of energy to and from a source outside ourselves.  This is a learned, conditioning process in which we accept certain aspects of ourselves and of the world and reject others.  Source:  The Polarity Process by Franklyn Sills.  There are a number of techniques you can try to help reduce this energy blockage.  Some are explored in other postings to this blog and also in our companion web site, Mindprompts.com.  A few of these techniques include meditation and journaling, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique  (TAT), Acupressure, and Acupuncture.
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