DEPROGRAM VICES, BUILD VIRTUES
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Goodwill and peace!
At this juncture let me share notes about the
deprogramming of vices and building of virtues as an essential lesson in the
Path. These tasks are one and the same: you will advance in the Path by
building virtues, and building virtues is a matter of deprogramming vices.
You see, a lot of people are not exactly evil, yet you
see them existing here in 3rd Density or 3rd Dimension.
If they aren’t evil, then they must be good people, and so they are saints.
Wrong! Better listen to the late US
Now, that’s a part of the human condition, nay the
tragedy of human existence. One lives here, isn’t exactly evil and possesses
probably nary a defect that is so gross as to be incapable of unlearning, yet
nary a virtue either to be adjudged as worthy of being counted among the wisest
and most sagely people. That’s why they are called folks: they do not at all
stand above others as to be called ‘extraordinary’ precisely due to their
virtues.
The building of strengths or virtues is incidentally
making waves today among the most urgent traits that ought to be built within the
worksphere. Many management consultancy groups offer team building lessons or
‘social technologies’ that include certain tools about how to deprogram a bad
trait and replace it with a good one. Without realizing it, these experts or
consultants are very close to what the spiritual masters have been working all
along for eons now: of deprogramming vices and building virtues.
So, dear fellows in the Path, if you’d ask me a
question whether it’s alright to employ such tools for your self-development,
my response is a loud Yes. By all means, please go ahead and immerse yourself
in those workshops offered by consulting groups, organized by your company or
employer. Do not put attitudinal barriers into the said practices by saying “I
will only participate here because I’m required to and because it will be good
for my promotion.” Ride the tide, flow with the wind! For failing to do so, the
result would be disastrous: your own anxiety disorder condition may be
reinforced, rendering you one step backward in the Path.
But indeed, before everything else, there must be a
constant realization within your part that you have a long list of bad traits
or ‘vices’ that must be deprogrammed. Failure to engage in that recognition,
and more so stubbornly believing that nothing’s wrong with you, that you’re
near to perfect, would ruin your chances of progressing in the Path.
So, begin by recognizing what those defects are. It’s
so simple a thing to do, and do it by fixing a schedule for the task. You can
do it inside your church, a coffee shop, an eco-park, atop a mountain while
you’re with fellow mountaineers, beside the sea, inside your home, or wherever
you find yourself most comfortable. Your listing can begin by reflecting on
your own observations about yourself. Then, you can proceed to the feedbacks
coming from other people, such as when they remark that you always come to
meetings late. If you are hard up in making self-reflections, then begin right
away with the feedbacks from others.
Now, to ensure that your esteem won’t sag so badly as
the long list of weaknesses might prove unbearable to your psyche, then come up
with a list too of your strengths. Your simple task in life is to maintain
those strengths and even possibly build them up even more. But don’t ever be
shocked to find out that your weaknesses may end up longer than your strengths.
Admit it, that’s life, that’s why we’re here in 3rd Dimension that
is our school for learning.
After determining the list of traits, both for
strengths and weaknesses, then begin a deprogramming schedule for the
weaknesses. This task is no easy thing to do, and please don’t ever brag that
in just a day they will be gone. Bragging itself is a vice, so if you are a
braggart, list this down as a weakness. Many braggarts suffer from Attention
Deficit Disorder and need psychiatric help as a tool to deprogram the trait.
For optimal results, take one (1) month to deprogram a
vice. If you meditate regularly, meditate on the vice for one (1) week, by
asking yourself first why do you possess such a weakness. If you don’t meditate
at all, then use prayer: before sleeping, ask your Guide or Guardian Angel to
give you answers as to why you are, for instance, a braggart. The answer will
come to you intuitively, mind you. For a yogi like me, the answers come in
pictures, like some 1 megapixel photos, flashing before my eyes.
Now, do immediately meditate or pray, right after doing
the diagnostic questioning, by deprogramming the vice. Here would be some tips
to do, whichever of the following practices you wish to use:
·
Meditation:
Visualize the vice you possess. Be creative in your visualization. E.g
consummate liar. You can visualize the trait as a huge, bad lizard that harms
people. Deprogram it then by visualizing that the lizard will be neutralized,
or killed. You can visualize an angel coming from higher space, coming down
with an unsheathed sword of Light, and tearing down the lizard to pieces. Do
the visualizations for a week.
·
Prayer:
Try to visualize your Guide or Guardian Angel standing in higher space in front
of you, assuring you that He or She is around to help you. Do pray with a
purple-colored candle, as this will help in the ‘healing’ process. Petition the
Almighty I Am Presence, thru the help of your Guide, to deprogram the vice for you.
Improvise on an invocation such as “My Guardian Angel will deprogram my
tardiness for me,” and declare it seven (7) times. Then end with Amen.
After a week of meditation and/or prayer, observe the
results. It would always be best to observe the results in the social sphere,
in environments where people are around. Do this for the next three (3) weeks.
See the results by noting the feedbacks from other people. If you used to be
tardy and come to meeting late, and then your office mates will observe you changing
the pattern, then indeed the vice has been quite deprogrammed. All you need to
do is to sustain this new strength, then move on to the next deprogramming
schedule.
For a vice to be effectively deprogrammed and the
corresponding opposite—virtue—will be built, I would counsel strongly that you
only take one trait at a time. Do not mix up two or more ‘evils’ and force a
deprogramming of them altogether. Note the term ‘force’ there: you are indeed
hurrying up too much by mixing up traits altogether. Remember that your
Unconscious Mind, which is the repository of the traits, has its own
complexity. It is best to get the cooperation of your Unconscious by working on
a trait one at a time.
As to the observable or ‘visible vices’ such as
smoking, licentious sex, gambiing, doping, and shopaholic behavior, do the same
procedure. But assign a longer time frame for these ones. They may be caused by
childhood fixations and traumas, so it may take a bit more time to deprogram
them. I used to smoke a lot, and I found out from my own mother that it only
took a short time to breast-feed me as I was lactose-sensitive (I had to be
bottle-fed with soya milk). So, knowing my psychoanalysis fairly well, I
realized that my smoking has a great deal to do with the breastfeeding
deprivation, that smoking was compensatory for this unconscious lack of an
essential maternal provision.
I kept on quitting smoking since young adult age, and
only got to quit it in the late 1990s as I already suffered from the following
by then: asthma, chronic tonsillitis/throat infections, sinusitis &
allergic rhinitis. My ‘mother body’, nay Mother Nature was telling me to please
quit smoking as this is a gross disrespect to my physical body that is the
vehicle of my very soul. In 1993 I even underwent tonsillectomy, but despite
this surgery I went back to smoking. Nicotine had a good way of keeping me
awake and the habit made my astral body a bit thicker instantly, and I was
getting to be more sensitive that year as my mystical awakening was fast unfolding….
Till I finally quit.
Do note that a lot of these vices were acquired via
past life learning experiences, so it isn’t that easy to unlearn them and
replace them with strengths. As to which lifetime did you acquire them, don’t
worry about the matter too much. Leave that to your Inner Guide or Guides, who
see you from a higher dimension. If in case that other people during those
lives may have been involved in learning the bad attitude or trait, then add in
the deprogramming a forgiveness of those people even if you don’t know who they
were. Just trust that the message will reach God Almighty, and this can
accelerate the healing process.
Successfully deprogramming vices one after the other
and replacing them with corresponding virtues is like winning a war. It is in
fact a war against your own Primal Self. Every time you win, you gain more
merits in life and move ahead in the Path. Even in your career and/or business
you will succeed all the more. Those who succeeded the most financially are, as
per result of researches, precisely those people who have greater insights
about their own weaknesses and strengths compared to others. Read thru Jim
Dornan, Robert Kiyosaki and John Maxwell who are among top gurus of financial
success today, and you will hear the same things as I tell you now:
self-insight leads to greater financial success.
So Fellows in the Path, learn from the gurus of
success. But most of all, do work out to practice those tools and turning
yourselves into jewels of exemplary behavior. It can be done, believe it. Amen.
[Writ 11 April 2008, Quezon City
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