"I no longer saw the lower aspect of myself, with all of his personal issues and melodramas, as the enemy that had to be destroyed... I needed to use all of these disturbed personal energies for my ascent... The psyche is a person with feelings and thoughts, hopes, fears, and dreams. He is not to be locked in a room and constantly told to shut up... I had already determined to surrender to life's flow, even if I couldn't understand where it was taking me. I had to do the same thing inwardly. I needed to learn to just relax inside instead of fighting with my mind so much... In my meditations, I had been achieving heights by pushing down on the lower energies. But this was just a form of suppression. I had to learn to channel those energies upward instead of pushing them away from me... Done properly yoga is the science of channeling energy upward until they merge together at the highest point-Oneness" (The Surrender Experiment, pp. 70-72)
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