Squat Up or Down?

Hey, have you ever noticed when anytime you go through a long period of being tired or discouraged, you sometimes begin to let yourself go mentally & physically ... & the world does nothing to stop you from taking that downward turn ---- yet ... as soon as you begin to turn onto that positive road to restore your life or the lives of others, all hell breaks loose, & the world throws everything at your head beginning with a refrigerator followed by a Volkswagen to stop you from exerting that positive, active, go-getter energy? Is that coincidence? Well ask yourself this question ... is it easier for you to squat up or down with a 250 lbs. person held across your shoulders? It's likely you along with most other people will say it's easier to squat "down" with a 250 lbs. person held across their shoulders.

The Weight of the World

There is this weight - a heaviness that exists within the atmosphere of this reality that mankind exists in - pressing down on mankind's shoulders. For a long time, mankind has been unable to stand tall with its head held high. To prove this point, does pressure & stress exist? Have you experienced it? Are you experiencing pressure & stress right now? Do you know others who have gone trough or who are currently "under" pressure & stress? Are you feeling stressed & pressured from all these questions? Your answer is probably yes to one or more of these questions.

Neither pressure nor stress can exist without something called "force" actively pressing "down" on you while you are actively pressing "up" against it. Force in its self is neither negative nor positive; it's a physics (laws of movement & direction) that operates within the universe.

The Power of Will

Since force is a form of outward movement, something must cause force to move in the first place. What is this something?  Well within the context of mankind's relationship with force, the answer to that question is "will". Mankind's will is the catalyst that moves force. Will is choice; choice to go towards one of two directions. One direction leads to life; the other direction leads to death. Once choice is made to go in a direction, force manifests - causing an object such as your legs & feet to move "outward" from your starting point. Your legs will not move on their own unless you "will" them to move.

Now with force being neither negative nor positive, mankind's will IS ... negative. Mankind's will is made up of "human characteristics", & they are some of the following: jealousy, envy, greed, gossip, arrogance, impatience, quarrelsome, etc. Have you ever felt "weighed" down anytime someone directed any of those characteristics at you?

However, the negative characteristic a person projects onto you or on an object always boomerangs back at that person exerting the projection. For example, money is the target; greed is the will exerting  force towards money. You become obsessed with accumulating money, & your obsession becomes a burdensome weight on you because you laid greed on it which leaves you continually unsatisfied with whatever amount of money you manage to amass.

Another example, envy ... you see someone's achievements & you become envious of what that person achieved, you obsess over taking or tearing down that person's achievements. Envy is the will; what the person achieved is the target.

From the two examples above, you see that negative characteristics tears down; on the flip side, positive characteristics builds up. When someone gives you encouragement (expressionof a positive characteristic), do you feel built up?

Positive characteristics exist within another type of being called "Conscious Beings".