Sublimination

K,

I'd like to share some interesting reading with you from some of my readings:

Sublimation: "used to denote diversion of undesirable natural trends or impulses, by education or conscious effort, into some more desirable type of behavior or activity."

[How does one stop seeing vanity, and start seeing reality? One has to start to change one's bad habits and develop new ones that take one a step closer to their desire goal of seeing reality.]

"Key 11 gives us a strong hint that sublimation includes elimination"

[But how does one go about getting rid of those bad habits?]

"The psychological part of the process of sublimation consists in elimination from our mental picture of future activity every detail we do not wish to see realized. This requires discrimination and imagination. It also requires definition, a phase of limitation..."

"This elimination is by no means a purely negative process. It demands concentration on mental images of the desired forms of manifestation. Thus in the mental work of sublimation we select a desirable form of personal activity as our goal, and then cut out everything which does not contribute in some way to that objective."

[K, take note: it is by NO means a purely negative process. Endless negation only sows seeds of doubt, fear, and indecision. ]