Readers may already be familiar with the reality mirror phenomenon, which is helpful in understanding reality's dual-sided nature: metaphysical & physical. In a previous blog post, we discussed how the reality mirror works with a delay - that is, once the emotion and though forms come together inside of us, it takes a while before we will see the results in our outer physical world. ¹ If we inwardly think and feel as though our goal is being delivered, the reality mirror will dispassionately agree and simply reflect back to us "Ah yes, your goal is on its way." ¹ As long as we are aware of the necessity for a certain amount of patience, we can continue to emit the positive thoughts and emotions, fully trusting that the outer scenario is headed toward us. However, what most people do is become frustrated, desperate, irritated or hopeless when they do not see any physical proof after some time has passed. They conclude that they must have done something wrong due to the lack of initial physical (outer) proof.

The basis of what we perceive as reality is vibrational in nature. It is what all physical things arise out of, and physical manifestations are secondary to it. All physical things within consciousness have an energy basis. Therefore, if a steady stream of obstacles has arrived in your life, then this too has an identifiable energy basis. But can you actually pinpoint exactly where it came from? Can you name the specific root of any obstacle? It is usually unrelated to the subject where you're feeling "stuck," and this is why the mind is usually looking in the wrong place for the solution. The root of an obstacle will always be our internal resistance, which can take on different forms. In Transurfing, we refer to this inner resistance an excess potential.²

If you study Transurfing principles and you learn how to work with the reality mirror in more precise ways, you would be able to pinpoint exactly where you created an excess potential, which means that from this point forward you have the ability to choose a different manifested sector of reality (without those obstacles), simply with a change in your inner attitude.²

The reason people have been conditioned to be so distrusting of the flow of life is because they think that if they desire something fiercely & then raise its importance to astronomical levels, they will receive that which they desire. But what actually happens when importance is elevated beyond a reasonable level is that they receive only steady stream of obstacles and/or delays.² On the vibrational level, raising importance can only tune people into the absence of their goal. Importance will never help people tune into the specific frequency where the goal has come to fruition, because on the level where they already have the goal, the presence of the fulfilled goal is seen as "ordinary" or normal, and not something to aspire to.²

Let's say you want to gauge your progress to the goal. If the goal is way too important to the point that nothing else matters, most people will inwardly conclude "My goal isn't coming after all!" if they feel they can only rely on feedback from the outer world to measure progress. At that point, the reality mirror will dispassionately agree with them and say "Ah yes, your goal isn't coming after all."¹ It is at this moment when we typically enter a downward spiral of negativity: the more we react negatively to the perceived absence of the goal, the more the outer environment continues to become viciously against its achievement, as if in spite.

But it isn't spite at all. It's only a reflection. The confusion arises when that reflection isn't instantaneous, like it would be in an ordinary mirror. To make the reality mirror's function a little more tangible and easier to remember, I like to distinguish between two possible outcomes: the Vicious Mirror Cycle, and the Miraculous Mirror Cycle. If you train yourself to catch a false feedback loop in the middle of a Vicious Mirror Cycle when everything seems to be going "wrong", you can actually make an entrance into the Miraculous Mirror Cycle by remembering that no matter what outer event is currently unfolding, you can choose to react positively and thereby enhance your inner image to make an elevated choice. This takes a certain amount of re-training for the mind, because our society has conditioned us to react negatively to negative events, which has deleterious (and delayed) consequences for what will show up in our personal layer of reality. ³ However, a negative event by itself does not have the power to determine our future destiny. What determines our destiny is solely the way we react inwardly to an event, because the content of that vibrational image will be reflected back to us after a delay, as a future reality sector.

If we understand how the reality mirror works, we can learn strategies to keep ourselves far away from the false feedback loop of the Vicious Mirror Cycle. It's called a false loop because if we only rely on what our physical eyes see at any one moment in time, we never come close to perceiving the infinite number of reality sectors that could manifest from the space of variations. The secret of exercising our ability to choose depends heavily on being able to stay out from under the influence of pendulums - collective thought forms that create societal structures - which are only interested in harvesting our negative energy to strengthen their own existence. The risks of pendulums can be dealt with in a couple of ways, which will be discussed in a moment, but let's first try to articulate the precise entryway to the Miraculous Mirror Cycle, so that we can start to feel our way there.

The Miraculous Mirror Cycle only comes about when you stop chasing the reflection in the mirror and choose to forget about it, focusing only on your desired goal being fulfilled. This requires patience, but it also requires a skill that few possess: reacting positively no matter what—especially when negative events happen, or when it seems non-sensical to do so. Once you get really, really good at this, you will not only find the smoothest path to your goals, but the insidious energy pendulums that want to harvest people's negative energy emissions will leave you alone. ⁴

So what are pendulums, and why do they pose risks to an individual's ability to choose his own destiny according to his own wishes?

When multiple people begin thinking and feeling along a similar direction, a pendulum is what results from their collective unified thought forms. This pendulum forms its own energy structure - separate from the individuals that created it - and then it enforces rules, laws, customs, and traditions that its adherents must follow. ⁴ Examples of pendulums would be: corporations, religious organizations, special interest groups, family units, sports teams, exclusive clubs, nationalists, organized crime groups, non-profit groups etc. These pendulums all have different beliefs and rules, of course, but the distinguishing feature of a pendulum is a kind of "us vs. them" mentality, where it is either overtly or covertly declaring war on other pendulums, whom it views as different from its own members.⁴ In extreme cases, other pendulums may be viewed as enemies and competitors, and in milder forms, outsiders are seen as people who don't "get it," (e.g. they aren't "living right" in some way). If you pick up on a pattern of deliberate division instead of a choice toward the unification of humanity, you've got the idea of how pendulums operate! ⁴

Of course, the demonization of anyone who isn't part of the group makes it much easier for the pendulum to keep its adherents under control. ⁵ The pendulum rules must be obeyed by all members or they risk a slap on the wrist, social exile, or worse. The pendulum mantra is: "Do as I do!" because the pendulums are trying to get everyone to follow an imaginary, one-size-fits-all model of success. ⁵ This is why they have so successfully peddled the myth that success is only for a select few, and that it is quite hard to achieve.⁶ In doing this, they keep people frustrated, depressed, and anxious - all while harvesting more and more negative energy from their adherents who believe they "just aren't working hard enough." If you believe that heaps of problems and struggles are necessary on the way to the goal, you have swallowed these myths hook, line and sinker. ⁶ The negative thoughts and feelings that are generated by human failures are not what creates a pendulum, but they are the only things that keep pendulums alive, so pendulums will actively promote conflict in covert ways. ⁴

The insidious risk of pendulums is that people give up the ability to tune into their unique soul's success sector, and instead, they give all their available life energy to supporting the pendulum.⁴ Though pendulums do not have conscious intent like humans do, they do everything they can to increase conflict energy between humans, because the pendulum will gain strength from doing so. Whether you are for or against a pendulum, if you are giving it your focus of attention, you are strengthening it. If you are not aware of how this happens, then it will happen to you unwittingly and without your conscious consent.⁴

In fact, the most insidious way we give pendulums energy is by fighting them. It is hard to remember that even if we are against a pendulum, we are still giving mental and emotional energy toward the pendulum itself. ⁶ This is actually why fighting against something we want to avoid with all our might has the same effect as fighting to include it in our life. ⁶ The effect of actively fighting against what we want to avoid is that it will stick to us like glue. The pendulum does not care from which side we push it - whether we are for or against its aims - it just cares that we give it our energy and make it swing higher!⁶

When you radiate dissatisfaction, outrage, anger and irritation, some of that energy is harvested by the pendulum to strengthen it - and some of that energy is used to transfer you to the life track that contains events which will trigger more dissatisfaction, outrage, anger and irritation.³ This is because the soul and mind temporarily formed perfect unity over these inner states—and whatever they agree on is what will be reflected back to you in your physical world.¹

So what can be done, should one intend to stay relatively free of the influence of a pendulum and tune into one of their soul's success sectors instead?

You need to practice identifying pendulums and not giving them your energy. One person cannot fight a pendulum and win, but there are two ways of dealing with them:

The first method is to allow the pendulum to fall through into empty space. You do this by simply stepping aside, instead of defending yourself or creating some kind of boundary that is against the pendulum. ⁷ Any steps you take against the pendulum out of fear, annoyance, anger, desire to escape, etc. have their basis in negative energy—which you are then feeding to this pendulum directly by actively fighting it.⁷

Let's take an extreme example: if you find yourself inside of a fundamentalist religious cult with questionable practices you don't want to be associated with, how well do you think it would go over if you just walked up to the leaders and gave them a piece of your mind? As a less extreme example, how well do you think it would work if you tried the same thing on the owner of an older corporation who doesn't trust digital formats of any document, and wants you to create and file three separate copies of each client's documentation? He wants everything documented on paper out of familiarity and emotional comfort, and you aren't going to suddenly make him agreeable by trying to take this away from him with an argument.

Since the pendulum's adherents are going to be very steeped into the dogma of the pendulum's rules, if you take the approach of fighting the pendulum directly, you will most certainly lose. You may even be made an "example" of in ways that you were not anticipating. Instead, what you could do is agree to the pendulum's demands are on the surface, and this will soften its first wave of energy.⁷ Inwardly, your intent is to get the pendulum to leave you alone, but you cannot make it leave you alone with a demand.⁷ So, you tell your boss you'd be happy to make all of the physical copies he wants, and you begin to discuss the details of the project with him. You ask if there are any deadlines, where the files should go, and how many working hours you should dedicate per week to the project.

This all feels asinine to you of course, but you remember that you are doing it for the sake of not resisting. You don't want to put up a fight because it benefits you to have the pendulum's first swings of energy exhaust themselves without being strengthened by your negative energy. ⁷ Your boss is pleased and will get back with you tomorrow after he finalizes the rest of the project details. When tomorrow comes, there is an email in your inbox in the afternoon. The owner had spoken with his wife in the evening, who had suggested he contract the services of a digital documentation service with backup servers. The entire responsibility of the project is no longer on your shoulders, and you no longer have to do pointless job! This is what happens when you refrain from outright fighting pendulums.  Their energy has nothing to hook onto inside of you, so they have no other choice but to leave you in peace.⁷

In essence, emotional indifference, acceptance and neutrality are effective paths to take when you need to make an escape. These attitudes will ensure the pendulum leaves you alone.⁷ There is another method for particularly terrible or sudden situations, where an attitude of indifference isn't going to help you. If the pendulum is particularly troublesome & you find yourself in an intolerable scenario, humor and lightheartedness also help, especially when they don't seem like "appropriate" responses. Remember how we said that it is very useful to develop the skill to react nonsensically when something negative happens, because it keeps us out of the Vicious Reality Cycle? This is the energy basis behind why that works. Pendulums only care to harvest your negative energy, and if you force the pendulum into a situation where all you emit is ridiculously positive energy, they can't touch you at all. ⁸

When all else fails and a pendulum is actively pursuing you - flip the script on the pendulum in the most ridiculous way. ⁸ Force the pendulum to play your game: give it a dramatic flair, and make it utterly ridiculous. You may think this sounds impossible, but in truth, a pendulum is powerless to prevent you from stepping out of line of the game as long as you do it with a smile (e.g. in a non-resistant, non-defensive way). Be empty of the pendulum. Behave as though it isn't bothering you, and in fact, you have a fun trick or two or three you'd like to show it.⁸ Say to the pendulum, "All right! If you insist!" And then turn the tables on it, by acting in a way that nobody would expect! Sell it your positivity schtick and see how long it sticks around.⁸

If you are normally a person who is very quiet, introverted and keeps to themselves, speak up and express yourself in an out of character manner, but do it in a way that's satisfying to YOU - that's how you make the pendulum play your game! This alternative method is called extinguishing the pendulum, because it's kind of like putting a wet blanket on the pendulum's plans (to harvest negative energy). ⁸ It may be scary initially, but the pendulum cannot take your energy if you refuse to put up a fight, so just don't forget to smile while you do it! This is because you will be giving it nothing to fight against, since you are inwardly empty of the problem. It can only harm you through eliciting a negative response in you, which will then be carried forward in your reality. If you allow that to happen, only the pendulum benefits.

I teach through a Transurfing lens because it's crucial to know how to dissolve obstacles at their energetic root. If we don't pull them out by the roots, they will always grow back. Although Transurfing principles give you a great advantage of advanced awareness, knowledge alone is still not sufficient. 

You need to be able to identify and handle both pendulums and your inner resistance which has formed into excess potentials without you realizing it. If you'd like to see how I use the natal chart as a map to uncover unconscious resistance that my students were previously unaware of, you can get instant access to the Cosmic Flow Code first.

I have full length guided walk through courses to help you apply the principles to every archetype and aspect in the chart, but if it's your first time with all of this and you want a more digestible overview before doing the full course, grab the Cosmic Flow Code and see if you resonate with the work!

Enjoy the process!

Love,

Phoenix

References

1. Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing Steps 1-V. E-book ed. Ves Publishing Group; 2014; 361-380