Reactivity 101: Why your symbol of peace works
Your symbol of peace works because it cancels excess reactivity. Reactivity clouds the soul’s ability to make healthy choices. Remove the clouds, and the Sun can shine again.
If I had to point to the biggest most common stumbling block in all self-healing I’d point to reactivity, the biggest one we can do easily and always do something about.
A lack of orientation to our own reactive capacity–our habit body–measures shortcomings of conventional K-12 education Managing our own reactivity is just about the biggest job all of us have here in 3D.
Because our natural reactivity and our job to manage habits are so little discussed, a difficulty people encounter on a path of growth, is attempting to clear subtle disturbances before they clear bigger, more obvious problems.
A teaching story tells how to fill a large glass jar with a precisely equal volume of big rocks, pebbles and sand. The only way it can be done, it to first you put in the big rocks. Then add the pebbles. Finally add the sand. The lesson is, handle the big things first. If you start with the little problems, put in the sand and pebbles first, you won’t have room for the big rocks. Handle the big issues in life first; the the little things will almost take care of themself.
Self-healing, clearing unresolved disturbances, is no different but the process is in reverse: TAKE OUT the big rocks first. This is how Spirit prefers to work. The sequence of activity in energetic healing sessions using God as your Partner flow smoothest in this sequence
Reactivity is the first big rock to take out
The biggest rock we all seem to have to deal with first in our personal-spiritual growing is reactivity. You probably know reactivity in its garden variety forms of: hurt, blame & projection and revenge. These are the main sub-sets of reactivity. Now do you see why reactivity tends to be one of our biggest rocks?
Reacting to life usually begins shortly after our first breath and we’ve been practicing and exercising our reactivity every day since. Much personal-spiritual growth is simply reducing and moderating excess reactivity.
Rudolf Steiner’s very useful definition of “reactivity” is “excess liking and disliking.” Reactivity is good when jump to avoid being hit by a car or to snatch a kiss. Reactivity pulls us out of balance when we can’t stop ourselves from liking doughnuts or disliking our mother-in-law.
How much excess reactivity do you have? You know you have a lot of reactivity if you find yourself saying,
“I knew it was bad for me and I did it anyway.”
The way the inner child fits in here is the inner child is our habit body, our capacity to react and to respond subconsciously and unconsciously once a stimulus-response pair is set up by ourself or others.
If we did not react, if we did not have a habit body, then when crossing a street on foot and seeing a car bearing down on you, you might have to think, “Now what, if anything, does this have to do with me?”
Or if our wife smiles and touches our arm in a soft and gentle caress, without reactions we would only be able to think, “Now why is she doing this?” With reactions we move first, think later. Impulses are one kind of reactivity. Reactivity has its uses. If we are smart, we give them their due, use them to our advantage and upgrade old, outworn habits as we discern new, healthier behaviors.
Most of the time, however, we are reacting too quickly to life (John-Roger).
“I knew I shouldn’t have eaten it but I ate it anyway.”
“I knew I shouldn’t have said that but I said it anyway.”
“I knew it was bad but I went and did it any way.”
We may react sympathetically as in, I like it.” Or we may react with antipathy, as in, “I don’t like it.” Ambivalence and confused reactions arise when we have both sympathy and antipathy towards the same thing, like towards Mom, for instance.
Excess liking
With excess sympathy, we react to things favorably―even when they are bad for us. We like chocolate cake, even when we are on a low carbohydrate diet.
Excess disliking
With excess disliking, we react to things unfavorably, even when the thing is healthy. The two year old says, “I hate spinach.” The twenty year old says, “I hate putting money in my savings account.” The fifty year old says, “I hate to exercise.”
Consider excess disliking in relationships. Somebody we consider an enemy does something laudable, and honest, our antipathy says, “Yes, but they had ulterior motives.” Excess antipathy towards an individual prevents us from seeing this person as ever doing good.
Reactivity is the biggest category of disturbances we deal with while here on Earth. Until we can get beyond, “I knew it was wrong and I did it anyway,” further maturity is elusive.
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