The four qualities mastery
Observations, Cause and Consequence
Inner work and consciousness expansion require us to understand how we respond to and process our observations. From a critical thinking perspective, observations include any sensory events that occur through our five senses, as well as those that arise from dreams, thought wandering, imagination, and memories.
The Importance of Observations
Why are our observations so important? Observations serve as the first cause of our energetic influence, affecting both ourselves and those around us (read my article: Observation as First Cause, Part 1). On a broader scale, observations also trigger our energetic presence within the collective or unified consciousness field. The prime causal influence between and amongst sentient beings is energetic.
Human beings are unique in that our objectivity as observers is often distorted, or even absent, because of ego-biased conditioning. When we observe from an ego-biased perspective, our first response is a bias-conditioned emotion. The presence of disruptive or destructionist bias means the triggered emotions will likely be counterproductive. Activated emotions have a specific energy type or frequency that immediately influences the unified consciousness field. The impact is complete and irreversible..
The emotion then sparks thoughts that align with our conditioned biases. These thoughts transition into our inner dialogue. The sequence from observation, to emotion, to thought, to inner dialogue happens instantly within ≥200-240ms. [1]
Key Contemplation: It is important to note that the influential emotional energy is released into the unified field at nearly the moment of observation. There is no way to recall or retract this energy from the collective consciousness horizon.
When the inner dialogue is unleashed, one of three types of expression will occur:
- the dialogue remains internal, fueling more emotions and thoughts
- the inner dialogue is expressed verbally or physically
- a combination of internal, verbal, and physical expressions
The Chain of Causal Influence
Observation → Emotion → Thought → Inner Dialogue → Expression → Internal →Verbal → Physical
The cause-and-effect dynamics in this process are significant and potentially harmful. We often hear that thought energy is inherently unhealthy for the body and brain, a common myth that diverts us from conscious expansion efforts. It is the energy contained in the emotion that presents harmful effects. Thoughts come and go. But over the long term, bias-driven emotion energy will wreak havoc throughout our brain and body systems and functions. The havoc will express as anxiety, physical illness, and reinforcement of the ego-bias dominance. The cycle repeats, ad infinitum.
Our bias-conditioned energy expressions are destabilizing not only to the individual but also to the unified consciousness field. Mindfulness efforts to maintain vigilant awareness of our responses to observations and situations do not mitigate the immediacy of chaotic energy influences.
A Framework for Mitigation
The mitigation of emotion energy responses to our observations is through the framework of humility and the three constructs: gratitude, compassion, and harmony. These elements are referred to as the four qualities (read my article: Humility and the Three Constructs, Part 1) . Monitoring our thoughts, words, and actions via self-awareness methods have a limited effect and become less sustainable over time. The four qualities are pre-emptive, working as a buffer between the observation and the triggering of the emotion.
A practitioner of expanded consciousness aims to maintain a constant state of beingness: a continuous, conscious expression of the four qualities.
I am → Humility → Gratitude → Compassion → Harmony
For clarity, the conscious expression of the four qualities is not the practitioner attempting to do humility, or gratitude, etc. Those “doing” options are functions of ego-bias conditioning. The practitioner is “being” those qualities: expressing as the energy of the four qualities.
In Part 2 of this series, I will further discuss the four qualities and the implications related to the expanded consciousness journey.
1Cortical response tracking the conscious experience of threshold duration visual stimuli indicates visual perception is all or none4
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