“Transurfing in 78 Days — A Practical Course in Creating Your Own Reality” – Vadim Zeland

Statement

If you let thoughts of what you don’t like bug you, this is what will show up in your life. In order to let go of what you don’t want, you have to accept it first. By ‘accept’, I don’t mean ‘let it in’ so much as ‘acknowledge its right to exist and then pass by indifferently’. Accept and let go. In other words, consider the fact of it and then wave goodbye. At the pendulum’s first attack always respond by agreeing and then either diplomatically step back or unobtrusively direct the pendulum’s momentum in a direction that suits you. Learn ‘not to get hooked’ and to ignore the things that irritate you and they will disappear from your world. When the pendulum has no way of hooking into you, it disappears into the void.

Interpretation

Pendulums are the lords of dreams. When a person is susceptible to their provocation, it is as if they fall asleep because being wholly immersed in the imposed game, their mind is zombified by what is happening.

If something irritates you or evokes a sharp sense of aversion, you might as well be walking around with a hook in your head. Catching onto your hook, the pendulum will instantly set about finding a suitable irritant, and not just one. You will dangle from the hook for as long as your irritation has «no end».

In order to pull the hook out of your mind, you have to change your relationship towards the irritant and divert its attention, accept the situation, transform the tragedy into a comedy and focus on doing something else. Changing your relationship to something does not mean bottling up your emotions. Emotions stuffed deep inside are the very ‘evil’ which builds up and then inevitably explodes and goes to feed the pendulums. First, express your emotions and then consciously correct your relationship.

There is no point in fighting a pendulum. They simply have to be ignored.