If people were less selfish, our society would benefit from it.
In general, it is assumed that selfishness is the result of free will, and that a person chooses to be selfish.
LTA Personal Development, a new personal development technique, sees things differently.
According to the LTA method selfishness is not the result of the free will. A selfish conduct is forced upon a person by unconscious programmings. These programmings or patterns can be found in and around a person. These patterns belong to the soul that incarnates within the body. They constitute a material presence around it. Throughout various lives, the (human) soul shows the same selfish conduct under the influence of these patterns.
Examples of patterns of selfishness:
• You must think of yourself, you must do well, you come first, first of all take care of yourself
• You are occupied with yourself, you cannot get free from yourself, you cannot think of anything else than yourself, there is no other reality than yourself, there is only yourself
• It does not bother you that someone else is having a rough time, it is indifferent to you, what do you care, you have got enough worries as it is
If people are sympathetic and loving, that is the result of energies. These energies can be found around a person. They belong to the soul that incarnates.
Examples of energies of love (relating to both giving love and receiving love):
• Love for other people, loving other people
• Wanting to share with other people, considering your own property as that of other people as well, being able to give
• Supporting other people, being concerned with other people, taking care of other people, understanding and sympathy for other people
• Attracting loving people
• Finding support, love and understanding with other people
In case of selfishness, the energies of love are being suppressed by the patterns of selfishness. By means of the LTA technique, the patterns are broken down and the underlying energies are released. So that we can change a selfish person into a loving person.
Selfishness (and also self-centredness) is to be found at deep layers in the subconscious mind and can less easily be corrected than other character patterns. It takes more hours of work than other aspects. But once the result is there, it is worth the trouble. Because both the person as such and the environment will benefit from it.
