Emotional Release · “Die to Be Reborn”
Spiritual Balancing
To process the day’s emotional ‘catalyst’ by fully experiencing a charged emotion and then consciously evoking its exact opposite to equal intensity, so the charge is accepted and integrated rather than repressed — restoring balance and free flow through the energy centres.
In 5 lines: End of day, find a moment that charged you. Re-feel that emotion fully, in the mind, at honest intensity. Then deliberately evoke its exact opposite to equal intensity. Hold both, accept both, and rest in the balanced still point between them. Repeat with other charges over time — gently, starting small.
What it is
This is Aaron Abke’s rendering of Ra’s “balancing” discipline from The Law of One: a daily exercise for working with the day’s emotional catalyst.
You review the day, find a moment that carried an emotional charge (anger, fear, lust, love, pride), let that feeling express itself fully in the mind, and then consciously evoke its exact opposite — bringing the opposite to equal vividness and intensity — until both are seen, accepted, and integrated.
The point is not to cancel the emotion or to prefer the “positive” pole, but to balance the charge so neither pole runs you. Abke frames the result in Law-of-One terms: each unbalanced reaction is like a “psychic knot” in an energy centre (chakra), and balancing it “with love and forgiveness and awareness” undoes the knot so energy “flows harmoniously again.” This operationalises feeling as information (The Inner Creates the Outer), attention as the working tool (The Inner Creates the Outer), and the steadier Self beneath reactivity (All Is One).
Distinct from the siblings here. Abke’s Identifying as Awareness relocates identity to the witness; his Unconditional Love as Non-Resistance is a continuous outward stance toward people and moments. This practice is different in kind: a structured, end-of-day emotional-processing session that deliberately re-evokes a charge and then generates its precise antithesis to balance it. It is closer to opposite-action and reappraisal work than to either witnessing or loving-acceptance, and it is specifically tied to Ra’s energy-centre map rather than to general non-resistance.
The Method
A faithful rendering of how Abke teaches Ra’s balancing exercise:
- Review the diurnal cycle. At the end of the day, scan back over your experiences and find the moments that carried an emotional charge — where you reacted, contracted, or got swept up. Ra’s framing: the day’s catalyst is the curriculum.
- Pick one charge and feel it fully. Re-enter the chosen moment in the mind and let the emotion express itself completely — do not repress it, judge it, or jump to fixing it. If it was anger, fully feel the anger; if lust or fear or pride, the same. Abke (after Ra) stresses this is not repression: the feeling must be allowed before it can be balanced.
- Intensify it consciously, in the mind alone. Let the emotion become as vivid as it honestly is, held purely in awareness rather than acted out. Seeing it at full strength reveals it clearly as energy.
- Now evoke the exact opposite — to equal intensity. Deliberately generate the antithesis of that emotion and feel it just as fully (anger ↔ acceptance/peace; fear ↔ faith/courage; craving ↔ contentment; pride ↔ humility). The discipline is to bring the opposite charge up to equal weight, not merely to think it.
- Hold both; accept both. Let the two poles sit together in awareness. Neither is wrong; you are not choosing a side. The charge balances when both are fully acknowledged and integrated — “the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation.”
- Settle into the balanced centre. As the poles equalise, notice the still, neutral point between them — the place from which you are no longer swayed by either extreme. Abke describes this as the knot in the energy centre loosening and the energy flowing freely again.
- Repeat with other charges over time. Balancing “takes much practice”; you work charges as they arise, day by day, gradually meeting more of life from the balanced centre. (Sourcing note: the energy-centre/“knot” and “love, forgiveness and awareness” framing, and the structure of “feel it fully, then consciously evoke the opposite, then balance,” are Abke’s teaching of Ra’s balancing discipline; “the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation,” the diurnal-review framing, and “intensify. consciously in mind alone” / “takes much practice” are from the Ra Material. The step protocol is a faithful description, not a reproduced transcript.)
Source & Lineage
Aaron Abke teaches this through his podcast/YouTube episode The Art of Spiritual Balancing and his Spiritual Balancing masterclass at 4D University, drawing directly on Ra’s “balancing” discipline in The Law of One (Ra Material, channeled by Carla Rueckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCarty, 1981-84).
Ra’s exercise sits in a long lineage of coincidentia oppositorum (the union/balancing of opposites) and end-of-day examination practices — compare the Stoic and Ignatian evening review, Jungian holding-of-opposites, and emotional integration work generally.
Common refinements
Skipping the full-feeling step. Jumping straight to the “opposite” without first letting the original emotion express itself is repression in disguise — and Ra explicitly warns against that. Feel it first.
- Using “the opposite” as forced positivity. The goal is balance, not replacing a bad feeling with a good one. If the opposite is manufactured to escape the first, you have suppressed, not balanced.
- Acting it out instead of holding it in mind. Ra’s intensification is done “in mind alone” — the point is conscious experience, not venting on others.
- Choosing too big a charge too soon. Starting with the most traumatic memory can flood you. Begin with mild daily irritations and build the skill (see Safety).
- Expecting one pass to finish it. Balancing is iterative; the same theme may need working many times.
- Refinement: if you cannot find the opposite, name the emotion precisely first — the exact antithesis of resentment (acceptance/forgiveness) differs from that of fear (faith/safety).