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Stress is a dualistic dynamic. Stress is tension. Tension can only exist between two poles. Two poles in relation to each other are dualistic. Therefore the primary nature of stress is duality. The body breaths in and out, is born and dies. The energies ‘identity’ is attracted to its opposite; male to female and female to male. The emotional agency desires its objects or finds itself aversion to other objects, and the thinker has her thoughts. Thus the personality is a dualistic creature and creates and lives in a dualistic world. A world which also changes constantly. Moreover, as the age we live in is predominantly mental, the duality is intensified like never before. This is because the mind is an instrument whose primary function is judgement. In order to judge it must divide ‘this’ and ‘that‘, making things distinct from one another in order to know ‘what is what‘. Thus the mind is pre-eminently a dualistic tool. Because of this, stress is at a high point in our world. Practically all first and second world nations spend billions of euros, dollars, yen, etc on stress related issues every year (see, the cost of stress). Most stress-management programs address only the symptoms of stress. Citi-Zen does this but more. Citi-Zen works fundamentally and conclusively with the causes of stress. Thus setting persons free. Citi-Zen’s unique causal stress management technology -Violet Diamond Practices - which are meditative tools that allow one to directly experience the transformation of dualistic tension into non-dual peace within ones self and in relation to ones own stress issues (See primary solutions for more detail).

Thus creating a still point within the complex of stressful circumstance. Citi-Zen provides systematic training in the unfoldment of this skill. Stress is also a matter of identification. If we are identified with/as the stressful circumstances of our lives, then stress is an immediate and intimate companion. If however, we can observe the circumstances whilst retaining a clear sense of true Self, then stress is immediately halved. Citi-Zen employs certain powerful deep relaxation methods in direct conjunction with meditative exercises to consciously master this egoic identification process and its subconscious momentum. As this power is developed the usual subconscious stress and desire is also dissolved through a specific subconscious transformatory process, thus all of ones engagements are pervaded by a wider sense of peace and presence of joy (see secondary solutions). To learn this click here.

• Data given in a Health and Safety Executive report estimated that, “work-related stress costs UK employers about £353 million to £381 million per annum (in 1995/1996 prices) and society between £3.7 to £3.8 billion. Since these calculations were done, the estimated number of days lost due to stress has more than doubled” (HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE [HSE] (1999. The Costs to Britain of Work Place Accidents & Work-related Ill Health in 1995/96. HMSO: Norwich. JONES, J. R., HUXTABLE, C. S., HODGSON, J. T., & PRICE, M. J., 2003, ‘Management Standards’ and work-related stress in the UK’ http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/techpart1.pdf

• The UK based mental health charity ‘Mind’ said in 2005, “STRESS at work is causing depression and anxiety in one in five Britons and costing the country £100 billion a year in lost output, the mental health charity Mind said yesterday.” (mind, 15.5.2005, times website; www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article523091.ece

• The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work found that “in 2002, the annual economic cost of work-related stress in the EU-15 was estimated at 20 billion Euros”(EASHW2002, http://osha.europa.eu/en/topics/stress

• In 2005, The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work found that, “Stress is the second most reported work-related health problem, affecting 22% of workers from EU 27” (EASHW,2005,
http://osha.europa.eu/en/topics/stress

• The Health and safety commission said, “In 2005/6 work related stress, depression and anxiety cost Great Britain in excess of £530 million. The number of workers who had sought medical advice for what they believed to be work related stress increased by 110,000 to an estimated 530,000”(HSC, UK, 7.11.07.,
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2007/c07021.htm

• Health Canada says, “in a study conducted in 2000 by the Confederation of British Industry indicates that about 30% of all sick leave(in UK) is related to stress”.(Hoel, Sparks, & Cooper, 2001, www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/occup-travail/costs_stress-couts/inventory-recension_1-eng.php

• The American Institute of Stress says, “Job stress is also costly, with an annual price tag for U.S. businesses of over $300 billion annually due to increased absenteeism, employee turnover, diminished productivity, medical, legal and insurance expenses and Workers' Compensation payments.”(The American Institute of Stress, 2008, http://www.stress.org/topic-workplace.htm

There are three variations of the primary solution -for adults, adolescents, and for children- which involve the cognition of how stress is based in the duality of desire and aversion. This cognition is mediated through awareness. The awareness required to recognise this causal duality is mediated, clarified and magnified via the energy of joy. This is the psychology of love wisdom.

The practice for adults -Violet Diamond Tantra- means the ‘focused (Diamond) - skill of (tantra) - transformation of desire - (violet)’. It is not overtly sexual, but concerns its self with natural human vital energy, which has been invested into, and become the suffering, through unwise desire and its transformation into lasting joy.

Desire and aversion are the two causal poles of stress in human experience. This is because a lack of true discernment leads us to see the unreal as the real, the changing as the changeless, the impotent of joy as the eternal joy. Everyone is subject to this until wisdom releases them. The very young and the very old. Even animals are subject to wanton desire of happiness or instinctual fear of suffering. Desire and aversion are the traps of the poles in the field of unwisdom. Tantra is the skill of using these traps themselves to find true happiness, transfiguring ones ignorance and attachment into realisation. Thus desire become tangible satisfaction, the path becomes joy and not suffering and the human spirit is incarnate in the matter which had been occupied previously as the ground of unwisdom and suffering.

Stress takes form from the ground of the full consciousness or soul, which is the real Self. The ego then refracts a bit of this soul, investing in desire and enjoyment and forgetting its true self satisfied wholeness. This is the beginning of stress, as the things invested in exist as part of a changing world. As the identifications with lesser joys deepen, so does the stress. During this involvement there is a sense, a recollection inside, as if a distant echo in a deep valley of potent and real bliss. To know this comparison in the psyche is suffering. VDT takes these fragments of oneself and re-aligns them by transpersonal science to reveal the real Self, the soul-consciousness to the ego, and how it became refracted, involved and identified with stress.

Unwise desire is both the result and course of misperception and the means to achieving true perception. Given the right tools any one can master the stress of desire and aversion, and use it to create the joy of true satisfaction. True discernment of the nature of things can take time to develop. Violet Diamond tantra is an experiential, educational process which releases the consciousness investment in unwisdom quickly and joyfully. This experiential satisfaction enables one to release the stress of grasping and attachment to the stream of endless desires.

This is important on two levels initially. Firstly it allows one to breathe and relax from the tyranny of stress and experience happiness. Secondly, as desire and stress are transformed the mind in turn is freed to perceive clearly without always being coloured by the filter of desires and the burden of stress. Furthermore the unwisdom is more clearly seen through the greater consciousness energy available. The mind is also more easily brought to concentration since the senses are not frantically occupied with their objects of attraction. As desire is employed wisely and transmuted into true joy, the clear perception that is developed generates a light of wisdom which can be focused by the mind to empower more deeply the process of desire transformation. The process catalyses it’s own acceleration. If one can master the deepest desire of the personality, then, one’s energies are stress free.

Tantra is a way of disentangling oneself from the stressful fabric of desire which our material age and its commercial values have become, and finding true satisfaction. Violet diamond tantra resolves the issue of modern stress and replaces inferred commercial values with a realisation of true human values and the value of being human. Tantra seeks to enhance every aspect of life, to make it a means of entering profound lasting satisfaction through the medium of joy by the transformation of stress. Tantric practice is a means of experiencing the true satisfaction of spiritual connectedness through joy.

Violet light bridges coloured rays into transparent light; lower frequencies are absorbed into higher as their speeds are increased. The speed of violet light in the nervous system is experienced as joy. Violet is the highest frequency of light before the sum of synergy in it becomes a white light whose filament creates the field of transparent awareness. Violet contains all colours before they become transparent. The true perception that grows from tantra is a solution to social tensions which have their basis in misperception and hasty reaction to others.

Why is sexual joy violet? When the nervous system experiences joy it is vibrating at a certain frequency whose wavelength is violet light. Sexual joy is the highest joy of the ego because the most compounded desire of the ego is the perfect love embodied and experienced. Furthermore, this greatest joy in the nervous system forms a bridge to the bliss of the soul through its awareness and through mind, emotional, vital matter energy. Tantra recognises that the nervous system links body and spirit via joy. Joy is the tantric medium and through joy a deeper sense of self realisation is facilitated. The electric causal power of consciousness which the soul is manifest most easily and joyfully through joy. In Self realisation the knowledge of true satisfaction is made available along with realisation of how unwisdom was achieved. To learn this click here.

Violet Diamond Heart Meditation is a practice which uses the same wisdom consciousness technology as Violet Diamond Tantra but is not involved at a sexual level, rather it focuses on the growing joy in the young adults heart centre, generating a stronger energy field through which to become aware of how joy mediates awareness, within which to explore the processes of stress and its ignorance of causal dualities, in turn uncovering wisdom and bliss. This practice not only provides experiential wisdom during a time of profound unfoldment for the emerging ego, but also strengthens the vehicle for consciousness -joy- and consciousness itself, which is the vehicle of all education and learning. This in turn profoundly enhances and optimises the study of all other subjects in a curriculum. Furthermore, adolescents deserve the greatest respect and opportunity to develop valid qualities like wisdom because they compose our immediate and coming world.

The key change agents are the young. ¨ Development agencies and demographers warn that rapidly rising popultations will cripple impoverished nations and destroy the environment. With half the worlds population now under 25, they say that if we do not stabilize the world´s population, we risk catastrophe¨, -Allianz website. The young are the key change agents. Therefore this group must be given the chance to appreciate the world context clearly and as it stands objectively, and be given viable means of transforming stress, which is based on desire, competition and consumption, into a sustainable future. We exist at a point in time when the question is not whether we make such a change, but how. If we do not act now, then we must expect to face the question from future generations as to why we did not do anything when we knew there was a serious problem. Analysists reiterate the idea that one of the key areas in encouraging peace is to meet the needs of children, which reduces their stress, the environmental stress and the community stress of providing for them, etc. It is conceded that this can be done through education. The United Nations Childrens Fund publishes anual reports concerning the state of the worlds children -click here to view the latest publication- It has been established in these reports for a few years that, the future of the worlds children would be more secure if, for example, military expenditure was cut by a mere 3 percent per anum. Such a cut would give both developing and industrialized nations in excess of half a trillion dollars to spend on better education, health and welfare for the youth and the comming generations. Moreover, if a real perception and understanding of those issues which have lead mankind to this 11th hour sustainability crisis and changing world context are duly appreciated, then this potentially funded education could be instrumental in transforming the sustainability crisis into a viable and joyfully sustainable solution. To learn this click here.

Stories and guided visualisations, involving the soul, whose nature is beingness, consciousness and wisdom, and joy. Stories are an integral part of how humans mediate knowledge and educate each other and children love and learn from and trough stories. When these stories contain metaphorical wisdom and interactive visualisations they are readily engaged and have tremendous fun, learning is deeply facilitated in their minds most constructivist phase. The technology of wisdom consciousness practices, excluding sexual reference of course, translates well into such child based protocols, which involves a natural childlike identity as pure joy, consciousness and beingness through which these narratives of wisdom are constructed. Building on this design many pedagogical lessons can be developed which bridge wisdom consciousness with the other important foundational knowledge which all children must construct in order to interact in the world. The construction of valid, useful and wise knowledge should not be underestimated at this level because our children become our world. It is therefore our duty to teach them our highest wisdom.

Meditation is knowledge through love. The practice of meditation is a fundamental tool which helps one to integrate all of ones being and all of ones life into a whole creative endeavour. The science meditation is explained in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (recommended; The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras, by Sri Swami Satchidananda (Paperback). Essentially meditation is the means by which the consciousness of the personality can be brought to a clear focus in the mind/heart and be made to reflect the soul –the non-dual energy field- achieving a realisation thereof. As the relationship between soul and personality is developed in the reflective medium of the tranquil heart/mind, a gradual fusion and oneness takes place. This is the process of self realisation and connects one to the unlimited source of peace, joy and energy within one’s own self.

Meditation is divided into 3 sections: concentration, meditation and contemplation. Concentration is the wilful focusing of the mind on an object. This can be likened to falling in love, where there is an intense attraction and the minds wilful desire is to focus on its object of love which is as yet a separate thing. Meditation results from concentration and finds an oneness of mind and object, held with in intimate, effortless will. A distinction between mind consciousness and object remains but, the oneness is perfect. This is like being in love. There is a oneness of agent and object, and the object of love is known intimately by the agent. There is still a distinction between agent and object in the same way that s/he is ‘your’ lover.

Contemplation is the effortless holding of the mind and object in unity, here the distinction between mind and object disappears and the object is ‘known’ completely as self. There is a real-isation of the subject in the object. You have become the object. This is similar to a life time of happy marriage where the two partners are so identified with each other and know each other so well, that they have lost all notion of being separate selves. If the object of meditation is the non-dual inner peace of one’s soul then one gains an unlimited inner resource in the transformation of stress. To learn this click here.

Unwisdom is the momentum and history of the undiscerning relationship of human senses with the objective world. Since eons man has tried to grasp that which slips through his hand. Has tried to render permanent that which can only change. This he undertakes because he doesn’t see the true nature of things clearly and in this lack of discernment proceeds to chase the world of sense. As he becomes attached to his possessions and they change he experiences stress and becomes angry and then sad. He then resolves not to be defeated –sensing deeply an incongruence with tragedy, as his nature is joy- and begins anew to be charmed by his senses. So is the drama of the stress of attachment and aversion woven into our personal human narratives.

VDT masters the process of identification and discernment consciously and conclusively. However the subconscious ego –the faculty of identification- still needs to be educated if stress is to be mastered. This is done by entering the subconsciousness quality of mind in order to re-cognise ones personal identifications -attachments and aversions. Then one can consciously release the sense of identification from the objects and contexts of attachment and aversion. Having detached from these one can re-cognise and re-identify with ones own soul nature; unchanging, eternal joy. This then transforms the subconscious momentum of unwisdom which is suffering, which is stress, and constructs wisdom as a new support to the transformation of daily consciousness. Due to the slow frequency of the subconscious mind, the practitioner enters an awareness of it through deep relaxation. Thus the nervous system is also retrained with an energy potency of wisdom which is the causal potency of true stress-management. To learn this click here.