Calmness

Calmness is the hallmark of a successful orientation. It means a decrease of the pressure of time and the pressure to act, and it may indicate a sovereign orientation. While the lack of orientation causes unsettlement, i.e. the counterpart of calmness, a succeeding orientation that has a clear view and is able to sufficiently explore and actualize opportunities for getting by feels reassured, calmed down, and at ease. Every orientation that has succeeded calms down; and it calms down because it has succeeded. In reassurance, the need for or the necessity of orientation ceases. However, both calmness and unsettlement may cause irritations: one can be unsettled by calmness or calm, too, in the face of persistent unsettlement due to always changing situations. Thus, orientation permanently oscillates between these two poles of unsettlement and reassurance.

Balanced characters stand out by staying calm even in difficult situations; they are able to curb these oscillations (chap 3.2). To reach calmness, orientation can learn to distinguish between sustainable and unsustainable footholds (chap. 6.4) and to detach itself from the situation by thinking (chap. 9.2).

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Reinhard Mueller