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Goodwill   by Roy Posner and MSS

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On Goodwill

-Goodwill is one's wish for the best for another; for their happiness, success, and well-being.

-Goodwill is a soul-based experience in which we wish the best for another as we would for ourselves.

-Goodwill is a vibration of Goodness, Harmony, and Love, spiritual aspects and values of the Infinite Divine.

-Goodwill is a mental value believes in that is energized by our deepest emotions.

-Goodwill has the capacity to attract positive conditions, i.e. sudden good forune for the giver and the receiver.

Goodwill, Harmony, and Life Response
Goodwill is a higher vibration and movement of life. It is a subset of vibration of harmony. Harmony is an expression of life that belongs to the highest spiritual aspect of oneness of being, of all life. When we feel or express our goodwill for others, positive conditions come to them, as well as yourself.

One person felt goodwill for a business associate of his over several years. Then one day later on, he discovered that through that company he had earned by far the greatest referral fee of his life. That is the power of goodwill towards another. It raises the consciousness of the atmosphere and in the process attracts sudden good fortune from out of nowhere for the recipient as well as the benefactor.

Another individual inwardly sent vibrations of goodwill and gratitude to various clients and friends. Soon thereafter, there was an avalanche of good news from each of them in terms of sales, money, and other forms of good fortune.

Goodwill Attracts
Constant GOODWILL attracts luck from all sides. (MSS)

Eliza's Goodwill toward Jane Attracts Good Fortune
A has shown that quite literally when in Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth thinks of Jane's welfare, good fortune comes to her. When she is reading Jane's letter, Darcy calls on her at Hunsford and finds her alone. The next time when she is brooding on Fitzwilliam's information about Darcy's interference with Jane's marriage to Bingley, he comes to propose. The very act of thinking is linked to the life responses. Her novel is perfect at that level.

Sincere Goodwill
Sincere goodwill has an unrivaled power to attract positive conditions -- for others and one's self.

• Advocating an opportunity that has arisen for the other person that they might not be aware of.

• Sincere, keen interest in the well being of the other person.

• Caring and responding positively to the plight of another. 

• Deeply wishing for the success of another. 

• Taking great joy in another's actual success.

• Making an extra or otherwise uncomfortable effort that is helpful to another.

• Withholding potential bothersome information for the other person, and rather seeing what develops. 

• Maintaining a positive attitude relative to another's conditions so things may develop fortuitously for them.

• When necessary, showing restraint in getting involved in another's affairs. 

• Overcoming one’s selfishness when one could have been selfish instead.

• Wanting to and making the inner or outer effort create greater harmony with another person.

• Creating harmony between estranged parties.

• When necessary, being straightforward with someone who has acted with impropriety; i.e. doing so for the other person’s sake.

• Life itself offering goodwill (i.e. grace) due to positive atmosphere of the environment.

• Bringing parties together for positive purpose.

• Reversing from ill-will to its opposite.

• Broadcasting sincere, deep-seated goodwill from within.

• Consecrating for another.

• Being positive, pleasing, and helpful towards others.

• Enjoying the good news of another.

• Showing deep, genuine affection toward another.

• Turning judgment or scolding of another into genuine caring for their plight of situation.

• Making the effort to block any negative feelings one has toward another. I.e. the effort of self-control.

• Giving others extra attention.

• Being patient and understanding with others.

• Seeing the benefit one has received from another and expressing sincere gratitude to them.

• Trusting in another’s capacity, rather than doubting it.

• Giving other’s freedom to be themselves.

• Allowing others to contribute, rather than dominating the conversation, effort, undertaking, work, etc.

• Caring about the short and long-term growth of another.

• Seeing and sharing the value that another has produced with a wider group of individuals. I.e. broadcasting their success.

• Expressing the positive of another person to a wider group of people.

• Encouraging others when they are struggling.

• Withholding speech and letting others speak first.

• Being sensitive to another's current involvement with things, rather than barging in and asserting one's own needs.

• Overlooking another's mistake, and instead feeling gratitude for the positive they have done.

• Maintaining cheerfulness around others, so they can also feel happy.

• Practicing generosity, and generosity of spirit.

• Showing faith in another.

• Self-sacrificing for the sake of another.

• Wishing the best for another's upcoming activity or event.

• Self-givingness to the Divine will be contagious to others.

Several Levels of Goodwill
There are several levels at which we can express our goodwill, and in each case it can attract starling positive results for that person, for ourselves, or both.

(1) Withdraw negative thoughts toward another person. When we do, life quickly responds and often in a big way. This is a very common experience of many people I know.

(2) Feeling positive goodwill towards others over the short run. Very good things will come back to us (and to them). These sorts of incidents I am noticing more frequently of late.

(3) Feeling long-term goodwill for another party. I practiced that approach over several years for a one individual who ran a company and attracted a huge corporate client for that person, as well as the biggest financial windfall of my life.

(4) Concentrating inside, welling up goodwill for one or more individuals or collectives, and broadcasting it to them. Astounding positive benefit will come to them in very short order.  I know of one person who practiced this technique for several parties simultaneously in one session, and saw staggering improvements for EVERYONE within one or two days!

Referral of a Lifetime
A while back, I had the good fortune to attend a meeting of managers and consultants at Microsoft's downtown regional headquarters in San Francisco, where the focus was on their project management software. I had been to this gathering numerous times before and enjoyed every meeting. On this particular occasion, I knew that a representative of a company I had been referring business to would attend in order to discuss a variety of issues. While I expected solid results from past efforts, the report he handed me indicated that I had not only generated staggering revenues for the firm, but that I had earned a huge referral fee in return. In fact, it would turn out to be largest one-day financial windfall of my life!

In one fell swoop, I earned well over $20,000, when in the past my biggest referral fee payday had been ~$3500. Though I expected a similar amount this time, instead I garnered a 700% increase.

What happened?

For over a month, I was unable to figure out what I had done to attract this startling amount.  I knew it wasn't mere chance or dumb luck, because I don't believe in such things. Nor did I believe it happened because of something obvious or outward I had done recently. Though I am normally able to make an association between an outer result -- especially as startling one -- and the inner cause that precipitated it, in this case, I could find no obvious clues. That is, until a friend of mine helped me see the light.

It turns out that over the past several years, I have had a number of conversations with the owner of the firm -- dating back to before we had a business relationship. On those occasions, I expressed my admiration for his exceptional technical skills and knowledge, as well as his winning demeanor. In response, he offered his genuine thanks and appreciation.

But what my other friend helped me realize was that my persistent goodwill towards the owner came back in the form of that huge referral fee!  Not only was the amount large (and is still expanding to this day), but the quality of the companies who signed on was remarkable. In fact, through a series of unfathomable events, the firm was able to secure a huge contract from the biggest telecommunication firm in the United States.

As we see, when we express our heartfelt goodwill towards others, life responds with marvelous conditions. And if our concern, good intentions, and benevolence are unwavering and constant, then we can attract unprecedented results, as we saw in this episode.

One other interesting aspect of this dynamic is that the response often comes in the form of money. When we relate positively to people, encourage them, and show genuine happiness for their successes -- devoid of personal or mercenary motives -- money floods into our life.

This occurs because our goodwill puts us in touch with universal powers, including the social force that money represents. When we give of ourselves freely in this way, that power begins to flow in our direction. And when we sustain that effort over time, it comes in torrents.

That truth was never more poignantly revealed than that day when I received a referral fee of a lifetime.

Increasing Goodwill Attracts Money
Perhaps the greatest way to attract money is having goodwill to others around us as well as the situation and circumstance around us. Better still if there is goodwill in one's work. That will attract the greatest response for money to flow in. Floods of money enter your life if your goodwill flows out in floods. 

Startling Results from Welling Up and Broadcasting Goodwill Towards Others

The Miracle of Broadcasting Goodwill (in Work)
One way to attract overwhelming positive condtions is having goodwill to others around us as well as the situation and circumstance around us. Better still if there is goodwill in one's work. That will attract the greatest response for money to flow in. Floods of money enter your life if your goodwill flows out in floods. For example, a contract instructor who puts his heart and soul into a class, will see thereafter, perhaps the next day, a sudden rush in his good fortune in the form of more work, more money, more opportunities, etc.

Consider this example of an individual who used an "inner" technique to project goodwill, and the resulting positive responses he got from life as it related to money and success.

''One recent morning I sat down and concentrated in order to generate an attitude of goodwill to specific people I knew, and to aspects of work or life that I was directly related to. As it turned out, during that day I received back a series of reports of good news that related to the very things I had been concentrating on -- as well other aspects of work I had put aside because of lack of time. Here are the details:

I had been concentrating on the health of a friend who had developed diabetes, and whose ailment I felt responsibility for because of my attitude, and the pressure I had placed upon him in work. Later in the day, I received word that his blood sugar levels had declined almost back to normal following treatment.

I had also been sending goodwill to a client company I was working with, and praying that their revenues should increase. As it turned out, during the day, they closed a good-sized order that had earlier been in doubt.

But there was still more. The previous day I had asked a marketing manager at the company about the progress on a proposed collaboration with another company that could generate big dividends for my client. The manager had said he had not made any progress on the proposal for the last six weeks. During the day of my concentration, however, he reported that the other company had suddenly contacted him and proposed flying into our city for the first meeting within five days time.

There was also the senior manager of the company's Bangalore branch office, who had been badly demotivated by the harsh words and treatment he received from the company's Chief Financial Officer, which had in effect caused local morale to suffer. I concentrated on sending him goodwill as well, so that he could recover his usually cheerful, enthusiastic disposition. During the day, his assistant reported that the senior manager's mood was back to normal for the first time in a month! I had also been praying that rain should come to drought-stricken Madras (India), where drinking water is in short supply. That day it rained heavily.

Beyond these responses, there were two encouraging responses to my efforts of concentration concerning projects I had not been thinking about, but were high on my list of work to be accomplished. In the first case, I found myself seated on the plane exactly across the aisle from the head of a non-profit organization I had met nine years before. During the flight, he introduced himself and expressed serious interest in a development project that we wanted to promote but had not found the right agency for. It turned out that his agency would be the ideal candidate.

In the other case, a newspaper headline carried information that another project we had worked on to promote for the past year may now have been received by the concerned parties."ť

Goodwill Expressed Inwardly Towards Others
An individual concentrated, felt, and inwardly projected goodwill to people he worked with. Within days if not hours he got extraordinary good news about their situations, as to their health, good business fortune, etc.

The Overwhelming Power of Consciously Sending Goodwill to Others
-We can gather up our good feelings, our best emotions, and out highest intention and will towards others, and then send it out to them across the subtle plane of life. This would be a way of consciously directing our inner energies of good will to the beneficiary so that sudden and abundant good fortune is created for that individual or growth. This is the sending of ''conscious goodwill.

-As a result, sudden good fortune can come their way. people who are ill can become better or well. Projects that are delayed can suddenly become activated. Sales move towards fruition, etc. etc.

-Consciously sending goodwill to others has a staggering power to invoke overwhelming responses from life. In this case, we can directly influence the outcome of events around us by consciously gathering up our highest and deepest emotions, feelings, and attitudes, and sending them across the ether of space and time.  

Goodwill Effort Response

Within a few minutes of undertaking this Goodwill initiative, my partner (one of the target individuals of the exercise) appeared as I walked past her to suddenly grow 20 years younger, as her face shined, and she literally looked as I had seen her way back when. She then told me that she had just spent five minutes on the treadmill, something she never does (i.e. exercise of any sort). And today she said she had done 10 minutes. I could not believe what she had told me (and how she now looked).

But there was more. The next evening I was utterly amazed when in the midst of watching a TV presentation of one of British author Anthony Trollope’s stories -- a writer Appa has delved into in VAST depth and detail – my friend explained that all of the Trollope tales she has watched so far have a common aspect of characters seeing only the small Part of a matter, not the Whole truth, leading them to error and false action. (This is one of Appa’s great themes, and is one reason he has been attracted to Trollope.) It turns out that my friend rarely comes up with such original and deep mental insights, especially one of such subtle depth. Yet suddenly she now made this very astute observation, which was not only very keen, but completely at odds with her nature. As I listened to her words, I was startled beyond belief. I felt that through that one insight, she had made a great mental growth in her capacity to perceive life’s mysteries. I took it as another indicator of the Goodwill effort.

On the Sudden and Abundant Benefits of Being the Recipient of Goodwill
When you meet people of good will, there is a pleasing sensation in the nerves. Leaving them behind, you go to do some work. The work turns out to be smoother than you expected. One of the reasons for that outcome is the good will of the person you met with on the way. Sometimes we hear, "Each time I meet your brother, I see luck around the corner. What is it with him?'' Surely people who carry good will help you accomplish the work on hand. Of course, it is the true good will you have for him that activated his good will for you to be effective in your work. When you have only GOOD WILL towards anyone, whatever good will they have gets activated and results in good. To have such good will which mind is incapable of, it is better to try to shift to the Spirit as often as possible, especially when you meet with someone. [To avoid difficult or hostile people.] (MSS)

Overcoming Power Outage through Inner Effort + Connection to Positive Person of Goodwill
On Sunday Jan 1st I was walking back to A house and he called to inform me the power has gone out 15 minutes earlier. I reached his house 3 minutes later and we sat in the dark for 90 minutes. It is ironic since we have a big generator that can run all the electricals plus four or five ACs and all the houses around had power. Only ours was dark. Turns out the fault was with the generator and it was preventing the normal current from coming in! Being Sunday, and that too the 1st, I was doubtful about getting any assistance. I sat with A. We spoke some and concentrated a lot but there was no response. Then A asked me to call another devotee named V who is in a town 100 miles away but is very close to A. I reached her on the phone and informed her of the power failure. She expressed her regret and understood A is asking her to do something. After saying goodbye and before I could even hand up the phone, the power came back on.

A philosophized that when you take an exhaustive effort to move life inwardly and are unable to get a result, if you seek assistance from a positive person of goodwill, their support can bring the result. It did. (MSS)

Consecrating for the Benefit of Others

We think of life response mostly in terms of our own selves; i.e. sudden good fortune coming to our own person. But it can of course apply to others; whether one other individual, or to a collective of people  we are part of or related to. For example, if another individual is having trouble selling a huge, beautiful property in the mountains so they can move onto other aspect of their lives, we can consecrate that for them, asking the divine Force and Power to take care of it. Sudden good fortune is likely to follow for that person in ways we or they might not ever have imagined.

If we are so inclined, we can experiment and try to elicit good fortune for others. Certain basic rules of consecration will apply. E.g., the more intense the emotion we well up inside, the better.  Also, the less attached to the result, allowing the Force to move as it sees fit (i.e. THY will instead of My Will Be done), the greater the effectivity and result. I would add one other rule: The effort to help another should be genuine and sincere. The more we feel genuine concern for the interest and concerns of others, the more likely they will garner the miraculous-like results.

Throughout this site, dozens, if not hundreds of miraculous-like life response incidents have been presented that occurred through the action of the Higher Power. The overwhelming majority benefited our own person; far fewer were evoked for the sake of others. By "others,“ I don't mean our spouse, children, and families, where we stand to gain directly from the result. Rather, I am referring to more casual or less attached acquaintance, such as our friends, business associates, and people we work with.

Interestingly, it is those who are a little more advanced in their conscious evolution (i.e. yoga) that are more likely to consecrate for the benefit of others. In fact, it is often the case that the beneficiary doesn’t even know that such devotees have been working on their behalf. 

When Sri Aurobindo’s divine consort, the Mother, was in the body, she constantly directed the Force onto those individuals who expressed their concerns and problems to her. Results would then come as Grace for them, though they rarely recognized the source. If Grace was withheld, it was because of an obstinate or otherwise wanting attitude or quality on their part. (Sri Karmayogi says that now that She has retired from the body and unencumbered by the limitations of the physical being, that power is even greater as She watches over, guides, and graces her followers from the subtle plane.)

By the way, it is not necessary to reveal one’s self as the source of another’s success. In fact, in the most successful cases, the benefactor restrained himself from most if not all communication with the recipient, thereby evoking quick and powerful results. For example, in the late 1980s, Sri Karmayogi formed an international commission consisting of world luminaries in order to end the Cold War. Just as they were to have their first plenary meeting in Italy in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, as he was able to evoke Her Force. Not more than a few dozen people in the world were privy to the fact.

My favorite example of evoking the Force for others came a few years ago, where one close friend evoked powerful response for several other individuals and organizations:

“One recent morning I sat down and concentrated in order to generate an attitude of goodwill to specific people I knew, and to aspects of work or life that I was directly related to. As it turned out, during that day I received back a series of reports of good news that related to the very things I had been concentrating on -- as well other aspects of work I had put aside because of lack of time. Here are the details:

I had been concentrating on the health of a friend who had developed diabetes, and whose ailment I felt responsibility for because of my attitude, and the pressure I had placed upon him in work. Later in the day, I received word that his blood sugar levels had declined almost back to normal following treatment.

I had also been sending goodwill to a client company I was working with, and praying that their revenues should increase. As it turned out, during the day, they closed a good-sized order that had earlier been in doubt.

But there was still more. The previous day I had asked a marketing manager at the company about the progress on a proposed collaboration with another company that could generate big dividends for my client. The manager had said he had not made any progress on the proposal for the last six weeks. During the day of my concentration, however, he reported that the other company had suddenly contacted him and proposed flying into our city for the first meeting within five days time.

There was also the senior manager of the company’s Bangalore branch office, who had been badly demotivated by the harsh words and treatment he received from the company’s Chief Financial Officer, which had in effect caused local morale to suffer. I concentrated on sending him goodwill as well, so that he could recover his usually cheerful, enthusiastic disposition. During the day, his assistant reported that the senior manager’s mood was back to normal for the first time in a month!

I had also been praying that rain should come to drought-stricken Madras (India), where drinking water is in short supply. That day it rained heavily.

Beyond these responses, there were two encouraging responses to my efforts of concentration concerning projects I had not been thinking about, but were high on my list of work to be accomplished. In the first case, I found myself seated on the plane exactly across the aisle from the head of a non-profit organization I had met nine years before. During the flight, he introduced himself and expressed serious interest in a development project that we wanted to promote but had not found the right agency for. It turned out that his agency would be the ideal candidate.

In the other case, a newspaper headline carried information that another project we had worked on to promote for the past year may now have been received by the concerned parties.” 

Response of Goodwill from a Bad Man
A person who sustains goodwill toward a person who is not deserving of it because of his uncouth and wanting manner, will be dumbfounded when the wanting individual bestows upon him great fortune due to his inner effort of goodness in the face of the other man's badness. [On the other hand, too much goodwill towards someone with ill-will towards you  will only lead to trouble.]

Good Will Towards Those With Ill Will Can Ruin One
A servant girl was good at heart. Hers was pure goodness. Her mother and brothers turned against her, teased her, punished her, tyrannised her, and wanted to ruin her. The atmosphere of Grace where she worked effectively protected her against the ordeal of tyranny. Grace gave her a great marriage and wealth. Now the family woos her. One of her well-wishers advised her to help her family rise as a gesture of good will, little realising that ill will served by Good will would ruin her completely. Not only that, the family would enjoy trampling her under their feet when she fell. Family affection in the presence of active ill will is a sure self-poisoning. It is a dangerous experiment. Society lauds it. Spiritual experience warns against it. (MSS)

Goodwill in Pride and Prejudice

Also See Ill-Will