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Questions and Answers - Number Two
I
did your exercise on considering my limitations to an ideal life. However, I came up with answers like "I'm too
critical" and "I'm too
serious". Are these beliefs that I have about
my personality that I
can change? I find it hard to change one's
personality. What would
be a good way at looking at this situation?
How
you express yourself changes in each moment. In one moment you
may think you are acting "too serious" or "too critical" and in the
next you may be feeling great joy. We tend to confuse habitual
and sometimes unconscious responses and reactions with WHO WE ARE.
Statements such as "too serious" are actually judgments we have against
our expression in the moment.
Becoming
aware of these tendencies in yourself is actually the first step toward
changing them. The important thing to keep in mind here is that you
are not actually trying to change your personality, but instead you
are releasing beliefs that have been limiting the expression of your
true
personality.
Can you turn the judgment-oriented statements into statements
describing how you DO want to be? Do you have a vision for yourself
the way you would like to be? This vision is the expression of your
personality, the "real you."
If
you can't imagine what you would be like without those limitations,
that's okay too. You can begin the process just by sending yourself
love and forgiveness to these areas of yourself. Monitor your thoughts
during the day, and when you catch yourself being harsh or critical,
take a breath and forgive yourself. Give yourself a mental hug, the
hardest thing for many of us has been to forgive ourselves, often in
areas where you would forgive a stranger without blinking an eye.
Remember to praise yourself as well, when something goes right, give
yourself a pat on the back for it.
As
you get used to releasing these judgments, you'll be making lots of
space for your real personality to shine through unimpeded.
One
of the abiding problems of my life has been that I am
fearless. This has taken me into many situations
I would have been
better off without. Sometimes fear prevents
foolhardiness -no?
It
sounds like there are some judgements here about experiences that you
have had in the past. It's important to remember that you chose these
experiences for a reason, and forgive and love yourself in those areas
where they were unhappy or turned out less than what you thought they
would.
Consider
this, had you been afraid of these experiences, or if you had chosen
to focus on being afraid of them, rather than experiencing them, right
now you would still be at the stage of asking yourself "What if I.....?"
You have already chosen to have the experiences, you can now discern
from them which parts resonated with you and which parts did not. Regret
is a form of self punishment, it's a way of beating yourself up for
something that doesn't exist anymore. Tell yourself that it's okay to
love those parts of yourself, to heal old wounds and move into the present.
Sometimes
we create situations to provide ourselves with a contrast. That
is, if we're unclear about what we really want, we may create a situation
that will offer us some elements of what we like and some of which we
may not resonate with. This kind of experience will help us fine
tune our ability to really know, very specifically, what we DO want.
One
of the areas that I find most challenging is sustaining the
ability to follow through with new habits and
having these
new ways of thinking stay with me. I seem
to always fall back
to the old ways and thought patterns after "the
new" has worn
off. For me I think that is one of the
keys that might unlock the
door to very real creation. Allowing myself
to create "a new"
and have that sense of "where I am" to be real.
Maybe the old
values that I have constructed about "change"
are holding me in.
Maybe I need to know and accept the fact that
change is good,
that change will happen (even when my new habits
become
old), and know that I have the power to make
the life I want.
Beliefs
have a kind of momentum attached to them, and changing them takes a
lot of conscious effort at first, and then becomes easier as you go
along. Imagine a car on the highway. You are driving at 70 mph and want
to make a 90 degree turn, you have to slow the car down first, and then
after making the turn build up speed in the new direction. Our thoughts
can be the same way. When you change your beliefs, there is a period
of uncertainty at first that is equivalent to the car slowing down,
you hold your focus and the car makes it's turn, finally you begin to
think in terms of the new belief and the old one fades away into the
distance.
Don't
be critical of yourself when you catch yourself thinking in old patterns,
just recognize them for what they are and say: "I'm not choosing that
anymore." Then re-focus yourself on your new beliefs. (If you're
busy feeling bad about not focusing on the new beliefs, you're STILL
not focusing on the new beliefs! <grin>)
This
is actually part of the process of "becoming conscious" and then consciously
directing your energy, but it IS a process. You may want to think
of this process like any other thing you want to remember. Leave
notes for yourself to "pay attention" or to ask yourself "what are you
focusing on right now." You may even consider carrying a meaningful,
yet out of the ordinary object around in your pocket to remind you of
your new focus. Whatever works! <grin>
I'm
confused. After Lesson 4, where we can predict the future and
still create our own reality and change the
reality of our lives. How
do the two work together? Because if we can
predict the future, that
means that the reality was always there and
that you are following
your plan and hence not creating it.
Ahh,
but who is it that is writing YOUR plan? From a conscious creation perspective
YOU are. As the writer of your own story, you have the power to change
and edit it as you go along. Any path you choose is valid, but once
you are aware that the choice is yours, it's almost inconceivable not
to choose from a perspective of love, which is of course your own greatest
happiness and fulfillment.
Think
of it this way. Everything already exists in the "non-physical"
- what physicists would consider a wave form instead of a solidified
particle. So every "future" probability already exists, yet you
get to choose the one that YOU want to experience in physical reality.
When
you're trying to predict the future, you're trying to see what's "going
to" happen, and any visions or predictions are only valid from the trajectory
of your CURRENT perspective. If you change your focus, change your beliefs,
change your mind, you will experience a different future probability.
Many popular predictions today are based in fear, and are most helpful
when used as tools to becoming aware of what we ARE resonating with,
so that we can then make a more conscious decision of what we DO want.
I've
just read Lesson 4 and I have some concerns about the material.
I'm not sure if this interpretation is valid
(and I'm sure you'll correct
me), but if we can't rely on channeled information
being accurate
(correct?) in our own reality, how on earth
can we begin to distinguish
between genuine material and that produced by
charlatans for
whatever reason (wealth, power, etc). Perhaps
it's just that I'm
not ready for metaphysics!
The
only answer here is that you have to trust YOURSELF. Channeled
material isn't any more "objectively valid" than an article in a newspaper,
a story on the evening news, advice from your mother, or lessons in
an online class! <grin> If the information you're hearing speaks
to you, then that's the ultimate test of it's "validity."
As
you examine different channeled pieces, you can start looking past the
words to the "feel" or deep meaning behind all the words. If it
resonates with you, that's great! If it doesn't, simply set it
aside. Don't be overly concerned with another person's reasons
for channeling the information, as that can be more of a distraction
from listening the voice of your OWN inner wisdom, and ultimately may
not have anything to do with the "quality" of the information received.
You
may want to think of channeled material, or ANY information in physical
reality, as a reflection of you, or as a message to yourself.
What are you telling yourself right now? And what message is your
inner self trying to get through to you? It can take the form
of a billboard, a song on the radio, or the more formal shape of channeled
material or a book even.
If
you are still a little concerned, we suggest that you may want to try
your OWN hand at automatic writing, for instance, in order to get more
clear on the whole idea of what channeling really means.
In
lesson #4, you state the example of looking for a lost object several
times and then finding it in the same place
you've searched for it
before, and then said to consider that it wasn't
there the previous
times you checked. This happened to me
in a store; I went to look
for an item, couldn't find it, then I went and
got the store owner who
went back with me and then we saw rows and rows
of this item,
where a few minutes before I swore there were
none! I can't
imagine that I missed seeing all of them.
My question: Why weren't
the items there before?
The
more conscious we become, and the more we start to see that physical
reality isn't as linear as we used to assume, and the more these kinds
of "probability shifts" become a part of our experience. We are
used to rationalizing this kind of thing away by doubting what we initially
saw, "Oh, I must have been mistaken." We do this because we are
used to choosing the existing "rules" of reality over what we have experienced,
especially when what we KNOW we have experienced doesn't fit into the
old rules!
From
a conscious creation perspective, one way your experience might have
come about is that you may have been looking for what you wanted on
the shelves, and didn't see any. But you were determined to have
what you wanted, so you switched to a probability where they actually
had what you wanted. Why weren't the items there before?
To give you a chance to create them!
The
other day, John was at the grocery store and the bread and rolls shelves
were almost completely bare, as the next day was when the new stock
came in. He was looking for some oversized hamburger buns and
was disappointed. But he just walked on, picking up some other
things he wanted. In the deli section, he just glanced at the
shelves next to him and there was one package of oversized hamburger
buns waiting just for him!
You
CAN have exactly what you want, just not always in the way you may expect
it to come! <grin>
I
have read a lot of the Seth material and am familiar with the
general concept of reality creation. The
assignment for Lesson 3 has
been particularly challenging for me.
The thing is this - If any of my
friends quoted the limitations that I have set
down as my own I
would be able to reassure them and encourage
them that they were
wonderful human beings who were capable and
powerful. How it
that we are kinder to other people, even strangers
than we are to
ourselves? When do we learn this? I'm asking
because I teach a
junior school and now I'm very much aware of
how important our
interactions are in helping to create self image.
I enjoy the
continuous self dialogue and notice that at
every moment I have
to reassure and love my self in response to
my many judgements
against myself.
A
lot of this has to do with patterns of behavior that have become commonplace
in our culture - many times we have long-held and unconscious judgments
against not only recognizing our own skills, talents, and validity,
but against FEELING good and confident about ourselves. You may have
grown up with some of these patterns, having a parent or parents that
believed they had to sacrifice their own happiness for the sake of the
family. Another common one is in the Christian faith, "Jesus died on
the cross for our sins." These are two examples, if you look around
you will probably find more.
An
important question to ask is: "How do you feel about yourself in general?"
Very often we criticize ourselves over small things because there's
an underlying belief like "I'm no good," or "I'm a failure." Be
aware of this type of criticism from yourself, learn to recognize that
voice so that you can send it love and forgiveness.
It
sounds like you're already on the road here with reminding yourself
to love and reassure yourself - good job! Like we mentioned before,
becoming conscious and choosing a new path or a new attitude or way
of being is a process. Instead of a well-worn road that you can
travel almost without thinking, you're clearing a new path for yourself.
I
have a question, when I have read some lessons, I thought you were
asserting the following statement:
"The reality is only what you create" -
Wouldn't this means that other people doesn't
exists? That all the people, all the world, all is only a creation
of myself? In this case,
from your point of view, I don't exist, it's
just a part of yourself
telling yourself something, in my point of view, you don't exist,
as no
one does, and I'm just talking to a deep part
of myself, via the email,
which is only a way made by myself to comunicate
with my deep
"me". What do you think about this?
One
of the most important parts of becoming a conscious creator is realizing
that there is more to "life" than just physical reality. We are
not creatures born of physical reality, we simply ARE. We are
love... we are energy... we are consciousness.. and yet we are still
more than that. We are used to identifying ourselves with our
physical forms since that has been our focus for so long, but truly,
we are energy essences that have chosen to focus in physical reality.
Each of us exists as an energy essence, regardless of whether or not
we choose to incarnate physically. Remember that we are inherently
telepathic and that most communication actually happens more on the
telepathic level than on the physical level with word and image exchanges,
as we usually assume.
As
we incarnate physically, we translate a "perspective" of our energy
essence into physical reality based on what we are interested in experiencing.
Using the ideas of separation, which is part of the illusion of physical
reality, we can interact with "others" here. We create "translations"
of the energy essence of "other people", constructing their physical
forms according to our interpretation of their energy, energy which
exists, in essence, in non-physical form, and independently of our "personal"
creation.
When
we vibrate with a certain set of beliefs, whether we're conscious or
unconscious of them, we send out a vibration which attracts others of
like vibration. This occurs whether we're in physical reality
or in a non-physical realm (as far as we know... so far <grin>) -
it's the law of attraction - like attracts like. So, while others
DO exist, their physical constructs are your interpretations of their
energy, energy which you attracted into your experience by your focus
or vibration.
And
on the paradoxical level, while we are all individuals, we are also
all ONE, as separation is an illusion. Perfectly clear, right?
I
have a question on power. All my life, I have done what is
right and good (for the most part anyway) and I tend to
be taken advantage of all the time. For instance,
in my job
situations, once I was fired for being abused
by my
ex-husband. I came into work each day cheery,
but with
various bruises, etc. Another time, I was actually
fired for
answering the phone incorrectly. These were
when I was much
younger, but the pattern seems to repeat itself.
Just last
year, I was laid off for being TOO NICE to the
psychiatric
patients where I was a receptionist. I looked
at each of
them as an extension of myself and loved each
of them
unconditionally. I seem to be taken advantage
of alot and I
am sure some of this is due to the fact I was
raised in the
south and was taught if you don't have something
nice to
say, then don't say it :) I am a very nice and
compassionate
person, so why do these things happen to me?
Believe me, I
have done lots of internal work, but cant come
up with an
answer to this one?
And
in a follow up email:
Hmmm,
an "ah-ha" moment just occurred to me. Is it possible
that I see myself as a victim and therefore
that is what I
manifest in my life? This would explain SOME
of the
circumstances I explained in my previous email
to you, but
not all of them. Hmmm.....If this is the case,
how to give
myself back the power?
You
get what you "vibrate" - that is, you get back a match to the beliefs
that you are currently resonating with. This is the essence behind
the golden rule - "treat others as you would have them treat you" -
but we often confuse the vibration or unconscious beliefs we are resonating
with our carefully controlled actions that are fundamentally designed
to manipulate a certain response out of others, and may not be accurate
representations or expressions of what we're really feeling or how we're
focusing. (We're not judging this, we're just trying to state
this as clearly as possible.) But luckily, "getting what we vibrate"
IS a lot more accurate.
The
question to ask yourself, as you have already done, is "what do I really
believe about myself and my life?" Once we start to see our own
experiences as more than just "the way life is" or "the way people are"
we can start seeing them as a great mirror for who we are... and then
of course, we can start choosing to believe what we want about who we
are, create a new blueprint for ourselves.
You
said you were "very nice and compassionate" - the universe doesn't respond
to what we would consider "good behavior" or politeness, but to our
beliefs and vibrations about them. You also said you can love
others
unconditionally, can you also love yourself unconditionally,
in times when you may not be genuinely feeling "nice and compassionate"
and express those other parts of yourself?
I'm
comfortable with the fact that I can create anything
if I truly believe in it when it comes to objects
and
events, but what about humans. What if I want
to
create Marilyn Monroe in front of me? While
I do
agree that even the most absurd realities can
be
experienced, no matter how far away from our
current belief system, my question is really
about the
relationship between creation and human consciousness.
It is easy to fall into a solipsist viewpoint
and see one's
self as the only real point of awareness, while
everything
else is just our creation, even other people.
On the other
hand, a more tricky view is seeing every person
as a point
of awareness that can create. If this is so,
how do all
these points of consciousness interact. I can
understand
"co-creation", but what happens if there are
two who are
creating opposite realities. Does one power
over the other?
Perhaps they will each experience their own
reality, but if
that reality included the other creator, will
their both of
their conciousnesses be present in both realities
or just
one? Since I only feel present in one physical
reality, it's
hard to explain. Are some people only illusions
that we've
created, while others, with whom we share a
reality, actually
exist with a human consciousness?
Physical
reality is a camouflage reality, an illusion. It's an interpretation
of energy that exists in infinity, regardless of physical reality.
A person is a translation of "human consciousness" in the same way that
a dog is a translation of "dog consciousness" - the label 'human' starts
to break down a little here.
Earlier,
we answered the question of how we create interpretations of essence
energy as form in physical reality. Everything, whether human
or whether a rock, is made up of energy, and is conscious, although
most likely not in the way we're used to thinking of "consciousness".
Every cell in your body is also conscious in its own way and it communicates
with every other part of your body as well. We explained earlier
that we, as our cells are, are always in 'telepathic' communication
with each other. This is how we coordinate our interactions.
And we must also consider that in physical reality, we work with translations
of essence energies as well as probabilities. So the probability
that I choose to experience where a store clerk is polite to me, may
not be the probability that the store clerk chooses to experience, and
yet each is a translation of their essence energy.
This
is not necessarily an easy concept, but it's a good one! The universe
springs from and is based in Absolute Freedom, and so are we.
You can feel the truth in that statement - everything else is just an
explanation of how that's possible.
I
have a pretty plain question, which might have an
extraordinary answer it is this: Is there any
Real,
standardized method or way of interpreting reality.
If you look at religions and Thought Matrixes,
as
way's or methods, for example the psychological
view, scientific, religious exct..
I find myself in what i'f learned is the physical
reality,
but yet i am from a much less dense origin/consciousness.
Communicating viewpoints to others in more limited
realities can grant me labels such as mentally
ill, delusional
and so forth(at the same time I might have miraculous
understandings), The same as with these concepts
of
paradoxes connection and infinite posibilities..linear
minds can't grasp, the same with TimeLessNess.(which
we are in all the time)
Don't you think you'f got a-nuf knowledge to
move on
and not incarnate here again, and is physical
death the
only way out?
You've
communicated many ideas here. One of the common assertions of
what physical reality is all about is that it's some kind of school
where we must learn the lessons in order to graduate and move on.
That assertion is valid unto itself, but isn't necessarily aligned with
the idea of conscious creation - it seems that it may be more a result
of seeing physical reality is a place of pain and suffering and a "school
of hard knocks".
First,
we CHOOSE to come to physical reality because of what we're interested
in experiencing (this will vary WILDLY from person to person, naturally.)
We can't speak for anyone else, but one of the "reasons" we believe
we're here (John and Kristen) is to be IN physical reality and enjoy
it fully, while expanding beyond the duality inherent in the system
here. That is, being IN the world but not of it. In other
words, being conscious creators - identifying ourselves with not JUST
the physically focused self but with the non-physical AS WELL, achieving
the integration of those two states CONSCIOUSLY. In that way,
physical reality becomes not a harsh schoolhouse, but an artist's canvas!
End
Questions and Answers Part Two
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