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Centering Ourselves
and our Energy Fields, Making Conscious Decisions
It is also useful for you, at this
time, to recognize, center, and contain your own energy fields, particularly
when you are in the presence of others. You are learning to recognize
when these energy fields, which are not yours, begin to intrude upon,
or move into, your own. It does not require forcefulness on the part of
your behavior to set this right. Indeed, you can be gentle, both with
yourself and with others. But it does require that you close your own
energy field to their intrusion.
Again, levels of boundary, energetic
and physical, emotional and tangible. You were able to observe quite clearly
competitive patterns and energy events at your Saturday gathering. Now
we ask you to be aware of your own interaction with these. To make conscious
decisions about your own energy and your own behavior. While moving through
the process you have been able to observe how the various interactions
work. Now you will allow yourself the next step of making choices rather
than simply being swept up in the event. Now you become the active participant
as well as the observer, making definitive choices, both in how and with
whom you exchange energy.
Be more clear within yourself in those
moments when you observe patterns in others which no longer interest you
or which you find distracting or counterproductive. Withhold your energy
at these times. Simply gather it back to yourself, and remain still. Then
you may choose whether or not to engage or remark directly regarding the
process and patterns you see before you to those involved in them. Frankly,
often it will not be worth your time. For people attached to energy patterns,
played out in personality dramas, are no less powerful than you. They
are simply making different choices. And it has never been your job or
your role to change their choices. Your role is simply to be the example
of your own choices. And in their way, they provide you with insights
as to where these choices still operate in your own lives.
And you will notice, if you look on
the events of the last 48 hours, that not only did you receive the information
regarding where these energies were operating in your lives, but you have
already begun to take the actions necessary to make changes. So we remind
you that it is not about judgment of others, it is always about discernment
for the self. Use the information you are given and you can't go wrong.
The trust that you have developed in yourself is sufficient at this time
to guide you. All you must do is ask yourself the relevant questions and
apply the information given. And while it may be more exciting or adventurous
to pretend that there are great mysteries, it is more practical to allow
that there are not and simply use the information you have. Remember,
after all, that it has been your choice to learn, to know, to access the
information in the first place. Stand by your choice; it is a good one.
And in those places where you are
uncertain or unclear as to the details of how, for example, you affect
changes in physical reality, extend your knowing and explore new information,
explore new ideas, and extend an acceptance that you do know intuitively
the way in which the processes work and this intuitive knowing will lead
you not only to successful creation and manipulation of physical matter
but to conscious awareness in a more direct fashion of how it is achieved.
It is not so difficult a process to ask yourself where you are headed
and to discern the implications. Ask yourself where you are in the moment
and acknowledge the implications. For where you wish to go is in direct
relationship to where you are and so it is not hidden from you, just as
the nature of where you are is not hidden from you.
Take the opportunity to observe the
evidence of your own experience and use the information to your advantage.
Remembering in the process to be gentle with yourself and that self-acceptance
is the higher order. It does you no good to condemn yourself. This is
simply another form of resistance. So allow all experience with the understanding
that the information contained within the experience provides you more
and more of what is needed for absolute freedom. Not through judging the
self, but through acceptance and observation which makes room for new
choices. Again we tell you to scale the wall and walk the narrow path
of perception and discernment without slipping to the broader road of
judgment.
Discernment and acceptance, a willingness,
an eagerness to learn and change, a direct seeking of your own evolution.
These will always lead you where you want to go. And the further you progress
along this path, the more easeful your experience of it. Each time you
accept a challenge closer or a pattern older or more firmly established,
you seem to move through a period of relative discomfort, dis-ease, in
comparison to where you have been it seems just moments before. But in
each moment in which you accept the challenge and move through it with
discernment and self-acceptance, you lighten your load. And so the returning
ease is larger, broader, more closely aligned with your moment experience.
Act of Creation,
Utilizing Feeling, "Hard Work"
Today we will speak about the act
of creation. From your understanding, this is caused by the bringing together
of form and energy. It is a simple process, really, but one which has
been crowded by impediments in your culture: the impediments of rational
mind and backward thinking. Therefore our best advice to you is to remember
simplicity of feeling, strive less, be more.
For it is your tendency to look for
solutions for problems, your tendency to take apart into smaller and smaller
pieces, your tendency to analyze and dissect which causes you your greatest
difficulties. In the larger scheme of things, by remaining in your acceptance
and ease, you bring forth with simplicity and directness the natural elements
of your own creation. In some ways you could say that the purest creation,
the simplest form of it, is observable in the mind of a child. For a child
has not been taught the obstacles which are considered as facts by the
rational mind. And to the extent that the child still dwells in the realm
of magical thinking, the ability to move into acceptance is significantly
higher.
In the meantime, having a fully equipped
rational mind, what do you do? The first thing, of course, is to continue
at all levels, to remind yourself of the acceptability of whatever it
is you are choosing to create. By acceptability, it is meant, a basic
acceptance that what you seek to create is possible, in fact likely, or
probable. This has nothing to do with laws of physical reality as you
know them. In fact it has nothing to do with anything other than the inner
perception of the creation. It is not an 'in relation to' type of event.
So what we are saying is, when you simply accept the creation as a part
of the larger picture of what is, regardless of whether or not it has
actually appeared yet, you substantially reduce the impediments.
The next step, is to hold, gently
in your mind, the idea of the completed creation. The easiest way to learn
to do this is to think of something that already exists in your creation,
observe how it feels to you, and bring that same feeling to the new creation.
Again, this is a psychological perspective.
The next thing you must do is disarm
the rational mind's objections. This can be accomplished in a number of
ways. By reminding the rational mind or ego of its role as observer you
reduce the power of any objections it may have. By reminding the rational
mind or ego of past events which have demonstrated your creative ability
you give the rational mind evidence and ammunition for acceptance. And
finally, by relinquishing any need to control HOW or WHEN your creation
arrives, other than to know it arrives in its own perfection, you free
the creation itself from the restrictions of rational mind.
It is quite right to understand that
between the moment of idea conception and the moment of manifestation,
which you are experiencing, is a collapsing envelope of time. You are
within that spacious, evolving experience. If you pay close attention
to your experience of linear time, within this process, you will see opportunities
to divest the rational mind of old habits and empower the magical self.
It is your steadfastness to an idea and simultaneously your ability to
release which brings the creation into being. By examining those areas
where the magic appears to move easily and freely, you give yourself the
opportunity to experience the psychological standpoint and feeling essences
of your own creative power.
Above all, it is a process of ease.
It is a process of relaxed though highly focused and charged feeling.
While this seems to be a paradox, it is also not a paradox. For you will
notice in your beingness, when you are so joined with what is in front
of you, that you achieve this state, in some cases, with significant regularity.
For some of you, you can easily connect with these ideas through observing
how you interact in your chosen field of recreation. From physical sport
to artistic endeavor. It is like the movement of finely tuned and beautifully
crafted music, which has the ability to transport you and which is perceived
as full of ease and grace.
It is wise to remember when you enter
into this process of conscious creation that it is not a process of work,
in the terms of your culture. The process of work, according to your culture,
is much more highly aligned with the rational thinking, effortful, ego-mind.
This is not about sweat. And for some of you, this will be the greatest
obstacle, for you have trained yourselves and been trained by your culture
to believe in the idea of hard work. And in the process of moving to living
more spontaneously, to living more impulsively, to living more naturally
out of your own beingness, you will find your attachment to hard work
to be persistent. This is not in itself a difficulty, particularly if
you derived pleasure or joy from the direct application of yourself in
this manner. The difficulty arises when the impetus for the hard work
is a drivenness, when the impetus is a lack of trust, lack of FAITH, or
sense of doubt. Unfortunately, most of you have precisely these connections
in your psychological structures so that hard work becomes the antidote.
Hard work is your ace in the hole. If all else fails, you can work hard
and accomplish your goals anyway. But this position maintains a belief
that you cannot accomplish without hard work.
Ultimately, it is not enjoyment of
hard work but fear of rejecting hard work that creates your difficulty.
You have only to look at some of your cultural sayings to have a clear
understanding of this problem. "Laziness", "Slothfulness", "Impulsiveness",
"Spontaneousness", "Lack of Reliability" - all of these are the cardinal
sins of the hard work culture and yet it is only through exploring these
and the trust of yourself in the process that you can become free. Recognize
that movement into more spontaneous living, that dedication to the principle
of following your impulses is a highly creative act in itself. For it
recreates your life experience and in doing so, gives you the opportunity
to make significant changes in your belief systems, your attitudes, particularly
about the self, and your thought processes. By allowing yourself the opportunity
to experience the self, in these larger and larger unrestricted ways,
you develop a repertoire, a knowingness, which has previously been unavailable
to you. It is out of this knowing that the new creations can be born.
By relaxing your grip on reality as
you know it you provide room for new and expanded experiences. Ultimately
the steps that you take will provide you with everything you need and
all you must do is acknowledge your observations along the way. It is
by changing your reference or point of focus, by giving more credence
to your intuitive and impulsive events that you empower the self, to bolder
and bolder creations. Remember in this process that the antithesis of
hard work in the old culturally acceptable sense is gentleness with the
self. And it is this gentleness that you seek. Hard work and highly focused
motivated action are not necessarily the same thing. Highly focused motivated
thought, for that matter. The further you travel along this path of self-exploration,
self-acceptance, and expanded awareness, the more these distinctions will
become clear to you. And the easier it will be to set about intentionally,
consciously creating your experience.
Remember as you move through the process
that all of your experience is your creation, so that any event, moment,
experience, etc., can be a tool to your greater understanding, when you
begin to unlock the puzzle of the psychological structure behind the creation.
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