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Saturday,
October 22, 2005 Session
1861 (Group/Brattleboro, Vermont) “Individual
Energy, Collective Energy, and Mass Events” “The
Appreciation Exercise” “Using
Genuine Appreciation to Dissipate Conflict” Participants: Mary
(Michael), Barry, Becky, Ben (Albert), Bonnie (Lyla),
Carl (Shani), Carol, Dale (Jene),
Daniil (Zynn), Donna (Luera), Edward (Colleen), Elise, Ella (Bella), Ester (Ashule), Frank (X-tian), Franko (Tyne), Gail (William), Hoke,
Inna (Beatrix), Jen F, Patricia (Liva), Jim B
(Marion), Jim S (Bevan), Kathy, Kaustubh (Vynule), KC (Nanaiis), Ken
(Oba), Linda (Robert), Lorraine McH (Aiden),
Lorraine M (Kayia), Lynda (Ruther), Michael
(Beauregard), Natasha (Nichole), Rodney (Zacharie),
Sharon, Stephen, Suzanne, Terry (Uliva), Veronica (Amadis), Wynn (Zai). Elias arrives at 11:38
AM. (Arrival time is 23 seconds.) GROUP: Good afternoon, Elias! ELIAS: This afternoon, we shall be
discussing energy, and the collective energies and what you are creating. First of all, I shall
inquire of all of you what your impressions and assessments or observations
are in association with the collective energy and what is being created in
this time framework. What are you noticing? FRANK: Conflict. ELLA: There’s a lot of movement out of
balance, sort of to get us to swing. ELIAS: Very well. Other observations? VERONICA: Many people are dying in
cataclysms, the reaction of the earth and the oceans, I believe, against our
practices of government and beliefs. It’s very sad and I am very confused by
it. Because I don’t want to accept it, but on one level, somewhere up here,
it is all for a good; but I don’t like being passive and I’m annoyed when
other people are passive. I want them to get emotionally involved with it. I
don’t know whether I allow my emotions... I allow them to come out, but I’m
not sure about my own reaction with regard to it all. ELIAS: Very well. Other observations? PATRICIA: Hello, Elias. I think that
people are butting up against feeling like they want things to be perfect,
like reaching for this utopia but feeling really upset and realizing they
can’t have the perfect thing, that things are what they are, and sort of
fighting against what is, somehow. It’s causing a lot of conflict. ELIAS: Very well. ELISE: I feel like there’s seeds of
change moving in many people, a calling to start creating new models and new
ways of living, and not exactly knowing how to begin those projects. EDWARD: The government’s making
cocaine... (The rest of Edward’s statement is lost in group laughter) ELLA: I would like to agree with
Elise, because me and my friend all the time also
notice evidence of the shift. It is a lot of changes, not always positive,
and I am more accepting of these change. Yes, I get
emotionally involved but I also understand that it is a choice. It sort of
feels that time is speeding up, events are speeding up, but yet somehow we
are with it. There is a lot of confusion, yes. I’m not saying things are
perfect, but yet somehow so much fun, really lots of fun. I see changes in
myself, I see changes in people around me, and I feel like I vibrate some of
this excitement because my life is changing so much now. I just want it to
continue this way, more and more and more fun, and more self-awareness.
That’s how I feel. ELIAS: Very well. BARRY: I don’t feel any changes. I feel
as I felt as a child, just things are moving, progressing. I don’t feel
changes; I feel a forward movement, no specific change. Forward movement is
not a change. DALE: I feel like I’m letting go of
old patterns, really letting go of them, like wiping my slate clean, making
choices... ELIAS: And what of these mass events? BARRY: I feel it’s a cleansing. ELIAS: Other observations? RODNEY: These mass events are involving
global responses. There’s a great deal of “how do I fit into this globally”
on the part of governments. It’s not just one government going ahead and
doing things their own way, it’s like they’re looking at how their actions
interact with the actions of all other governments. There’s a great deal of
interplay, and I question whether it was like that 50 years ago. Today
there’s a lot more questioning about how to fit into the global picture on
the part of just about all public figures, which I think is quite
interesting. EDWARD: It feels like the Earth is
trying to get rid of the parasites. I mean, the earth is what’s shifting. FRANKO: It’s not working – I’m still
here! (Laughter) EDWARD: But it’s massive. It’s not the
government; it’s like the earth itself is shaking. ELLA: I don’t disagree with you, but
it doesn’t look to me like getting rid of parasites. I don’t necessarily see
it this way. But it is definitely changing old stereotypes. So many things
are changing and sometimes that involves a drastic reaction, but it feels... BEN: But the price of gas? The whole
world is dependent upon this particular type of fuel and energy, and our
attention in this part of the world... ELLA: Wouldn’t you say this is like
swinging? Inna and I were discussing recently if everything is perfect,
you’re never going to change it. You have to have that swinging movement
before you jump... DALE: I don’t agree with that. I think
we move anyway, regardless. I don’t think we need to... ELLA: But that’s what we do to make
something change. DALE: I feel like I’m expressing many
more things much more forcefully and clearly, and so my beliefs about having
gas prices rise, I’m expressing that very strongly. But I’m also expressing
other beliefs that are totally different than that, and it’s like okay, too.
That strong expression of things like gas being expensive isn’t threatening
to me. EDWARD: But that shapes the entire
western world. We’re all based on that and like you say,
we’ve become so comfortable that we have this cheap energy fuel and now we’re
being forced to go, “Okay, there’s got to be a different alternative.” ELIAS: And who is forcing? GROUP: Us... We are... Nobody... DALE: I don’t see that anything’s
happening to me. I see me as expressing many different things. ELLA: That might be individual also. RODNEY: It’s not just in energy. I think
we’re coming up against a lot of hard choices, like this earthquake in
Pakistan. They’re making this announcement that there’s
not enough tents in the world to give to these people to keep them warm. There’s a million people out there and there’s no way that
they know how to help them. ELIAS: And what beliefs do you observe
are being expressed and challenged? BARRY: Totally the religious beliefs.
All these things happen because we have to learn to change our perceptions,
and the main perception that’s on the way out is religious belief. EDWARD: No, I think it’s the opposite!
They’re using this... BARRY: You have to understand what I
mean by “religious.” EDWARD: You know that those radical
clerics are going to say it happened to Pakistan because he’s agreeing with
the U.S. They’re manipulating the religious beliefs and fervor of these
people... DALE: Those radicals are you, and
they’re not wrong. EDWARD: I know. We’re sitting here with
our own religious beliefs. I’m just saying they’re using them. I’m not saying
it’s right or wrong; I’m saying they’re using them
consistently. BARRY: But it’s their last stand; it’s
their last ditch... (Participants begin to talk over each other) ELIAS: STOP! (Loudly) What are you
engaging in this moment as a reflection of what you are creating in mass?
(Group continues to talk) Are you listening? NO! (Loudly and firmly) You are
arguing. You are instructing. You are not accepting of difference. You are
NOT accepting of different perceptions and different preferences and
different opinions. You are expressing absolutes to each other. THIS IS THE POINT. This
is the reason that your world is expressing all of this violence in mass
events, whether it be created in association with weather or individuals.
They are all mass events that are being manipulated by you, by your energy. These are collective mass
events. YOU with your energy manipulate this planet. YOU with your energy
collectively manipulate the weather. You manipulate the earth. You manipulate
the collective energy. This is what is creating all of this upheaval within
your world. And you sit in the comfort of this information and express
precisely what you are drawing information to yourself to not express! We have been discussing
acceptance for many years, and many individuals express that they are being
accepting and that they understand. And what are you actually doing? What are
you actually expressing? Justification of yourselves, defense of your
preferences, of your beliefs, of your directions, of your opinions, of your
observations. What is defense? DONNA: Opposition. ELIAS: Opposition! We have been
discussing opposition strongly. I have been discussing with many, many
individuals the significance, the importance of balance and of cooperation –
not compromise, not acquiescing, not defending – but cooperating and
generating from that direction of cooperation a balance. I have been
discussing with all of you the significance, especially within this time
framework, of not generating extremes, and you are generating extremes. And you are not exempt
from the participation in these mass events simply for the reason that you
are not physically participating. If you incorporate an awareness of any of
these events, you are participating, for you are also creating it or it would
not be within your perception, and it is. You are all aware. And are you
incorporating responsibility? No. Are you genuinely paying attention to your
energy and what you are creating and what you are expressing in every moment?
No. Are you aware of the energy around you continuously? No. This
is the point. You may debate until what you express as the end of time and
that shall not generate any more of widening of your awareness. It shall not
answer your questions any more than you are answering them now. This is the
point, this is the reason that we interact with each other, to offer yourselves information how to accomplish these actions. You are all aware of the
importance of balance. You all want to be expressing your own freedom and
generating a balance within yourselves, creating an
evenness and a centeredness within yourselves. You all want to be
generating acceptance. You want your own freedom and your own directedness of
self. The manner in which you accomplish that is to be paying attention to
you and to your energy. In this display of this
previous interaction this day with each other, what were
each of you aware of? Were you paying attention to yourselves? No. You were
projecting your attention to another individual speaking. ELLA: I understand what you’re saying
in the circumstance of the confrontation, but when I express my opinion, I
just say what I feel... ELIAS: I am
understanding... ELLA: ...I don’t expect everybody to
accept it. I’m not offended if they don’t. ELIAS: That is not the point. Are you
aware of your energy? ELLA: You mean if I’m expressing my
opinion while somebody else disagrees and I’m being confrontational with
them? ELIAS: Are you aware of your energy and
what type of energy you are projecting? ELLA: I can’t necessarily say that I
was. ELIAS: Correct. That is the point. EDWARD: When you’re talking about this,
talking about the energy, I hear you. Since this is my last focus and since
this isn’t like a school room – like we’re going through Buddhism, and we’re
searching for enlightenment and you can only disengage once you’re enlightened
– since I don’t have to be enlightened when I leave anyway, what’s the point?
What difference does it make? You see what I’m saying? ELIAS: Yes. The difference is what you
want. What do you want? EDWARD: I don’t know – I’m leaving!
(Laughter) ELIAS: Not now! You are present now –
or rather you are not present, but you exist in this physically reality.
(Laughter) EDWARD: Are you a little crabby today?
(Laughter, and Elias cracks up) ELIAS: It is important that you
understand the point. You want to be expressing happiness. You do not want to
be expressing trauma. EDWARD: How do you know? Maybe that’s my
happiness. I’m not saying it is... ELIAS: That would be a choice, but
generally speaking the reason that you engage myself
is that you do not want to express trauma and experience trauma. Were you
choosing to be expressing or experiencing trauma, you would not be engaging
conversation with myself. There would be no point. For this is the point
that I speak with you, to be avoiding trauma and to be interactive with you
that you may draw information to yourselves in how to be aware of yourselves
and how to create what you want and how to find what you want. Yes? BARRY: Does that mean when you are
expressing your opinion you are not paying attention to your energy? ELIAS: Not necessarily. But in that
interaction, which you provided an example for yourselves of what I am
expressing to you, you created a demonstration of what we are speaking of and
what we are engaging, and that the point is how you do not pay attention to
your energy. How can you intentionally manipulate your energy to create what
you want in every moment if you are unaware of what your energy is doing, if
you are unaware of how you are projecting it? GAIL: So the energy that you’re
feeling when you’re having an emotion, you can feel yourself projecting it.
When they were having a conversation, they were projecting energy back and
forth, just slamming each other as opposed to staying calm within yourself,
expressing your opinion without shoving it outward. ELLA: I agree with you. But what I
wanted to ask you, if we could go back to that interruption when Barry was
talking about feeling that it was caused by religious beliefs and Dale and
Edward disagreed, if we could get an example of how it would be preferable to
do it. I understand what you are trying to explain, but I think a lot of
people here don’t understand. How do you say something... DALE: I noticed that at some point my
attention was on him. It was outside of me, my attention was projecting out,
and I was opposing. When I’m aware of my energy, it feels like he’s an
expression of me. ELLA: Inclusive rather than... DALE: It feels like it’s a reflection.
I’m looking at it as a reflection or some kind of expression that I’m seeing
me through. But when I moved into opposing and he became separate, my
attention was not on me at all. It was totally on him. PATRICIA: We’re in a society and we want
to agree. I think that’s something that’s happening en masse, too. We’re in a
society and we all have our own viewpoints and opinions, and we all think
they’re right and valid perceptions, and you want everyone to hear you and to
agree. We all want to agree and we’re confused as to what is correct and what
do you do with all the... ELIAS: Let me also express, first of
all, your question continues to be “how,” and the first direction in
responding to the how is to listen. You cannot listen if you are projecting.
Paying attention to your energy may be somewhat challenging initially, for it
is an unfamiliar action and many individuals are not even aware of what their
energy is. You generate an energy
field, all of you. That energy field is created by the energy centers within
your physical body, which radiate and generate this field that surrounds your
physical body. That energy is manipulated in a projection outwardly in every
action that you engage. If you are expressing any
type of emotional communication, that energy expresses outwardly more
strongly. If you are experiencing a neutral state, your energy expresses
outwardly in a much more calm and even manner. If you are generating any type
of agitation within yourself, whatever expression you generate outwardly –
regardless of tone, regardless of verbal communication – the energy that is
projected is intense and strong, and it is received precisely as it is
expressed, as opposition. There
are many, many forms of opposition. It is not merely expressed in aggression.
You can express your opinion and not be opposing of another individual. If
you are expressing your opinion from the position of sharing and
participating with another individual in cooperation with the other
individual, you are not expressing an opposing energy. You are also, if you
are cooperating, you are not challenging the other individual. You are not
setting yourself as right or that there is any wrong expression of the other
individual. Agreement is not a
requirement for cooperation. “Like” is not a requirement for cooperation or
acceptance. It is not necessary that you like an expression or that you like
a behavior or that you like a manifestation to cooperate and to be accepting. As I have expressed many
times previously, difference is the most challenging expression to accept.
You generate automatic responses to difference in varying degrees. Difference
generates an automatic threat, which generates an automatic response of
defense. Defense is one of your strongest expressions of opposition. If you
are defending in any manner, you are projecting an energy
of opposition, which is threat to the other individual – which is generally
matched with opposing energy, for you create and you reflect what you are
expressing. This is how you generate your indicator of awareness of your
energy. If you are reflecting
from another individual opposition – which may be expressed, as I have
stated, in many, many different manners – if you are receiving opposing
energy from another individual, you have generated that initially and the
other individual is reflecting. You ALL do this with each other. Every
individual that you interact with in any capacity in any moment, you have
specifically, precisely, immaculately drawn that particular individual to you
in that moment. Stranger or friend, family or foe, each individual that you
interact with you have drawn to you in that moment, for that particular
individual shall precisely reflect your energy in some manner. This is your
gauge of your energy. Difference is
challenging, but it is not impossible to accept. What is required is to be
paying attention to what YOU are doing. You may also incorporate
your physical body consciousness as an indicator of your energy. In any
moment, is your physical body consciousness being held in a relaxed state or
do you notice any expression of tension in any area of your physical body?
What are you actually doing? What is your posture? If you are interacting
with another individual and you are expressing conversation, but it is
becoming debate or if it is becoming more intense, what is your energy? Are
you sitting taller? Are you leaning forward? That is an expression of energy
to challenge the other individual. If you are presenting yourself as taller,
you become more challenging. Is your voice being projected calmly or is it
becoming more projected, louder? Is your solar plexus relaxed or is it tight?
Are your shoulders relaxed or are they tight? There are many physical
indicators that you generally do not pay attention to. Your body
consciousness offers you tremendous communication continuously. But for the
most part, individuals do not pay attention to their body consciousness and
how they are expressing. This also is an efficient indicator of how you are
paying attention if you are aware. If you are genuinely aware of yourself,
you are not aware of yourself to the exclusion of all that is around you. You
are aware of all that is around you; you are aware of the energy around you
and how it is being expressed. An example of how easily
you do not express an awareness: (points at Jim S)
what are you doing now? JIM S: I’m listening. ELIAS: And? JIM S: I’m passing some energy through
my legs here. ELIAS: And? JIM S: Beyond that... ELIAS: Listening and passing energy
through legs. And you are sitting, and you are present within a room. And
what is around you? JIM S: Nothing. ELIAS: Nothing? Other individuals, a
table, walls, chairs, equipment. And how is your energy being expressed? JIM S: I’m not sure. ELIAS: Tense and guarded. JIM S: Yes, always. ELIAS: Therefore shielding and holding
your energy quite tightly to your physical form, and also now somewhat
uncomfortable for you are being focused upon. (Grinning) It is important that you
are aware of what you are expressing. If you do not know what your energy is
and if you are unaware of how you are projecting it, how can you manipulate
it intentionally to create what you want? You do create every minute and
every expression and every other individual within your reality. You are not
always happy with all of what you are creating, but you are choosing it. How can you intentionally
choose what you want, if you are unaware of what you are doing? You may be
doing many expressions and you may be in the position of autopilot. In that,
you create scenarios and subsequently you become exasperated and question
yourselves and express, “Why did I create this? Why AM I creating this?” Were you to be actually
paying attention to what you are doing, you would know, for you would be aware. That is the point. You all want to be widening your
awareness and incorporating the expression of your innate ability to create
intentionally what you want, but you continue to allow other individuals to
steer your ship, you continue to fly your plane in the copilot seat, and
therefore you are steering without a course. Being aware of how you
are expressing energy changes what occurs around you, for you ARE creating
your reality. Therefore, being aware of how YOU are expressing energy creates
different responses. It also can quite strongly alter your perception in many
different manners. As perception is the mechanism that actually creates your
physical reality, altering perception alters reality – altering actual
PHYSICAL reality – and you quite definitely do incorporate the ability to
generate this. Express to myself what
you notice in yourselves as generating an opposing energy. RODNEY: I hear something or someone says
something and I want to express my view, and I do. This happened to me last
week, and I noticed it afterwards. They disagreed with me, and where I go in
myself is they’re disagreeing with me because they didn’t understand me and
they didn’t understand me because I didn’t express myself clearly enough. So
I get caught up in attempting to express myself more clearly. But this is a trick I
play on myself, because it’s kind of like camouflage for the fact that I’m
disagreeing with them, I’m opposing them, and I’m trying to possibly correct
their perception. So I use this judgment of myself that I’m not expressing
myself clearly enough as a trick, a camouflage, of the fact that I’m really
defending myself or trying to correct them. ELIAS: Yes, this is a commonly
expressed avenue with individuals. RODNEY: Because it seems to me that to
cooperate with someone is simply to accept the fact that I think they’re
wrong about something. ELIAS: Yes, in actuality, you are
correct. Each of you incorporates your own truths. We have
defined truths as your own beliefs that you have set into absolute,
that you do not even question. In these truths, there is
some association of preference, and in this, as we have discussed previously,
your truths are not bad. They are your guidelines. They are your individual
guidelines that guide you in how you shall behave, how you shall interact,
how you shall create. Therefore, for you individually, they are good for they
are your guidelines. They allow you to measure your behavior. They also
influence you to not be engaging some behavior, for your truths express a
preference and not a preference. There are judgments associated with your own
truths. Your truths all incorporate some element of what you assess to be
good and bad. You are not eliminating
belief systems; you are not eliminating beliefs. Therefore, you are not
eliminating duplicity. You are continuing to express your own evaluations of
good and bad and right and wrong within yourself. What you are changing is
not applying that to every other individual within your reality, for their
truths may be different. This is the element of difference. It is not necessary to
agree. You may be interacting with another individual that you do not agree
with and it is not necessary for you to alter your truth to accommodate the
other individual. It is also not necessary for you to instruct and convince
the other individual that your truth is right. It may be absolute for you and
that is what is important, but it is not absolute for the other individual.
It is not necessary to agree to cooperate. You may be expressing
differences but it matters not. The other individual may be expressing, “I do
this action in this manner,” and you may express, “I do this action in
another manner.” You may be expressing back and forth, offering your reasons
why you do a particular action in a particular manner, but it actually
matters not, for the other individual is not actually affecting you or
changing you. You continue to express in your guidelines. An individual may express
a truth that they express violence is wrong and therefore it should not be
expressed. Another individual may incorporate violent behavior – but you are
not. That is the point of your truths. They are YOUR guidelines. EDWARD: But when we become the victim of
their violence... I guess you’re going to tell me that I created that. But
I’m sorry, I’d rather not be blown up by somebody I created, I suppose. I
don’t know, there’s a very strange dichotomy in
there. ELIAS: But you are not being blown up! EDWARD: A similar situation is talking
about disagreeing about whether (inaudible) or whatever is
a nice idea. I can buy into that, but when there is extreme
violence... ELIAS: I am
understanding, but if you are not creating that opposition within
yourself, you shall not draw that to yourself. Therefore, you shall not
participate in it. EDWARD: That’s nice, okay. I’ll buy
that. I’ll go with that. ELIAS: You create the situation to be
participating in that type of scenario. You create the situation of drawing
that energy to you through the energy that you are projecting. Therefore, if
you are not engaging in an opposing or in a protective energy, it is
unnecessary to draw that type of energy to you. You draw to you what will
reflect you. Therefore, if you choose not to be in a violent situation and
you are not expressing a violent energy with yourself, you shall not draw
that to yourself. EDWARD: So I saved the whole New York
City subway because I didn’t want to get blown up and I felt really good
about it! So while I was riding the trains, everybody was safe. I don’t know
if I can... ELIAS: You already are. You already are
projecting an energy to not draw that to yourself. EDWARD: I’m happy with that. ELIAS: (Laughs) But in this scenario,
this is an example of not cooperating, of attempting to convince, not
necessarily in a violent manner but in a manner of opposition, rather than
recognizing and evaluating how is the other individual’s opinion threatening
you. ELLA: I don’t specifically try to do it,
but I do feel that I notice myself more, because I
hear you and I read about all that. But I notice and it’s very distinct. If
anybody just tries to give me friendly advice but uses “you have to do
something” or “why don’t you do something,” I immediately notice my solar
plexus tense because somebody wants to impose their truth on me. What I do
notice lately is that I also don’t try to... I used to feel upset and I now
process it within me. I turn it in a more pleasant way and the confrontation
goes away. Am I actually doing that? ELIAS: Yes. That is also an example in
which you notice your automatic response and you are intentionally paying
attention to what type of energy you are expressing. You notice the initial
twinge, the initial response of shielding or defending, but in noticing that
you can alter that by recognizing yourself, allowing yourself to
intentionally relax and evaluate what is the perceived threat. How is this individual
actually threatening you? For this is what you are responding to in defense.
You have automatically perceived a threat. Whether you think it in thoughts
or not, you are automatically responding in energy and you are automatically
engaging an emotional communication, which is expressing to you within a
moment you are perceiving threat and now you shall be engaging defense. RODNEY: I expressed an idea and the
other person said, “You’re wrong.” So energetically I feel a threat there. ELIAS: For you must be right.
(Laughter) RODNEY: For me to cooperate would simply
be to say, “Fine, you think I’m wrong,” and that’s that. ELIAS: Yes. RODNEY: But I don’t go there and I think
I have to explain myself. ELIAS: Which is another form of
defending and that creates this opposing energy, and the interaction
continues and can actually escalate and that creates a conflict. These are examples of how
you may engage that type of action and that type of energy with two individuals.
You are engaging that, and what energy is that projecting outwardly?
Opposition. Is it also expressing balance? No. Therefore, what energy does
that contribute to? RODNEY: Chaos. ELIAS: And mass events. ELLA: But sometimes I notice it only
in my head. Does that affect too? ELIAS: And that too may contribute to
atmospheric pressures. You ARE participating; you
merely do not pay attention or incorporate the awareness of how important and
how powerful one individual is. There can be no mass without individuals.
There can be no mass event without the participation of collective energy. If you are generating
opposition in your day – in your employment, in your family, with a friend,
with an individual in a shop that perhaps expresses what you deem to be an
attitude with you as you are purchasing an item – and you match that energy
in opposition, you are generating an opposing energy. That energy is not
limited to that very space that you are standing within. That energy
translates in the collective. You are all a part of the
collective energy. You are what is the make-up of the
collective energy. Therefore, the conflicts that you generate within
your day individually generate a contribution to the energy, which is extreme
and out of balance within your world. ELLA: You are teaching us to interact
with each other. What about the rest of humanity? We cannot deny... (The rest
is lost in group laughter) ELIAS: This is the point! The point is
not to concern yourself with other individuals. The
point is to concern yourself with you, for the energy that you generate
alters all around you. Therefore, you, one
individual, incorporate tremendous power. You are not always in this room.
You are not always in this forum. You interact in many different physical
locations with many different individuals throughout your days. ELLA: Does that cause ripple effects? ELIAS: Yes! Yes, and that is the point.
Paying attention to your energy ripples and is affecting, for you are
creating all of your reality. Therefore, if you are creating all of your
reality and you are creating a reality that is balanced, that ripples in
association with every other individual that you interact with. BARRY: So if you feel something here, feel tension here... Because I thought “balance” just
before you said it. Sometimes we send our awareness to our third eye, and so
there’s awareness sent to our whole field and that’s what balances us and
then we learn to do that. That’s the how, that’s what you’re saying? ELIAS: Being aware of all of your
energy and how it is being projected. The manner in which you verify is by
paying attention to what you are actually doing. As in the example – you are
sitting in a chair. What are you doing? BARRY: I was listening to what you were
telling me. ELIAS: And I may express that if I were
to pose this question to every individual within this room, the initial
response is “I am listening to you.” What are you doing? BARRY: Absorbing your energy. ELIAS: What are you doing? BARRY: I’m cooperating? I don’t know. ELIAS: That would be the answer – you
are not aware. What is your body consciousness doing? How is it being
expressed? What is around you? What is your periphery bringing as input?
Where are your feet? Where are your hands? BARRY: One foot is on the floor; one
hand is on the chair. One hand is relaxed; one hand is tight. One foot is
relaxed; one foot is tight. ELIAS: This is the point. These are all
actions that you are incorporating. It is not a judgment; it matters not. The point is is that you focus your attention singularly and you
notice merely one action, but you are actually incorporating many. Your focus
is more expanded than you are paying attention to. You are inputting
information in many different manners and you are also responding to that
input. If you are sitting in
close proximity to another individual, your energy field is responding to the
individual beside you. And how is your body consciousness responding in that
side? BARRY: I’m leaning into her. ELIAS: Correct, therefore you are
engaging an action. This is what I am expressing to you in being aware of
your energy and what you are actually doing. What you are doing is your
indicator of what type of energy you are expressing. Yes? LORRAINE M: If I were able to do that,
accept in every moment and not cause any conflict in my own in-the-moment
life, would that mean that in my reality there wouldn’t be any earthquakes,
tsunamis, war? I could create that? ELIAS: Yes, you can. That is not... LORRAINE M: But other people’s reality
wouldn’t change. ELIAS: Correct. PATRICIA: She wouldn’t know about that
because it wouldn’t be in her reality. ELIAS: Correct. LORRAINE M: So do we all have own time-space
continuum kind of thing? ELIAS: You do. You ARE interacting
directly with other individuals’ energy, but remember, you are also precisely
drawing to yourself specific individuals that reflect you. Therefore, if you
were creating a reality in which there was no earthquake or there was no
hurricane, every individual that you draw to yourself would not incorporate
an awareness of that either, for that would not be in your reality. You would
not be offering yourself that information, for in your reality it did not
occur. That IS possible; it is difficult. LORRAINE M: So if you’re a Star Trek person,
it’s like we all have our own holodeck, we all
create our own program... ELIAS: Yes. LORRAINE M: ...and when we walk into it, the
people that are in our hologram are people we programmed into it. ELIAS: Yes, but they are the energies
of all of the other individuals. But yes, you are correct. LORRAINE M: So anything they say or do to
us, we’ve created. ELIAS: Yes. You have drawn that to
yourself, yes. VERONICA: I have two questions, if I
remember them. I have a friend who is not interested in the world affairs.
It’s not important to her. Just going to work at her little job is sufficient
for her. That is a reflection perhaps to me of an attractive way to be or a
calming way to be for myself? ELIAS: In part. VERONICA: Rather than my thinking that
she’s just a totally disinterested person. ELIAS: Correct, offering yourself an example of not concerning yourself with what
other individuals’ choices are. VERONICA: My second question is, if my
perception is that we have not had cataclysms in our area, is it that our
population is less defensive and more accepting than people in other parts of
the world? ELIAS: Not necessarily. For regardless
that it is not occurring in your area, you are participating. You are
contributing energy to those mass events. You may be collectively choosing in
your physical location not to be creating a mass event in your area, but that
is not to say that you are not participating in the other mass events. The
energy in those locations is more directedly
intensified for their collective reason and benefit. These mass events are
actually generating benefit. As I have expressed, you are always creating
benefit to yourselves. It may not necessarily be comfortable. It may even be
expressed in actions and events that you deem to be painful, but they are
beneficial. Yes? MICHAEL: So really, we have to pay
attention to the man in the mirror. ELIAS: Yes. MICHAEL: Because whatever he’s doing,
that’s what’s happening. (Elias nods in agreement) KAUSTUBH: Elias, would you say that fear
is form of opposition? ELIAS: Yes, for it is an opposition of yourself. KAUSTUBH: How about situations where the
apparent power is unidirectional, in the sense that when I consider myself
with respect to government, regulations, laws, or when I have to travel to
other countries, I have to get all this paperwork done to get a visa. I feel
myself to be pretty powerless with respect to that and I work myself up a lot
in such situations. I do recognize that it is opposition, however what could
I do to neutralize that opposition? ELIAS: Remember, you create what you
concentrate upon, and as you continue to concentrate upon lack and the
inability to accomplish, you shall continue to express that. In allowing yourself to
relax, perhaps begin to alter this automatic fear and these automatic
expressions by incorporating an exercise of appreciation and acknowledgment.
If you are within each of your days allowing yourself to acknowledge some
accomplishments within your day, that reinforces your trust. It also
interrupts your concentration upon lack, for you are acknowledging
accomplishment and what you have. In that also, express some type of
appreciation of yourself in the least twice within your day. KAUSTUBH: So in such a scenario, when I’m
appreciating myself, I may still have these feelings of fear... ELIAS: Yes, but you are interrupting
that and you are reinforcing your trust of yourself, which shall override the
fear. It shall allow you to incorporate more of an expression of confidence
and acceptance within yourself and allow you more comfort within yourself.
Also practice relaxing, for tension is an automatic by-product of fear. You
automatically incorporate tension within your physical body consciousness in
association with fear. The appreciation exercise
is tremendously important and very powerful. It matters not what you
appreciate. It matters not if it is in your estimation large or small. It may
be in your estimation almost insignificant. It matters not. If it is a
genuine expression of appreciation, it is powerful enough to interrupt these
automatic responses and to reinforce your trust of yourself. KAUSTUBH: So my take on this particular
example is that I may still have to go through all the red tape, however I
will not create these twinges. I would still have to do all the paperwork but
not I would not feel it. ELIAS: Correct. ELLA: I found it helps me in that
situation, if I sort of ask myself why I feel this way. I remind myself what
you always say that I’m sort of projecting it, but in the now I’m okay. Then
the tension goes away, at least to the degree that I’m more comfortable. ELIAS: Being present in the now is very
important. KAUSTUBH: These days I’ve been noticing my
energy a lot. When I’m projecting opposition, I notice it and I try to ask
what is causing the threat in me. I do answer the question but somehow it
does not convince me, in the sense that I still believe that the power is one
way and I feel that I am powerless. I try to interrupt it... ELIAS: Correct, which
is the importance of acknowledging and appreciating, for that generates an
action that allows you to interrupt. It is not a matter of convincing
yourself. It is a matter of incorporating a different action that interrupts
those automatic expressions. DANIIL: During private sessions with
you, I guess I’m not opposing you as much I would oppose other individuals.
That would be an example of feeling appreciated and appreciating, feeling
friendly and sharing. That would be an example that I could draw upon in
interaction with others. ELIAS: Yes, you are correct. I may express, we shall
engage break and you may continue subsequently. Break at 12:56 PM. ELIAS: Continuing! (Pause) GAIL: I have a question. As we were
talking about paying attention to our own energy and what we project, I’ve
been aware of how I feel and how I project, and picking up... (Inaudible) ELIAS: (Laughs) Congratulations! GAIL: Anyway, what I’ve been doing for
the last couple of weeks is I find myself going to have massages. But I think
I’m relaxed, maybe a little up-tight at the end of the day after running
around, and I’m finding, I’m wondering, are the massages... They’re touching
points in my body that I think are relaxed. Is that imagery to myself that
I’m digging deeper into paying attention to how I feel and what I project? ELIAS: In what you are noticing in
association with the massage? GAIL: Yes. ELIAS: And your response to it? GAIL: I notice the next day that I’m
really sore from it. I didn’t realize that I was holding that tension in my
body. It forces me to pay even more attention to how I hold myself, how I’m
feeling in relation to my shoulders, my back, my legs, that I didn’t notice
before. ELIAS: Yes, which may in actuality be
an efficient exercise to be incorporating for many individuals, for generally
individuals are not aware of what their body consciousness is expressing.
Your body consciousness expresses communications to you continuously. But
unless you create some type of physical manifestation that is quite obvious
in the form of illness or dis-ease or pain,
individuals are not actually paying attention to the communications that the
body consciousness is expressing. I may express to you,
your body consciousness is even expressing communications to you concerning
what you consume in association with different foods. It shall express a
communication to you and generate urges – not cravings, but urging you. Each of you incorporates
your own beliefs concerning health, concerning your physical appearance,
concerning the functioning of your physical body, and how you project
yourself physically. In accordance with those beliefs, your body
consciousness knows what shall be in compliance with your beliefs concerning
your body and your appearance. Therefore, it shall generate urgings to you to
create that. It shall generate urgings of different foods to be consuming to
create in accordance with your beliefs. Therefore if you
incorporate certain beliefs that you may not necessarily express an objective
awareness of in relation to vitamins, your body consciousness shall urge you
to incorporate certain foods that will supply you with those particular
elements that are in accordance with your beliefs to create the physical
manifestation and the appearance that you are familiar with and comfortable
with. Many individuals do not pay attention to the physical body
consciousness, and therefore they generate creating an appearance or
manifestations that they may not want. For they are not paying attention, and
the body is responding to communicate to them what they are doing that is
contrary to what they want. In incorporating massage,
it may offer you information concerning how you do hold energy that you may
be objectively unaware of, for it has become so familiar to you that you are
not paying attention. There are many individuals that walk about continuously
through their focus and are holding tension within their body consciousness
continuously and are unaware, for it has become so familiar it appears to be
a natural state to them. Which it is not, but they are not aware of how they
are holding energy. Individuals are not
objectively aware of energy, period, for the most part. You may be aware of
other individuals’ energies and you may feel other individuals’ energies, but
what you are not aware of is your own energy, which is associated with the theme
of this discussion, as we have presented the examples in two individuals as I
inquire “what are you doing.” Individuals are not
paying attention to what they are actually doing in any particular moment.
You view the most obvious action, but none other. Therefore, you view “I am
listening.” Yes, you are listening. You are also inquiring, you are also
sitting, you are also engaging a particular posture, you
are also generating certain tensions within your body consciousness. You may
be anticipating while you are listening; you may be projecting while you are
listening. You are also inputting information through your periphery from all of your environment surrounding you. You may be
listening and you may also be paying attention to the creature in the room
and how it is moving about or if it is not moving about. Or you may be, as we
discussed previously, gravitating to other individuals’ energies but not
paying attention. There are many actions
that you are engaging in every moment that you are not paying attention to.
Therefore, you are not aware of how your energy is being projected or what
you are doing with yourself in your energy and how you may be holding to your
energy, creating shielding, creating a resistance to openness, a resistance
to intimacy, a resistance to allowance. And in this, you pull your energy
field tightly to yourself. The more you condense your energy field, the
closer it becomes to your physical body projection, the more intensely your
energy is held and the more tension your physical body responds with. In engaging massage, you
are engaging an action that physically manipulates energy and allows it to be
released. In releasing energy that has been held for extended time
frameworks, this can generate actual painfulness in similar manner to the
body’s natural release of energy. If an individual is holding energy
intensely, the individual may begin to weep and assess within themselves
confusion for they do not understand why they are weeping, for they view that
they incorporate no reason. The reason is they are holding energy very
tightly, and the body consciousness’ natural method of releasing energy is to
weep. It is not always generated in association with sadness or grief. This
is an indicator that you are holding energy very tightly. Now; in that, it is
significant for you to pay attention and evaluate what triggers this
automatic response of holding to your energy and shielding. What is
generating some type of threat with you that you are generating an automatic
response of holding to your energy and shielding, not allowing for receiving
and not allowing an openness, not allowing that
vulnerability, which generally is associated with a fear? Generally that fear
is associated with intimacy. Intimacy may be expressed
in many different manners, not merely in sexual manners. But generally
speaking, individuals are less afraid of sexual encounters than genuinely
expressing an openness and an exposure with another
individual, and that generates automatic responses of shielding and not
allowing for that vulnerability and that exposure. For even within sexual
interaction or activities, individuals can quite efficiently continue to be
shielding. They may be engaging a physical activity with another individual
but not exposing, and therefore that is less threat than genuinely allowing
yourself to generate an exposure in which you allow yourself to receive –
which is also strongly associated with religious beliefs that you all
incorporate that express that receiving is bad, receiving is selfish, and
selfish is bad. Selfish, I shall express
to you all, is good. (Laughter and cheering) NATASHA: If you are avoiding exposure –
I’m talking about sex – is the release of energy possible? ELIAS: Be more specific. NATASHA: What I’m saying is, if you are
not involved, if you are just present there and not involved and you are not
exposing yourself, is the release of energy possible for a person who is not
exposing themselves? ELIAS: Yes. NATASHA: Then what is exposure? ELIAS: Exposure is an allowance of yourself to not retreat, to not shield, to not defend. It
is an allowance of yourself to genuinely express
yourself without fear and without discounting yourself. It is a genuine
expression of openness and vulnerability. It is not an expression of
confession. It is not an expression that you must bare yourself to the world.
It is a comfort within yourself, an acceptance within
yourself that you no longer deem it necessary to protect yourself, and
therefore no longer incorporate fear. It is an expression of not hiding. DANIIL: In fighting fear we perpetuate
it, so what other beneficial habit is next to fear that will alleviate fear? ELIAS: Appreciation. Appreciation
neutralizes fear, but genuine appreciation not artificial. DANIIL: Appreciation as in appreciation
of one’s self as well as appreciation of others? ELIAS: Yes. But as we discussed
earlier, appreciation is an unfamiliar action to many of you. Therefore, it
is advisable that you begin in increments. For the point is not to overwhelm
yourselves, and also not to snare yourselves or trap yourselves in a manner
in which you are attempting to generate an appreciation and in a moment, if
you are unsuccessful, that you immediately discount yourself and perpetuate
this devaluing of yourself. Fear is an expression of
powerlessness. Therefore, the point would not to be reinforcing that but to
be interrupting it with something that can become familiar to you, although
it is unfamiliar initially. This is the reason that it is significant to
practice with acknowledgment and appreciation to acknowledge what you have
accomplished, acknowledge what you ARE doing – credit yourselves not other
individuals. Many individuals also
generate traps with themselves for they may be experiencing a time framework
in which they are expressing tremendous freedom and allowing themselves to
genuinely be expressing of themselves in association with another individual,
and they credit the other individual for allowing that. It is not a matter of
the other individual has allowed you to express yourself. It is a matter that
YOU have created a scenario with another individual that you have allowed
yourself. It is YOUR credit not the other individual’s. You have created
that. ELISE: Kind of going back to something
we were speaking about before, as we become more aware of what’s happening
within us at any given time and our capability to do that increases, there’s
talk about human beings are multi-dimensional and experiencing on many
different levels, and so does this just keep going on? As you master this
awareness then whoosh, then there’s a whole other realm after that, where
you’re more aware of yourself, possibly? You’re experiencing your different
lifetimes consecutively, that multi-dimensional aspect...? ELIAS: Quite definitely. ELISE: Is this sort of the first step
on that path? ELIAS: As you continue to widen your
awareness, yes, you can quite definitely tap into other focuses of yourself,
that which you term to be other lifetimes, past and future. You can also tap
into other-dimensional focuses. You are not merely
expressed in this one physical dimension. There are countless physical
dimensions that you also participate in and incorporate focuses in those. As
I have expressed previously, individuals that encounter extra-terrestrials
are encountering other focuses of themselves. Therefore, you allow yourself
to physically meet another you of you. The vastness of essence
is beyond explanation. You are one focus of attention of essence that is
physically manifest in this particular time framework, in this physical
reality. There are countless yous within countless
physical realities, and you incorporate many, many focuses of attention in
this physical reality and in nonphysical areas of consciousness. You are
incredibly vast expressions. RODNEY: Elias, in developing a sense of
appreciation, which I find I’m not too familiar with, it’s one thing to say
thank you or to express thankfulness for one’s self... Let me give an
example. Let’s say I prepare a meal and the meal is quite good and I enjoy it
a great deal. Instead of just thanking myself for preparing a good meal, is
my enjoyment of that meal an expression of appreciation? ELIAS: Yes. RODNEY: That helps. Thank you. EDWARD: Jealousy ties into fear, right?
Jealousy becomes that multi-dimensional part of fear, because you’re
projecting out jealousy either of another human being or possessiveness or
you’re jealous of somebody’s success. It’s part of fear, right? ELIAS: Yes, you are correct. EDWARD: How do you fight that? Is it
back to appreciation, like you appreciate yourself then and realize you’re
doing just fine? ELIAS: Yes,
and also evaluating what is the perceived threat. What do you perceive the
other individual is doing to you that generates that
expression? For the other individual is not doing to you. You are generating
those responses within yourself. You are doubting
and skeptical and untrusting within yourself, and what you do is project that
outwardly and focus it upon another individual and therefore express the
suspicion and the doubt with the other individual. That is also associated
with your truths and your guidelines, for if the other individual is engaging
what you incorporate in your suspicion, you are already projecting an
expectation of the other individual – which once again is another expression
of threat, which is opposition – but in that, you are projecting your
absolute to the other individual. You would not engage in certain actions and
therefore you generate an expectation that the other individual will not
either. In this, if the other individual is not compliant with your
expectation, that can trigger jealousy. But as I have stated, it begins with
you, your truths and projecting your truths to another individual and
generating the expectation that they shall absolutely comply with your truth,
not allowing for difference. In this, individuals at times
may generate this type of situation to offer themselves
information concerning what they are projecting and to allow them the
opportunity to become familiar with what their truths are, objectively
recognizing “my truth is I shall not be engaging an action of infidelity, but
I also expect that my partner shall not either.” This is an absolute. This is
information to you concerning your truth, which is not bad, and the other
individual is not engaging an action hurtful to you. What becomes hurtful is that
it is not a compliance with your truth, and therefore you generate an
automatic association that you cannot express yourself freely any longer. As example, if your truth
concerns fidelity and your partner is not expressing fidelity, that
challenges your truth. They are not complying. They are not complying with
your expectation. In that, you experience hurt, for now you automatically
express to yourself a denial of yourself. You cannot freely express with this
individual any longer. You cannot express your appreciation with this
individual any longer, for they are not complying with your expectation;
therefore, it is a denial of your choice and that is what generates hurt. When you are denying your
own choices and your own freedom, that creates hurt within you. The other
individual and their actions and their choices are not what is creating the hurtfulness. It is your own denial of your
own freedom and your own choices, preventing yourself from the continuation
of expression that you want to express that creates that hurt within you.
That hurt can also trigger opposition, which can be expressed in the form of
jealousy. ELISE: So in other words, we have the
choice to change our own personal guidelines at any point in order to create
freedom for ourselves. ELIAS: It is not necessarily a matter
of changing your guidelines but recognizing that each of your guidelines
incorporates many different influences. The freedom lies in recognizing the
different influences and incorporating the allowance of yourself to choose
different influences, rather than incorporating the automatic response that
infidelity is bad and that automatically means that the other individual does
not appreciate me, the other individual does not love me, is not expressing
loyalty to me or they would not be expressing in this manner. That is one
influence. Another influence may be,
in actuality, you yourself may not actually want to be engaging certain
activities with your partner continuously, and therefore your partner is
receiving that energy and may be seeking outlet in other directions, which
alleviates pressure with you. Another influence may be
that the individual is not expressing that they do not love you or that they
do not appreciate you, for that is not necessarily expressed in certain
actions. They are not absolutely associated with an expression of love. It is
not absolutely expressed in intimacy, either. Sexual activity can be
associated with love. It can be associated with sexual activity, but intimacy
is not synonymous with either of those expressions. Therefore it is a matter
of perception, once again, and what influences you are allowing to be
expressed in automatic response to the actions and choices of other
individuals, and concerning yourself with the actions, behaviors and choices
of other individuals rather than paying attention to what you are doing and
manipulating energy in the manner that you want. For as I expressed
previously, you can create and do create all of your
reality, and you can be interactive with another individual. What you are
interacting with is their energy; you are not actually interacting with the
physical individual. That is your own creation. That is your projection. You
receive the other individual’s energy, you thusly
automatically project it and configure a physical form. YOU do that. You
interact with that physical form that you are creating. You are interacting
with the individual’s energy, for the most part. At times, you may be
interacting with an energy deposit of the other individual, which does not
necessarily contain the attention of the other individual. In those
situations, you may notice that you and the other individual are
participating in the same physical location, in the same interaction, and
your perception of it is in one direction and the other individual
incorporates an entirely different account. This occurs more frequently than
you realize. You each are individually
creating all of your reality. There is no one official reality. The official
reality is what each of you create. In that, one
individual may be creating one scenario and the other individual is creating
a different scenario, which in actuality is quite efficient, for it is very
validating and acknowledging of you that you actually can create whatever you
want regardless of the other individual. And you can participate
with another individual. In this example, you may create that your partner is
entirely faithful in your terms, and in your partner’s reality, they may be
interacting with many other individuals. This is not a situation of denial.
This is not a situation of being what you term to be oblivious. This is an
actual situation in which you are creating two very different realities, but
you are continuing to participate with each other. Therein lies
your freedom. You can create whatever you want, regardless of any other
individual within your physical reality, for you are
already creating all of it. ELLA: Based on what you said, I
suspect that in my interaction with my son, I get his energy deposits and
that’s all. (Laughter) That’s what it feels like. Inna and I were talking
recently about what we in this society term as love, and it seems that a lot
of times what we term as love is possession. It’s a lot about possession.
I’ve got you here, you’re mine. I think in the not-so-far future, monogamy as
it is will not exist. Economically it was useful, but as we progress and we
become more open in our relationships... ELIAS: It is a choice. It is not an
absolute. For individuals that you perceive in future, it is a choice. They
may choose to be coupling together singularly or they may not. ELLA: But the choice will not be
dictated by society or government. It will be your choice. ELIAS: Correct. ELLA: You will decide for how long you
will stay with this person... ELIAS: Yes, for you are directing
yourself. ELLA: No one will tell you you must sign on the dotted line or else. ELIAS: Correct, and also as I have
expressed previously, the definition of love is not associated with emotion.
Love is a genuine expression of knowing and appreciation. You attach
affection to love and many times you equate or define affection as love, but
that is not a genuine expression of love. Love is genuinely a knowing and
appreciation. ELLA: The difference between
appreciation and affection is that affection is unique about a person and
appreciation is allowance? ELIAS: No. Affection is a genuine
expression. It is an emotional expression. Affection is a signal, a feeling, that is associated with an emotional
communication. Affection is associated with attraction, and in that, it is
also associated with preferences. It is a feeling with an emotional communication.
Appreciation is not an emotional communication. ELLA: If I appreciate you, don’t I
feel good about you? That is an emotion. ELIAS: You attach the affection with
the appreciation and therefore you feel. ELLA: So from where you are, you don’t
experience emotions, and you can still appreciate us for what we are. ELIAS: Quite, yes. But remember,
emotion is a very powerful communication within you and it is also a basic
element of your reality. Therefore, it is natural for you to express and
associate feelings and emotional communications with many of your
expressions. ELLA: I’d like to ask you more about
self-appreciation. I had an experience where for almost an entire week I had
a sensation that there was a cloud of energy around me. It felt very sensual,
like all of my body was aware of itself and it felt very pleasant. I was
trying to figure out whose energy it was. Eventually I thought it was
probably my own energy but that I was more open to it, that I was more
willing to play with it and allow it. Then it just turned off, but I figured
out I could probably turn it on. It’s energy coming from
the back of my green energy center, and I don’t understand how to relate to
that. I could turn it off but I can’t turn it on full speed. So I started
opening up to my own energy, but...? ELIAS: And offering yourself an
experience that offers you an example of what is possible and that you can
generate this if you are generating... ELLA: But why did it stop like that?
Did I stop it, did it overwhelm me or why? ELIAS: Not necessarily to not overwhelm
you, but moving into the familiar once again in not entirely paying attention
to yourself. ELLA: I know when it shut off. It’s two months later, but I remember a situation where I
generated a lot of tension and I was out of balance, maybe. It just went out
like that. ELIAS: Yes. SHARON: Earlier when you were talking,
you asked us do we know what our energy is. The “is,” is there an adjective
for the is? When you say do we know what our energy
is, do you mean is our energy positive or negative, is it cooperative, is it
oppositional, is it intrusive, is it timid, is it gentle? When you say what
our energy is, what is the “is”? ELIAS: All of those expressions and
more, all of those identifications and also what you are doing, for your
energy is being expressed in what you are doing. Therefore, all of those
expressions would be associated, and also what you are physically doing and
what you are concentrating upon, not necessarily thinking. Your concentration is
centered in association with beliefs. The manner in which you understand what
you are concentrating upon is in paying attention to what you are doing, for
what you are doing within your day is associated with what you are concentrating
upon, which beliefs are being expressed. Therefore, paying attention to what
you are doing is your indicator of how you are expressing your energy, and
all of those identifications are also associated with what you are doing. JIM B: Elias, you have to pay attention
to what you’re doing and you say this is unfamiliar so it’s hard to do. If
you concentrate on what you’re doing all the time in the day, you’re
literally paying attention to every step you’re taking in every second, every
minute. So you’re doing that, rather than paying attention to things around
you that you say we’re doing on automatic response anyway. ELIAS: It is not to the exclusion of
all that is around you, for that is an element of you. Therefore, it is a
matter of not merely paying attention to your physical expression but also
all that you are creating around you. JIM B: You’re creating everything
around you but the decisions you make and the beliefs you have. So if you try
and concentrate as you go along, or at least pay attention to what you’re
doing, then you should be able to objectively create your world. You’re doing
this when you’re trying to decide what to eat because you’re either on a diet
or you want to be careful that you don’t eat certain things because you have
a medical condition and so forth, so you wind up eating the things you
shouldn’t eat anyway, even though you’re paying attention. You’re trying to create
your reality objectively, but many of us go off on what you call automatic
response. But you’re saying you don’t really have to concentrate on “I’m
picking this up, I’m moving this, I’m doing this.”
It’s hard to concentrate on what you’re doing in a minute manner is what I’m
saying, and you’re saying to do it in a more expanded manner. ELIAS: Both. In
paying attention, even in one day, to every action that you incorporate and
how your energy is reflecting and how your energy is being projected in EVERY
MOMENT of one day, I express to you, you shall offer yourself considerable
information concerning what you do not pay attention to and what influences
other actions and scenarios. What you generate in each
day repeatedly is what creates the avenue to generate events that confuse you
and that you do not like and that you do not want. But you are moving in
those directions in each day and not noticing the mundane, what you term to
be insignificant actions repeated over and over, which express a particular
type of energy, which creates a direction of reinforcing certain actions
continuously. Therefore, they gain momentum and eventually you create an
event that you do not like or that is unwanted. And you sit and you
express to yourself and to other individuals why did I create this? How did I
create this? Why would I create this? And you are stuck with no response, for
you have not been paying attention to all these repeated actions that you are
incorporating that are associated with expressed beliefs that you are unaware
of objectively. This is the reason that it is important to be paying
attention in each day to all of what you are doing. That is your indicator of
your energy. JIM B: At the same time, your beliefs
form your reality. I know people who know that every time they take a
cigarette and smoke it, in their mind they’re doing something bad for their
body. They’re paying attention to what they’re doing but they can’t stop it.
There’s part of them that can’t do it. Even though they are focusing on what
they’re doing, their mind is saying I shouldn’t do this, this is going to be
bad for my body – even though, theoretically, if you didn’t believe that, you
could eat rocks and it wouldn’t hurt you. EDWARD: Wouldn’t that explain people who
get cancer and who don’t? JIM B: People who don’t get cancer even
if they smoke? ELIAS: And there are individuals that
generate that. That would be associated with each individual, and not merely
their beliefs but also their value fulfillment and their choices of what they
are choosing to create. Individuals choose dis-ease;
they are not attacked by it. VERONICA: Elias, I was consciously walking
and unconsciously fell, tripped on concrete. I inflicted tremendous pain on
my body. Would that serve any positive goal other than concentrating on myself, which I wasn’t doing sufficiently in the past? ELIAS: That is significant in itself.
Many times individuals generate discomfort for you will pay attention to
discomfort and you will question, and therefore you also generate an
opportunity to offer yourself information. If you are moving through
your focus in the seat of the copilot for the most part and there is no pilot
flying your plane, you are moving about within your focus unaware. What shall
jar your attention? An interruption, a significant interruption, and a
significant interruption is generally some action that you shall create that
is uncomfortable. For you generate an automatic response to discomfort in “I
do not like this, and I shall attempt to discover a means or a method to fix
it or to avoid it or to change it.” Therefore it becomes motivating. KAUSTUBH: If you were paying attention all
the time, then you would not be creating uncomfortable situations, like for
example after the shift? ELIAS: At times, but it shall be a
choice, an intentional choice. For contrary to what you think, individuals
actually do appreciate moments of pain. Individuals actually do appreciate
moments of distress or sorrow or any of the feelings and experiences that you
term to be negative, even anger, for it generates an element of spice. It
generates an avenue in which you actually experience the existence of
yourself, the presence of yourself. Therefore, subsequent to
the completion of this shift, shall there be no conflict, shall there be no
pain, shall there be no distress? No. For
individuals choose to incorporate these expressions and experiences but it shall
be an intentional choice. ELLA: That sounds very weird – today
I’m going to have a sad day. ELIAS: And perhaps you shall.
(Laughter) ELLA: So we choose that now but we
don’t realize it. It comes to us... ELIAS: Unintentionally. ELLA: And then you get surprised. To
choose that ahead of time, that sounds weird. KAUSTUBH: But after the shift we will have
surprises. ELIAS: Oh definitely, yes. I shall incorporate two
more questions. BONNIE: Elias, you talked about
dissipating fear by using appreciation. Do you have a suggestion about how to
dissipate an argumentativeness or an opposition that
you feel rising? ELIAS: The same, appreciation. In the
moment that you are experiencing that rise within yourself and you are
beginning to generate a conflict with another individual and you feel
yourself becoming agitated and judgmental and are moving into that
argumentativeness, allow yourself momentarily to disappear the other
individual. They do not exist momentarily. Turn your attention to you and
evaluate what the threat is – why you are being argumentative, what is
motivating that, what are you attempting to instruct or prove? Allow yourself
to appreciate some element within yourself, regardless of what it is – that
your hair may wave in a particular manner in that moment. It matters not.
Reappear the other individual in your perception, which you may generate this
action in merely a moment. Once you reappear the
other individual, move your attention to an appreciation of any element of
that individual, regardless of what it is. Perhaps you appreciate a button
upon the other individual’s shirt; it matters not what it is. The expression of genuine
appreciation itself interrupts aggression and it interrupts your attention.
It immediately alters the energy. It immediately alters your energy; it
immediately alters the other individual’s energy also. BONNIE: Thank you. ELIAS: You are very welcome. GAIL: When I’m around people and I
pick up how someone’s feeling, is that me projecting that feeling and I’m
just picking it up as that person’s feelings? ELIAS: Yes and no. You are actually
interacting with other individuals’ energy. Therefore, you may be receiving
the actual expression of the other individual, but you also have drawn that
individual to you specifically in that moment to reflect some element of
yourself. GAIL: It can be both? ELIAS: Yes. (Looking into the audience)
And yes? Very well. LORRAINE M: Kind of in conjunction with what
we were talking about earlier, I don’t want to go to work. I’m sure there’s other people who feel the same way. But I go to
work and I’m really unhappy there. I know that I believe I have to work to
have money, so in kind of keeping with what you said earlier, is there
something I could do to change that, more like appreciating the job I have?
Is it a matter of appreciating what already is? Will that change the
situation? ELIAS: Partially and also allowing yourself to incorporate a different perception. Rather
than viewing or incorporating the perception that your employment is a chore
and work, allow yourself to engage imagination and create the employment as a
game. Express your creativity. The actions and the tasks that you incorporate
in your employment, configure them in a manner that becomes a game and fun
rather than a chore and work. That allows you to interact with your
employment quite differently and it also reinforces or encourages an
appreciation of what you are doing. Very well, my friends! I
express TREMENDOUS appreciation for each of you and encouragement that you
express it of yourselves also! I offer to you a genuine energy of
encouragement in all that you are engaging and an encouragement of your
success in paying attention to your energy. As always, I offer my energy to
you all, which is always available. In great lovingness, in great
acknowledgment, in great friendship to each of you, au revoir. GROUP: Au revoir,
thank you. Elias departs at 2:51 PM. Previous session | Go to the top | Next
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