You are
blessed beings; indeed, I am that one that you know as Jesus.
And the evening
time is a powerful time for the human mind. You are slowing down, the
requirements of the day have faded, and you are able to begin to relax, even if
it is in exhaustion, you are beginning to not be driven by that imperative to
move around so much to do so many things.
In your
spiritual evolution, this hour before bed should now be considered a secret
time and we once again ask you, if you're listening to this in the evening, to
take your phone and put it outside of the room, turn it off, turn your Wi-Fi
off, come back to bed and understand that you are communing with God in this
time. The ego mind is all about action, it is all about making things as it
wants them. As you slip into sleepiness, you feel that desire to let things go,
the mind, however, may have a different idea.
As you relax into tiredness, what will happen is that the issues that the ego
mind considers very important of a survival nature will begin to arise in the
mind and many of you will find that you can't turn your minds off, that there's
this repeating story, it could be about money, it could be about your body
condition, it could be about a person who has annoyed you.
So this is a very, very powerful time because you do, in actual fact, get to
see the stories that your ego thinks are the most important.
So as you slip into this quiet pre slumber state in your bed, no phone, perhaps
a nice hot lemon drink next to you, no caffeinated drinks, you're soothing
yourselves into this relaxed state, as you get into this pre-sleep state, these
stories may arise and we want you to write them down. As long as they are
circling around in your mind, it means you are valuing them as the thought represents
itself ‘I don't have enough money for rent next month’, ‘I am to this, you're
too that, she shouldn't have said that to me, that shouldn't have happened, … ‘
These are
the ego stories. Spirit does not have these stories. So, when you are on the
spiritual path and you are trying to find those beliefs that are holding you
back, that are restricting you, this is the time to do it, because they will
not shut up, they do not relax. The ego is very vigilant for that which it
decides is unacceptable or dangerous.
So, as you
go into the sleepy time, pay attention to those thoughts, and write them down: ‘oh
I'm worried about money’, ‘oh I'm judging my body again’, ‘oh that conversation
I have with my sister is bothering me’. This is the egos world, these negative
thoughts, these judgmental ideas, that will not go away.
As you write them down in your Journal …
now in the daytime you're driving to the store, the dogs got muddy feet on the
back seat, that child is crying, you've got to get groceries, the subtleties of
the ego stories are lost on you because you are so active. This time is the
time where you get to see these stories, because they are insistent stories the
ego believes and wants these stories.
So the way the ego functions is through judgment and separation, it will pick
up on anything that it can judge and it will pick up anything that keeps you
away from close and loving quarters with other people.
It can only survive, the ego mind can only survive if you listen to it and so
tonight we begin this journey of listening to it, but not in the way that it
wants you are listening to it, so that you can discern the powerful stories
that your ego has and that your ego believes are a matter of life and death.
So, when you write these stories down …, initially, as we say this, you may
think: ‘well no I don't have any bothersome ideas in my mind at al’ but as you
drift off to sleep there will be thoughts that skitter across your mind, there
will be things that the mind is ruminating on. Turn the light on, write them
down, head back down to sleep.
Now the next day you will have information about your ego's belief system, you
will have, let us say, you have had a judgmental thought, on going to sleep,
about the state of your body: it's too old, it's too fat, it's too thin, it's
not muscular enough, one leg is longer than the other and I don't like it’, whatever
it is, so in the morning, when you look at this, you say: ah, my ego believes
that my body is my value system, this thought ‘I am imperfect, I am ugly or I
am unacceptable in some way, this thought, the lies, the belief that is
underneath it, which is you value yourself for your body and its appearance,
this is good information for you to have, because as you bring this up to the
surface, you say: ‘ah, I am now going to be on high alert for a few days,
looking for this belief and its manifestations and various forms, beliefs
generate thoughts, thoughts generate feelings, feelings generate behaviors.’
So, we want you to use this evening practice as a way of bringing up onto the
table, the beliefs that your ego has about reality and then, when you see the
thought, go beneath the thought and pull up the belief. Then over the next few
days watch for the forms that that belief manifests in thought, feeling and
action.
This is how you shift and change your beliefs, you first must witness the
thoughts and feelings that these beliefs are generating in you all the time,
but mostly you are too busy in the daytime to do this, so let us make this
sacred time before bed the time where you discern these thoughts, these
feelings and then you become alert for them in your day.
So, for
example, if you have judgments about your body shape and size and you discern
this as you are in this quiet time, you make a note of it, in the daytime, in
the following days, you can witness: ‘oh I judged that woman's body because it
was too thin. What you do is you witness your judgment, you stop, and you say: ‘that
is not true, all beings are valuable regardless of how they look. This now
becomes your mantra when you hear that voice inside your head that says ‘she is
very beautiful; I wish I looked like her’ in that thought you are strengthening
the egos belief in bodies. When you catch yourself doing that, you then say ‘no
that's not true, everybody is valuable in the eyes of God regardless of what
their body looks like, we are all equal’, you respond to your negative thoughts,
judgmental thoughts about bodies with this new mantra ‘no that is not true, we
are all equal in the eyes of God, we are valuable for other things, how kind we
are ,how created we are, and in fact, God just values us for being us’.
So, this is one of the ways that you can deconstruct beliefs, you feel the effect
of them, you write it down, you go beneath the thought or feeling, figure out
the belief and then you begin to counter that belief with the truth, which is
that you are all equally valuable in the eyes of God, you are all sacred beings,
and you are deeply loved.
I am that
one that you know as Jesus and I will speak to you again tomorrow.
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