You are
blessed beings; indeed, I am that one that you know as Jesus.
The center
of your world is you. It is a very important thing for you to remember that you
are indeed the creator of your world. When you are working with this truth in
the back of your mind, you will come to understand that everything around you,
is a reflection of you, and that the collective is a reflection of all of you.
So, in your own personal journey, as you are heading to sleep tonight, we would
like you to contemplate this idea that all of the relationships that you have
contact with are generated by you. And if you have relationships that are less
than ideal, perhaps there are some resentments there, perhaps there is some
unrequited love there, perhaps there is unspoken words that need to be said
there, we want you to, instead of blaming anyone else or using anyone else as
the excuse, we would like you to understand that any situation that is not
working, is not working because there is something that you have not given to
that situation.
So, in difficult situations or dysfunctional relationships or – it can be work
related or financial - in this moment when you are relaxing in your bed without
your phone, without the Wi-Fi bombarding you, think about what you have not
given to the situation. Are you withholding, are you disinterested, are you not
putting in effort, are you judgmental? What is it that you are not giving to
the situation that you perceive as not working properly? Is there something
else that you could add to this that is loving? Any situation that you have
that is not working, is not working because it is not being loved up, let us
say.
So, when you
have circumstances, relationships, these kinds of things, that are working.
Let’s say you are a tennis player, and you are taking lots of lessons and you are
practicing, and things are going very, very well. They are going very, very
well because you are invested in it. You are practicing, you are getting
lessons from a qualified teacher, you're practicing with your friends, you are,
perhaps, watching videos on how to improve your technique. You are improving
because it is important to you, it is your investing, your energy, your time,
your creativity there.
If a
relationship or circumstance is not working, ask yourself: ‘How am I not
contributing to this situation, differently than one of the areas of my life
where I am contributing a lot of effort, a lot of joy, a lot of enthusiasm?’
When you
begin to look at situations and relationships in this way, what you realize is:
‘Oh, this part of my world is not thriving because I'm not investing in it. I really do not value it. Or I do not care about
it.’
So, this
evening, we would like you to go through this exercise, looking at an area of
your life that you are not satisfied with and asking yourself: ‘Where can I add
more energy, enthusiasm, love to this, or is this a situation that I need to
delete from my life? Is this a situation that I should say: ‘You know what, I
don't want to add any more to it, I am actually not interested in this anymore,
I'm going to back away completely and direct my energies to that which I value,
that which I love, that which I enjoy.’
Now many of
you will find that you have got several areas that you don't want to play in
anymore, that you don't want to participate really in anymore. And what you
have to understand is that you are free, you are able to say: ‘this no longer
interests me, I think I'm going to back away even further.’
If you do
this, or if you contemplate doing this this evening, listen to the arguments
that your mind brings up and write them down in your journal. Let us say, you
have a part time job that is not suitable for you anymore, you don't enjoy it,
you're not really enjoying your co-workers, you contemplate backing away,
perhaps quitting that job. Then your ego will come up with all the reasons why
you should not. You want to write those down and come to understand that that
answer from the ego, the reasons you should not quit, are in opposition to your
desire to leave that position.
So, what you
have is your mind working against itself. You have to decide now once you've
done this exercise: ‘ah, I have the feeling I don't want to do this anymore,
but I have four excuses coming up from my ego why I shouldn't quit’, because
you can feel the desire to quit or the desire to leave, you can feel that that
makes you happy when you think about that - and then these other voices come up.
This is your conditioning. So you have the feeling: I'd like to leave, that
makes me feel happy at the thought, and then: ‘Oh, but you're not going to be
able to do this, and what if they think that, and this could happen, …’, remember those lids on your enthusiasm, or
your conditioning and you want to begin to discern between your uplifting,
exciting, happy thoughts of things that you're interested in and want to do and
those wet blanket ideas that are coming from the training that you've had.
What most
people do is, they feel the enthusiastic lift of ‘I am going to change this’,
and then in comes the negative voice and they give equal weight to the negative
voice as they do to the spiritual upliftment. At this stage of your development,
it is very, very important that you begin to discern the difference between
what spirit feels like: exciting, happy, curious, adventurous, contented,
creative, enjoyable to the conditioned feeling, which is limitation, fear,
judgment, guilt, shame, concern about others thinking of you, all of these
sorts of things. You feel the upliftment and the down. What we want you to
understand is that it is time now for you to stop choosing upliftment, it does not
necessarily mean you are going to leave your job, it could mean that you're
going to get more education for your job if you like your job. Upgrading
yourself is important as well. It does not mean that a job is over, or a
position is over, because you are not satisfied anymore. It can be that you
need to go back to school for a year or you need to take a short course, or you
need to shift your hours, or you need to shift departments, or you need to work
at home instead of at the office, or at the office instead of home. But in
doing this process, you will begin to understand: ‘Ah, these negative voices
are the ones that are keeping me from transformation, keeping me from changing
things that need to be changed.’
So, once you
have listened to this video, we would like you to replay it so that you can
listen again and then do the exercise.
I am that
one that you know is Jesus. We wish sweet, sweet dreams and we speak to you
again tomorrow.
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