Participants: Mary (Michael) and Gillian (Ari)

ELIAS: Good afternoon!

GILLIAN: Good afternoon, Elias. It’s been a long time.

ELIAS: And what shall we discuss?

GILLIAN: All my manifestations of late. I’ve been creating quite a deal of, I would say, trauma. I would call it trauma, and anxiety, isolation, physical manifestations of feeling ill with cough and cold. So, I would like to really discuss that. But first, I’d like to know more about why I’ve created this isolation and lack of wanting to be in touch. I’m normally a very interactive person, but I have had no desire to interact lately.

ELIAS: For you are immobilizing yourself.

GILLIAN: I am.

ELIAS: In this, you are not acknowledging yourself, and in not acknowledging yourself, you are creating an energy of opposing with yourself, and that blocks imagination. In blocking imagination, you create obstacles in which you do not inspire yourself, and that creates a lack of motivation. Generating a lack of motivation can be quite debilitating, for it blocks what you may term to be your own driving force, your own desire to explore. It creates a type of awake and aware coma.

In this...

GILLIAN: What can I do about it?

ELIAS: I offer you the suggestion that you begin in incorporating several exercises, which may interrupt this opposing energy and allow you to reopen yourself to imagination, which shall be helpful in reestablishing inspirations.

The first exercise is to acknowledge within the day, at least three times within your day, some accomplishment. It matters not what the accomplishment is but that you actually acknowledge with yourself some accomplishment that you have generated within that day. This continue for a minimum of two of your weeks. The second exercise is that twice within each day you shall express some genuine appreciation of yourself. The third shall be a visualization. This visualization is to be incorporated once within your morning hours and once within your evening hours.

Now; in this situation, I shall modify this visualization somewhat. The instruction is that you shall incorporate this visualization in these two time frameworks of your day for a period of three days. Subsequent to that, continue the visualization but alter it. Alter the visualization at the completion of each three days.

The visualization shall begin in placing yourself in a location of a jungle. You shall visualize a lush, green jungle, and you shall place yourself upon the grass and sit and observe the environment in this jungle – many beautiful tropical flowers, lush green vegetation. Focus your attention not in thinking but merely in experiencing through your physical senses. Allow yourself to focus upon your physical senses in a manner in which you can smell the environment around you, you can feel the air and the moisture and the warmth in the air, you can hear the sounds of the plants and the birds in this jungle.

I shall offer my energy to you in this visualization, and I shall appear as a monkey. (Both laugh) You may merely be entertained and watch what the monkey incorporates in actions. This shall also be helpful to you in holding the focus in the visualization. Pay attention to what you physically feel in this visualization and what you feel if the monkey touches you, and allowing yourself, in a relaxed state, to enjoy the actions and the antics of the monkey.

Subsequent to the third day, change the visualization to a different location, one that is unfamiliar to you, perhaps the arctic, in which you shall be sitting upon a large sheet of ice surrounded by the ocean, and allowing yourself to experience your physical senses in that environment. In that environment, I shall appear to you as a narwhal.

Whatever location you choose in your visualizations, I shall appear in them as some creature that shall be entertaining, but the location must be some area that allows you to engage your physical senses and is an unfamiliar environment to you, one that you can imagine but one that is unfamiliar. This is significant, for this allows you to hold the focus more clearly and more strongly. It also allows you a fuller relaxation as you are engaging the visualization.

These visualizations are significant and important, for they accomplish several actions simultaneously. They allow you to reconnect with yourself in a calm and relaxed manner. They allow you to practice focusing, which is very significant for you presently, for you are generating considerable scatteredness in your attention and in your energy. They also allow you to reacquaint yourself with opening to imagination. This is important, for that interrupts this opposing energy that you have been generating, and it allows you to allow that avenue of communication, which opens you to inspiration, and that shall rekindle motivation.

The first two exercises are important also, for you are and have been moving into a position of becoming very familiar with discounting yourself, which is another expression of opposing. In this, one of the manners in which you discount yourself strongly is in expressing to yourself that you can’t(1) accomplish. In acknowledging accomplishments within your day, this reinforces the sense within you that you can accomplish. As I have stated, it matters not whether you evaluate that the accomplishment is great or small. The point is that it is an accomplishment, and it is being acknowledged. Even if the accomplishment is to not express in some way that has become familiar to you, that is an accomplishment also. Therefore, it is not what the accomplishment is; it is that it is being acknowledged.

Expressing appreciation is also a manner in which you can interrupt opposition. This is a very effective manner in interrupting opposition. In this, once again, it matters not what you choose to appreciate with yourself, and it matters not how great or small it may be. The point is that it be expressed as a genuine expression of appreciation.

Now; in association with appreciation and with the acknowledgment of the accomplishment, what I may express to you is that you also engage a physical action, for this allows you a physical reminder of the reinforcement of you rather than the opposition of you. The physical action that I express to you to engage is that each time you acknowledge an accomplishment and each time you generate an expression of genuine appreciation, you shall place one flower petal in a bowl – not the flower, merely one petal.

In this, you are presenting yourself with an expression of beauty but also one of unfolding. In generating one petal for each expression, you are unfolding the flower and exposing its beauty. The flower represents you. The petals are the acknowledgment, the accomplishments and the appreciation of you that you can physically see within your bowl.

I would suggest that you continue the visualizations for several of your weeks. (Pause) Perhaps in engaging these exercises, you may allow yourself to unlock the box that you have locked yourself within.

GILLIAN: I would like to know, how did I begin this? I was feeling fine. I’m very excited about my move and everything, and then suddenly I started to freeze.

ELIAS: (Pause) Let me express to you, my friend, I have been expressing to many, many, many individuals for an ongoing time framework in association with precisely this question: How did I arrive at this point? The challenge in this question is that...

[Here the call is cut off, and there is a short break before resuming.]

ELIAS: Continuing.

Now; in addressing to this question, let me express to you, the challenge is individuals generally attempt to equate an event occurring that has created the situation that they are experiencing. Generally speaking, this is not what occurs. At times, you may create some event that sparks some other action or experience or direction, but for the most part, what actually occurs is that you generate certain choices and actions repeatedly within each day. In those actions – that are generally quite mundane and require no thought – you generate automatic choices that you are objectively not paying attention to, and in some of those actions, what you are doing, figuratively, as I have expressed previously, is placing a certain type of energy into this figurative invisible container that you carry with you throughout your day.

As you continue to place this energy in this container, it begins to fill. At the point in which it becomes full and begins to overflow, figuratively you turn, notice the container, and with one blast you match all of the energy that is in that container, and you create some significant situation or direction that is uncomfortable. Dependent upon the size of the container and how much energy you have placed within it and how often you have placed energy in it and for how extended of a time framework you have been placing energy in it, at the moment that you turn and match that energy, it can actually generate a situation in which you overwhelm yourself and immobilize yourself.

This is the reason that I emphasize so very strongly the importance of genuinely paying attention to what you are doing and what type of energy you are expressing in every moment, regardless of what you are doing, regardless of how mundane it appears to you. As I have expressed previously, even the action of opening or closing a door can be expressing an energy repeatedly that may be placing energy into that container, dependent upon what is motivating the action.

In mundane actions that an individual generates each day without thought, they are objectively unaware of what type of energy they are expressing and what association is being generated that motivates them to engage the action itself. As an example, an individual may arise in the morning and immediately make up their bed sheets. This is an action that requires no thought and is an automatic action that the individual engages. But how does the individual engage that action? Is the individual engaging the action in merely flinging the blankets to the top of the bed, or is the individual meticulously smoothing the bed sheets and the blankets and placing all that is upon the bed in specific order and in a particular manner? Is the individual immediately engaging this action, or is the individual engaging the action in more of a relaxed state, in which they are not necessarily concerned with how quickly they engage the action or how neatly they engage the action?

Not that one action is better or worse than the other, but they create different energies, and they are motivated by different associations. One individual that generates immediately engaging the action and engages the action precisely and meticulously and neatly may be being motivated by an association with tidiness, and that may be associated with order, which allows the individual to experience control, and also it may allow the individual a sense of satisfaction, for they are creating an environment of order.

These associations are important, for they are attached to your truths and your guidelines of how you behave, but they are also important for they are mundane, automatic, unrecognized expressions of indicators concerning your truths. Those actions can actually, if they are repeated and continuously reinforced, be types of energy that can create situations in which you find yourself in a position of being uncomfortable or even immobilizing yourself or creating a situation in which you are experiencing considerable conflict.

In this, every action that you engage, even opening a book – the manner in which you open a book, what you visually look at first, how you hold the book, how you turn the pages – every action that you engage within your day is being motivated by some association, and that association is attached in some manner to your guidelines, and your guidelines are your truths.

What generates that at times into discomfort or into conflict or even immobilization is engaging some of these actions and not recognizing that in the engagement of the actions, you are generating some type of opposing energy. For you may engage actions but not necessarily want to be engaging the actions, but you engage them for they are also attached to your own expectation, which therein is the opposition. Expectation creates an energy of opposition.

Now; within all of these actions, you may not feel or notice any opposition at all. Feeling is not an indicator of what type of energy you are projecting. You may be experiencing and feeling turmoil within yourself in a particular moment in which you may be addressing to some issue or some presentment of a conflicting factor within yourself, but in that action, you may not necessarily be expressing an opposing energy, and you may not be expressing outwardly a conflicting energy. You may be expressing a neutral energy, for you are addressing to the situation inwardly. Or you may feel neutral or even somewhat happy and be generating an opposing energy, for feelings do not indicate what type of energy you are expressing.

What indicates to you what type of energy you are expressing is in paying attention to what you are doing. This is the situation that presents great challenge with most individuals. For as I have expressed many times previously, most individuals move through their day in the position of the copilot. They are not paying attention to what they are doing in every moment.

When you actually allow yourself to genuinely be paying attention to what you are doing in every moment, you begin to objectively recognize that you actually are engaging choices in every moment, regardless of how mundane they are, and every choice is motivated by certain associations that you generate. In being aware of what you are doing, you can be aware of all of these choices and recognize actions that you engage that can be placing energy into that container, for you begin to recognize what the associations are with each action.

GILLIAN: Can you talk to me a little bit about my connection with the emotions that erupted when I spoke to Donatella the last time? Is that something to do with my focus in Iceland, possibly?

ELIAS: Let me express to you, I can say to you yes, but I would also say to you that that as a bleed-through is not the cause. For, you generate connections with other focuses and allow bleed-throughs for you draw similar energies to you in association with what you are expressing, yourself. Therefore, the energy of the other focus enhances what you are expressing, it emphasizes it, but it does not create it.

GILLIAN: I don’t think I have any more time this time, Elias, but what I want to do is book another appointment with you so we can continue our conversation, and in the meantime, I will do my exercises and get myself back to feeling me.

ELIAS: Very well. I shall be with you and encouraging you.

GILLIAN: Thank you so much, Elias.

ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend. I express to you as always great appreciation and tremendous lovingness. To you in friendship, au revoir.

GILLIAN: Au revoir.

(1) One of the few occasions in which Elias uses a contraction.

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