You Hold the Ability to Generate a Different World
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“You Hold the Ability to Generate a Different World”
“How You Perceive Is How You Create”
“Digging a Tunnel Out of the Prison”
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Rose (Quillan)
Let me express to you, my friend: There are individuals that are far more imprisoned in freedom than there are those that are actually incarcerated. There are individuals that may be within a physical prison but offer themselves a greater freedom than some individuals that are not walled behind bars.
ELIAS: Good afternoon.
ROSE: Good afternoon, Elias—once again.
ELIAS: Once again.
ROSE: Once again—that’s good. (Laughs) Can we start?
ELIAS: Yes, you may.
ROSE: Okay. When you sense my energy, can you tell me: Do I expect too much from myself? More than is possible from my capabilities and within this focus?
ELIAS: Do you expect more than your capabilities? No.
ROSE: No.
ELIAS: But—do you impose expectations upon yourself that may be deemed at times to be unreasonable? Yes.
ROSE: Wow.
ELIAS: For at times you incorporate expectations of yourself that perhaps in the moment are forcing your energy and are beyond your expression of acceptance at the time.
ROSE: Hm. This is something I do not quite understand. Do you mean I force myself too much?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: In this way I do expect more than I can…can bring? [Rose’s note: Language hurdle, I had still been learning English]
ELIAS: In a moment, yes.
ROSE: But not in general in the possibility itself?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: I see. It’s like if I want to play the violin I have to accept that I would have to have some years of practicing before I could do a certain piece of music, for example?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: Aha. Here we go. (Laughs) This makes sense to me, because I feel I have, in a way, ideas, dreams, wishes, lots in my mind which on the other side I am not capable to really fulfill because of this kind of personality and character, and so in the end I fail. So this was what made me wonder if I expect too much from myself because of this personality and character, because I think you cannot change completely within one focus your personality type.
ELIAS: No.
Now; let me express to you, as in every expression or in any movement, there are no absolutes, and therefore it is not impossible to entirely alter a personality type. But—generally speaking, individuals within one focus do not alter their personality type, for it is unnecessary. For as you are essence, you are also simultaneously expressing many, many, different personality types in many different focuses; therefore it is unnecessary to alter one focus to be experiencing a different personality type, or personality traits, so to speak, for they are being expressed in other focuses simultaneously, and they are all you.
ROSE: That’s right, that’s what I understand and that’s why I feel these things. But what really trips me all the time is why do I in a way have a kind of bright dream about something…this may sound REALLY odd, but a kind of bright dream about something which I do not really know what it is and so I can’t really go into that direction. I always had a kind of list of what I wanted to do in this focus, and I have done all these points. So this is why I am at a very strange place. I don’t know what to do anymore. I don’t have any kind of clear wishes which I could follow and could say “Okay, I want to do this or that, blah blah blah blah blah”—there are no particular, clear wishes.
But there is a kind of feeling—as I said yesterday, I would like to step into my brightness. And with brightness I meant I want to feel into this, I want to step into this kind of life and kind of especially work situation where I’m so much in harmony with myself that I express this kind of…maybe it’s value fulfillment, but I perceive it as a kind of brightness because I am in harmony with myself. And it really doesn’t matter if it’s a baker or if it’s whatever grand situation but is in harmony with myself. It’s a strange place where I am at.
ELIAS: I am understanding. But be remembering; You also are moving with this Shift, and therefore you also are shifting. And in this, what you may have expressed pastly does not fit any longer within your present reality, for you have shifted. And in this, you may have set forth with yourself goals previously that you aspired to accomplish in the future, but now this is not the point. The point now is what you are describing of generating this type of harmony, but not in the future.
This is what we have spoken of yesterday in our conversation concerning holding your attention upon yourself in the now.
ROSE: This is how you step in to your brightness?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: In that moment you are in your brightness.
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Correct. (Laughs) Now it’s MY turn to say correct.
Okay. This makes sense to me. Thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
ROSE: Okay. I have a very strange and special question, and maybe you will respond to me the same way like you did right now, but I will nevertheless ask this question. I do not have the possibility to ask you every moment about something, and I think it’s not the point to always go to somebody else or some other essence. The question is, How do I come to the place where you are at with your perception; in other words, to get all this information within my own time within myself, without asking anybody else any longer? Do you understand what I mean?
ELIAS: Yes. The manner in which you accomplish this is to be trusting of your communications, your expressions to yourself, to be listening in that trust to what you offer to yourself, and to be accepting of yourself, for in that acceptance you shall also begin to generate more and more trust of your own expressions.
Now; also, it is quite significant that you allow yourself a calmness and a quietness that you may hear what you are expressing to yourself. And in this, I may express to you [that] this requires paying attention to yourself. For you shall not listen to your voice if you are not paying attention to yourself.
You offer yourself communication in many, many different manners, and this is the reason that it is quite important to be paying attention to all of the aspects to yourself, to be paying attention to all that you are communicating to yourself through all of the different avenues.
Being aware of Self is ultimately important.
ROSE: Mm-hm. Did you say “ultimately”?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Thank you. (Sighs) Ah! Very exciting! (Laughs) I thought if I would have only one question which is possible to ask Elias anymore, this would be the question [inaudible].
Yesterday you said I am partially listening, and that is in a way a little bit frustrating, because I’m never really clear what is the part I’m listening and what is the part I’m not getting. (Laughs) And I thought, okay, if I am partially listening, how do I manage to FULLY listen? Can you comment on that?
ELIAS: Very well. Let us revisit the example that I offered to you previously of the individual that is creating and experiencing pain within physical body.
Now; the individual is partially listening to their communication, for they are paying attention to the experience of the pain. But this is the only communication that they are listening to, is the pain, and therefore this is the experience that they continue.
Now; this is not to say that they are not offering themselves many other communications, but they are noticing and paying attention to merely one.
Now; in your scenario as you described yesterday, you are paying attention to one communication of frustration, and you are paying attention to one communication that you are dissatisfied with certain elements of your focus. You are dissatisfied with some of your choices. You are listening to the communication of what you do not want, but you are not listening to all of the other communications that are occurring.
Let me express to you, all that you experience within this physical focus is generated by perception.
Now; every expression that you may create within your reality may be instantaneously altered by altering your perception, and perception guided by attention. It is steered by attention. Therefore, if you are holding your attention in one direction, your attention is directing your perception to create merely one expression, such as the pain.
You are continuously offering yourselves many communications simultaneously; it is merely a matter of dislodging your attention from one groove, so to speak, and allowing your attention to move and therefore allowing it to receive different information, which it shall offer to your perception and therefore you shall allow yourself to create many different expressions.
ROSE: Right. Can I ask something?
ELIAS: You may.
ROSE: I will study more about this in the material and also about the outward reflection. I once was in a restaurant, and there were two people who were somehow very… the impression I got was that they were very frustrated, depressed or resigned. One couple was sitting in front of me, and the other was in the back of me. And both of them I saw as not very fine with looking at or listening to; I just didn’t see it fine being next to them. And I said, “Aha! This is my outward reflection.” Maybe not, I don’t know, but I chose to change my place in this restaurant. And I went inside, and there was a completely different scenario and I had great time there with great laughter and everything.
So I wondered, I am very much triggered by this enormous depression and resignation of the people around me, for example in public life, in the subways and so on. It feels like, like I said yesterday, so many people seem trapped in life, snared in life, and I am very sensitive to this because it’s in a way my topic, which I did not fully…at times yes, but a part of my psyche, half of my being is still struggling with this, so when I encounter this in the outward world I really have very often problems to stand this. So what I did was I chose really the place that I wanted to be, and even the direction I turned my head to the things I wanted to listen to I really chose every slight bit, because I wanted to experience something differently. And if I understand you right, I can also can do this with the direction I put my thoughts toward, and also the direction of the outward attention, so both things.
And…I’m struggling with this this outward reflection topic. Is this the right track I’m on?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Yes. That’s good. Because I’m so much triggered by these outward imageries, like I said these depressed people. It’s like I am very sensitive to this energy and it dims me so much, but it is very much alive in the world, very much so. There are not so many people who are happy but more who are unhappy, and I have to move within this world.
ELIAS: Ah! But—remember: This is generated through your perception. And as you do present yourself with outward reflections of yourself, it is quite understandable that your perception would generate a world in which you view most individuals to be depressed or expressing resignation.
ROSE: Have you ever been in the subway in the morning when people drive to work? (Elias chuckles knowingly) Oh Elias! Oh, there is SO much frustration, aggression, depression and all these things.
ELIAS: Let me express to you, my friend. This is a creation of your perception, and I may express to you quite genuinely and realistically that were you to be expressing a different perception, you would also generate quite a different world around you.
ROSE: Okay. Let’s go into the details. I still have to study the material, I know this, but this is really something I am deeply struggling with.
(Emotionally) Do you say that if I would be at a different spot inside I would perceive the world differently and it would not trigger me so much, I would see that everything is all right even if it’s cruel, if it’s depressive or whatever? Or do you think I would really, really create a different world?
ELIAS: I am expressing to you quite realistically that you do hold the ability to generate a different world—quite realistically. I am not speaking figuratively, my friend; I am speaking quite literally. You create every aspect of your reality, even the other individuals that you view within your world. Therefore, they are all generated by your perception. How you perceive is how you shall create. If you perceive your world to be cruel and depressing, this is what you shall create.
ROSE: That’s my greatest pain, Elias. Here we are really at the core of everything.
When I think about it or when I try to understand it, I try to understand it in even in the worst scenario you can imagine. For example, you are imprisoned and you have no chance, you got maybe [a sentence of] 2x lifetime because maybe you have murdered three people and you got a very heavy punishment. Okay; now you are in the scenario of a prison, and you are maybe in a very, very cruel prison, and you have no chance to come out of the prison with your body, because they will not let you. They gave you, let’s say, 2x lifetime, and you are in this prison and there are these guardians who are very cruel, and there are other people who are imprisoned, and you are there and there is no hope to come out of it. So what is your chance there? You can’t change it , because you really are imprisoned!
ELIAS: I am quite understanding, but this also is a choice, my friend.
ROSE: What is a choice? To be experiencing this scenario?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: But if you are in this scenario, Elias, and you cannot come out, you can’t change your perception and everything.
ELIAS: Ahh! No, no, no! (Rose chuckles) Yes you may, and yes you can.
ROSE: Okay.
ELIAS: And I may express to you: In your reality, in your world, there ARE individuals in this type of scenario NOW, and their perception is not depressing.
ROSE: You mean they don’t experience that as a depressing scenario?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: I know, but still they can’t move out of that scenario because they have this punishment of maybe 2x lifetimes.
ELIAS: But they have chosen this.
ROSE: Yes, but maybe not objectively. (Laughs)
This is my greatest fear, to be somehow locked in a situation which I can’t change and which I perceive as very, very painful, and… my great hope was “Ah, with this material and with this knowledge I can create a world I really want where I don’t feel trapped into and forced into and in a way compelled—I don’t know if that’s the right term. But then yesterday I thought, “Maybe Elias is talking about that life is as it is and it’s a day-to-day life, a simple life, that life means all these little tiny things and not these great bright… whatever things, but day-to-day life that you really have to stick with and all you can do is really enjoy these little things and you are…Well, my idea was in a way that I could live a free life which I’m happy with, and yesterday I was not quite sure after that session any longer. I thought okay, maybe he’s just talking about how I can live in a way better with this day-to-day life.
ELIAS: What I am expressing to you, my friend, is [that] all that you can imagine in brightness and wonder you may also create. You are unlimited in what you may create. It is merely a matter of perception. But—I am also aware that your beliefs are quite strong, and in this, they are quite influencing. And therefore, I am offering you information concerning how you may begin. For in association with your beliefs, you shall not awaken tomorrow and create the dream of your imagination of all that you want. But—you may begin now to incorporate steps that allow you to practice acceptance, trust and appreciation of yourself, of your reality NOW; and in that practice, the action shall become more and more familiar. And as it becomes more and more familiar, you generate more trust, you generate more acceptance, you generate more appreciation, and it continues.
You expressed yesterday, “Ah, Elias, as in this scenario of dropping a stone into a pool,” and I expressed to you, “Yes.” What occurs as you drop the stone into the pool? What effect does it incorporate with the water? It generates ripples, and they continue to ripple outwardly. In like manner, as you practice focusing upon yourself and generating this appreciation of yourself, that also ripples outwardly and alters your perception and thusly alters your world, alters your reality.
In which, perhaps each day you may enter your subway and each day view one more individual upon the train who is not depressed. (Rose laughs)
ROSE: I see.
ELIAS: And eventually you may be riding within your train and ALL of the individuals upon the train shall be smiling. (Rose cracks up)
ROSE: Oh, Elias. (Chuckles)
Do you understand this? This is really the greatest pain, this is really where the desperation sits.
ELIAS: I am understanding. But this is a reflection of what you are generating within yourself, and therefore this is what you project outwardly and reflect TO yourself.
Let me express to you, my friend: There are individuals that are far more imprisoned in freedom than there are those that are actually incarcerated. There are individuals that may be within a physical prison but offer themselves a greater freedom than some individuals that are not walled behind bars.
ROSE: Yes, I agree. I agree there are many ways of imprisoning yourself…
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: …and I am in a way digging a tunnel with the limits of my own prison. I feel a part of me is still imprisoned and I’m still digging this tunnel and I try to free myself. I’m working on that.
ELIAS: And this is FINE action to be incorporating in this digging of your tunnel, for you continue to move in what you term to be a forward direction.
ROSE: Do you feel the intensity I am digging with?
ELIAS: (Chuckles) Perhaps it may be described as determination. (Chuckles again)
[Partial session ends here]
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