Friday, March 9, 2007 (Private/Phone)

Participants: Mary (Michael) and Anon


ELIAS: Good morning!

ANON: Good morning, Elias.

ELIAS: (Chuckles) And what shall we discuss?

ANON: Well, first of all I want to know just a little bit about me as an entity — my essence name and family and aspect — in this focus.

ELIAS: And what is your impression as to essence name—

ANON: I have no idea.

ELIAS: —or essence families?

ANON: Family, I think maybe Sumafi.

ELIAS: Correct. And alignment?

ANON: I'm not that familiar with what alignment is.

ELIAS: You belong to one family, which is the same in every focus, but each focus aligns with a different family, therefore you incorporate the qualities of both families. In this, the family that you align with would be somewhat more obvious or noticeable in the qualities that you display. The family—

ANON: I think maybe Sumari for this focus. I'm not sure.

ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: Congratulations!

ANON: And essence name, I have no idea at all.

ELIAS: Essence name Jallo, J-A-L-L-O.

ANON: Okay. And also for Sharif, my boyfriend. What is his essence name and family and aspect in this focus?

ELIAS: Essence name Pullo, P-U-L-L-O. And your impression as to essence family and alignment?

ANON: Family… I'm not sure. It's hard to tell with him, I think. (Elias chuckles) I think maybe my connection to him makes it hard for me to look at him objectively.

ELIAS: (Laughs) I would express, essence family Sumari, alignment Vold.

ANON: Vold. Okay. And have Sharif and I shared any other focuses with each other?

ELIAS: Yes.

ANON: Yes, we have?

ELIAS: Yes. Are you inquiring as to a number?

ANON: Um, sure.

ELIAS: Shared focuses together, 43.

ANON: Okay. And what was the last focus that we shared together like?

ELIAS: The most recent to this focus now would be within the time framework of your Second World War.

ANON: Okay. And was that in France?

ELIAS: Yes.

ANON: Okay. And I wanted to ask you… I have a problem with acne, and I think I know why I have it. But I'm having trouble, I guess, not manifesting that for myself. Or dealing with the kind of conflict that I have, I think that causes acne. And I was wondering if you had any suggestions for something that I could do?

ELIAS: First of all, what is your assessment of this manifestation?

ANON: I think… I know that I never got acne until someone told me that I was supposed to wash my face. (Laughs) Which is funny, because they were telling me to wash my face so I didn't get acne. But I think I feel like I need to live up to a certain expectation of my appearance, instead of just accepting the manifestation that I choose to have, physically. I feel like I need to look a certain way because of, other people?

ELIAS: Ah, and in this, you are concerning yourself with the perceptions of other individuals, rather than paying attention to you, which—

ANON: Yes, and I do that a lot.

ELIAS: —which is very significant, that you actually allow yourself to pay attention to YOU. For let me express to you, my friend, for the most part, individuals generate two factors in concerning themselves with the perceptions of other individuals. One, is that they attempt to validate their own worth and value through other individuals. And the other is, generally speaking in association with mass beliefs, there is an underlying association that it is good to consider the expressions and opinions of other individuals. And in that, it is good to conform, for that will generate more ease in what you do. In actuality, both of these associations are false.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: In actuality, concerning yourself with the perceptions of other individuals does you a disservice. And it does not allow you to connect effectively with other individuals, for you generate a continuous shield when you express in this manner.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: And it denies your own expression. It can also distract you to the point in which you yourself become so removed from yourself, that you can be actually unaware of your own preferences and your own direction. And in that, you begin to allow other individuals to dictate to you: what your expressions will be; what your behavior should be; what you should like and dislike. And this discounts you continuously.

It also creates a situation in which you begin to hold to your energy, in shielding. And when that occurs, as I have expressed many, many times, energy will be expressed. Therefore if you hold to your energy in shielding yourself, that energy will be expressed in another manner, which generally is some physical manifestation.

Now, we begin at the beginning. (Laughs) In this, first of all, I shall offer you two exercises, and some suggestions. One exercise, is to be incorporating the action of expressing some element of appreciation of yourself, in the least, three times within each day. And I will express to you to continue this exercise for a time framework of one month.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: Now; in conjunction with that exercise, I will express to you to incorporate a large bowl. One that is pleasing to you to look at. Now; this bowl is to be placed in a location that is obviously displayed, therefore you will see it each day. Each time you express an appreciation of yourself, you shall place in this bowl either a leaf or a flower petal. One each, for each time you acknowledge your appreciation of yourself.

ANON: I can definitely do that.

ELIAS: At the close of one month you shall incorporate all of your flower petals and leaves and press them into a collage. For this will be your mosaic of your accomplishment in becoming more familiar with yourself and appreciating yourself more.

The second exercise that I will suggest to you, is to be noticing when you generate a hesitation. When you are interacting with another individual and you are expressing a hesitation within yourself in relation to what you want to express, or what you want to do.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: Now; in that, also notice when you are moving in the direction of complying with another individual. With these noticings, I would express to you to actually note them. Incorporate an actual paper and note when you notice that you are generating that hesitation, or when you are moving into an action of compliance.

Now; do not overwhelm yourself in generating a thought process that as you notice, you must incorporate the reverse action of whatever you do.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: That is not necessary yet.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: What is important now, is merely to notice and to note it. For that will allow you to become more aware of what you actually DO. And this is very important.

Now; I will express to you, what is important to you, you will pay attention to. Therefore it is significant that you are aware of what you are offering importance to. For if the dislike of some expression or manifestation becomes important, you continue to pay attention to it. And the more you pay attention to it, the more energy you offer it.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: And in that, the more you feed the concentration upon it, and therefore, the more you create it. Therefore, the more you generate a dislike of a particular manifestation, and the more you dwell upon that disliking, the more you perpetuate the very element that you dislike. For that generates a type of energy that does not allow you to relax. And if you cannot relax, it becomes very difficult to allow. In this, it is important to notice what you are actually doing. For a factor in this particular manifestation, that influences it, is tension and anxiety.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: And that may be being expressed much more than you may be aware of, for it has been being expressed for such an ongoing time framework that it has become familiar to you. And therefore you notice when the tension, or the anxiety escalates and is being expressed in a significant quantity. But you may not necessarily be aware of the constantness of that anxiety and tension. Therefore I would also suggest that you practice daily with momentarily checking yourself, so to speak.

Momentarily, in different time periods of your day, merely check yourself. Move your attention for a moment to your body consciousness and allow yourself to be aware if you are holding tension, and allow yourself to move. In actuality, I would suggest that in these moments if you are noticing that, yes, you are aware of tension within your body consciousness, or that you are beginning to generate anxiety — if you are in the company of another individual, excuse yourself momentarily; allow yourself to move to an area in which you are alone, merely for a few of your minutes — and shake your body. But shake your body in an action of imitating a monkey. (Both laugh)

For this is significant, for there are several actions that occur simultaneously. You will be allowing yourself to release energy. You are disjointing your body consciousness and allowing it to relax, and not be holding that tension. And in generating the association of moving like a monkey, it will also alter your energy and dissipate the anxiety. For it will replace the anxiety with humor, and allow you to relax more effectively. If you are not in the company of another individual, it matters not, you may be generating your monkey movement at any time. (Both laugh)

ANON: I feel like something that causes me a lot of anxiety is, I guess, my gender, or sexual things in general. Especially now that I have a boyfriend. And do you think that this monkey movement will help dissipate that anxiety as well? Or is there something else I can do, just for the gender problem that I have?

ELIAS: And what do you perceive to be the identification of a gender problem?

ANON: Well, I don't really associate myself necessarily with being extremely feminine or extremely masculine. I try not to really pay attention to it, but I feel that because I have a boyfriend, I need to associate myself more with, I guess, being feminine.

ELIAS: Not necessarily! Stop, stop, stop.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: This is one of those actions that you are doing again, in generating an association with what other individuals do, or express, or expect, and placing that expectation upon yourself. This is not necessary and this, once again, is generating that expectation, which is an opposing energy. And that creates the anxiety, for it discounts you.

You are entirely acceptable for who you are, in the manner that you are. It is not necessary for you to alter yourself to fit another individual's picture. You are your own picture. And in that, you incorporate your own wondrous qualities. And it is not necessary for you to generate any qualities or any expressions that are not a natural flow for you. Allow yourself your own natural flow.

And remember, not merely do you discount yourself when you attempt to alter yourself to be in some expression that is not natural for you, but you also do a disservice to the individuals around you. For you are not being helpful to the individuals around you, or you are not presenting a better image of yourself to the individuals around you when you attempt to alter yourself to conform to what you think you should be or you should not be. That merely generates a camouflage, which does the other individual a disservice also. For that creates another shielding, which does not allow the other individual to connect as fully, or as genuinely, with you as they would were you not camouflaging and shielding.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: Therefore my suggestion to you, my friend, is to express in your own natural flow, and not to concern yourself with what you should or should not be, but rather with what you are. As—

ANON: May I ask you about… Sharif wanted me to ask you about certain times during the day where he feels like all of his energy is being drained out of his body. It's disconcerting to him.

ELIAS: That would be a matter of being scattered. Now, scatteredness is not necessarily associated with thinking, although it can be, but that IS also a factor with this individual. For he incorporates ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’ to an excess. And that can be very draining, for that can generate a fatigue. For it creates an excess of energy in certain directions that is not necessary.

Generally speaking, when individuals incorporate ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’, they are not present within the now. They are either projecting futurely in anticipation and ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’, or they are projecting pastly, in recall of some experience, and generating that ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’.

This is a malfunction of the thought mechanism, and that malfunction can create other malfunctions. It can interrupt sleep. It can interrupt dreams. It can generate fatigue. It can generate discomfort within your physical body consciousness. It can disrupt your solar plexus. It can even generate what you term to be heart palpitations. It can generate headaches,—

ANON: He has headaches.

ELIAS: —anxiety, nervousness. Thought is a mechanism to translate. And if it is not being offered information to translate, it will begin translating old information, and repeating. And the repeat action of thought can be destructive. In this, there are simple methods that he can incorporate to interrupt that.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: Which, one that is the simplest would be: when he is noticing that he is incorporating this action of ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’, to immediately move his attention to his actual physical senses — what he is hearing, what he is seeing, what he is smelling, what he is feeling — any of the physical senses. For that is a very effective manner in which you can reset the thought mechanism. For it will automatically begin translating new information that is being offered to it. It will begin expressing, “I am seeing a plant.”, “I am hearing a bell.”

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: And it interrupts the repeat thinking. Also, that creates a scatteredness. When you generate excessive thinking, you become scattered. For you are not genuinely being present, and you are not paying attention to what you are actually doing.

And another suggestion, once he has moved his attention to his physical senses — which, once again, merely incorporates a few moments; it is not necessary to generate an ongoing time framework to create that interruption. But once that has successfully moved the attention away from ‘thinking, thinking, thinking’, to pay attention to what he's actually doing in the moment.

ANON: Okay. I will tell him that. Thank you.

ELIAS: You are quite welcome.

ANON: I wanted to ask you about an individual that I knew briefly named Christopher Altman. And I was wondering if I have any connection to him, or have ever shared any other focuses with him?

ELIAS: Yes, you do share other focuses with this individual also.

ANON: Okay. And I feel like at night, when I'm sleeping, I dream a lot, but I feel like I DO certain things in my dreams. Like I'm not just dreaming. I feel like I'm accomplishing certain things. And I just wanted to ask you about that a little bit.

ELIAS: Yes. And this is not unusual, for you all incorporate some element of that action. For what dreaming is, is the objective translation of subjective actions. Therefore you ARE actually DOING within your dreaming, and you are translating into imagery. That is the objective awareness which is translating. For the objective awareness is what creates imagery.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: In this, at times you may be projecting and, in that, you may be generating journeys to other dimensions, or other focuses within this physical dimension, or other areas of consciousness. Offering yourself different elements of information. And you may also be connecting — which this occurs quite frequently — with other individuals and their dream imagery.

Individuals project energy and connect in energy with each other continuously. You may not be objectively aware of how you are connecting with other individuals, but you are. And in that, at times your dream imagery may appear very fragmented and bizarre. And that may be a time framework in which you are actually translating, objectively, interactions that you may be generating with other individuals in this state.

Generally speaking, the imagery that you create in dreams will be associated with how you feel in relation to the particular imagery, or what association you generate with it. Such as, an individual may generate an imagery of a pink tiger. The tiger may generate an association of strength, or it may generate an association of fear with the individual. But they may image it as pink, for that color may soften their association and therefore would be comforting. And therefore the tiger would no longer be threatening.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: And the individual can thusly generate an association of strength, but not fear, for it is soothed with the color. Each element of imagery is dependent upon the associations and the feelings of the individuals with any particular expression of imagery. This is the reason that dreams are quite diverse, and that several individuals may incorporate the same dream imagery but it will incorporate very different meanings to each one.

ANON: Can I ask you about… When I was seventeen, something I feel is very strange happened to me. I think it was associated with some drug usage, but I woke up in the middle of the night and just felt like everything was different. I didn't really have any, I guess, emotional attachment to the world. And I spent maybe about two days crying and throwing up. And I had a lot of fear in association with this experience, that I had for many years after this, and I was wondering what exactly happened to me during that time?

ELIAS: (Pause) This would be an experience of an intensity of disconnecting from your own individual identity, temporarily. In this, what occurred… (pause) Are you, or do you feel that you are ready for this response?

ANON: Yes.

ELIAS: Very well. In that time framework you incorporated a brief time framework in which you generated a step towards death. Now, in that action what you did was allowed yourself an experience in which you disconnected from this reality. In doing so, you also, temporarily, disconnected from the strength of the identity of yourself in this reality. That can be quite unnerving and quite unsettling, for it is very unfamiliar. And what you move into is very different from what you know within this reality.

Let me express to you, this is the reason that generally speaking, most individuals generate the choice, in relation to the choice of death, to be continuing the objective awareness for a time framework. Therefore they continue to generate objective imagery that appears very similar to what is familiar to them within this reality. And they gradually move themselves into an awareness of their own death and the difference between the reality that they were participating in, and what they are generating now, in nonphysical areas of consciousness. But it is a gradual action, as to not create tremendous overwhelm and trauma.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: But at times individuals may generate an action that will project them into a nonphysical state of being, with no objective awareness. Without the objective awareness, you do not incorporate identity in the same manner that you do within your reality. An identity is very important within your reality, and you all hold to it very strongly. And you all react if it is threatened in any manner. Engaging this action, generated an overwhelm and a fear. And in that, there is no imagery to remember, for there is no imagery.

ANON: Right.

ELIAS: But you are aware of the feeling, and aware that you have incorporated some type of experience that is unknown to you and that you cannot explain. In this, it generates an anxiety and an overwhelm when you reconnected with your objective awareness and reconnected with your identity, for that can create a feeling that you have lost some element. You have not, but I'm understanding the feeling that it generates. But perhaps you may allow yourself some comfort and some further ability to relax, now that you incorporate an explanation and somewhat of an understanding.

This is the reason, my friend, that I do not discuss much in relation to nonphysical elements of consciousness, for they do not translate well within the confines of what is known within your reality and your language. For your reality incorporates a very strong blueprint with very strong expressions, such as identity and physical associations and emotion. These are not necessary within consciousness and therefore, in nonphysical areas of consciousness, they are not actually present.

Losing that, when you are not ready to lose that — or when you are not ready to shed that — can be quite frightening and overwhelming. But, as you are aware, you continue to be within physical focus; therefore you have not lost either of them. (Both laugh)

ANON: I guess just the last thing that I'd like to ask you or talk to you about is: I feel very much like I want to — with all these things that I'm learning about my reality, and how I create my reality and all of this — I really want to experience this in a group of the type that maybe Jane Roberts had with Seth, and I know that Mary has on occasion. And am I ever going to be able to be part of a group like this? I don't know if you would know that, but I just would like to ask you that.

ELIAS: I would express, first of all, as you are aware, it is your choice. But I also am aware that this is a strong desire within you and therefore it is motivating. And therefore that creates a strong potential that you will involve yourself. And are you engaging with myself in physical proximity in recent future?

ANON: I hope to, when Mary comes to stay at California. I live very close by and hope to come to that session that she has.

ELIAS: And perhaps you shall engage other individuals in that group. That will allow you to begin to be connecting with other individuals and generating a group that you can participate with.

ANON: Yes.

ELIAS: Therefore I would express a confirmation. This is not actually a crystal ball question. And there is a strong potential for you to be engaging that action.

ANON: I also have a very strong connection to my parents. I feel like my parents really kind of just allow me to be whatever I need to be, and they don't judge me. And that's always really influenced me in my life, and I was wondering if I've ever shared any other focuses with them, as well. I feel like they just really understand me as an entity and not necessarily as a person, in this focus.

ELIAS: And you are correct. You share many focuses with each of them.

ANON: Yes. And out of curiosity, the focus that I shared with Sharif that took place most recently — in the Second World War — what relation did we have to one another in that focus?

ELIAS: In that focus (pause) you were siblings. Very strong connection and bond between you.

ANON: Okay. And was I female in that focus?

ELIAS: Yes.

ANON: And was he?

ELIAS: No.

ANON: Okay. Okay, well I think that is about an hour. I don't have, really, any more questions, but I am so grateful to you. Thank you so much for the information that you shared with me.

ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend. (Both chuckle) I shall be anticipating our next meeting. And I shall be offering my energy to you, in your exercises, and to be encouraging and supportive.

ANON: Thank you.

ELIAS: I am always available. (Chuckles) To you, in great appreciation and in tremendous lovingness. Au revoir.


(Elias departs after 54 minutes)

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