Session 200703112 (2222)
“Expanding Consciousness Outwardly and Inwardly”
“Interrupt the Pattern of Expressing Lack”
“You Are Not a Victim of Other Focuses”
“An Exercise for Appreciating Oneself”
“The Akashic Records: A Knowing, Not a Thing”
“A Relationship Without Expectations”

Sunday, March 11, 2007 (Private/Phone)

Participants: Mary (Michael) and Anon

ELIAS: Good afternoon!

ANON: Good afternoon!

ELIAS: (Laughs) Welcome! And what shall we discuss?

ANON: Oh, you know, the usual questions: Who am I? What agreements did I make before this existence, and now what are my future probabilities? (Elias chuckles) And just wondering if I’m related to Seth, because he said he had lived in Ethiopia eons ago and that’s where I come from.

ELIAS: Do you incorporate other focuses with that essence? Yes. As to your question of who are you, I can pose the same question back to you: “Who ARE you?” (Both laugh)

ANON: You know, you’re told that you don’t remember who you are and you spend your lifetime trying to figure out who you are because you come with amnesia. (Elias laughs) I don’t get that at all.

ELIAS: (Laughs) That would not entirely be accurate. I would express that when you choose to manifest within a physical reality such as this reality, you do incorporate some element in which you are not necessarily objectively aware of the vastness of yourself. But this is purposeful, for within your reality, one strong element that allows you to generate your own individuality and your identity is an element of separation. This allows you to generate your own exploration within this particular reality. In this, as essence, as consciousness, you are continuously exploring, which creates a continuous expansion.

Now; each manifestation that you generate creates its own new exploration. It is not that you are attempting to return to some known state; it is that you already are that, and you have chosen to manifest within a physical reality to generate more explorations, and therefore generate the contribution to the expansion of consciousness, which is continuously occurring.

In that, an element of your exploration is the discovery of yourself more and more, and your abilities more and more.

Expansion of consciousness moves in what you would term to be two directions: one, outwardly; and two, inwardly. There is a continuous movement of exploring and folding in upon self to create the expansion, and this is what you are doing within this particular focus or this particular manifestation now.

ANON: Okay. Now, how far have I come along with my spiritual progress? I was told before that I was coming out of a cocoon, and I was told again that I’m almost out but with a little bit of glue left at the bottom. And I felt like I have changed and grown tremendously. I guess I’m looking for some kind of confirmation.

ELIAS: (Laughs) I would agree. And the more that you explore yourself and the more that you generate an acceptance of yourself and of your beliefs, and the more awareness you generate in relation to yourself, the more freedom you offer to yourself – and the more you become directed. This is significant, for in your exploration, the point is to be directing of your own ship, so to speak, and in that, intentionally creating your reality in the manner that you want. And to do that, it requires paying attention and being present with yourself, and being aware of each process that you engage – not necessarily focusing upon an outcome, but paying attention to what you are actually DOING, and that allows you more choices and more freedom to manipulate what you are doing in each moment to direct yourself in the manner that is the most effective and in accomplishing what you want.

I would inquire of you, what do YOU assess as your direction presently?

ANON: It’s geared more toward inward, but I’m being distracted by outside influences, mainly financially, a little bit with my relationship and a little bit with my weight issues. But mainly I’m so consumed by my financial standing, I feel like it’s taking time away from focusing inward.

ELIAS: Let me express to you: First of all, you pay attention to whatever becomes important to you.

Now; importance is not necessarily expressed in positive directions. You can generate an expression that you dislike, and the disliking of a particular expression can become important. And as it becomes important, you pay more and more attention to it. And, as you do that, you reinforce the energy that creates it, and you hold your concentration upon it, and therefore you create precisely what you dislike.

In this, in relation to financial issues, this is a very common expression with individuals, and one of the strongest reasons that this becomes such a concern with many individuals is that they are actually unaware of what type of energy they are projecting continuously.

Now; this is significant, for when I express to you that it is important to pay attention to what you are actually doing, this affects all directions that you express, for all that you do is interconnected. It may not appear to be interconnected surfacely, but it is. As an example: There are issues concerning money, for you incorporate an association with lack.

Now; lack can be expressed in many, many different manners. I will express to you an exercise that you can incorporate for one of your weeks, and in this, you will become much more aware of how often and how constant you generate an energy of lack.

When I express “an energy of lack,” what I am expressing, as an example, is the thinking, the feeling and the association of “not enough” – not enough time, not enough space, not enough money, not enough clothes, not enough shoes, not enough utensils; it matters not.

You can approach your cabinet within your kitchen and view the contents of a pantry, and you may automatically be inventorying – not intentionally, but in that inventorying you may be automatically expressing, “I have not enough rice. I have not enough vegetables.” You can approach your refrigerator, open it, and you may be expressing, “I have not enough juice. I have not enough milk. I have not enough bread.”

You will not generate a noticing or a thought process in relation to these automatic expressions; you will merely generate an assessment, and you will answer yourself with the expression, “I must buy this” or “I must acquire this.” You will not engage a lengthy evaluation of what you have actually done, and you will not be aware of the energy that you are actually projecting.

In this exercise of one week, I will express to you to notice, pay attention to each time that you generate an association of “not enough,” regardless of what it is.

ANON: I do that all the time. (Laughs) But I was told before that in my previous many, many lifetimes I was a Buddhist monk and I didn’t have to deal with finances, and I guess I keep recalling the same thing and it shows for my lack today. Does it have any validity?

ELIAS: Let me clarify for you. There is validity in these identifications, but it is also important for you to recognize that yes, you incorporate many other focuses, and you draw upon energy from other focuses, but you draw that energy to you as an enhancement of what you yourself are doing and choosing. You are NOT a victim of other focuses. You all generate this action of pulling certain energies and even experiences from other focuses, but they are associated with whatever you yourself are already generating. It is not that another focus causes you to incorporate some action or some experience – that is incorrect. They do not create your experiences.

The energy of other experiences that you have incorporated in other focuses can be drawn upon and enhance and strengthen whatever choices you are creating in THIS focus, but you are not a victim of that, and you incorporate the choices in how to direct yourself.

Let me express to you, as I have with other individuals, money is one of the easiest manifestations that any of you generate. It is perception that creates obstacles: how you perceive money. When you perceive “not enough,” that is what you concentrate upon. You continue to feed energy to that belief of lack – and what you concentrate upon is what you create. Therefore, if you are expressing lack, this is what you will create.

I cannot express strongly enough how real and how strong perception is, and it creates your reality. Thought does not. Therefore, you can think and think and think, and it will not create manifestations. Perception does. Therefore, this is the most important to be paying attention to, especially when perception is generating strong absolutes such as “I cannot.” For when you perceive that you cannot accomplish, you allow yourself to generate the role of a victim.

When you actually generate a genuine responsibility to self, you become directing and you cannot be a victim, for you are creating all of your reality; therefore, YOU are creating all of your choices. They are not thrust upon you, they are not hidden from you; it is merely a matter of paying attention – which in actuality is quite a simple concept, but I am also understanding that it is an unfamiliar action and therefore can be more challenging to actually implement. But you may be surprised at how effective you can be if you ARE paying attention.

As to the association with lack and how strongly that can be expressed in relation to money, the more you concentrate upon not having enough money, the more you actually restrict yourself in your ability to generate it.

ANON: I know that very well. (Laughs)

ELIAS: Therefore, it becomes significant to interrupt that pattern of continuously expressing lack, for one of the greatest obstacles that it creates is worry.

ANON: Yes.

ELIAS: And worry is a powerful energy, and it blocks your abilities. And it also can be quite affecting of motivation, in which you begin to lose motivation for you become more and more of a victim to yourself.

ANON: Now, can I pull the energies of knowledge, wisdom, prosperity, health from my previous life? Because I have that available to me and I can pull it forward, right?

ELIAS: Yes! But in doing so, it is important that you actually are expressing that energy yourself, not merely pulling that energy and expecting it to automatically alter all of your reality. For, YOU are creating your reality; therefore, you are the main participant. And in that, it is significant for YOU to be paying attention to what YOU are doing.

I would also express to you the suggestion that you begin, at least three times within each of your days, to generate and express some type of genuine appreciation for yourself.

Now; I will also offer you another exercise. In this, as you do incorporate this issue associated with money, and to interrupt the energy expression that you have been generating, I will express to you to incorporate some type of aesthetically pleasing container, one that you can place in an obvious location, but not in a location that you will view it continuously. Each –

ANON: Where would that be? Can you give me an example?

ELIAS: Acquire a container that you view as pleasing. It matters not what type of container it is, but that is pleasing. It will be of significant size, not a small container, and place this in an area in which it is not hidden but it is not continuously being viewed.

Into this container each day you will place five of your dollars. There is no agenda for this money, it is not being saved, but it is not being spent either. In this, each time you place your five dollars into your container, you will appreciate the action of offering yourself a gift, a free offering of a gift with no agenda.

I would express to you the encouragement that you continue that exercise for approximately six of your months. As with any suggestion, this is your choice as to whether you actually engage it or not, but be assured that when I express an exercise to an individual, there are many branches of it that you may not see yet, but you will experience.

ANON: Okay. I put the five dollars every day?

ELIAS: Yes.

ANON: For six months?

ELIAS: Yes. But also, remember: When you generate that action, acknowledge yourself and appreciate yourself. For this is a physical action of appreciation of yourself.

ANON: Okay. I have to ask you this because I’m still curious about it: I was told that my son is my father. He has my father’s essence.

ELIAS: (Pause) I would express that that is not entirely accurate. More specifically, I would express that you have incorporated many focuses with this individual and that this individual has been your father in other focuses but is not the same essence as your father in this focus.

ANON: It’s not the one that just passed away?

ELIAS: Correct.

ANON: Okay. And I was told that he has come back, he’s a unique individual that knows my Akashic records and he’s here to help me grow spiritually, and he’s here to do wonderful things. Is that true?

ELIAS: That would be a choice. I would express to you that it would be your choice and it would be his choice. It would be his choice as to what he creates within his reality; it would be your choice in how you associate with him and your openness to him and what you allow yourself to receive from him.

ANON: But is it possible that he could be born knowing my entire history?

ELIAS: I would express to you, my friend, you all enter into physical focus with all information. That is not to say that you objectively retain it, but you do incorporate all of that information subjectively, and it does move into the form of objective expressions – not necessarily a mere outpouring of information, but that you translate considerable amounts of information into what you do and how you interact with each other.

Let me express to you, my friend, you may seek information through many different avenues, much of which will be filtered through translations, and those translations are influenced by beliefs. This is not to say that they are not valid, but it is important for you to listen to yourself and therefore allow yourself to filter what you are presenting to yourself and recognize that many times what is being expressed to you incorporates an element of filtration and translation in association with beliefs, such as the identification of the Akashic records. The association with that is that there are some actual records, that there is a “thing” that is identified as the Akashic records. In actuality, it is a knowing; it is not actually a thing.

Individuals within your reality in relation to different philosophies attach names for certain expressions, but those names, many times, generate specific associations for most individuals, and those associations are translations. They are not an actual identification of what is being expressed. There are no actual records as a “thing.” There is a knowing, which incorporates tremendous information, and that knowing is present within each of you, for each of you are essence.

In this, I would not invalidate information that is offered through other avenues; I would merely express to you the identification to be aware of the translations.

Consciousness is not actually a thing. Things are generated through consciousness, but consciousness itself is not a thing. Therefore, you as consciousness, you as essence, create “things” from “no thing.” (Chuckles)

ANON: (Pause) Can I ask about a relationship issue?

ELIAS: You may.

ANON: Okay. I had a one-weekend really wonderful, wonderful experience with my stock adviser. And it seems to be dwindling down, and I can’t seem to let go. I’m emotionally attached, I guess. We’re in separate states, and I was just wondering where would that go? It seems like we’re spiritually connected.

ELIAS: You do incorporate many focuses with this individual, and that would be the reason that you experience this familiarity or connection with this individual. I would express to you, once again, this would be your choice. If you want to incorporate a relationship with this individual, you can pursue that. But in that, I would express to you, it is important that you pay attention to yourself and not generate expectations.

When you generate expectations in association with a relationship, you create an opposing energy, and that can actually create the reverse of what you want. It is important that you value yourself. When you value yourself, and when you are comfortable and satisfied with yourself, you generate a type of energy that becomes very attractive to other individuals, for you are all drawn to comfortable energy. You feel contentment when you are within a comfortable energy, and therefore you are attracted to it.

And in this, the manner in which you generate that comfortable energy is to be valuing yourself and to be satisfied with yourself – not discounting yourself, not compromising, not complying, not acquiescing, but allowing yourself the freedom to express you.

Let me offer you a small example: Generally speaking, what is familiar to most individuals in association with relationships is the idea of what you term to be give and take.

Now; in that, there is considerable waiting, for each individual waits for the other individual to generate an indication that it is acceptable for the other individual to express.

Waiting is not allowing you. It is allowing the other individual to dictate your choices. Genuinely, what individuals want is to express the ability to generate their own expression of love and affection. This is a greater desire than to receive it – but there is an expectation to receive it if you give it.

And in this, there is hesitation in giving it unless there is the indication that it is acceptable to give it; therefore, what occurs is you deny yourself these expressions in the waiting for the other individual’s permission. Whereas, when you allow yourself to freely express without the expectations, you are not generating any opposing energy; therefore, you are not generating any threat in relation to the other individual, and the other individual will respond in similar manner.

ANON: But currently the situation is not really conducive, because he has an ex-wife and he is currently married to somebody else, and physically we’re apart and I’m getting ready to travel to Ethiopia. So if you give the love, I mean where is it going? Or we don’t have to be together to give it?

ELIAS: It is not necessary for you to be within physical proximity to express that. Once again, it is dependent upon what YOU want and what direction you pursue.

ANON: But the individual has also his own choices – it can’t just be mine. We have to coincide, right? We have to be on the same wavelength.

ELIAS: That is also dependent upon what you want. I will express once again: (slowly and carefully) you create all of your reality. Therefore, you also create your interactions and involvements with other individuals and HOW it is created.

You do not co-create. You do directly interact with the other individual’s energy, and you configure that energy in accordance with what you are creating. This is the reason, my friend, that many times two individuals can be within physical proximity, engaging the same activity in the same time framework together, and each incorporate a very different perception of what occurred, for they are each creating their own version of what is occurring.

And in this, what DO you want?

ANON: I want it to work. I just deep down feel like we’re spiritually connected, I don’t know if it’s in this lifetime or a previous lifetime. At times I feel like he’s my brother. I don’t know where that feeling is coming from. And I admit that I also send conflicting messages – you know, “I want this, I don’t want this, I want this, I don’t want this.” So it’s probably I do want this to work.

ELIAS: That expression of “I want this, I do not want this, I want this, I do not want this” is NOT unusual. (Both laugh) And both may be accurate, for although they appear to be at odds with each other, they may not necessarily be. This is the reason that it is important for you to actually pay attention to yourself and become more familiar with your actual preferences and your guidelines and what your genuine wants are. You may want to be engaging a relationship with an individual and acknowledging an intimacy with an individual, but you may not necessarily want to couple yourself with an individual. And, you can generate a very strong and intimate relationship with another individual and not actually couple yourself with them.

You may want to be interactive and creating a relationship, but you may also want to express yourself in OTHER directions. What becomes confusing is generally speaking, most individuals generate certain black-and-white associations with relationships, therefore relationships must be expressed in this manner or they are not a genuine relationship – not necessarily.

Individuals generate associations with dwellings, with physical proximity, with expectations of what should be expressed in a relationship, what should not be expressed in a relationship. You can actually generate a very strong and intimate relationship with another individual and not be within physical proximity of them at all, and enjoy all of the experiences that you would generate if you WERE within physical proximity of each other, for the energy that you express within physical contact can be expressed without physical contact. Therefore, it genuinely is a matter of evaluating what you want in all that you want.

ANON: Okay. I think we’re running out of time. Before Mary gets mad at us (Elias laughs), I’d like to talk about my mom. What is she doing out there? How is she doing? And I want to say my love for her and [inaudible], and –

ELIAS: That, my friend –

ANON: Because when she passed on, that’s the biggest regret that I have.

ELIAS: Let me express to you an assurance, my friend. The love that you express is received, regardless, always. And I would express to you that in this present time framework, she is not yet engaging transition. She is continuing to engage objective awareness, which generates imagery very similar to the imagery that she incorporated within physical focus but with considerably less conflict (laughs) and is actually engaging some interesting playfulness in the imagery that she is engaging, becoming aware that she can manipulate quite easily and quite freely, and therefore is, in a manner of speaking, generating a new game in playing with the manifestations of her reality. (Laughs)

ANON: I wish her much success. (Laughs)

ELIAS: Your wish is already being actualized. (Laughs)

ANON: Could you give me an insight, before we go, as to my direction? Because I am going to take a leave of absence from my job to work out the inheritance that my mom left me. She had a little motel and a beautiful villa, and everything is up in the air, it seems. When I come back, I’m not sure if I’m going to get a job. I know you’re going to tell me that I can create whatever I want to create, but I just need a little insight.

ELIAS: I would actually express to you not to worry.

ANON: Okay.

ELIAS: Allow yourself the freedom to return to your home, to incorporate a reconnection with other individuals. Allow yourself to appreciate and enjoy your interactions and your visit, and do not worry. Incorporate the confidence that what you leave will remain when you return.

ANON: Okay. Now, why did I come to you? Were you calling my name? (Both laugh) And I told you many, many times throughout this session how much I love you, and I don’t know if you felt that or not.

ELIAS: Yes, I am quite aware. (Laughs) And –

ANON: And I do love this experience. I love you. So let me thank you for allowing me to talk with you, and I hope we do have a continuous relationship from now forward.

ELIAS: You are very welcome, my dear friend. And I shall be anticipating our next meeting and our continued relationship. Know that I am always present, and in that, I will be present with you as you move in this new journey, and my energy will be encouraging and supportive to you.

I express tremendous appreciation of you, my friend, and great lovingness. Until our next meeting, au revoir.

ANON: Thank you. Now you’re getting me emotional.

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