Reasons for Reluctance In Doing Exercises
Topics:
“Reasons for Reluctance In Doing Exercises”
“The Effects of Beliefs and Energy on Medications”
“Stopping Circling Thoughts”
Thursday, July 31, 2008 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Rose (Quillan)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
ROSE: Good afternoon, Elias. (Both laugh) Okay, let's go straight into it.
ELIAS: Very well.
ROSE: Okay. Once again to the exercises. I have mentioned briefly sometimes I feel reluctance, and I want to address this. It's a little contradictive. On one end I want to do them, and on the other end I seem to try to avoid to do them. Is there any significant statement from your end you would like to make to this?
ELIAS: I would express that this is understandable, but it is also beneficial. For what is occurring – which is not unusual – is when you approach engaging the exercise, what occurs is it creates an automatic association with why you are doing the exercise, which, in a manner of speaking, is a reminder to you of what occurred to create this situation which you are attempting to change. Therefore, there is some element of reluctance and perhaps even sadness or discomfort initially, for it is a reminder of what occurred.
Now; let me also express to you: The body consciousness incorporates memory. And in this, the body consciousness remembers traumatic events. And when you are addressing to certain directions, such as you are, you are triggering the body consciousness memory in relation to the trauma.
Now; I am aware that this is, or can be, uncomfortable, but this is also an element of the healing process, for is an action of acknowledging the body consciousness and in that, allowing that memory of trauma but not discounting it, and altering the body memory to create a new association rather than to continue with the automatic trigger. Are you understanding?
ROSE: Yes. And I noticed that you speak a lot about the body consciousness yesterday and today, and I noticed that you speak about the recollection of the traumatic experiences and you encouraged a kind of healthy body consciousness to come through and be helpful to the healing process.
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Is there anything more significant about this body consciousness thing?
ELIAS: In what capacity?
ROSE: Just something I'm not aware of, maybe because we have not covered it yet?
ELIAS: At this point, no. It is merely a matter of reconditioning.
ROSE: Okay. Got it.
I was wondering, we have been addressing this, and you said that I should do it playfully. That is a main point in it, as I got it, and so I was wondering if there is the question of being somewhat disciplined about this. But I personally feel no, the way I'm doing it is fine.
ELIAS: Yes, I would agree.
ROSE: Okay.
ELIAS: It is not necessary to be incorporating rigidity and discipline.
ROSE: Very good. I was wondering, we never addressed timeframe of the exercises. I set up a clock for the first two parts, which is the inner landscape and the physical movements, the experimental visualization, for each time ten minutes to have a kind of framework for me. Is that fine, or would suggest something different?
ELIAS: That is acceptable. It is not necessary for you to engage these exercises in lengthy time periods.
ROSE: So it doesn't matter, sometimes two minutes are enough.
ELIAS: Yes!
ROSE: That's what I thought this morning. And I have to tell you something. One evening I was lying in bed and my husband was already asleep, and my muscles, with every time I do the exercise they respond more strongly. And that time I was lying in bed and my muscles, the wrong leg – not only part of the leg but the whole leg – the muscles were very vivid. And it was like they were tense, like being on high heels. So I was lying in bed and I was, we would say, “stolzieren” (strutting), the way you walk on high heels. And I was doing the exercise on high heels around our bed all the time. (Laughs)
ELIAS: (Laughs) I would express a tremendous congratulations to you.
ROSE: (Laughs) Thank you. It was great fun. I'm having so much fun with these exercises, when I'm over the first bit of reluctance.
ELIAS: This is a tremendous success, and very significant.
ROSE: I feel that there is a lot going on, and I was wondering if you can sense this or if you rely on my feedback or report.
ELIAS: I'm aware of your energy, but it is also beneficial to you to be expressing that acknowledgement of yourself. And also I will express that I do not necessarily engage connecting with the actual physical manifestations; I am more focused in relation to your energy, which does offer me information in relation to the physical expressions but I'm not focusing directly upon the physical manifestations.
ROSE: So there is some use for you when I share what's going on, actually.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Quite encouraging.
ROSE: Okay, okay. A brief question: I bought some tools – they are called Slim Spurling’s tools – some months ago. Are you aware of what I'm talking about?
ELIAS: Explain.
ROSE: These are rings which are twisted in a special manner. They are made from copper and gold or silver, and it's said to be very helpful for cleaning the environment and for personal harmonizing and this and that. They were highly, highly recommended by a person called Drunvalo Melchizedek, and I was buying them to experiment with my spine. Some of the experiments we did with, for example, wine and so on. We both had the impression that there was really a significant difference, but on the other end right now I'm wondering about selling them again, because I find they are not that spectacular. And I'm very aware in one of our first sessions I asked you if not just everything in system believes, so I could very well do the same thing without the tools.
ELIAS: Correct. Now, I will express to you, at times it is beneficial for individuals to incorporate some type of tool, in your terms. It matters not what it is, but at times it can be very beneficial to incorporate some type of tool, for they serve as a focal point in allowing you to focus your energy and be directing it very specifically. It is not necessarily that the instrument itself expresses some innate property, although there are some that do. But, generally speaking, the point in engaging at focal point is to be more concentrated and focused in your attention and in your energy, which can be helpful.
ROSE: Okay. I was wondering, we were talking about medication yesterday, and there was a medication which was given to me as well as this letter [the package insert]. And I have very strange and extremely rare side effects, and I wasn't aware that this side effect could come up, but my body responded with this side effect. And I have been relistening to this session of yesterday and I was wondering, Why does the medicine sometimes work and sometimes it doesn't? And sometimes you bring a side effect that you don't know can be but it is described in the literature. And I was wondering about the background of this.
ELIAS: This would all involve your energy and your beliefs.
Now; how this occurs is, you can engage a particular type of medication and you incorporate a general idea of what it is supposed to do and what it is supposed to affect. Beyond that, you may not necessarily objectively incorporate knowledge or an understanding of all of the possible actions that it can affect, but you may be aware that there are other actions that it can create.
Now; this is the element in relation to your beliefs, for what it possibly can create is very strongly associated with your beliefs in relation to medication and what their functions are.
Now; the other factor is energy. At times you may be relaxed and you may be expressing an energy of allowance with yourself, and therefore you will be more receptive to allowing the medication to function in the manner that you want it to function in. In other times, your energy may be more tense. You may be experiencing a time framework of agitation, or you may be experiencing moments or a time framework of rejection or rebellion or frustration, and those factors can create what you would term to be an adverse effect in relation to the medication. And it may even be more directly associated with the medication itself. Rather than being a general agitation or rebelling or repelling, it may be associated with how you are viewing the action of engaging the medication in a particular time framework – which is also not unusual.
Individuals may, at times, willingly engage certain medications, but if they are required to engage them continuously, it is not unusual for the individual to generate an association that they do not want to continue to be engaging this medication, or that it is a mild irritant to them, or they feel reluctant or repelling to the medication, for they are generating an association that some outside source is expressing to them that they HAVE TO engage the medication. Therefore, the association is that this is a dictate, and there can be time frameworks in which the individual, such as yourself, feels a repelling in association with that that you are being dictated to, and this is not your preference or your choice.
Which in actuality, regardless of whether it is your preference or not, it is your choice, but I'm quite understanding that it is very natural for individuals not to feel that it is their choice, to feel that this choice is being thrust upon them and that it is being dictated to them, and that creates a natural automatic response of repelling. Now, dependent upon How you are repelling and how that energy is configuring and how strongly you may be repelling, you can actually create what you term to be side effects or other physical effects in relation to the medication, which is reflecting your rejection of it.
ROSE: That explains it in a way. First I thought maybe there is a kind of subjectively reading the little sheet of paper in the medicine box and, you know, picking up the side effects and then creating one. (Laughs) But there are also different views with it, because when you… You said something like you respond to it, maybe you're reluctant, and in my case it was that I was completely... My conscious was not conscious anymore, I was not aware anymore and I gave a very strange impression to people. And it was, as I said, this very rare side effect, but it makes sense what you said.
ELIAS: And also, I would express an acknowledgement that regardless of whether you objectively are aware of what has been expressed as the possible side effects or not, yes, subjectively you do incorporate somewhat of an awareness, for merely in engaging the energy of the physicians, the energy associated with the medication itself, you assimilate that. And therefore, yes, as the subjective awareness does direct the body consciousness, it can respond to what you are generating in repelling and in reluctance.
ROSE: Yeah.
ELIAS: And in that, will choose one of these other affectingnesses to create a physical manifestation that will reflect your intensity of your dislike or your disagreement with what you are doing.
ROSE: I understand. This is sufficient for me, and the time is running out again. I have a very quick question of Ann and a quick one for me maybe at the end if there is time, and one which is a little longer.
Ann said, “Yes, please say Elias, just tell him I've been thinking, I've been talking to him a lot lately. Ask him if he's aware of it.”
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Okay. And are you answering?
ELIAS: I will be engaging this individual soon.
ROSE: Yes, right. Okay. Then my question; we addressed it briefly yesterday, but it is a little bit different. Circling thoughts: How do you stop circling thoughts? All my life I find myself sitting there and turning in circles. This is not a hamster wheel; this is something different, getting lost in thoughts, and sometimes an hour is nothing, and I'm circling. Sometimes I wonder: How can I control my thought process better? No matter if it's because I'm trying to solve a problem or if I'm just, you know, associatively thinking, but this stopping of circling thoughts.
ELIAS: I am understanding.
ROSE: Okay.
ELIAS: I would express that it is a matter of becoming accustomed to resetting your thought mechanism, and you can do this quite quickly and quite easily by moving your attention to your physical senses. That interrupts that cycle of thinking and that repeat thinking. In this, it immediately moves the thought mechanism into the translation of what you are paying attention to, which is your physical senses, and the thought mechanism will begin immediately to interpret or translate what is occurring with your physical senses and identifying. And this is a very simple, quick and easy manner to reset the thought mechanism.
ROSE: And what if I slip again, then I just repeat?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: It's a matter of training, in a way.
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking. It is a matter of readjusting the thought mechanism to not be continuously moving in the repeat thinking, and it is also a matter of readjusting your attention. For when your attention is focused upon thought, that encourages repeat thinking – or what you term to be circling thinking – for, you or not offering any new information.
ROSE: Yes. You are trying to come up with new information via thinking, but you are starting to circle.
ELIAS: Correct. For your attention is fixed upon the thinking rather than any input of information.
ROSE: Right. Right. Okay, I will practice this and come back to it. We are coming close to the end. I have a fun part. This t-shirt thing yesterday. You said I disappeared the t-shirt, and it's very likely that I will reappear it. Is there a significance that this happens in my life? Is it to make me aware of something? And, of course the question is how do I reappear the t-shirt, because I would like to have it again?
ELIAS: (Laughs) You will reappear it when you are not expecting it, and in this, I would express that all of you engage this action at times in which you disappear some object and subsequently you reappear it once again. And this action is an action that you do that, in a matter of speaking, reminds you of your powerfulness, that there are actions that you create that seem illogical and irrational but are very real. And I would also express, as I have previously, soft individuals do this much more frequently than other orientations.
ROSE: Are you still there?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Okay. Is this what Bashar says, that we are blinking in and out so fast we are not aware of it, it looks to us like continuation but it actually it’s not?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: So the t-shirt would not really be the very same as it was before, but a new one looking similar to the one before?
ELIAS: No, it can be the same shirt.
ROSE: Okay. Okay, very good. Can I determine to say, “Okay, I want to have this t-shirt in this specific room”?
ELIAS: You can.
ROSE: Okay.
ELIAS: Generally speaking, when you disappear an object and a manifestation, you reappear it in a manner to create surprise.
ROSE: Yes. That makes sense. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Which also does significantly gain your attention when you do it.
ROSE: It sounds like fun. (Elias chuckles) Is there a way to do it intentionally, more?
ELIAS: That would require being much more aware of what you are doing in every moment. Yes, it is possible, but it would require a much clearer awareness of what you are doing every moment.
ROSE: Is there a way to reach this more clear space?
ELIAS: Yes, and that is what we have been discussing in being more present.
ROSE: And these exercises are helpful also?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: I mean, also these healing exercises?
ELIAS: Yes.
ROSE: Very well. I like that. (Both laugh)
The last brief question, regarding my sister-in-law, her stats.
ELIAS: And your impression?
ROSE: Oh boy. Thought, common?
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: There could be something with Sumafi.
ELIAS: Correct. That is the belonging.
ROSE: And maybe Vold.
ELIAS: Correct.
ROSE: Okay. Okay. You're tempting to overdo the time, but I have to quit. (Both laugh) We shall discuss again. It's been a pleasure like always. Thank you very much.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend. I shall be anticipating our next meeting, and offer to you great encouragement as always. In dear loving friendship to you, au revoir.
ROSE: Au revoir. Thank you.
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