Check Your Energy and Breathe
Topics:
"Check Your Energy and Breathe"
“When an Impulse Follows a Feeling”
"Guardedness with Perception of Exposure"
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael), Tyler (Moore) and Ginger (Larrette)
[Personal information at beginning of session deleted]
TYLER: I don't think I've quite learned how to relax completely, and I know that to be the case. I know how to be calm by…
ELIAS: Yes. Which we were discussing previously.
TYLER: Correct.
ELIAS: What I would suggest is you pay attention to how you are expressing yourself throughout the day. Meaning, periodically throughout your day, generate a type of check with yourself, in a manner of speaking. Check your energy and breathe. Notice, periodically, how you are breathing. Are you breathing shallow, are you breathing from your diaphragm, or are you breathing shallowly in the upper part of your chest? And in that, allow yourself to pause and breathe and relax. And notice how you are feeling periodically throughout your day.
TYLER: Okay.
ELIAS: Are you tensing? Are you becoming slightly anxious? Are you anticipating? Or are you flowing?
This is a significant action to be paying attention to, for I would express for the most part most individuals are not paying attention to what they are doing throughout the day. They think they are paying attention, or they think that they are aware of what they are physically doing, but even in that they are only partially aware of what they are physically doing in a general capacity by expressing to themself, "I am sitting in front of my computer and I am engaging social media."
TYLER: Mm-hm.
ELIAS: That is a very general observation of what you are doing, and that you are not acknowledging what you are feeling or what you are experiencing or how you are holding your body or how you are presenting your posture and any of that description. In that, you may be engaging your social media and it may be frustrating you, or it may be mildly irritating you, or it may be boring you, or it may be exciting you and interesting you.
All of these different expressions, all of these different feelings, create a very different response with the body consciousness. And all of these different expressions, all of these different feelings, are indicators in relation to how you are engaging and whether you are reacting or whether you are evaluating, whether you are responding, and all of it together is an indicator of whether you are actually allowing yourself to flow with the day or whether the day is being fragmented – meaning stop-start, stop-start, stop-start.
TYLER: I see.
ELIAS: For, that is what your energy does: stop, start, stop, start, stop, start. In that, you move from one action to another to another to another, and with each one there's a stop, start, stop, start, reengage, stop, reengage, and that is not a flow.
TYLER: I see what you're saying.
ELIAS: That is not a natural expression.
TYLER: Yeah.
ELIAS: A flow allows for any action, any expression within your day that occurs and that you notice it but you flow around it. You do not create that stop-start action, that fragmented action. You incorporate that expression within the day that is unexpected, or even an expression that is unwanted, that this was not a part of your plan for your day, and your day became interrupted, for this action occurred or that action did not occur; and in that, rather than allowing those expressions to generate that stop-start, stop-start fragmentation in your day and in your energy, you flow with it. You notice, and you recognize, "This expression was not a part of my plan for this day, but this is what is occurring. Very well, how can I flow with that rather than flow against it?"
TYLER: In a way I think I've become better at that. I do understand what you're saying…
ELIAS: I agree.
TYLER: … and I see what you're meaning. And even with the breathing I can realize that sometimes even when I'm just sitting maybe playing a video game, even with my breathing I'm doing the same thing. Sometimes I'll be looking at it, and then I realized that I've kind of gone back to a shallow breathing (chuckles)…
ELIAS: Yes!
TYLER: … and not really paying attention. I get so drawn into the video game that I almost pay more attention to the game than to myself, but in a way I think I'm also sort of flowing with that too, but then I stop myself and I look back at my breathing. I'm like, "Oh, crap. I should've been doing that, should have been breathing," and that's where I stop, and I'm realizing that.
ELIAS: (Laughs) It is not that you cannot be very engrossed in particular actions that you might be –
TYLER: Right.
ELIAS: – [inaudible] that your attention cannot be fully absorbed in what you are engaging if you are enjoying yourself doing it, but not to the point of it being an expense. Meaning, not to the point to which it is not being a benefit to you any longer.
And in that, I will emphasize, even actions and feelings and expressions that you define or you deem to be good can be expressed in extreme and not be good any longer. Therefore, even in expressions that you enjoy, you can move them in a direction in which you are not flowing any longer, and then they become not as enjoyable; they become more of a compulsion. And that very much changes your energy.
TYLER: Yeah.
ELIAS: [Inaudible] flowing any longer when you are being driven by impulse, that alters your energy and may not be a benefit any longer.
As I have expressed previously, impulses are at times beneficial, but not always.
TYLER: Sure.
ELIAS: There are time frameworks and situations in which impulses may be expressed and they may be considerably strong and they are definitely not to your benefit. Therefore, they are not an expression that is automatically always a benefit to you, and therefore are not always beneficial to follow – which you yourself are aware of pastly in relation to food.
TYLER: Yeah, definitely. (Laughter)
ELIAS: That is an easy example to illustrate that very much does include impulses, but those impulses were not necessarily to your benefit.
TYLER: Correct. What I've been realizing with that is there is something there that makes me want to go eat something, but I want to clarify that. When I feel that draw to go eat something, it almost feels like it's because I don't know what to do, and in a manner of speaking, that's just like I've stopped and then I'm also starting something new just by grabbing something to eat.
ELIAS: Precisely. And that is an excellent point, my friend, for I would express that this is a fairly common action with many, many, many individuals, that they may generate an impulse, and in actuality what they are feeling is perhaps merely being restless, but not to a tremendous degree. They are feeling restless in relation to perhaps generating a new action or perhaps maybe even to want to release some energy, but it is automatically translated into an impulse to do, and you do not know what to do, and therefore you turn to an action that you think is comforting and that will satiate the restlessness.
TYLER: Right.
ELIAS: And therefore you turn to food.
TYLER: Yep.
ELIAS: And that is a very common action, and it is important to recognize that this is not necessarily a beneficial impulse to follow, and that it is not the same as the feeling. The impulse is FOLLOWING the feeling. The feeling is merely restlessness, and it may not be strong. It may be a slight restlessness, but in that, there is that automatic, familiar expression of generating an impulse in addition to the feeling to satiate the feeling or quiet the feeling. That is a reaction rather than an acknowledgment of the feeling.
TYLER: And I assume that what you had said before, even just getting up and moving around is enough to do, –
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: – releasing some of that energy. Okay.
GINGER: To keep from eating.
TYLER: Instead of eating, just get up, move around, maybe do a little bit of exercise, yoga.
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: Okay. That makes sense.
I want to cover a subject we've already talked about many, many sessions ago. Basically, I have recently had a few more experiences, drug-induced, and a few experiences here not drug-induced, and I wanted to ask if these experiences that I'm having that… I'm not even sure how to describe them. I have a hard time putting them into words, but are these experiences with interconnection, the experience of remembrance, is that what I'm experiencing in these moments?
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: Okay. And in those experiences, I'm curious – for me personally, not necessarily generally speaking – but am I interacting with more than just the people who are there objectively with me? Sometimes it feels like that's all I'm interacting with, but then other times, especially after the experiences I will say, when I talk to them about it, they're not quite sure. Like with Ginger, I've asked her about some of the things that I experience within these moments that are for me more subjective, and I understand that. I'm curious if I'm adding a layer to what's going on or if there's actually more communication with maybe another essence or other energies that are happening in those moments.
ELIAS: Both.
TYLER: Okay.
ELIAS: I would express that what you are doing is not filtering. Therefore, you may be assigning an experience, in a manner of speaking, to an individual. You may think that you are specifically interacting or experiencing that interconnectedness with another individual specifically, and there may be partially that action occurring, but you are likely also interacting with others, and for the most part, it may be many others.
TYLER: Right. Okay.
ELIAS: And in that, you do not necessarily distinguish in all of those energies.
For in that, you are experiencing that interconnectedness. There is much less of a distinguishing factor between one energy and another, for there are no boundaries of separation. Therefore you may assign a name or an image of an individual that you know or that you are aware of, but that is not to say that you are solely interactive with that one individual.
TYLER: Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. Especially, kind of where I was going to tangent into is I was also recently a part, as I'm sure you are aware, of the teleportation group.
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: And there were moments during these experiences where… There was no visual, there was no strong impression, but I thought I felt others around also, and so these all kind of tied in. I wasn't sure if that was an impression of the teleportation. I think it is. Could you confirm that?
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: Okay. But at the same time, sometimes, like you said, there may be multiple essences. I've even use the word "chatter." It almost feels like there's A LOT going on, but at the same time –
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: – it doesn't feel like I can quite pin any one particular person or energy.
ELIAS: Yes, I would very much agree.
TYLER: Okay.
ELIAS: And that is not unusual.
Now, in this, let me express to you, there are two directions that could be engaged, and it is very much a matter of the individual and what the individual wants to do or what is attractive to them or what they are curious about. In this, in relation to the experience of interconnectedness, ultimately it is the direction of thinning those veils of separation to a very significant degree, in which there is no actual defining distinction between any energies. And, ultimately, as you expand your awareness and you experience more, that becomes not as confusing, for you become accustomed to not incorporating those barriers or those boundaries of separation, and you begin to experience everything as one. Therefore, the chatter stops, and it becomes one flow.
The experience of the chatter, so to speak, is that there continues to be the element of separation in relation to individuals or different essences as separate entities. And as you move farther and you expand more in the experience of that interconnectedness, you begin to filter out that chatter expression, and it begins to be experienced as one inclusive flow in which there are not separate distinctions.
Now, in that, I expressed "thinning" the veil of separation, not eliminating it. And the reason that I expressed it in that manner is that there continues to be an aspect of separation in that you continue to be aware of your own individual identity. Therefore, you experience that interconnectedness as, in a manner of speaking, a part of you, rather than separate outside sources. But – you also maintain an awareness of, although all of that outside source is a part of you, you maintain your individuality and your identity, knowing and experiencing as PART OF that whole, but also maintaining knowing the aspect of that whole as being you, as yourself.
TYLER: And I feel I've gotten very close, especially in these last couple of times that I really experienced this almost fully.
ELIAS: I would definitely agree, and that you begin to notice that the chatter begins to quiet or changes. It does not diminish the volume of energy, but it does not appear or it is not experienced as many, many, many, many separate entities, and it begins to flow. And in that, you flow with it.
TYLER: Yeah.
ELIAS: Rather than being millions of drops of water, you are one stream of water all flowing together. And in that, are there millions of drops of water? Yes, there are, but it is moving as one flow, one body, and that is what you begin to experience as you expand and you actually move in that direction of being aware of the interconnectedness.
TYLER: Okay. That makes perfect sense. Now, there was one aspect of this that I wanted to ask you about. And that is, in kind of like matter of what you were talking about, in this last time that it really happened strongly for me there was a moment when I was realizing that I was watching almost my thoughts, but more than just that, it was like every little nuance of my energy, any type of movement I would watch, and I was paying attention. And I remember feeling many years ago that when I got to these points it felt like people were reading my mind, because every little nuance of my energy, every little movement was being responded to. This time I realized that it wasn't necessarily an objective, conscious thing that the friends that were there were quite doing TO me, they weren't quite responding TO those movements, but in my perspective that's absolutely what was happening because I could watch it happen.
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: There is one aspect that I know there's a slight discounting in me when sometimes I actually feel almost… I want to use the term "belittled," but that may not be even the right term, and that's not always the case. Sometimes I feel almost encouraged, but then other times I feel like some of the things I'm hearing from whoever else is there, I'm adding a discounting aspect to what I'm perceiving within that flow. This time I kind of realized that is just that sort of back-and-forth nature of what we're doing in each moment, whether we're encouraging our own self or discouraging our self and discounting or not. And I was curious why I keep doing that, especially the discouraging aspect.
ELIAS: That is simple. I would express that it is also very understandable, for initially, there is a considerable awareness of exposure.
TYLER: Yeah.
ELIAS: But your IDEA of exposure is different from what the actual exposure is. Therefore, first of all, the exposure is to yourself. You are exposing you to yourself, and you are expressing that openness in relation to other outside energies and experiencing that interconnectedness, and that feels exposing also.
You expressed it very well when you expressed that it seemed that there is an aspect of mind reading. You also expressed it very well in your description and expressing that you notice that what you are experiencing does not seem to match what the other individuals feed back to you. The reason is that element of exposure.
Now; let me turn this in a manner that perhaps may emphasize it to you in a manner you will understand.
TYLER: Okay.
ELIAS: Have you ever encountered another individual that you identify either as exceptionally open or exceptionally accomplished at connecting with or reading energy, or that the individual is psychic?
TYLER: Yes.
ELIAS: And in encountering any individual in any of those capacities, have you ever experienced yourself or noticed another individual experience a guardedness, for they incorporate somewhat of an apprehension or a fear that that other individual can read their mind or that knows different factors about them without asking and that the individual feels very transparent, and therefore they become guarded?
Now, the individual that may be psychic or that may be considerably open or that may be very accomplished at reading another individual's energy, those talents may be correct, or they may be true, but that is not to say that the individual is mind reading or that the individual objectively knows any physical information about the other individual. They may read their energy in the moment, they may interpret that in relation to a sense or a feeling, but they do not necessarily attach that to any physical actions or manifestations.
Therefore, the exposure is not to other individuals. It is an awareness that is expressed with yourself. And in that, you may be more open to expressing an interaction, not only objectively but subjectively with another individual, or even many, but that is not to say that they necessarily will interpret that in actual physical terms.
TYLER: That makes a lot of sense to me. And yes, I have engaged people, especially one in particular, that I, many years ago, thought was very psychic.
ELIAS: And in that, it is very common and very understandable that you as an individual or other individuals feel exposed to that individual, or you feel transparent, and you feel as if the other individual can see through you as if you were a pane of glass. But in actuality, what they see is your energy expression. Your energy expression does not necessarily translate into thoughts or actions. Therefore, all of the actions that you have engaged in your life that you are less than pleased with have not automatically been exposed to the other individual.
It is the same type of action, but somewhat in the reverse, in what you are describing. YOU are aware of that exposure with yourself, and you are aware of your own transparency in that interconnectedness in which you are aware of no hidden aspects and no secrets, but that is not to say that other individuals are objectively aware of how that translates into thoughts and actions.
Therefore, there is an automatic, in a manner speaking, drawing back and an automatic response of shielding, to a degree, for it feels unsafe. It feels unprotected.
TYLER: Yeah. In this last experience, which happened on New Year's, I feel that I had that particular… Like what you're saying right now, I feel that I was really starting to play with that mentality, even, when I experienced this. It felt that little type of objective expressions that people may be saying – and sometimes I realized that I'm not even hearing fully what they're expressing, I may just be hearing a slight chatter, a noise, and my mind is picking that up, but – like what you're saying, I can see that it's exposing myself to myself, and I realize that there's pretty much no way they're actually seeing the THOUGHTS that are happening, –
ELIAS: Correct.
TYLER: – but I'm realizing that when I move in my thoughts or my energy, that that moves all around me, and there is some type of response, in a way, when I'm paying attention to it.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
TYLER: That's crazy, Elias. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: Yes.
TYLER: Crazy cool. I liked it.
ELIAS: Now, that is not to say that the other individual may objectively be aware of that. And I would also express that even if the other individual is aware of the movement, they may be translating it differently.
TYLER: That makes sense to me. That makes a lot of sense to me.
ELIAS: For you are filtering it through your objective awareness, and in filtering through the objective awareness, remember what I expressed many, many times: Your objective awareness is very abstract. Therefore, there are many, many, many different interpretations for the same action or the same expression or the same energy. Therefore, each individual may be translating that movement, that action that you are seeing, that you are aware of. They may be translating that in a very different manner from yourself, objectively.
TYLER: That makes sense. And with this last experience, I kind of realized – and you can confirm if I'm correct here – that really the movement you're talking about is all basically the same thing, self exposing self to self because self likes to see self be self. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Yes! Yes, I would very much agree.
TYLER: And it's just a big game and having fun with self.
ELIAS: I would agree.
TYLER: Yeah.
ELIAS: And that it is a game of experimentation and how you can expose and what you can expose and what you can do with that, and what that means, and what does it influence, and what is the significance of the influence, and should there even BE a significance of an influence?
TYLER: Yeah. It is making a lot more sense.
ELIAS: It is definitely a game, and I've expressed that from the onset of this forum that is much less serious than you perceive it to be.
And in this also, remember that when any individual is translating anything – any action, any experience, any expression – into objective terms, that also is filtered through perception. For once you engage objective, you are also engaging that mechanism of perception, and perception is very influenced by what?
TYLER: Beliefs.
ELIAS: No. Attention.
TYLER: Oh, yeah. Okay. (Laughs) And attention is influenced by beliefs.
ELIAS: But whatever you are paying attention to in any particular moment is very much influencing your perception, and whatever you are expressing and translating into an OBJECTIVE expression or assessment is all interconnected with that and therefore is filtering through that perception, and that is very connected to what you are paying attention to in the moment.
[The timer for the session rings]
TYLER: Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.
One last question, since the beeper just went off. In some of these experiences when I'm sort of, I would say, deep in that sort of subjective aspect of experiencing that interconnection, sometimes I find myself having a hard time coming back to being just objective. Like, if friends are over and we're having this experience together, and I get into that sort of subjective interconnected feeling, sometimes I have a hard time coming back out purely objectively and being able to talk to people on a more objective basis. And I'm curious if you might have a method or a way, a suggestion to easily kind of come out of that, even if it's maybe something Ginger can do to pull me out or something I can do myself.
ELIAS: What I would express to you is, first of all, that is not unusual.
TYLER: Sure.
ELIAS: I would also express that what exacerbates it is your discomfort, your tension in feeling not safe and feeling somewhat agitated in being exposed.
TYLER: Sure.
ELIAS: Therefore, in that, what I would express to you, that if you are incorporating difficulty in that transition back to the objective expression, remind yourself that you are safe. That is all.
TYLER: Okay.
ELIAS: It is not a matter of giving yourself tremendous explanations or engaging tremendous methods, merely expressing that you are safe.
And if your partner is noticing that you are incorporating difficulty, she can voice that to you also in reinforcement, "You are safe."
GINGER: Very good.
TYLER: Okay. Yeah, I like that. Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome.
I shall be greatly anticipating our next meeting.
TYLER: Yeah, me too.
ELIAS: And more of your adventures! (All laugh)
TYLER: Yes. Yes. Very much so.
GINGER: We have projects. (Laughs)
ELIAS: [Inaudible] and even with ghosts. (All laugh)
I express tremendous encouragement to both of you and exquisite lovingness to you each.
TYLER: And to you.
ELIAS: Until our next meeting my dear friends, au revoir.
TYLER: ‘Bye.
GINGER: ‘Bye.
(Elias departs after 45 minutes 28 seconds)
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