Expanding Brain Utilization; Reducing Separation; Eliminating Medications
Topics:
“Expanding Brain Activity”
“Reducing Separation with the Body Consciousness”
“Experimenting with Stopping Medications”
“Communicating Directly with Elias”
“Expanding How You Perceive What You Already Know”
Sunday, July 25, 2021 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Nuno (Lystell)
ELIAS: Good morning!
NUNO: Good morning.
ELIAS: Ah! And what shall we discuss, my friend?
NUNO: Okay, let’s start with I want to ask you about how I’m doing with those two—I don’t know what you call it exactly—the two uses of your energy that you suggested last time we talked. So, the first one was in using your energy as a conduit in order to direct my essence energy towards me, and I’ve been practicing that and I think I’ve been getting results with that, but I’d like to confirm that with you.
ELIAS: I definitely agree. I would say yes, and I would be significantly acknowledging of you, my friend.
NUNO: Okay. Sure. Well, that’s excellent. You said that there may not be any sensations from the energy, but I actually get considerable sensations from that.
ELIAS: Excellent. Excellent!
NUNO: It’s kind of a little interesting, but when I go through the process to engage your energy, or what I call the conduit with my energy, I briefly have experienced the pulsations of consciousness. Does that make sense?
ELIAS: Excellent! That is excellent progress.
NUNO: Okay. Then the other topic is the other thing you suggested, which was that you would give me a notification whenever I was expressing something in the direction of degeneration. And that I definitely have received, but I received it as a thought. We had talked about receiving it both as an itch and a thought, but the thought is very effective and it comes almost instantaneously. That’s my experience. Can you confirm that?
ELIAS: Definitely, and I would express that you’ve been considerably successful with that also. Congratulations!
NUNO: Thank you. Now the next topic is, I’ve been noticing that when I’m engaging in these what I call transformation exercises, and particularly when I engage your energy to aid in that, that I get what I call a sore brain, in that particularly if it’s intense, then I will get kind of a headache but it’s kind of more than just a headache. It’s kind of certain areas of the brain will feel a pain sensation. That has subsided actually considerably, but what I still notice is that if I cough or sneeze afterwards, there is definitely some pain sensation there. Now, is this attributable to the exercises?
ELIAS: Yes. Actually, I would say that this also is a matter of expansion, that you’re actually expanding the activity in your brain. And in that, let me remind you that your physical brain is not accustomed to activity in most of it, because you don’t engage most of it. And therefore, activating more of your physical brain actually can be likened to exercising a muscle that is in a beginning stages of atrophy. Although your brain isn’t atrophied, it isn’t accustomed to being exercised, for the most part.
NUNO: So, in what way are these exercises exercising the brain?
ELIAS: You are actually engaging activity in more of the brain.
Think about it in this manner: If you visualize your physical brain, think about you actually are engaging—usually—with, I would say, approximately an eighth of your brain. Therefore, 1/8 of your brain is accustomed to being exercised and being used and being engaged.
Now, this is not the same as creating new grooves, new neurological pathways. This is different. This is your existing brain, and in that, there is 7/8 of them that simply exist. They aren’t being used. It isn’t being engaged. Therefore, it isn’t being exercised. One-eighth of it is constantly being engaged and is being exercised and is very fit, and the other 7/8 of it is dormant. Now you are beginning to use more of your brain and therefore, the parts of your brain that you are beginning to use are sore, because they aren’t accustomed to being used.
I would say, it would be very similar to exercising other muscles in your body that you’ve used, but let us say that you don’t use them consistently. And in that, you begin to generate certain exercises that actually engage muscles that aren’t accustomed to being engaged. If you begin running and you have never run before, your legs will burn, because the muscles are being used differently. If you are generating certain exercises that engage abdominal muscles that you don’t generally use much, they will burn; they will actually hurt. And in that, once those muscles become accustomed to being used, then they stop hurting and they are more flexible and you can use them more effectively.
It is very similar in relation to your brain. You’re beginning to use parts of your brain that haven’t been used, and it’s stretching it and engaging it and making it move. And it isn’t accustomed to doing that, and therefore, it hurts. But that is definitely temporary. It will stop.
NUNO: Okay. Well, that’s good news. I was somewhat concerned about that, but I more or less came to the same conclusion. Okay. That’s very important information.
Last time we talked, we talked a little bit about the difference between simply increasing the amount of energy I incorporate and reducing separation. So, my question is, what is it that reducing separation would do for me that simply increasing the energy does not?
ELIAS: (Pause) Very well. You can be increasing energy. You can be increasing energy considerably and not necessarily be increasing your awareness. You can be increasing energy significantly and not be generating the type of awareness that would lessen your perception of separation. Actually, you’ve BEEN doing that for years. You’ve been increasing your energy and expressing more energy in different capacities and not necessarily decreasing your perception of separation.
When you decrease your perception of separation, then you allow not only for an increase in energy, but you also allow for an increase in activity, an increase in relation to your awareness and interaction in interconnectedness, with yourself and with everything else, but mainly with yourself. The interconnectedness that you may experience with yourself in reducing the factor of separation is considerable.
NUNO: Okay. This is new information for me, because my understanding was that by increasing the energy, that was all that had to be done—because I AM energy, so by increasing more energy into the focus, that was sufficient. So, it is very important to me that after what you just said, that I reduce separation. And therefore, what I would ask is what do I change in my exercises to do that?
ELIAS: (Pause) It’s not necessarily what do you change in the existing exercises, although there may be some question of that, but I would say that it may be a matter of engaging new exercises. Meaning, (pause) separation is a built-in factor into physical reality; all physical realities incorporate varying degrees of separation.
Now, in relation to reducing separation, understand first of all you don’t eliminate it altogether. You aren’t removing separation altogether. If you were, you would simply disengage from physical reality, because as long as you are IN physical reality, you will be expressing some separation because of the very nature of the physical reality; and that in that, you have a physical body and you are engaging with physical manifestations, which are singular in their very nature.
Therefore, I would say that it’s a matter of beginning to alter your perception in relation to the expressions of separation. And in that, this may also give you headaches because it will be exercising your brain in certain capacities more specifically. But in this, it’s a matter of first discerning and choosing which parts of separation that you are expressing and that you are aware of and that you are keeping in a maintaining capacity because you are in a physical reality. Therefore, you’re aware of these certain aspects of separation, you’re maintaining them intentionally, but you’re also, in a manner of speaking, moving around them—one of them being the separation of everything in relation to physical matter; therefore, that you are aware that everything incorporates an aspect of separation because you are in physical reality, and that everything that is in your physical reality has that aspect of separation in its individual expression but that you are somewhat moving around that in also recognizing that you are interconnected with everything.
Now, when I say that, let me express to you that I mean that differently than what you are accustomed to in association with that, or how you are accustomed to thinking about that, that you are acknowledging the separation of entities, but that you are also moving around that by dropping some of the separation—not all of it, but some of it—in relation to beginning to experience—not think about, but experience—yourself and other individual entities as being the same. Therefore, looking at a chair and maintaining the separation that the chair is the chair and you are you, and that there is that element of separation, but that you are also moving around that separation and dropping some of the separation in being able to experience the chair as being you, or you as being the chair.
NUNO: Okay. Can I just interject here with some information? One of the things you said to me last time which was actually very significant was that I am the body consciousness.
ELIAS: Correct.
NUNO: And on having fully understood that, and not just on an intellectual basis but actually having experienced it and accepted it as an absolute truth, I then went on to express to myself that not only am I my body consciousness, I am my objective reality. Is this correct?
ELIAS: Yes, you are. And yes, that is correct. Now it is a matter of taking that a step farther, because that is very general. And therefore, in being general in that capacity, you aren’t actually experiencing yourself as the other entities in your reality. Are you understanding?
NUNO: Mm, not really.
ELIAS: If you pick up a rock off the ground and you hold it in your hand, you aren’t experiencing yourself as that rock. You are expressing a generality that you are all of your objective reality—which is true, and you are, but you’re not actually experiencing all of that yet. Therefore, in that, this is what I am saying. NOW it is a matter of incorporating another exercise that allows you to begin to experience yourself as that rock but also experience the rock as you—which, it isn’t the same.
And in that, the rock is consciousness, but it’s also a physical manifestation. Therefore, it also inherently is expressing separation. Therefore, in that, you’re creating a circle in awareness in that interconnectedness by dropping parts of the separation. You still know that that rock is a rock; therefore, it is another entity in your reality. But beyond being an entity, you can experience being the rock and you can experience the rock being you. (Pause)
NUNO: Okay. I understand that. And my question is, what exercise? I mean, I’ve experimented with what you are describing in some small way, and perhaps you have some suggestions on how to proceed with that. But also, if I can incorporate your energy in a similar manner that I do to use it as a conduit for my energy, perhaps your energy can also be an aid in that.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes. Definitely. I am available to that, and I definitely will engage with you in relation to that exercise.
Now, in that, it’s similar to a meditation and similar to the exercise in clarity. It is actually neither, but it’s similar to both, in which you are setting aside your thinking, as you would in relation to a meditation, and you are concentrating on the experience rather than the translation of the experience, and how it is similar to the exercise in clarity is that you are directing your attention in a capacity in which you are, in a manner of speaking, blocking out everything else except what you are concentrating on.
Therefore, what I would say to you is be specific to begin with. Choose an object. Choose an entity in your reality: a rock, a leaf, a feather, anything. Choose some entity in your reality, and in that, block out everything else except that entity. Therefore, what is left is you and that entity.
And the exercise is to concentrate your attention on you and the entity, and to concentrate your attention on the experience of you and that entity, and to move that experience into one in which you are aware that you ARE—not that you are a part of, but that you ARE that entity—and then moving the awareness in a full circle in that you are also aware that that entity is you. (Pause)
NUNO: Okay. And I do this while engaging your energy?
ELIAS: Yes.
NUNO: Okay. I understand.
ELIAS: I would say, if you find that you are having difficulty with one entity, change to a different entity. Sometimes one entity may be more difficult than another, simply dependent upon your energy and its energy.
NUNO: Okay. That makes sense. Do you have anything else to say on that?
ELIAS: No.
NUNO: Okay. Then my next question is, I’ve been taking some medication for my blood pressure for quite a while now, about twenty years, and it’s something that I’ve been trying to eliminate unsuccessfully for some time. One of the medications in particular has a side effect which makes my feet swell, and I don’t know what else it does but I really would like to get rid of this thing. It’s called amlodipine besylate. And as I say, I’ve attempted to eliminate this in different ways by gradually reducing the dosage, by skipping and whatever, and it’s always ended up very badly for me in that attempt. So, I am asking you for advice on this. I really don’t feel that these medications do anything for me; they are simply something that I incorporate… well, you understand what I mean. So, what can you advise me on this?
ELIAS: When you say that you have attempted to stop these medications and that it goes badly, what does that mean?
NUNO: That means that my blood pressure goes up and, well, mostly that’s what happens and I feel very uncomfortable, painful, and that’s what happens.
ELIAS: The first piece that I would say to you is that you also made a statement that you want to stop this medication because it isn’t doing anything for you. It obviously is doing something, or that wouldn’t be the result. If it wasn’t doing anything, then it wouldn’t matter if you stopped it. Your blood pressure would not be affected, if it wasn’t doing anything. Therefore, it obviously is doing something.
And in that, that’s the first piece to address to. If you don’t want to be continuing with a particular medication, then the first piece is to address to the medication, and in that, moving in a direction in which you are acknowledging that the medication IS doing something and that you can do the same without it, that you can maintain your body consciousness in the same manner, or better, without it. But the first piece is to acknowledge that it IS doing something, and that in stopping it you would be doing the same action or better, that you would be replacing it by expressing that action yourself, that you would be instructing the body consciousness to do what the medication is presently doing.
NUNO: Okay. I understand this. And in that, what I have started to do with the body consciousness—I mean, reduce the separation with the body consciousness—what I’ve started to do is stop referring to it as a separate entity. So, I think of the body consciousness as myself. So, I don’t think of it as instructing the body consciousness; I think of it as directing myself to do what I want to do with the body consciousness.
ELIAS: Excellent! I would definitely agree.
NUNO: Okay. And so with the medication, I understand what you just said. Then once I have done that, acknowledged it and instructed the body consciousness, should I then just stop taking the medication? Should I reduce the dosage? Should I skip the dosage occasionally? What would you suggest?
ELIAS: I would express that you experiment. I would express to you not to simply stop it, because it is a matter of experimenting and validating to yourself what you have actually done, what you are actually accomplishing in relation to how you are maintaining yourself with your body, and in that, WHAT you’re doing, WHAT you’re expressing. And what I would say is that, because this is all very unfamiliar and new, it’s a matter of experimenting with it, because it’s not simply a matter of feeling. Remember: feelings, whether they be emotional or physical, are signals. And when you stop the medication or when you reduce it, your body is generating a signal to you to communicate what you are not fully objectively aware of. The feeling isn’t communicating that, but the feeling is alerting you to the communication, as you know.
Now; in that, you aren’t entirely aware objectively of what your body is doing or what you are doing as your body. And in that, this is why you HAVE these feelings. And therefore, I would express to you that it would be more advantageous and beneficial for you to experiment. You can experiment in different capacities. You can experiment with skipping some of the medication and observe what you do and what you experience, or you can reduce it and observe what you experience. In this, your feelings will aid you, because that will be the signal in relation to what you are doing with your body.
If you are not being entirely successful, you will generate a feeling to alert you that you aren’t entirely engaging in the manner that you want to, or that you haven’t acknowledged entirely perhaps what the medication is doing, and therefore, what you are doing INSTEAD of the medication—how you are, in a manner of speaking, taking over for the medication, and you are doing the action instead. And in that, because you aren’t objectively aware of every aspect of your physical manifestation and all of the functions of your body consciousness, you don’t entirely know objectively what you’re doing or what the medication is doing that is altering your blood pressure. But you don’t have to know; all you have to know is what you feel. And in that, you respond to what you feel by recognizing that your feeling is generating that alert, that signal to pay attention to what is happening.
Therefore in that, I would say it’s a matter of acknowledging the action of the medication, and then moving in a direction of trusting that YOU in your subjective communication and maintaining of the functioning of your body consciousness can be expressing that instruction without the aid of the medication.
NUNO: Okay. I understand. I think there is some key information there I was missing, and I think this is going to help me.
ELIAS: Excellent.
NUNO: My attempts to communicate with you have not been very successful in that I don’t receive accurate information. So let me just begin by asking you, when I do attempt to communicate with you, are you receiving my communication to you?
ELIAS: For the most part, yes.
NUNO: Okay. I think it’s a matter of the modality that I am employing just isn’t working, and I would like some advice on how to proceed with this.
ELIAS: And what is it that you want to do in relation to your communications with myself?
NUNO: I’m not sure I understand the question. I want information. I want answers to questions.
ELIAS: What type of information?
NUNO: It depends. I mean, many of the questions I am asking you today I have attempted to get answers from you directly, and I got totally incorrect information.
ELIAS: What I would say to you, my friend, is I am definitely willing to be interactive with you and expressing my energy with you and communicating with you to a degree, but I would say that I also have expressed from the onset of this forum that I am not engaging in an exchange with any other individual other than Michael. And if you are engaging in wanting information in a capacity that is similar to what I am offering to you now, that would be, for the most part, an exchange.
NUNO: Okay. I understand what you’re saying, and I will look to other sources for that.
ELIAS: Excellent! [In a higher-pitched, more intense voice] And what I would say to you is, I would very much encourage you, in looking to other sources, [resuming normal pitch and intensity] I would encourage you to look to you as essence, because you have all of the same information as I would give you.
NUNO: Yes, of course I do. And that’s the whole point of my exercises, but I am… That is a process that is continuing.
ELIAS: Precisely. And I am tremendously, tremendously encouraging you in that process and in your engagement of that, that it is definitely worth it.
NUNO: Well, I never doubted that. (Both laugh) That to me is pretty much a certainty.
I’ve got a question about a humming sound. This is kind of an interesting humming sound that I am hearing. At first I thought there was an objective source to this humming sound, then I noticed that no matter what direction I am facing, the humming sound seems to generally be coming from the left. At first I thought it was inside the house; I would go outside the house and I’d still hear the humming sound. The intensity varies. It depends on what I’m doing. It seems to increase when I do my exercises. Today I put on noise-cancelling headphones, and that just kind of increased the clarity of the humming sound. It’s the kind of sound that the technology would easily have eliminated had it been an external source. So I’m wondering, am I translating some energy into this sound? Is that what is occurring here?
ELIAS: Actually, I would say that this is part of that action that you are engaging with your brain. (Pause) It isn’t that the sound itself has a specific significance; it’s more a matter that it is somewhat of a byproduct of that action of exercising your brain and using more of it. I would say that it is actually possible and even likely that temporarily you might notice different expressions with all of your senses, that they may be enhanced, they may seem at times somewhat off. Therefore, you might notice more intensity, and then you might notice a dulling of one or more of them, or you might actually notice something odd in that the expression of each sense, or any of them, might be somewhat distorted. Meaning… (Pause)
The most effective example would be in relation to your sense of taste or smell, or even touch, that in your sense of smell you might smell something and it will translate as something else. Therefore, you might smell a rose, and you know what the smell of the rose is, you know what the fragrance is, and you might actually be smelling vanilla. Or you might taste something and you know what a particular taste is, and you are generating a different taste entirely. That would be less frequent, I would say less of an expression, but the intensity increase or the dulling of—both—may be much more frequent.
This sound that you are hearing in your ears, it’s… (pause).
[Connection is disrupted and is re-established]
ELIAS: Continuing. (Pause)
NUNO: You were, I believe, beginning to describe what this sound is concerning.
ELIAS: It has to do with your inner ear. It is a sound that you normally wouldn’t hear, but in movement in your inner ear and in relation to the movement of different fibers in your inner ear, it creates that sound. In this, it is temporary, in that I express you can be engaging the exercise in clarity if you are so choosing and turn off a part of your hearing—perhaps not ALL of your hearing, but certain aspects of it, and that may help, or it may create a situation of less annoyance.
NUNO: It’s not annoying. I was just very curious about this.
ELIAS: Very well.
NUNO: Another thing I would like to know is, in this expanded use of my brain, in what capacity is the brain being used in that?
ELIAS: Meaning?
NUNO: I mean, you’re saying that normally one-eighth is being used for the normal functions that people use it for, so in expanding the use of the brain as a result of my exercises, in what capacity is this expanded portion of the brain being used?
ELIAS: Meaning what part of the brain is being expanded in use?
NUNO: No, for what purpose?
ELIAS: (Laughs) Ah! I would say that is obvious. That is for your awareness. The more of your brain you are actually using, the more clarity you express in relation to the energy that you are expressing, the awareness that you have, because everything is being filtered through your body consciousness, because you are in physical focus. Therefore, your physical brain, in a manner of speaking, is your command center of your being in physical focus, and therefore the more you actually expand the use of your brain, the more you expand your objective awareness and your objective ability to be aware and directing your attention.
NUNO: Well, that’s valuable.
ELIAS: I agree. (Chuckles)
NUNO: Okay. That’s excellent. Another question here. I’ve noticed that recently a lot of past memories and experiences of kind of a negative nature have been surfacing. A lot of them are from my adult life or adolescent life, and I’ve been kind of addressing to them as they surface, but I was wondering, are these things all surfacing now for some reason?
ELIAS: I would say yes, in relation to you surface more in association with how much more you become aware. You present more to yourself, and that includes presenting old information or old associations that you can now perceive differently, and that you can move in a direction of expanding that also.
[The timer for the end of the session rings]
The more aware you become, the more you present to yourself, even in relation to what you already know, in allowance of yourself to expand HOW you perceive what you already know.
NUNO: Okay. I understand.
Then I think that’s everything for today, and I want to, as always, thank you for your time and information, which is always extremely, extremely valuable.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend, and I shall be anticipating our next meeting. And I shall be offering my energy to you continuously in support, in help, in awareness and in friendship. Until our next meeting, my dear friend, in tremendous love as always, au revoir.
NUNO: Au revoir.
(Elias departs after 1 hour)
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