Sunday, June 26, 2022 (Private/Phone)

Participants: Mary (Michael) and Vivienne (Eliza)

VIVIENNE: I feel I’m casting off some of these chains (chuckles) that I’ve have managed to weigh myself down with, and little by little I’m moving in much better directions. It’s very challenging right now, because I do not want to get caught up in the polarities that seem to be occurring; there seems to be so much unrest. And I do recognize that lending energy in whichever way, like being fearful or anxious, is lending energy to that, and I don’t want to. Besides what I’m doing, do you have any other suggestions that I might implement with regards to this, please?

ELIAS: One: I would say the first is, whatever direction you express in relation to your opinion, remind yourself that it’s your opinion and nothing more. It doesn’t mean that it’s absolute or that you are absolutely right or correct; it simply means that that’s your opinion, and your opinion is based in your guidelines, therefore it’s right for you.

Two: When you present to yourself expressions that are different that you don’t necessarily agree with, remind yourself that those opinions are the same – they are opinions that are not necessarily right OR wrong, they are reflecting the OTHER person’s guidelines, and for them, they are equally as right as yours.

And in that, you don’t have to PROVE anything, because that’s what influences people to hold to their rightness, that they perceive they have to prove that they’re right to someone else, and therefore, while they are proving their rightness, they’re also proving the wrongness of the other individual. Therefore, I would say remain simple, and in that simplicity move in reminding yourself that your guidelines are right for you, other people’s guidelines are right for them, you don’t have to agree with each other, but that it’s not important to match energy.

Your world, your life, it’s not going to be threatened by the other individual unless you allow it to be. Therefore in that, remind yourself that regardless of what another individual’s opinion is, it’s not changing your life. And if it IS actually, physically changing your life, then it’s a matter of being creative and moving in the direction of how to express cooperation with that individual. But if it’s not affecting your life, there is no reason for you to be defending.

I know it is difficult to remember in the heat of the moment when you might be being challenged by the expression of someone else, and in that, it can be challenging to simply remember all of this. But if you can, and the MORE you can, the more automatic it becomes that you won’t be reactive.

And I would say to you, even beyond all of this that I have said to you, making it even more simple: Regardless of what anyone else expresses, or how they express, simply ask yourself before you respond or react that simple question of “Is this who I want to be? What do I want to be expressing? Who do I want to be? Do I want to be reactive? To be expressing judgment? Do I want to be expressing intolerance? What do I want to be? What do I want to express rather than reacting?

VIVIENNE: Thank you. That will be helpful. I tend to feel lately that we really now have to put into application everything we’ve been learning, that now’s the time.

ELIAS: I agree.

VIVIENNE: And it can be challenging initially, because the automatic patterns kick in and then it’s like this is the moment now, to put this information into practice.

ELIAS: Yes, I agree. It’s important.

VIVIENNE: Yes, I feel that. Yes.

ELIAS: Especially now, with such great division. The more you move in the direction of the division, the more you lend energy to it. Whereas, the more accepting you can be, the more you diffuse that division.

And remind yourself: what was the mass event all about?

VIVIENNE: Self-directing, acceptance of differences, and self-something else.

Elias: Structuring.

VIVIENNE: Self-structuring!

ELIAS: But that piece of acceptance of difference is tremendous. And in the mass event, you gave yourselves the opportunity to actually blatantly see differences to present to yourselves whether you would be reacting or whether you WOULD be accepting. And now as you said, more than ever, yes, it is very important to be moving in that direction.

VIVIENNE: Thank you.

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