Noticing Automatic Responses
Topics:
“Noticing Automatic Responses”
“Beliefs: Cause and Effect”
Friday, October 29, 1999
© 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Lynda (Ruther).
Elias arrives at 10:55 AM. (Arrival time is 12 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning!
LYNDA: Good morning, Elias! It’s nice to hear your voice
objectively again. (Elias chuckles)
You know, I thought it would be a good idea to pick up where we left
off. When I ended the call with you last time, I thought at first,
in the beginning of the session, that I was talking to another aspect of
you, and later in the conversation, when I relaxed, I realized I was talking
through another aspect of me which was more fearful and nervous.
I have a feeling that you are always you, and I am always me, but I want
to keep talking to you objectively so I can establish, on my side of the
fence, a more relaxed relationship with you objectively, because I want
to bridge the gap between ... or balance me between my objective and my
subjective. You are understanding what I mean?
ELIAS: Quite.
LYNDA: So, that’s why I’m going to talk to you today, and talk
to you, hopefully, now that my world is more stable financially, every
couple of weeks, because I think that you are much more efficient for me
than going to a psychiatrist, Elias!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
LYNDA: (Laughing) Anyway, can I read you something?
It’s a short something I wrote myself, and then we can kind of bounce off
on that?
ELIAS: Very well.
LYNDA: Thank you. “The details of desire manifest in ways
that delight you NOW.” Capital now. “You will not betray you.
There are no methods, only desire and trust. Look now to desire’s
thread in your life. Let go of the handrails; free-falling is indeed
quite free. There are no mistakes, only choices made in the moment.
Caws — C-A-W-S — and effect, a strong couple of birds, neh? It is
never one or the other; there are no absolutes. Essence is too many-hued
to be just three primary colors. Look closer, listen. Blue
has many myriads of shade and tone, as does love.”
Stuff like that is forever pouring out of me, and I save it and I’ve
got it, and I do know that one of these days, it will coalesce into some
books. Right now, though, I want to address the subject of what I
wrote ‘cause I feel such a difference between what I write and me.
So, will you speak on ... speak forth, my friend.
ELIAS: This is merely your expression to yourself in a type of
affirmation.
You have allowed yourself to hear information and to be assimilating
some of that information within you, and as the information that you are
assimilating rings true within you, you also allow yourself to hold to
this, and you mirror this outwardly in your communication to yourself,
and in this, you create a type of affirmation that you may re-engage often,
and therefore be reinforcing yourself within moments of doubtfulness objectively.
LYNDA: Well, I knew that!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
LYNDA: (Laughing) You know, it’s so ... I guess it’s ‘cause
I’m of common orientation, but I think this is — and I’ve talked to you
about this before — this is my essence talking to me. I really don’t
feel like I have to justify it by writing a book, and yet I’m driven to
communicate it out objectively, and it’s all tied into my issues of success
and making money and all that.
Right this very now of my now, Elias, I have created what I call sort
of a stabilizing point where I have balanced ... I am not so panicky.
There’s money coming in. I’m in a very amazing situation with the
older gal I take care of, and these people are quite gracious towards me,
and I am making a lot of observations. But I want to be able to say
this just straight out. This is not a situation I want to spend too
much more time in, and when it’s a situation that I don’t want to be in,
I think, “Oh god, I’m going to HAVE to be in this situation because I am
being long-suffering or ....” It’s so ridiculous. But anyway,
I do feel that I won’t be here that long, but I am allowing myself to not
flip out over the different personality things, ‘cause these people are
quite gracious to me, and I know I’m helping them and they’re helping me,
and there’s a lot of stuff going on ... and I keep trying to win the lottery!
Will you talk to me about my San Francisco stuff and my desire to live
long and prosper? Because it seems like that’s really what I’m setting
myself up for.
ELIAS: Let me offer to you this day that you have created a line
of probabilities presently to be allowing yourself an avenue in which you
may offer yourself permission to relax and to view self, and to be recognizing
your ability to be trusting of self.
In this, within yourself — you individually — it becomes quite difficult
at times to be turning your attention to trust in yourself in the midst
of creating much confusion and anxiety. Therefore, it is more efficient
for you to be creating of a time framework of respite, so to speak, in
which you allow yourself a calmness and the feeling of safety, so to speak,
and as you create that type of environment, you also offer yourself permission
to be turning your attention to self and experimenting with your ability
to trust, for you have allowed yourself what you may term to be your safety
net.
And in this, as you view your movement, if you view yourself to be faltering,
you shall not be creating tremendous anxiety within the moment, for you
have provided yourself with this aspect of safety, and therefore you also
provide yourself with a feeling of comfort.
This environment that you have created facilitates your movement in
turning your attention to areas in which you may experiment, you may relax,
and you may be allowing yourself elements of trust within yourself, and
as you continue in that type of creation, you reinforce your recognition
that you may be trusting of yourself, and this allows you to continue in
small steps — in what you term to be a forward motion — out of the area
of fearfulness and into freer expressions with your own movement.
I hold the awareness that your objective direction is to be creating
movement to this particular physical location, and that you hold a desire
to be creating that type of expression. But presently, you continue
to hold some elements of fear in conjunction with that type of movement,
not entirely trusting yourself that you hold the ability to be creating
of that action without conflict and without a tremendous expression of
anxiety and worry.
This is the reason that you have created the environment and situation
that you participate within now, to offer yourself a temporary time framework
in which you may practice in your expression of trust in self, reinforcing
your recognition of your individual trust, and as you continue to feed
that aspect of yourself, you shall also move yourself more and more into
the actualization of your desire in the area of this physical movement.
LYNDA: Right. I know that I’m also addressing to beliefs
along the way, and my choice to not work. It’s pretty awesome, I
think, that I don’t get up every morning and go to a job like I used to,
and to me, that’s a big deal, and that’s pretty exciting. I think
that’s pretty liberating for me. I do feel like I have to justify
my actions. I don’t have that much interaction objectively with people,
and I’m observing my desire to go, “It’s okay! I don’t have a job,
but I’m doing this and I’m doing that,” and I’m not letting myself do that.
I’m just observing the movement I’m in. Do you know what I mean?
I’m addressing to beliefs about ... the corporate
world to me is as difficult as the religious world. They all sort
of mesh in together, and that demand! I think you’re correct in terms
of me trusting this time. You’re pretty much mirroring back to me
what I really feel. I think it’s very exciting to be allowing myself
the awareness of these beliefs. The ones about the corporate world
are as strong to me as the religious world. I genuinely don’t want
to align with them, but I don’t want to feed them either. You understand
what I’m saying.
ELIAS: Quite. In this also, you are correct that you offer
yourself the opportunity to be addressing to certain aspects of belief
systems as you are allowing yourself this time framework in which you may
be relaxing and not creating an element of stressfulness and pressures
objectively upon yourself, which also reinforces your ability to be trusting
of yourself.
In this also, there is an identification or a definition, which creates
a separation within you, in the subject matter of jobs, in which you look
to certain expressions of employment and you express to yourself that those
expressions are REAL jobs.
LYNDA: Right.
ELIAS: And certain other expressions of employment are not real
jobs.
LYNDA: Right!
ELIAS: I express to you that it matters not. They are all
actions that you create for a specific purpose. Each job, so to speak,
that you engage, you are engaging for the purpose of acquiring financial
gain.
Now; this is another aspect of beliefs that you may be allowing yourself
to turn your attention to, for this is also a mass belief system.
LYNDA: Right.
ELIAS: Individuals look to any form of employment and they define
this action as a job with the purpose of creating or generating financial
gain, and that THAT gain of financial expression shall subsequently provide
the individual with the avenue to be creating what they want, and you also
align with this belief system.
LYNDA: Right.
ELIAS: What I am expressing to you is the reverse.
In this, an element of the action of this shift in consciousness is
to be widening your awareness as individuals, allowing yourselves to be
accepting and trusting of self, accepting the belief systems that you have
created within this physical dimension, and thusly recognizing that you
as an individual create what you desire to create, and move in the direction
that is pleasurable and fun and creates the least amount of conflict, and
that you may be expressing your greatest fullness in your individual creativity
regardless of how that may manifest, and that in DOING that, you shall
generate all that you believe you need.
LYNDA: I’ve heard that before! Hmm!
ELIAS: This is not....
LYNDA: Well, I think I’m moving. I think I’m positioning
myself in that direction. I admit I’m a little bored and impatient,
but I will definitely take you up on what you’re saying. I do think
about that often. I think what the dilemma is, and this goes back
to something you told Holden that I recently read ... ‘cause you know I
came out of that strong religious thing of accepting me, Lynda, as all
that I need, and I definitely am receiving what you’re saying. Do
you know what I mean? I’m tying this back into that.
ELIAS: Correct.
LYNDA: Comfortable with myself. Oh good, alright.
Well, can I ask you another thing?
ELIAS: You may.
LYNDA: Thank you. I think I was on the wrong side of the
revolution in France, and the reason I’m saying that is ... well, I don’t
mean “wrong.” I’m saying that with my tongue in my cheek. I
was sitting on the steps recently, and a woman walked across the street,
and I knew she was somebody’s housekeeper, and I immediately thought, “God,
there’s still such a caste system of jobs and positions in life.”
And in that moment, Elias, I saw a woman wearing like a powered wig — sort
of like Marie Antoinette, but I think a little later — and an empire dress,
and she was walking away from a huge house, and she was walking on a lawn,
and I was sitting up against a tree looking at her, and I was also the
man looking at her, and I was wearing a blue velvet jacket and I had dark
hair, and I realized that was possibly Etienne and Marie Flange I was looking
at. Is that correct? (Pause)
ELIAS: A similar expression.
LYNDA: ‘Cause we were both having the same thought at the same
time simultaneously in different time zones.
ELIAS: Correct.
LYNDA: It was very interesting to have that experience, and it
made me realize the immediacy of this now time, that we all take similar
actions at same time. I just thought that was interesting.
And the reason I say I was on the wrong side of the revolution is because
I think I was not ... oh, I think I have to say this ‘cause this ties into
... I don’t feel particularly identified with
the part of the French Revolution that Lawrence and Michael and you were
involved in. I feel like I was on the other side of the Revolution.
Is that right?
ELIAS: You are correct.
LYNDA: Ah! That helps me because that answers some questions
for me in the experience that I had with Michael and Lawrence.
Right before I came here, when I was at my most flipped out, I’ll call
it, right before ... I didn’t have ... at the time, I didn’t have the money
for another session, and I had this experience with Michael and Lawrence,
and I knew it was okay and I was being the convoluted little sapling, but
it was beneficial in any event, and I felt a real peace about the connection
with Michael and Lawrence, even though I knew ... I felt I was causing
a lot of conflict and having a lot of angry reaction to them. And
later, I really flipped out and sent Michael and Lawrence a letter, and
was very frustrated and very pissed-off, and later felt really guilty about
it.
Anyway, all that tied into that experience, and I guess what I’m trying
to say is, I don’t want to feel guilty about why I feel the difference
between us. It’s calmed down, but I really have no desire to interact
with the Castaic group. I’m just not interested in it, and I feel
guilty about that. I continue not to interact. Can you please
talk to me about that? I’m trying to be as open and honest with you
as I can, so talk to me, if you would, please.
ELIAS: Very well.
LYNDA: Thank you.
ELIAS: Now; there are two elements holding involvement in this
situation which may be also expressed in many, many different individuals
and therefore may be beneficial in objective recognition to many individuals,
and yourself also.
In this, there are certain elements of influence in energy which are
exchanging and affecting in a type of manner within all of the expressions
of all of the focuses of essence.
What I am expressing, first of all, is that I have offered statements
to you all many times that all of your focuses are simultaneous and they
are all affecting of each other continuously. You are affecting of
all of the other focuses of essence, and all of the other focuses of essence
are affecting of you.
In this, be remembering that you, although as a particular manifestation
you are one focus of attention, you are also all of essence. And
in this, I hold an awareness of the difficulty in objective understanding
of this concept, for you have created separations, veils, and a linear
time framework quite purposefully, that you shall retain your individual
identity within one particular focus of attention.
But this may also be confusing at times, for as I express to you that
other focuses are continuously influencing within energy of this focus,
I am NOT suggesting to you that any element of your reality is created
without your knowledge or without your participation or without your permission.
(Intently) In this, the whole of you as essence participates in
every focus of attention.
Therefore, you may be holding one focus within one time framework creating
a certain line of probabilities and experiences, and within another time
framework you may hold another focus of attention which creates a different
line of probabilities and experiences, but you generally are participating,
as I have stated many times, with groups of essences.
(Intently) Therefore, each essence is focusing several or many
attentions in conjunction with other essences in the same time frameworks
and physical locations in this physical dimension. Therefore, you
interact with each other continuously.
Think to yourself in physical terms.
In this, you may be interactive with a group of individuals in objective,
physical terms. You may be occupying the same area, so to speak,
and you participate in interaction with a specific group of individuals.
Now; you may choose to be engaging several games simultaneously with
this group of individuals. You may engage many different games.
(Intently) As you play these games, the rules and the objectives
of the games individually are different, but the interaction between the
players is the same.
The direction of each game may be different. The experience of
each game may be different. But you are not separating yourself into
many different individuals and placing each of the individuals before each
game, and neither are any of the other individuals separating themselves
into many different individuals, placing each one before each game, creating
separate groups to be playing each game simultaneously. You are one
individual, and you are merely playing all of the games simultaneously
in conjunction with the other individuals in your group.
Now; in like manner, essences focus their attention in many different
directions, and each attention becomes a manifestation, a focus within
this physical dimension. This is not to say that each focus is not
all of essence, for it is. Therefore, all of the actions that are
being created in any one experience in each focus are assimilated and affecting
of all of the other focuses of attention.
Think to your physical body. You may be creating the movement
of walking, and in this movement of walking, you may create an action of
colliding your foot with an object, a rock, and it may bruise your toe.
The whole of your physical body is not bruised; your toe is bruised.
The whole of your physical body is aware of the bruise that occurs with
your toe. The experience that your toe has engaged is affecting and
recognized and noticed by all of your physical body, but the experience
of the bruise upon the toe is not transferred and created throughout the
entirety of your body.
It is experienced. It is assimilated. It is recognized.
It is affecting. But your entire body is not bruised, for your entire
body is not creating the identical same experience. It is assimilating
the experience. It is sharing the experience. But it is not
necessarily creating the same experience within every individual cell within
your physical body.
In like manner, as each focus of essence creates experiences, the other
focuses assimilate these experiences, and recognize and may be responsive
... although the responsiveness, I shall express to you, is a choice.
It is not necessarily an absolute, but it may be an automatic, for you
are familiar with automatic responses.
Therefore, you may be allowing yourself to choose the automatic responses,
and therefore, as one focus is engaging in a particular line of experiences
and probabilities, you may allow yourself to automatically be responding
to the assimilation of that energy and the recognition of those experiences.
This is a choice, but it does occur many times within physical focus
quite without your noticing, for it is an automatic response, and you do
not pay attention to automatic responses.
This experience that you have offered yourself is an example of this
type of action. This occurs quite frequently within physical focus.
Now; I am not expressing this information to you, that you may subsequently
view this information and create a tremendous action of concentration upon
this particular action in energy or that you may be over-analyzing all
that you do and all that you respond to within your physical focus, but
merely to offer you information, that you may allow yourself to be aware
objectively and to be noticing, and in noticing, you offer yourself the
ability to create more choices, not merely the cause and effect.
Your belief in cause and effect stems from your action of placing yourselves
in automatic action. Therefore, as you disengage your automatic responses
and you allow yourselves to begin noticing how you create this automatic
response or reaction, you also open the window within your awareness to
be allowing yourselves a myriad of different choices that you do not necessarily
offer yourself as you create these automatic responses.
LYNDA: Right. I think a lot of what you’re saying is, my
automatic response is because I have such ... I was in this other group
for so many years, and automatically, if I see something that reminds me
in parallel with the Castaic group, I shrink back. I think that is
just an automatic response from the other group I was with, and wanting
so much to stress ... to give myself permission to make my own choices,
and even give myself permission to flip out, and then observe it.
And I am playing the no-conflict game with it and I am observing the
automatic responses, and at least I’m aware of them more than I ever have
been before, and I’m not condemning myself. My god, the self-condemnation
is just such a ... you know, I’m allowing myself to automatically do that,
and then at least talk to you about it and have you give me this information
so I can get it out and let it out. Do you understand what I’m saying?
ELIAS: Quite, and I am understanding of the direction that you
are moving into, and I am expressing to you that this is movement.
This is an action of noticing and allowing yourself to be noticing, and
I am expressing to you encouragement to be continuing in this direction.
It matters not the response of another individual.
I express to you also much encouragement and reinforcement to you to
not be moving yourself into a condemnation and a discounting of self in
the expression of, “I have created this action. It has been very
bad. I am very sorry that I have created that action.” No.
You have created an expression within the moment which is neither good
or bad. It is merely an expression that you have chosen and offered
within that moment.
Now; you may look to these types of expressions and you may recognize
within yourself that you have created an automatic response which limits
you and does not provide you with the opportunity of viewing more of your
choices, which limits your expression of creativity.
But this is quite a different direction from the thought process of
condemnation and expressing to yourself that you have created an expression
that is wrong or that is bad, and that you must be or should be altering
your behavior to be expressing yourself in a better manner in conjunction
with other individuals.
THIS is an aspect of the belief system of duplicity, and this is what
I am expressing to you and to other individuals — not to be altering your
behavior in the manner of merely reinforcing the existing belief systems
that you align with and to be expressing those existing belief systems
more in energy and forcefulness, but to be recognizing without judgment
that you are creating choices within the moment continuously, and that
none of your choices are good or bad. They are merely choices, and
in this, the automatic choices are not bad either. They merely limit
you and do not allow you the freedom to be viewing OTHER choices.
LYNDA: That’s great! I definitely think that’s great what
you’re saying, and I really appreciate it, and I receive that information.
(Laughing, and Elias chuckles) It’s just so weird! Oh boy,
that’s great, Elias. I appreciate it. Thank you.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
LYNDA: I’m going to think about it and interact with you.
I’m going to go back and interact with you subjectively, which is so much
more fun, and easier, frankly, but I’m determined to bridge the gap.
ELIAS: Ha ha!
LYNDA: And I will do that, and I will let you go and I will let
Mary go, and I hope to be talking to you in a couple of weeks.
Do you have any final words of wisdom, Mister Elias, whose Oscar Wilde
pictures are all over my neighborhood because they’re having a retrospective
of Oscar Wilde at UCLA? And wherever I drive, I look up, and like
within a block, there’s a picture of Oscar Wilde, and it just makes me
laugh and think of you and relax, and I want to thank myself for creating
that imagery! How’s that?
ELIAS: Very well. (Chuckling)
I express to you encouragement, and I also express to you to be noticing.
This one action shall be your most beneficial creation.
If you are not noticing what you are creating, you also shall not be
addressing to what you are creating and you shall not offer yourself the
objective ability to be expanding and creating new freedoms, for you shall
not allow yourself to view all of the myriad of choices that you hold.
And this is wondrous, that you shall allow yourself to view all of your
choices and all of your creativity! Continue within your reinforcement
of acceptance and trust, and be noticing.
LYNDA: I will, my friend. I love you. Thank you, and
I’ll talk to you quite soon objectively.
ELIAS: Very well. I offer to you this day great affection,
and I anticipate our next meeting. To you this day in lovingness,
au revoir.
LYNDA: Au revoir.
Elias departs at 11:45 AM.
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