Entrepreneur of Experience
Topics:
“Entrepreneur of Experience”
“A Discussion on Intent”
“You ARE the Aroma”
Sunday, August 6, 2000
© 2001 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Rodney (Zacharie).
Elias arrives at 9:37 a.m. (Arrival time is 25 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning!
RODNEY: Good morning! I thought maybe you weren’t coming
through!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) There are many layers of consciousness,
and I thought maybe there was some traffic congestion on your way here!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: You are as always, correct?
ELIAS: As always!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Well, good morning anyway....
ELIAS: And you are as always also!
RODNEY: Yes, I think so!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Yes, I am! (Laughing) You know, I just had a conversation
about some of your tricks, I think people call them — about things happening,
little blue things and stuff....
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! These are not tricks, Zacharie!
These are manipulations of energy in playfulness!
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Well, I did not intend that they were
not playful!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I have acquired a few blue things myself, and it’s kind
of like been without consciously doing it. I’ve been gathering little
blue objects. (Laughing, and Elias chuckles) People happen to give
them to me!
ELIAS: Ah!
RODNEY: Of course, I don’t know if you had anything to do with
that!
ELIAS: Of course not! It is merely coincidental, and we
are aware of the subject matter of coincidences! Ha ha!
RODNEY: I have not read any of your remarks about coincidences.
ELIAS: My remark as to coincidence is, there are no coincidences!
(Rodney cracks up) Quite simple and to the point!
RODNEY: Yes, that certainly is!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: There are no accidents!
ELIAS: Quite!
RODNEY: Very good. With that in mind, I misplaced my checkbook
last week. I’ve looked many, many, many places, and I have not been
able to locate it. So, in the process of looking for it, I have begun
... it just occurred to me this morning, in preparation for my talk with
you, why I created misplacing my checkbook. It has to have something
to do with my attitude about money, I believe, and as I’m talking, it seems
to me that I’m telling myself something about keeping track of my money.
(Elias chuckles)
Because I realized, after getting a little disturbed by it, that it
really wasn’t something to be disturbed about, because I can wait for all
of my checks to come back, and look up my balance, and start all over again.
I could do that, and I probably will. But in addition to that, it
seems to me that I may be telling myself, “Stop thinking about money the
way you’ve been thinking about it.” Am I anywhere in the ballpark,
as far as what’s going on with misplacing my checkbook?
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Could you help me out?
ELIAS: Oh, Zacharie! (Chuckling humorously)
RODNEY: This is such a mundane little thing, but it turns out
that mundane little things aren’t so little sometimes.
ELIAS: Ah! Or perhaps they are!
RODNEY: Oh, okay! (Laughing)
ELIAS: HA HA!
RODNEY: Is this one of those? They are? (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha! (Humorously) Is it not FABULOUS that
you are such a wondrous creature, and so very creative that you may offer
yourself imagery and information in this type of an action that shall communicate
to you, in objective terms, what you wish to be focusing your attention
on within the present now?!
How very GLORIOUS of you, to be allowing yourself this type of imagery
in an action which is so very uncomplicated and so very simply expressed
within the movement of this shift, and you have so adequately complicated
this action, and in that process, offered yourself new imagery and information
that may be beneficial!
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Please help me!
ELIAS: I am so VERY acknowledging of you in your complication
of this action, that you have turned your perception to be providing yourself
with a communication and an explanation that is beneficial, rather than
merely confusing yourself in your action of complicating the situation.
HA HA HA!
RODNEY: Do you mean I’ve kind of figured it out? (Laughing)
ELIAS: You have “figured out,” in your terms, what you CHOOSE
to be figuring out, in offering yourself information concerning self in
the direction of your attention.
As to the actual action of the “disappearance” (mysteriously) of this
object, I may express to you that this is quite simply merely a manifestation
of movement in relation to this shift in consciousness. MANY individuals
are experiencing this type of action in which objects disappear!
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Mary and I were just talking about
an object that seems to be moving around her plant room!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha! And spontaneously, the object may reappear!
(Chuckling)
RODNEY: Really! Wow!
ELIAS: This is becoming a quite frequently expressed phenomenon
within your physical reality presently! (Laughing) But you have quite
creatively engaged this automatic action of complicating the identification
of imagery, and using that complication to your benefit!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Well you know, one of my thoughts — they
come floating through my mind — is that if I’m concentrating so much on
getting money in order to do “something else,” then I’m not really focusing
my attention on creating the “else” thing!
ELIAS: Ah! One point, Zacharie!
RODNEY: Oh, thank you!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: So, it has occurred to me that instead of concentrating
on the money, I should concentrate on what it is that I really want to
create, and imagine that. So, when this checkbook disappeared, it
occurred to me, “Gee, Rodney, maybe you’re telling yourself to stop thinking
about the money.”
ELIAS: HA HA HA!
RODNEY: “You can live without it.”
ELIAS: I see that this conversation this day shall be quite fun!
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Good!
ELIAS: HA HA!
RODNEY: I’m in the mood!
ELIAS: (Grinning) I shall express to you, Zacharie, that
there is no element within your reality to be acquired. Therefore,
in your physical terms, you are upon the right track!
RODNEY: Yeah!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Well, thank you!
ELIAS: You are quite welcome, my friend!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Let’s see. I’d like to move on.
I’ve made some effort, in the last day or two, to determine what my
intent is in this focus. I read a session transcript this week in
which you challenged the person — I’m sorry, but I forgot her name — to
discover her intent herself, and so I’ve been making an effort to do that,
and I wondered if you might be able to push me a little bit, or cajole
me into the right direction.
ELIAS: Ah!
RODNEY: I’ve been looking over my life, and it’s been a tremendous
variety of experiences, and as I look back, I see that some of them were
filled with quite a bit of energy, and were extremely difficult at the
moment that I experienced them. But as I look back at them, they
also provide an incredible memory, something that I can almost enjoy looking
back on and saying, “Wow, you did that! That was quite an experience!”
And that’s what you’re talking about — that this is really the only reason
we’re here, is to experience.
So, when I look at my intent in my life, I am aware that I came into
this world, in this particular focus, with tremendous abilities, and in
some respects, I allow myself or I give myself credit for making significant
accomplishments. I’m also aware, as I talk to you, that being overly
concerned with accomplishments, as they might be viewed by the public mind
at large, is really a self-defeating ... or maybe a discounting of self,
and that my real accomplishments are perhaps only viewed or possibly viewed
by myself, and not by anyone else.
A strange thought occurred to me this morning, in listening to the tape
of my last session with you. I remembered you telling me I had gone
into transition, and then changed my mind and came out of it. I was
wondering if there was a shift in my intent around that change of mind,
which seems to be a rather significant event to me. I’m not so sure
that’s true, but it did come to my mind.
ELIAS: You have not altered your intent.
RODNEY: I have not?
ELIAS: No.
RODNEY: Okay....
ELIAS: And this action of engaging transition and disengaging
the action of transition follows quite efficiently in the movement of your
intent.
RODNEY: Oh, it does?
ELIAS: Yes!
Now; let us continue in our discussion of this subject matter, and you
may continue to be viewing this subject. Allow yourself to be viewing
your movement, and the connective tissue, so to speak, that moves through
your focus, not merely the events in themselves.
RODNEY: Can I ask you a question about that?
ELIAS: You may.
RODNEY: One of the things that occurs to me is that as a very
young man, I was extremely argumentative, at least I liked ... I shouldn’t
say I was argumentative just for the sake of being belligerent, but I loved
to discuss philosophy and my ideas about religion, et cetera.
I discovered that in taking strong positions, I tended to create conflict
with other people, so I began to argue less and less and less, discovering,
in a sense, that convincing other people of my view of the world did not
purchase me anything of value. So, I became less and less concerned
about impacting other people.
This is also, in some way, an aspect of becoming more and more at ease
with allowing other people to view the world as they view it, and in a
way, this is a progression, I believe, into what you call acceptance.
So, I believe that this is a thread that goes through my life — my increasing
ability to accept life, and to accept all the elements of it. And
I am not unmindful, as I say this to you, that my mother is an example
to me of an individual who was incredibly accepting of everyone, that I’m
aware of, that ever interacted with her. Is this one of the threads
that you’re referring to?
ELIAS: As to your individual intent in this particular focus,
no. For this action that you are recognizing of is shared by all
other individuals participating in this shift in consciousness.
Now; let me express to you that as we speak of intents, there are intent
influences which are incorporated into each individual’s focus. Those
influences are expressed in the qualities of intents of essence families,
and also in the participation of each individual in the action of this
shift.
Therefore, there are some expressions that you share in intent with
other individuals, in commonality of essence family and your alignment
to another essence family. There are also commonalities of expressions
of intent in relation to this shift in consciousness which are shared by
all individuals, regardless of their essence families and alignments to
essence families.
These are not what we are speaking of as we address to the individual
intent of one particular focus. You, as one individual focus, hold
a unique, individual intent which is created solely by you.
RODNEY: I just had an idea.
ELIAS: Continue.
RODNEY: I recently did an exercise in which I vividly portrayed
for myself a lifelong history of the manner in which I express myself.
This began as an infant, and as a child growing up, I did not speak at
all for a very long time. I think my parents were quite worried about
me at one point, because I was not learning how to talk long beyond what
is normal for a child, and then when I did talk, I began to stutter, and
I don’t know how long I did stutter, but I stuttered for a while, and then
I grew out of that. Then there were events in my childhood which
appeared, at least on reflection, to create, for me, conflict — internal
conflict in the manner in which I expressed myself, as to what is appropriate
in expression and/or issues around “other people don’t want to hear me,”
things of that nature.
There has been incredible movement in and around this issue of how I
express myself. There were periods of my life when I was so shy that
there was tremendous fear in my communicating with a person I’d never met
before. But this is no longer true. There has been considerable
shifting in how I relate to myself, as to my willingness, desire, and allowance
of how I express myself. Is this part of this individual intent?
ELIAS: The experiences are, yes.
RODNEY: The experiences are?
ELIAS: The creation of the experiences are, yes.
RODNEY: Are part of my intent?
ELIAS: Yes. I shall also express to you that the manner
in which you have associated with some of these experiences is directly
related to the influence of your belief systems.
Now; as we continue our discussion, be aware that there is an interplay
of belief systems with every individual within your physical dimension
in association with the actions that they create in conjunction with their
individual intent. This is not to be confused with the intent itself.
RODNEY: Okay.
ELIAS: I may also express to you that many times, individuals
DO confuse the aspect of belief systems with the expression of their individual
intent, and this is quite commonly expressed as an action of complicating
your viewing of your focus, so to speak, once again, which is an action
which is quite familiar to you all — this complicating of ideas! (Chuckling)
RODNEY: (Laughing) Okay!
ELIAS: Shall you attempt again to be assessing what may be the
common tissue throughout your focus that is the expression and identification
of your individual intent?
RODNEY: Um....
ELIAS: You are quite stumped, are you not? HA HA HA!
RODNEY: (Laughing) You’re laughing at me!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha! (Rodney is cracking up) I have expressed
to you that we shall be playful today!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Yes, I would enjoy being playful more
often!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I’ll take another stab at it.
ELIAS: Very well!
RODNEY: First of all, let me ask you a question. I have
a memory, as a very young child, of getting a swimming lesson from my father,
and in that memory, I was thrown into the middle of a brook which was over
my head, and before the incident was over, I was both frightened and angry,
and I expressed a very vivid cry for help, and it appeared to me that there
was no answer.
Now, whether real or imagined, I have created beliefs around the appropriateness
of my expressions connected with that event. Does that event have
any bearing on this discussion?
ELIAS: The experience does. The association, once again,
is an influence of belief systems.
RODNEY: Okay, okay. You’re right — I am stumped! (Laughing)
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA! (Rodney cracks up) Shall I offer to
you? (The only audible response is laughter, and Elias chuckles)
Let me express to you, Zacharie, allow yourself to view all of these
choices and expressions of different experiences that you have incorporated
in this particular focus.
In this, you may allow yourself to identify that the intent in this
focus is to be a type of entrepreneur of experience! (Grinning)
RODNEY: (Totally cracking up) You know, when you were talking
... and I heard every word you said!
ELIAS: Ha ha!
RODNEY: But when you were talking, I remembered when I was eighteen
years old, and had come back from boot camp in the U.S. Navy. It
was winter, and there was terrible slush on the road, and I made a very,
very dangerous maneuver with my automobile. I passed two huge trucks
on a slush-covered road going downhill at high speeds, and there was a
dangerous curve at the bottom of the hill. As I look back at it,
that’s about as foolhardy as you can get! Just as I was pulling back
in front of the trucks — because there was a car coming up the road — my
car went into a spin. So, here I am on a very slippery road with
two huge trucks behind me, and my car is spinning in the middle of the
road! It was a scenario very, very ripe with me being plastered all
over the mountainside in many, many pieces! (Elias chuckles)
When I realized that I hadn’t breathed in a while, and I was sucking
air into my lungs, I discovered that my car was up on the side of the hill,
the trucks had disappeared, and not only was I physically okay, but my
car was physically okay too! Now, that’s quite an experience!
I think that may be one of the experiences you’re referring to.
ELIAS: Indeed! I may express to you that you have created
throughout your focus a variety of experiences in experimentation of great
diversity ...
RODNEY: (Laughing) That’s true!
ELIAS: ... within your choices individually of self, and also
within your choices of interactions with other individuals.
RODNEY: Yes, yes!
ELIAS: Therefore, I express to you (chuckling humorously) that
you have been quite successful in your entrepreneur endeavor within this
focus!
RODNEY: I love that word!
ELIAS: Ha ha!
RODNEY: Entrepreneur!
ELIAS: Ha ha!
RODNEY: Entrepreneurs do what they do for one singular reason,
(Elias chuckles) and that is the creation of value.
ELIAS: (Grinning) And have you not created quite efficiently
in value in all of your experiences?
RODNEY: I have come to see that this is indeed the case!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I might have argued with that some time ago regarding
certain experiences, but I will not argue with it today!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha! In this, you may allow yourself to view
the expression and identification of an intent within an individual focus,
and the associations that are created in relation to the intent as influenced
by the individual’s beliefs.
RODNEY: Okay, alright. I’m gonna have to see that in print!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Okay. View the associations within the experiences
as influenced by my belief systems.
ELIAS: Yes, and how they color your viewing and your assessment
of your experiences, and how you sew together the experiences through the
association of the beliefs, rather than viewing the connective tissue of
the experiences themselves.
RODNEY: Wow. Okay. Let me ask you something then,
about after I disengage. I have a notion that I’m going to be choosing
to create experiences up until the very point that I do disengage, and
I also have become aware — I think it was a statement that Seth made at
one point — that you get to look at all of your life’s experiences, and
view them in different perspectives, and perhaps even rearrange them and
create new mosaics, so to speak.
ELIAS: If you are so choosing.
RODNEY: If you are so choosing. Okay, okay. That’s
a question of choice, then.
ELIAS: Yes, for this is an objective action.
I shall express to you that an element of the action of transition is
to be allowing yourself to view ALL of your focuses simultaneously...
RODNEY: Including this one.
ELIAS: Yes. ...and to be recognizing all of the belief systems
and all of the expressions of those beliefs that have been incorporated
into the focuses which are manifest physically, and in that action, allowing
yourself the opportunity to be shedding the belief systems, and subsequently
shedding the objective awareness.
Now; if you are concentrating your attention upon merely this one focus
of attention, and allowing yourself the playfulness of manipulating events
and actions and experiences that have been created in this one focus, this
would be identified as an objective action and a continuation of holding
your attention in an objective direction of expression, which may not necessarily
be the action of transition, so to speak, which is the shedding of beliefs
and of objective awareness.
Therefore, this would be your choice to be engaging this type of action,
in curiosity of the expression of your abilities, and manipulating energy
in a slightly different manner than you are accustomed to within physical
expression.
RODNEY: One could do both, right?
ELIAS: To an extent, yes.
RODNEY: Okay. Well, I’ll make that choice when I get there!
ELIAS: Ha ha! And so you shall!
RODNEY: (Laughing) I’m not gonna make it now!
ELIAS: Ha ha! And you are not!
RODNEY: (Laughing) If I were to look at my focuses ... and
I don’t even want to remember how many of them there are — it seems to
be so huge! How many of them would ... and if I’ve asked you this
question before, I don’t remember at the moment. How many of my focuses
would I consider to be future focuses? And I’m not sure why I want
to know that information! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Manifestation of future focuses within this physical dimension,
(pause) 312.
RODNEY: Really! Wow!
ELIAS: (Proudly) Let me also express to you, my friend,
that you may view the numbering of physical focuses that you incorporate
within this physical dimension to be many, but I shall express that as
I chose to be manifest within your physical dimension, I created more of
a numbering! HA HA! You have been outdone, my friend! (Rodney
completely loses it) HA HA HA! (With a very smug grin!)
RODNEY: (Laughing) I don’t think I ever questioned that
you had the ability to outdo me!
ELIAS: Ah!
RODNEY: But to hear you say it, it’s so funny! (Laughing)
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA! Therefore, between the two of us, I
have won the cosmic prize! (Another very smug grin!)
RODNEY: (Cracking up) The cosmic prize! Oh!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: This is so delightful! (Laughing, and Elias chuckles)
But you know, talking about disengaging and cosmic prizes, I have a
note here on a little piece of paper. There’s a friend of mine who
does aroma therapy, and she creates these oils and mixtures, and I know
one thing — I love her aroma! (Laughing)
There is one of these oils which enhances dreaming, but it’s one of
the dangerous ... well, it’s one of the more dangerous oils; I think nutmeg
or cloves or cinnamon. I forget which one it is; it might be cinnamon.
Some of these are rather dangerous spices, are they not? And not
to be ingested in too large a quantity? (Elias is grinning)
ELIAS: Ah! And what shall be your association with these
spices, so to speak, that is so dangerous?
RODNEY: Well, I forget which one it is, but it was used to embalm
the pharaohs of Egypt. They’ve been petrified for like two, three,
four thousand years! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Or preserved!
RODNEY: Or preserved! Okay, the term is preserved!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: And let me put it this way — with that association in
mind, I choose not to be preserved before my time!
ELIAS: Ah! But you may incorporate a slight movement of
your perception, and view that certain spices may be preserving you in
a manner of living preservation!
RODNEY: Okay, good!
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA!
RODNEY: Would you rate these spices for me, just out of curiosity?
ELIAS: In what manner shall I be rating of these spices? (Grinning)
RODNEY: Perhaps an awakening of my abilities to notice unofficial
information, or my ability to become more aware in my dreams?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Let me say to you, my friend, you may
incorporate the scent of these spices, these aromas, and you may allow
yourself to be enhancing your abilities as dictated by your belief systems.
I shall express to you that the actual spices themselves do not incorporate
an innate ability within themselves, so to speak.
Be remembering, the manifestation of the spices are an expression of
YOU. Therefore, you ARE the spice. You ARE the aroma.
You are providing yourself with a manifestation of an aroma to be stimulating
of one or more of your physical outer senses.
RODNEY: Wow! Alright. So, you’re saying that whatever
result I create will be solely as a result of my belief systems, and not
an innate quality of the aroma?
ELIAS: Correct.
Now! Shall you allow yourself to be quite playful in your business
of being the entrepreneur of experiences, and in this, allow yourself to
be actualizing the idea of BEING the aroma, and allow yourself the experience
of vaporizing yourself, and creating the movement in flow of the aroma?!
(Rodney cracks up) HA HA!
RODNEY: That sounds a little bit like beam me up! (Laughing)
ELIAS: And I shall view you as the floating vapor through your
dimension! HA HA HA!
RODNEY: (Laughing) I’ll de-materialize!
ELIAS: Quite! (Chuckling)
RODNEY: (Laughing) Alright, I think I’m onto something here....
ELIAS: Ah! Quite so, Watson! (Grinning)
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Now there was a fellow who gave himself
some stimuli!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Did he not?
ELIAS: As do you!
RODNEY: As do I! Yes! (Laughing, and Elias chuckles)
A friend of mine mentioned to me that he has discovered that his mind
becomes more alert or more aware when he occasionally — because he is not
a smoker — when he occasionally smokes a cigar, and I’m bringing this up
because this is again a question of belief systems. This is, of course,
associated with the American Indian, who used tobacco as a sacred symbol.
We were questioning the real significance of tobacco for those who don’t
use it a great deal, and I don’t know why I have to throw that in, but
it seems that I have to....
ELIAS: Ha ha! Once again, in association with your belief
systems!
RODNEY: Right.
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: So, this is another substance like nutmeg, eh?
ELIAS: It matters not. They are all creations of yourselves,
and within themselves are not what you may term to be innately beneficial
or harmful. They are neutral.
RODNEY: Really?
ELIAS: In this, they may assume the qualities or affectingnesses
of harmful or beneficial, as associated with your individual beliefs.
Now; let me also express to you that certain actions that you incorporate,
which may be involving of any of your outer senses, may allow you an efficient
manipulation of energy in relation to your belief systems, for the incorporation
of your physical outer senses allows you to concentrate your objective
attention in a specific, streamlined manner, so to speak.
You allow yourself to narrow your attention and focus your attention
in a particular direction to be creating of specific effects, in a manner
of speaking.
This is, in a manner of speaking, an incorporation of a focal point,
and your manipulation of energy in the incorporation of that focal point.
You focus your attention upon a particular stimuli, and in that action,
you direct your energy quite specifically to be creating of certain specific
experiences.
RODNEY: Due to the belief systems I have regarding those particular
stimuli?
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: Very good. I distracted myself in your last response,
because I realized I had never turned on my tape recorder!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) I certainly hope Mary’s is working, because
this has been too much fun for me not to go over it as soon as possible!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: If I get you correctly, I think one of the questions that
comes up around what you just said is, if one is going to use any of these
stimuli, one should be somewhat clear in their own mind as to what their
belief systems are regarding these stimuli.
ELIAS: You need not be clear as to the identification of your
beliefs, necessarily. But if you are wishing to be manipulating your
energy in responses in difference to your automatic association, it shall
be quite helpful to you objectively that you are allowing yourself an awareness
of your beliefs in relation to specific stimuli, so to speak.
RODNEY: Well, (laughing) I want to mention an extreme here as
an example. I understand there are some — I’m sure you’ve discussed
this at some point — some religious sects in the southern part of this
country, and a part of their ritual is to do things like play with rattlesnakes
or drink strychnine. Strychnine, if ingested by most people, would
kill them; would create immediate disengagement.
Now, it’s interesting, because there are a lot of beliefs obviously
associated with their ingestion of this substance. Is it true that
anyone could ingest any substance, and through their belief system, render
that substance harmless?
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: I knew you were gonna say that! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Okay. However, most people on this planet are probably
of the opinion that if they drank strychnine, they would die. So,
it would pay for them to be aware of that belief if they didn’t really
want to lay down and disengage.
ELIAS: Ah! But I shall express to you, Zacharie, no individual
disengages unless they are choosing to be disengaging.
RODNEY: Ah. Okay, okay.
ELIAS: Therefore, regardless of their belief systems, they CHOOSE
the action of disengagement.
RODNEY: That’s an overriding choice.
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: Okay. Well, I thank you so much! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I think I need to go. One question came up.
I read a transcript — I don’t know if it was Shynla or not — but you had
encouraged her to breathe, and I was introduced to what they call breathing
into the lower diaphragm maybe ten years ago, but I’ve never purposely
developed that way of breathing until recently.
It was pointed out to me in a Reiki healing class that one absorbs and
intakes a great deal more air in that manner of breathing, and one expels
a higher percentage of the older air in that way. So, I experimented
with it, and I discovered that very definitely, if I’m engaged in a singing
or chanting activity, the volume of air that I take in by breathing in
that way is very beneficial. I have a sense that breathing that way
also opens me up to a greater sensitivity of feeling. I’m also aware
that this is an opposite action to the one of fear, because when individuals
are experiencing fear, they tend to breathe in a very shallow way, at least
for a period of time.
I was wondering if you would talk about the benefits or the beliefs
surrounding this breathing into the lower diaphragm, or if you would comment
on that.
ELIAS: I shall express to you that you are indeed correct that
this is an expression of more of an intake, so to speak, therefore also
more of an opening, and in that action, the point is that there is a greater
expression of freedom and ability in the incorporation of relaxation of
energy.
You constrict your movements and your abilities as you incorporate tension.
It is quite difficult to be incorporating tension and allowing yourself
the openness of this type of breath, for this type of breathing creates
an automatic action of relaxation within the physical body expression.
RODNEY: Okay. Is it, in addition, actually increasing one’s
use of energy? Well, actually, if it’s releasing the limitations
placed on energy due to tension, it is, in a manner of speaking, allowing
the energy to flow more freely, and that might be looked at as increasing
the energy available in any particular action.
ELIAS: It is creating the potential for increased incorporation
of energy manipulation.
RODNEY: Okay. So, in a hands-on healing modality or action,
this would indeed enhance a practitioner’s availability.
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: To energy.
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: To direct it to a client in a nurturing way.
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: Okay, alright. Thank you!
ELIAS: You are quite welcome!
RODNEY: I am SO disappointed that you got the cosmic prize!
ELIAS: But of course, my friend!
RODNEY: I suppose I should not have expected otherwise....
ELIAS: For I am the ghost! (Grinning)
RODNEY: (Cracking up) Well, this is not a race though, is
it?
ELIAS: No, this is not a race!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Okay!
ELIAS: But in the action that you are so VERY familiar with, in
comparison and competition — which I may quite easily engage in participation
with you, ha ha! — I, being the ghost, am winning of the prize! For
of course, I incorporate a greater awareness than do you, for I am realizing
of my deity, as being the god that I am! (Rodney cracks up) And you
have not quite incorporated this recognition yet! HA HA!
RODNEY: Oh, that you are god?
ELIAS: That YOU are god!
RODNEY: Oh, that I am god! I wondered about you!
ELIAS: Therefore, I win! HA HA HA!
RODNEY: Okay! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Alright. So, when I get to realize that I too am
a deity, we’ll talk about cosmic prizes then!
ELIAS: Quite, my friend! I shall stand ready to be presenting
you with the medal of accomplishment! HA HA HA! And we shall
share in revelry!
RODNEY: Oh yes! That most of all!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Oh my! I don’t wanna go! (They both laugh)
But there is my linear schedule here that has to be taken care of.
ELIAS: Very well. I shall leave you to your physical activities,
and I shall anticipate our next playful meeting!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Thank you!
ELIAS: Ha ha! I am quite fond of incorporating fun!
RODNEY: It’s a welcome change for me.
ELIAS: And quite beneficial practice as a difference to seriousness!
RODNEY: Yes! Thank you! I was going to talk to you
about my focus by the name of Darien today, and I’m so pleased that I didn’t!
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA! We shall engage seriousness, in your
terms, at another time.
RODNEY: Yes! Yes, we will!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: Thank you, thank you, thank you! I enjoyed this
so much!
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend. I offer to you an
expression of much energy, great encouragement, and as always, tremendous
affection. In anticipation of our next meeting, au revoir!
Elias departs at 10:51 a.m.
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