Is This Worth Giving Up My Life Force?
These are truly gatherings that we see as co-creating at its very best.
We often notice one of you beginning with a train of thought and as
others listen in and add their Energy, their questions, their life
experience, even mentally -- silently -- to the question, the question
expands far beyond what the one could speak. The wanting that all of you
have been gathering, even before you ever knew that wanting becomes part
of the Stream of Attraction. So you reach into a Stream of Non-physical,
Infinite knowing and you attract, into this sort of vortex of
articulation, a knowing that goes beyond that which has been before --
and that is what physical experience is about.
Physical experience is a format where you focus pointedly, and through
your pointed focus, you attract to this time and place. As you
vibrationally are, you vibrationally receive unto you.
The power of a gathering such as this is that you inspire the best from
each other. Collectively, you become more than you usually do
individually. And we say that to you not because we are wanting to
encourage you to join together in groups but because we want you to feel
the poignancy of your physical experience. We want you to recognize the
enormous value that you as one person has to you as one person has to
you as one person.
The amazing and wonderful diversity that you hold upon your planet
is truly the power of your attraction. If you did not have your
differences to bump up against, you would not have the clarity with
which to attract.
Physical beings so often defeat that great value, because as they
singularly view what is outside of them, they tend to push against much
of what is outside of them -- so they miss the value of the collective
power. That pushing against something is what we call resistance -- and
resistance is the only thing that keeps you from the Stream of
Well-being that is natural to you.
There is one constant steady Stream of pure positive Energy flowing to
you at all times, and in any moment, you, as an individual, are allowing
or resisting that Stream. When you're allowing the Stream, you feel
wonderful, you feel clarity, you feel vitality, you feel health, you
feel abundance. You feel good. But if you are not allowing the Stream,
you don't feel so good. That's what blame or doubt or fear is about.
These three things are always true of resistance: Resistance is the only
thing that keeps you from your natural Well-being. Negative emotion is
always present as your indicator of resistance. And resistance always,
always, always means you are pushing against something.
Resistance, is using the contrast to decide what you don't want.
Allowing, is using the contrast to decide what you do want.
You came forth into this sea of diversity, this sea of contrast, but you
did not intend to make that contrast resistance. Contrast is seeing all
the stuff to choose from -- sort of like a breakfast buffet -- and
choosing from it what you want. That's saying, "Ah, I don't like that.
Don't like that. Ooh, I like this. This is better. Ah, this is what I am
wanting." That is benefiting from contrast.
Resistance, is saying, "Oh, I see all of this stuff. I'd like to have
that. But I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't want that."
Most physical beings are oriented to push against what they don't want
because somehow you got some idea that that stuff has the ability to
assert itself into your experience. And so, most of you believe that if
you don't get real strong and real capable of holding bad things away,
that they'll slip in and get you.
So you've gotten very, very good at developing a resistant stance,
believing -- wrongly -- that, in your resistance, you will keep it away,
never dreaming that, in your resistance, the only thing you manage to
hold away is your own Stream of Well-being.
A man said to us, "I have cancer and they tell me I have only a few
weeks, maybe a few days, to live. But I'm going to beat it." And we
said, "Well, you see, you cannot. As long as it is the object of your
attention, as long as you are looking at cancer and saying, `I'm going
to beat it,' you are achieving a stance of resistance. You are achieving
vibrational harmony with the cancer -- and, therefore, you are resisting
the Stream."
We said, "Envision a stick -- two ends of the stick. On one end is
cancer and on the other end is the Stream of Well-being. When you focus
on the cancer, you are disallowing the Stream of Well-being." We said to
him, "You have to get your eye on the Energy Stream. Never mind about
the stuff you are trying to hold away, focus upon the stuff you want
there, because the cancer is the absence of the Stream. Don't call it
cancer, anymore.
Call it what it is: -- absence of the Stream. Call a new friend,
`Hi... I have absence of the Stream.' `Well, what do you mean by that?'
your friend says. `Well, I've been vibrationally disallowing my Stream
of Well-being.' Your friend would say, `Why do you do that?' And you
would say, `I don't know. I don't mean to. I just have habits of pushing
against, that I've learned from others, who have learned it from others,
and now I'm focusing on the Stream."
When you first came forth, no one said to you, "There's this Stream of
pure positive Energy and it flows forth to you at all times and you can
feel it and it feels good, and if you ever feel less than good, that
means you are not vibrating with that Stream. So feel around for
thoughts that feel better, and you'll find them easily, and once you do
that -- all is well again. And if you will do that, you will live
happily ever after."
They didn't say that to you. Instead they said, "There are good things
and bad things, and we must embrace the good things and we must hold the
bad things away." They literally taught you to say, "This is good, this
is bad, this is good, this is bad." And you all got really carried away
with the "This is bad" part. "I don't want this. I don't want this..."
Remember, the Law of Attraction and the Stream of Well-being is
abundant. It is outrageously disproportionate to the lack of Well-being.
The Well-being is dominant.
We have noticed that when you talk about issues, when you talk about
whether something's right or wrong, or whether it's wanted or not wanted
-- very often, even though you and every body else on the planet would
agree with you as you are having your conversation, that you're right by
all physical standards -- you are still in a vibration of resistance to
your own Stream.
And so, we keep looking for ways of helping you feel your Stream
rather than fall into the same old intellectual knee-jerk habitual
thought patterns. There are thoughts that feel perfectly normal to you
that are full of resistance, and you keep getting entrapped in them,
because they feel so normal, because you and everybody else has been
thinking them for so long.
Thoughts like, the economy is struggling, or thoughts like, there
isn't enough to go around, or thoughts like, you have to work hard to
succeed, or thoughts like, I'm inappropriate in some way or I am not
capable in some way, or thoughts like, I shouldn't do that. There are
all kinds of thoughts that you wrestle with that are vibrationally not
in harmony with your broader knowing. And so, we are going to expose
some of those to help you feel a new powerful guidance coming forth
within you.
Imagine that your Source Energy, your Inner Being, your God Force, your
God Self, your Soul -- whatever you want to call that Non-physical part
of you -- is projecting to you at all times a strong, clear, beautiful
musical note, and you can hear it in the background all the time. When
you give your attention to something, whether you are looking right at
it, whether you're remembering it, whether you're imagining it, whether
you're Scripting it -- whatever you are giving your attention to causes
you also to offer a note. So if you are basking or finding value in
something -- appreciating something -- in that case, the note that you
are offering is in such vibrational harmony with your Inner Note that
you can feel the resonance between the two notes.
That's what joy is. That's what appreciation is. That's what love is.
It's your resonating with who you really are. But let's say, instead,
that you are finding fault -- seeing lack, seeing something you don't
want, trying to hold it away, pushing against something. In that case,
your note would be so out of harmony with your Inner Note, you would
feel the discord of that. That's what negative emotion is.
When you start feeling how your thoughts feel, then you start
recognizing when you are allowing and when you're resisting. But as long
as you are just thinking thoughts, those old habitual thoughts feel
normal even though they're full of resistance.
For example, the other day, Jerry and Esther were waiting for their
landscaper friend, and he was supposed to be there the day before and
didn't come at all, and Esther had many things she wanted to do in the
afternoon in her narrow window of opportunity to run and do errands, and
Jerry did not want to leave because he did not want to miss this
landscaper, and so they didn't leave. And then, the second day, he was
supposed to be there first thing in the morning, and it was noon and he
was still not there. Esther was irritated, and she said, "This just
isn't right. He must not have any idea how busy we are. I wonder if he
treats all of his clients like this. I wonder how he stays in business.
This is just not right." And Jerry was grinning from across the room
as he was watching Esther walking right away from her Note. About then,
after she got out there pretty far, Esther felt it, too, and then she
said, "Well, I know he means well. Must be quite a trick to keep all
those plates spinning all the time. He is running many crews now. He
knows what he's doing. The plants are as much his risk as they are ours.
I'm sure he's taking care of that. I suppose I should just relax and
lighten up and acknowledge that all is well." And now Jerry was really
grinning because in less than a minute he watched Esther walk right away
from her Note and then right back to it.
In other words, because we are making Esther more and more aware of
her resonance, because we are letting her know who she really is, when
she walks away from who she is, she can't stand it. But before she
understood about the resonance, those knee-jerk thoughts, she would be
out there believing that she was right, and really, by all physical
standards, she was right. Wasn't she? In other words, it is
inappropriate to say you are going to be there and not be there, isn't
it? She wasn't wrong, was she? She was "right" in her resistance. You
see.
The big question is, is this "rightness" worth cutting myself off from
Life Force? Because that's what it amounts to. The very Source of life,
the Source that keeps my blood pumping, the Source that keeps my cells
working, the Source of Well-being, the Source that keeps the planet
spinning in its orbit... I've got myself cut off because the gardener
did not show up. And we think that if you stop in the midst of any
negative emotion and ask yourself, "Is this worth giving up Life Force?"
that in every case the answer would be no.
You cannot improve your life by pushing against what you do not want.
Now we know that sometimes things get quite a bit of momentum going, so
much so that you can't stop it, or so it seems. Sometimes a nice
lobotomy would help, or a bit of unconsciousness, a little slumber or
nap, some sort of distraction from whatever terrible treadmill you are
upon. But the more you are in conscious connection with your resonating
pure positive Energy Source, the less able to tolerate any deviation
from it you become, and, therefore, the more aware at the early stages
when you are stepping into that sort of situation.
