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Here we have useful information and thoughts on promoting
health.
This is not the same as disease prevention,
and our usage here is one of more individual responsibility than the more commonly used phrase
"health promotion."
Responsibility (the active ability to respond) can be frightening and challenging, and even subversive,
especially if one has not accepted much of it before.
However, it is also the most freeing and self-empowering thing we can do.
There is a spectrum of the stages of health.
And here we will discuss ways each of us can promote health:
a state of comfort, wholeness and balance.
How much authority do you want over your own health?
Health is much less about nutrition, hygiene, exercise, surroundings, circumstances, or birth
(each of which we will discuss below)
than it is about attitudes and beliefs.
My emotions, enthusiasms, beliefs, assumptions, obsessions, desires, expectations, anticipations, and fears
direct my physical life.
Our bodies are able to heal themselves and handle a variety of assaults
much more than we have been taught or society/culture has allowed us to believe.
Each of us needs to discover what our personal beliefs are about our dis-ease --
and then recognize that these are, for the most part, beliefs which can be changed -- and not unmovable realities.
The material on this page, while valid, is not going to be used by everyone
-- precisely because of the individual's personal beliefs about dis-ease.
For those whose beliefs are not at total odds with the material presented here, we offer these thoughts.
The problem with "positive thinking" is that it is usually only deliberately used for a fairly short time
and with no real emotion or energy behind it.
To truly be effective, it needs to be energized -- felt deeply and joyfully --
and made a long-term part of one's thinking and daily life.
To become a part of our life, a new thought or attitude must become truly a part of us.
We must be able to really own the thought or attitude.
It must be believed and felt more so than any older and competing thoughts or attitudes
which we've already nursed for many years and under a variety of conditions.
(Many of which were repeatedly supercharged with the emotions of fear or anger.)
The new thought must be loudly and joyfully spoken and shouted out loud.
You are stating something which is already yours.
It is not a request -- it is a declaration of truth.
It is not what you do not want --
it is a proud statement of what you believe should be and is right now.
It is an affirmation that is as true when you say it next year as it is when you say it now.
How do you want your future self to proclaim it? In a month, a year, a decade?
It is who you are -- now. Take ownership of it!
Sing and say your positive thought, your affirmation, your mantra
in different voices, at different speeds, at different volumes.
(You can even occasionally add on your choice of an increasingly scatological
and energetic "Oh, yeah!" or "Hell, yeah!" or "Shit, yeah!" or even "Fuck, yeah!")
How dare I allow myself to be feel less than I am just because someone thinks I should?!
Be silly, be proud, be certain, be amazed, be thankful, be happy, be playful, be defiant, be joyful.
Everytime you look in a mirror or a reflective surface, exclaim this truth.
Initially, you can just say it aloud when you are by yourself, if you feel that would be best.
But you will make it such a part of you that others' reactions eventually are meaningless.
Write it on a sign where you can see it everyday.
Imagine writing it in the sky in BIG, BOLD letters.
Imagine a choir or chorus of all the personalities people have known you as and every age you've been all together chanting and
singing this repeatedly and with such awesome unique styles:
For one minute every hour for each waking hour of the day, think and say nothing but this positive, healing saying.
(You are worth that, right?)
With feeling and intensity.
In different circumstances, different emotional states, different times of success and failure,
when you are refreshed and exhausted, in the middle of the night and the middle of the day, good days and bad,
in the middle of work-related "emergencies" and after the "storm," when you are mentally focused and mentally out-of-focus,
in crowds of irritated people and still times of calm reflection.
What are your perceptions about what you can do? What do you verbalize about your life?
Keep a journal, if you'd like, about what is lovable about you. Is it initially very difficult to list things?
Begin with the seemingly most simple "good" things/traits/skills/talents/qualities about you, based on what you would
say and also what others would say. Stretch your mind and heart and soul. There really are many reasons you
are lovable, celebratable, and worthy.
Your emotions, enthusiasms, beliefs, assumptions, obsessions, desires, expectations, and fears direct your physical life --
which is a reflection of all of you.
Expect good things, even things you've never seen before.
"Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When you are examining the contents of your conscious mind, you must learn, or
recognize, the emotional and imaginative connotations that are connected with a given idea. There are various ways of
altering the belief by substituting its opposite.
"One particular method is three-pronged. You generate the emotion OPPOSITE the one that arises from the belief you want
to change, and you turn your imagination in the opposite direction from the one dictated by the belief. At the same time
you consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief is an idea about reality and not an aspect of reality itself.
"You realize that ideas are not stationary. Emotions and imagination move them in one direction or the other, reinforce
them or negate them. Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which
for a time you completely ignore what SEEMS to be in physical terms and 'pretend' that what you really want is real.
"If you are poor, you purposely pretend that you have all you need financially. Imagine how you will spend your money.
If you are ill, imagine playfully that you are cured. See yourself doing what you would do. If you cannot
communicate with others, imagine yourself doing so easily. If you feel your days dark and pointless, then imagine them
filled and joyful.
"Now this may sound impractical, yet in your daily life you use your imagination and your emotions often at the service of
far less worthy beliefs; and the results are quite clear -- and let me add, unfortunately practical.
"As it took a while for the unsatisfactory beliefs to become materialized, so it MAY be a time before you see physical
results; but the new ideas will take growth and change your experience as certainly as the old ones did.
"The process of imagining will also bring you face to face with other subsidiary ideas that may momentarily bring you up
short. You may see where you held two quite conflicting ideas simultaneously, and with equal vigor. In such a
case, you stalemated yourself.
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 619)
This will also show some of the old programs that are running which need to be replaced.
Your new mantra will be siphoning off some of the energy and attention from the old worn-outs...
These include our commonly held beliefs about fragile health, inevitable disease,
limited longevity, middle and old age problems, constant lack, etc.
And, while we are at it, the inferiority of physical life, the dangers of existence, and the separation from the Creative Source.
You will notice in some situations and around some people you have difficulty saying or thinking this statement -- why?
Do they intimidate you, denigrate you, overwhelm you, threaten you, deny you?
Do you feel inferior, isolated, stupid, broken, unworthy, useless, angry, fearful, or impotent around them?
"From 80-90% of the population will not test positive for the belief 'I love myself.' The primary source of the
problem is that as kids, much of our behavior was criticized by parents and teachers with their belief that they were helping
us to become better citizens. Those criticisms were downloaded into our subconscious mind which controls 95% of our
behavior. Consequently, this programming causes us to lose self-love because we become 'self-critical,' which in turn
becomes 'self-sabotaging' "To truly experience Love in this lifetime and to thrive through the chaos, we must first
experience self-Love..."
(Bruce Lipton's March '23 Newsletter)
These beliefs -- and they are not necessarily facts -- need to be seriously looked at and re-evaluated by YOU,
the one who has been trained by society to constantly and automatically give them your own important energies.
"Negative" thoughts with their emotional energies are not necessarily dangerous, as such,
but they might be better termed as less effective in representing the potential real you.
"The more a belief encourages you to use your own abilities and vitality, then the more affirmative it is."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 675)
"You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it. You have only to use your ability
consciously."
"Man has been endowed, and has endowed himself, with a conscious mind to direct the nature, shape and form of his creations.
All deep aspirations and unconscious motivations, all unspoken drives, rise up for the approval or disapproval of the
conscious mind, and await its direction.
"Only when it abdicates its functions does it allow itself to become swayed by 'negative' experience. Only when it
refuses responsibility does it finally find itself at the seeming mercy of events over which it appears to have no control.
"Books on positive thinking alone, while sometimes beneficial, usually do not take into consideration the habitual nature of
negative feelings, aggressions, or repressions. Often these are merely swept under the rug.
"The authors instead tell you to be positive, compassionate, strong, optimistic, filled with joy and enthusiasm,
without telling you what to do to get out of the predicament you may be in, and without understanding the vicious
circle that may seem to entrap you.
"Such books, again, while sometimes of value, do not explain how thoughts and emotions cause reality. They do not
take into consideration the multidimensional aspects of the self or the fact that ultimately each personality, while
following definite general laws, must still find and follow his or her own way of adapting these to personal circumstances."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 609)
Do not be stressed by or disappointed in or angry with yourself when this re-learning process takes time to develop, or
if you make mistakes or miss the target ("sin") in changing
these thoughts.
The bottom line is that they are neither currently nor any longer optimal or beneficial for you,
and, thus, they need to be replaced by you.
Say to them "You don't belong here any more." "Not this time." "Not in my life now."
Visualize them written on a black or whiteboard and then wipe the board clean of them.
Pull the imaginary chain next to you and flush those old beliefs away.
Say "It is a new day and a new me."
"Negative thoughts can be recognized and plucked out with no more rancor than you would pluck out weeds in a garden.
There is no need blaming yourself that in the past you allowed the weeds to grow, sometimes in your ignorance imagining
them to be flowers.
"Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, EASILY, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace
it."
(The Personal Sessions, Book 1, by Jane Roberts, Session 478)
Starting right now. You are simply making a midcourse correction.
A hundred times, a thousand times, a million times, whatever it takes -- you are worth it.
(It isn't just the "thinking happy thoughts" that some critics blithely write this off as.)
This makes you appreciate how much time and energy you and everyone you know
has been giving the negative or less-than-optimal up to this point.
"I love me, I love me, I celebrate ME. I AM worthy."
And then after a few months or years, you just might find yourself automatically having this running in your mind. Your
world doesn't seem quite as wild, dangerous or scary as it might have been before. You'll realize a little more of YOUR
power and control in your life. And this "reward" will help you try other things to help you regain conscious awareness
of your original awesomeness.
"Much has been written about the nature and importance of suggestion. One of the current ideas in vogue holds that you are
constantly at the mercy of suggestion.
"Your own conscious beliefs are the most important suggestions that you receive. All other ideas are rejected or accepted
according to whether or not you believe they are true, in line with the steady conscious chattering that goes on within your
mind most of the day -- the suggestions given to you by yourself.
"You will accept a suggestion given by another only if it fits in with your own ideas about the nature of reality in general,
and your concepts about yourself in particular.
"If you use your conscious mind properly, then, you examine those beliefs that come to you. You do not accept them
willy-nilly. If you use your conscious mind properly, you are also aware of intuitive ideas that come to you from within.
"You are only half conscious when you do not examine the information that comes to you from without, and when you ignore the
data that comes to you from within.
"Many false beliefs therefore are indiscriminately accepted because you have not examined them."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 615)
"The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion.
"Many disavow the experience of feelings they consider negative. They try to 'affirm' what they think of as positive
emotions.
They do not permit themselves the dimensions of their creaturehood, and by pretending not to feel what they feel,
they deny the integrity of their own experience.
"The emotions follow beliefs. They are natural ever-changing states of feeling,
each leading into another in a free flow of energy and activity --
colorful, rich, glowing tints that bring variety to the quality of consciousness."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 672)
"To refuse [emotions] is futile. They are one of the means by which physically attuned consciousness knows itself.
They are not destructive. One emotion is not good and another one evil.
"Emotions simply are. They are elements of the power of consciousness, filled with energy.
They merge into a powerful sea of being when left alone. You cannot affirm one emotion and deny another
without setting up barriers.
"You try to hide what you think of as negative feelings in the closet of your mind,
as in the past they closeted insane relatives. All of this
because you do not trust the aspects of your individuality in flesh."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 672)
"Now if you read a book... that instructs you to contemplate goodness, to turn your thoughts immediately to love and light when
you feel irritated, you are in for trouble.
"Such practices will only serve to make you more frightened of your natural emotions.
You will not understand why you have
them any better than you did before. You may only hide them more cleverly, and perhaps become ill if,
given the situation, you are not already.
"The harder you try to be 'good' in such a case the more inferior you will become in your own mind.
What do you think of yourself, your daily life, your body, your relationship with others?
Ask yourself these questions. Write down the answers or speak them into a recorder.
But in one way or another objectify them."
(The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts, Session 642)
Emotions in themselves have no meaning -- what you do with them does.
And that is what health is all about : allowing the various energy-charged emotions to freely follow and charge the beliefs that
you do want.
"Negative" emotions would release their energy relatively harmlessly, without being held back/damned up or being unduly magnified.
"...There's no value judgements on any of it, it's just life, O.K.? And everybody goes through these things.
A lot of people have shame around their emotions. Well, the fundamental thing we are treating in Biofield Tuning
is emotional constipation. These are all, all these things that you encounter are almost always charged
with some kind of emotion. And we're going to help that emotion to fulfill its destiny.
So emotion is a wave: it's generated, it rises up and crests into our awareness, and then falls away.
And then as we learn that emotions aren't so scary, aren't so bad, we start to enter into a fluid relationship
with them where we just allow whatever emotion is arising to arise,
we find a way for it to express itself in a healthy way and then move on.
And that is part of getting unstuck: is learning to allow..."
"Your emotions are important... Every emotion is a valid emotion. Anger is not a negative emotion,
anger is a valid emotion. Rage is a valid emotion, you know?
We don't want to judge any of these emotions and tell them they are bad and have to go away.
They are there for a reason, they are there to keep us healthy and safe..."
("Eileen McKusick explains the premise of the Biofield Anatomy Hypothesis")
* Adequate levels of various sensory stimulation -- including both nature and human-created situations,
and daily opportunities to be creative/re-creative.
* Re-creation -- what lifts or nourishes your spirit?
What do you do that you look forward to, which excites you,
which makes you feel whole, which you use to re-create yourself?
Domestic arts, culinary arts, horticultural arts, automotive arts, industrial arts, plastic arts, performing arts, sexual arts,
martial arts;
camping, hiking, biking, solitude, boating, rowing, swimming, snorkeling or scuba diving; religious devotions,
contemplation, meditation;
reading, writing, researching, collecting, writing code; card or board or electronic games, sports
and athletics spectating or participating;
pet and animal husbandry; bird-watching, people-watching, star-watching; volunteering or donating;
fine drinking or dining or smoking; etc.
"The ability to dream presupposes the existence of experience that is not defined as physical fact."
(The Nature of the Psyche by Jane Roberts, pg. 122)
Not always worried, not always fearful, not always regretful, not always angry, not always depressed.
Not because someone told you to,
not because you "have to or else" --
But because it is what YOU have found and discovered and learned is BEST for you.
Period.
"I love me, I love me, I celebrate ME. I AM worthy."
Not by putting anyone else down,
not by being hurtful or smug or superior about it.
But with love and peace for yourself -- and towards others.
You are as great and as worthy as anyone else.
Because YOU recognize your innate wholeness, your power, your creativity.
"This is your lineage, your legacy, your privilege -- why not take it?
Don't let some belief you had in the past get in the way of such a grand, divine truth..."
(Kryon)
(How can you love another if you do not love yourself?)
"I love me, I love me, I celebrate ME. I AM worthy."
Namasté = "The presence of God in me acknowledges and salutes the presence of God in you."
(Similar connotations belong to "aloha" and "shalom")
"All those around me have God, the Source Field, Divine Consciousness, All That Is, inside and around them also,
they come from the same One Creative Source, and together we can make things happen
because we are One Soul operating as many parts to explore and create."
(RJB)
(Still to be discussed is grounding and increasing negative ions...)
What about what are termed the Social Determinants of Health
(https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/about.html;
https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health)?
Access to affordable healthcare and primary care, health insurance coverage, health literacy;
access to affordable elementary and middle and higher education, language and literacy,
early childhood education and development and sensory/social stimulation;
cohesion within a community, civic participation, ethnicity or age or gender or religious discrimination,
conditions in workplace, incarceration; poverty, employment and economic stability, food security,
affordable housing stability, safety at home; access to affordable and safe transportation,
availability of affordable healthy foods, air and water and environmental quality,
public safety for neighborhood crime and violence, local emergency/health services.
Which of these can you make alterations to, either slowly or quickly?
Again, there is a spectrum of the stages of health.
And we need to acknowledge what that range includes:
Radical Remissions
"Radical Remissions: Cancer Patients Who Defy the Odds" by Roxanne Nelson, Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2014, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/827945 .
"Longevity Increased by Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging" by Becca R. Levy and Martin D. Slade, Suzanne R. Kunkel, and Stanislav
V. Kasl, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002, Vol. 83, No. 2, 261-270, https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-832261.pdf ;
The Twelve Techniques for Human Longevity:
Diet Restriction and Enhancement with SuperFoods and
Supplements, Proper Hydration,
Exercises and Physical Activity,
Basic Hygiene, Deep Breathing, Proper Sleep, Relaxation and Stress Reduction, Human/Pet Socializing and Companionship,
Medical Procedures (including fat removal, removal of senescent cells, and arterial reconstruction),
Minimizing Exposure to Individually Harmful Substances, Heredity and Genetics, and Assorted
Other Modalities, including different types of detoxification and
vibrational techniques.
What virtually has never been seriously explored is perhaps the least expensive yet most challenging to accomplish, the
Thirteenth Technique:
changes in our beliefs and expectations about aging, especially those ideas/"facts" learned/accepted without question
from family, friends, co-workers, and authority figures;
and the fact that we don't have to be tied to the "average life span" or "inevitable" aging sequence:
How long can each of us live?
What is the individual importance of our having a long life?
What is the individual importance of not being long-lived?
How important is a will to live or a reason to live or a life purpose?
What are the positive changes that might or will accompany [healthy] aging?
What are the negative changes that might or will accompany [healthy] aging?
How is our longevity different than that of our parents or siblings?
What part does heredity really play in our longevity?
What have we done that enhances our longevity -- and why is that important?
What have we done that shortens or damages our longevity -- and why is that important?
What does having some control over our longevity mean?
Can any of our aging to date be slowed or reversed?
What influence on our thoughts and beliefs can living a healthy and longer life have?
True, most family members, pets, friends and acquaintainces may pass/die before us,
but a few will stay here longer while we have the time, health, resources, and energy to meet and love others, learn new languages,
live in and travel to more places, cook and dine in new ways, be creative in more ways and with new media and technologies,
learn to play musical instruments, join community groups, converse with colleagues around the globe, garden more, read the classics,
help create new opportunities for oneself and children/students in the future, witness more history,
have additional careers and opportunities to volunteer and otherwise participate and assist others, and further explore life and Creation,
including having more challenges which we will additionally use to define us and our potentials...
What new opportunities would be available to us that we can't even imagine at this point?
These are, in part, included in the category of "epi-genetics," beyond or outside the influence of heredity and genetics.
Definitely an unexplored/tremendously underexplored country in which each of us can participate,
starting modestly and simply by exploring and changing our thoughts about ourselves and aging,
watching what we tell ourselves and others about aging,
and making plans and beginning to take steps as if we are, indeed going, to be around and healthy:
what do we still want to accomplish, what if we could start over would we do, what would be fun or rewarding to try,
who are we really and how much more are we than the circumstances we were born into?
But be aware that there is a tremendous wall built up to try to stop you from contemplating living longer.
All those jokes, myths and stereotypes about old age, decline, joint pain or noise, forgetfullness, wrinkles, fragility,
inability to learn new things, inevitable dementia and/or physical deterioration, loneliness and poverty, and so forth.
What might just be at times the body running a temporary/short-term diagnostics on itself is too often jumped on
and feared as the inevitable and irreversible decline. Friends and family feed into that, as do much of the
medical and business communities. Life-long expectations of declining vision or hearing, loss of strength, falling
and broken hips, gray or thinning hair, loosing teeth, inability to contribute to society, inevitability of arthritis
and the dangers of exercise, disinterest in sex or intimacy, etc. do not disappoint. Old age and death is
inevitable, of course, but their arrival and terms are not. This isn't denial we are discussing but individual
quality life-prolonging that has not been explored. Old age constitutes a vast range for the many people involved.
Statistics and actuarial charts do not have to apply to every individual, especially when the "13th Technique" has not been
given proper representation...
"The complete physician would be a person who learned to understand the dynamics of being, the soul-body relationship -- one
who was healthy in his or her own body...
"...The person who is healthy understands the dynamics of health... But a true medical profession would be, literally,
a health profession. It would seek out people who were healthy and learn from them how to promote health, and not how
to diagram disease.
"...A true healing, or health profession, would deal intimately with the powers of the psyche in healing the body, and
with the interrelationship among the desires, beliefs, and activities of the conscious mind and its effects upon the cellular
behavior."
(The Unknown Reality, Vol. One, by Jane Roberts, pg. 237)
"The complete physician would try to understand the inner mechanics of vitality and, as best he could, learn to
encourage these."
"He would try to ascertain the patterns of the psyche, and follow them. He would encourage the patient to tune into the
private oracle in order to ascertain his or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. The
complete physician would be an individual, (male or female), who was in superb health, and therefore understand himself
the particular dynamics that operate between spiritual vitality and physical well-being. That would be his specialty."
(The Unknown Reality, Vol. One, by Jane Roberts, pp. 243-44)
"Now,... There are groups of symptoms which are given names. The names help physicians to categorize and treat, but the
names are also dangerous when they are used as labels.
"The body is always in a state of changing. By labeling a group of symptoms you add to their idea of permanence, and give
a name to certain aspects of bodily activity, distinguishing them from other activities and therefore giving them rather dangerous
focus. They are seen as apart from other bodily activates and gain prominence.
"If a doctor tells you you have a particular disease and names it, then tells you he has something to cure it, your belief may
cure it. Do you follow me?
"If however his treatment involves drugs, these may further upset the inner processes, causing further imbalances. These
imbalances may be labeled with a name also. Ruburt's symptoms would therefore be called arthritic, since they fit into that
category, so named. To concentrate upon the term however is dangerous, for it gives a specific identity or implies a state
of permanence to a group of varying and impermanent symptoms.
"States of mind are not permanent. Their reflections upon the system are not permanent, generally speaking, though they can
be cumulative. It is much easier to pass through such periods if names are not given to symptoms, and many people pass
through many so-called diseases without ever being aware of it.
"The label often helps the individual adopt the position or role of a 'sick person,' in quotes, rather than of a well person
momentarily indisposed..."
(The Early Sessions, Book 9, Session 487 held June 16, 1969.)
"Your current ideas of preventative medicine, therefore, generate the very kind of fear that causes disease.
They all undermine the individual's sense of bodily security and increase stress, while offering the body a specific,
detailed disease plan. But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body,
and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.
"Your 'medical commercials' are equally disease promoting. Many, meaning to offer you relief through a product,
instead actually promote the condition through suggestion, thereby generating a need for the product itself.
"Headache remedies are a case in point here. Nowhere do any medically oriented commercial or public service announcements
mention the body's natural defenses, its integrity, vitality, or strength. Nowhere in your television or radio matter
is any emphasis put upon the healthy. Medical statistics deal with the diseased. Studies upon the healthy
are not carried out.
"More and more foods, drugs, and natural environmental conditions are being added to the list of disease-causing elements.
Different reports place dairy products, red meats, coffee, tea, eggs, and fats on the list. Period.
Generations before you managed to subsist on many such foods, and they were in fact promoted as additive to health.
Indeed, man almost seems to be allergic to his own natural environment a prey to the weather itself.
"It is true that your food contains chemicals it did not in years past. Yet WITHIN REASON man is biologically capable
of assimilating such materials and using them to his advantage.
"When man feels powerless, however, and in a state of generalized fear, he can even turn the most natural earthly ingredients
against himself."
(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 805)
Not the comfortable, familiar and quiet dependency, subservience, protection, and desperation
which most societies have for so long been requiring of you.
You neither deserve nor are like that any more.
There is no reason to self-loathe, self-deny, self-judge, self-condemn, self-harm, self-hate, self-destruct,
or otherwise put ourselves down.
That is not humility or modesty or being spritual or holy.
We are NOT accidental miracles alone in a meaningless and violent mechanical Newtonian universe of matter and gravity.
We are NOT pathetic children cursed with Original Sin by a dysfunctional bi-polar judgemental god-parent
whose ways are not known to us/are identical to our worst behaviors
and who can only be placated if we follow exactly the interpretations of his holier-than-us middle-men.
We will NOT be eternally punished by a vengeful God or tortured by a victorious Devil because we left the Faith of Our
Fathers in pursuit of the Truth.
We are NOT potential victims of ever-present diseases, our only hope being modern medicine and others' empirical knowledge.
We are NOT potential victims of chance, of insane, violent acts that can happen anywhere so we must always be fearful and worried.
We are NOT tranced-out super-consumers and owned workers for the benefit of soulless corporations or the state.
We are NOT just our bodies whose pains need to be gotten away from because we are not encouraged to be present in the moment.
We are NOT subject either to a single winner-takes-all lifetime or to an endless dreary cycle of incarnations.
We are NOT hopeless, helpless victims of our genetics, our germs, the socio-economic class we were born into, our upbringings
and family traditions, our unconsciousness, our "human nature," or our "stars."
We do NOT live in a frightful battlefield, a dog-eat-dog world, or a competitive place of survival-of-the-fittest only.
NOT UNLESS we choose to continue to abdicate our responsibility, authority, and power...
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us."
(Marianne Williamson)
"It does not matter how or at what age my parents, my siblings, classmates or other members of my generation,
neighborhood or occupation age, get sick, or die: I choose my own path, I do have Free Will and Agency."
(RJB)
"I was born into a beautiful state of grace and I will remain there all my life, even if I ignore it or feel out of it."
(RJB)
"Love is active, Fear is reactive. Your life can either be sacred or scared. Your choice, you need to decide."
(RJB)
"I love me, I love me, I celebrate ME. I AM worthy."
This is a very profound, life-changing, life-affirming and life-long declaration.
Let it sink in. Let it percolate through your cells. Let it infiltrate your dreams so YOU can re-create YOU.
Give yourself an abundant, happy and cheerful, benevolent, blessed, balanced, and powerful loving life.
Embrace and promote self-respect, self-motivation, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, self-care, and self-love.
Lift yourself up. Emotionally and psychologically stand tall.
Sparkle and shine always, Dear One, and clean that dusty gold.
"When will you be willing to step aside from the official line of consciousness and meet the selves that you are?
When will you be willing to admit the greatness that is within each of you, and not cower, and not say,
in this realm of reality, 'It is not possible,' but encounter the greatness within yourselves,
and realize that everything that you have been taught is distorted because it was told to you by wardens in a prison.
Now, you chose the prison, and it was educational, and you have learned from it.
But you must then realize that you have been your own jurors.
The abilities that now exist within the human race, and within you each as individuals, rises up,
crying for release. And to release those abilities, you must allow yourself parole!"
(From a 1975 Seth class, as posted by Rich Kendall on Facebook, 07/22/17)