*A New Habit*
                               Canoga Park, CA
                                  11-21-97

All right, I'll say good day to you, this day of your time. How are you
all?  Once again, we take this opportunity to thank each and every one of
you for allowing this transmission to occur, through this particular method
and on this particular time.  Once again, each and every time you allow our
civilization to communicate with your civilization, in this manner, it
affords us an opportunity to experience, through each and every one of you,
that  many more perspectives of the Infinite and we thank you for this gift
of expansion and sharing.

We would like to begin this transmission, this day of your time, with the
following idea.  We remind you that a new habit is in order, a very
important new habit in your behavior.   We have discussed this several
times, but it will not hurt to remind you again because it is so important
for you to develop this new habit; so remind you again, we will.  Until
such time as you make this part of your day to day personality, until such
time as this is second nature for you, we will always be willing to discuss
this, to remind you, to implement and incorporate this notion in your
behavior, because it will assist you in making the changes that you wish to
make in your lives, on a day to day pragmatic level.

And so, we remind you that this new habit is simply the habit of not
automatically, nor immediately, no matter how the situation looks,
assigning or ascribing a negative connotation to it.  To give yourself a
moment to look at what is going on and to learn to see it as a neutral
circumstance before you see it as negative or positive or anything in
particular.   But particularly in those circumstances where you may have
been taught to, more often than not, automatically assign a negative
connotation, a bad feeling, colloquially, if you wish to put it that way.
Then, even more importantly, can you take the time to incorporate and
instill this new habit of neutrality within you so that you can get more
out of the situation.  Learn how to change and transform the situation in a
positive way, rather than simply, automatically assuming it must be
negative because of how it looks, based on how you have been taught.

Now, of course, we are not talking about ignoring your feelings, glossing
them over, covering them up, pushing them down, suppressing them. By all
means, if feelings come up, you should pay attention to them; but the idea
is to understand why you have them.  They are not automatic, and certain
situations do not necessarily need to automatically generate those feelings
in you, but if they are there, then you must pay attention to the fact why
they are there.  And generally, as we have said, they are there because you
have been taught definitions about the situation that make those feeling
seem to be the only logical reaction to have, when in fact they are not.

Again, we remind you, all situations are neutral.  And if you learn to
balance yourself and look at them, first and foremost, in that way, then
you can gain more information, more discernment, more enlightenment from
the circumstance as it has unfolded, no matter what it may be, /no matter/
/what it may be/.  And in remaining neutral, at least for a few moments, you
give yourself the opportunity to learn to assign new meanings to it that
will be relevant for you, regardless of what anyone else's intention in the
circumstance may have been, regardless of what you may have been taught in
the past to think about such circumstances, as you see them.

Remaining relatively neutral at first, will give you an opportunity to gain
greater insight, more depth of understanding as to how the circumstances
came together, what they are based on in terms of the definitions that are
going on in you and in others, in your society; and give you an opportunity
to learn to replace those definitions in such a manner, so that in doing
so, and in assigning new perspective and new meaning to the circumstance,
you can then glean from it  new impact, new effect, new meaning, new
feeling.  And learn how any situation can serve you in a positive and
constructive and creative and expansive way, rather than continuing to live
your lives assuming that certain situations must only, and can only be
capable of generating negativity in your reality.

You are, you are the one that is generating the reality you experience, and
even though someone else may be involved, it is your perception and your
definition of it that determines the effect you personally extract from it
in your life.  Learn the new habit of taking a moment to pause and not
automatically assign a negative meaning  to circumstances, but give
yourself the opportunity to see it as simply a neutral set of props, a
neutral set of equations, a neutral circumstance that has come together for
a variety of reasons, and in looking at it as a nexus point, you can then
begin to assign new meaning by exploring the definitions that are within
you, that have given it the meaning it already seems to have.  For remember
that these meanings, these feelings, these reactions to circumstances do
not come with the circumstance; no circumstance carries a built in meaning.
 The meaning, the feelings, the reactions you have are already built within
your consciousness, based on the definitions of life you have been taught.
Learn the new habit of letting them go, and not automatically assuming that
those definitions are definitions of an absolute reality, for there is no
reality except the definition you give it, and that's what reality is.

So learn the new habit, it will serve you, day to day, in practical and
pragmatic ways.  And we will remind you of this as many times as is
necessary for it to become a part of your daily behavior and personality,
and when it is, I guarantee 100%  you will see a difference in your lives.
And you will see that you have more ability to determine exactly in what
direction your lives ought to go and what it is you are capable of
believing, that is possible for you.  And also, simultaneously, in looking
at circumstances neutrally, you will become more capable of understanding
how it is you may be of assistance to others who may be caught up in their
own definitions, and unable to see a way to break out of the situation and
circumstance, and unable to understand that it is their own definitions
that have made the circumstance seem so iron clad, when in fact it is made
of nothing but tissue paper definitions.

Learn that reality is only the product of your strongest beliefs and that
is the only thing that makes it seem so solid and so immutable in that
sense.  Transmute these things by changing your definitions, by changing
your awareness.  It does not necessarily mean that you have to see cosmic
consequence in every thing that happens to you, though on one level, of
course, there always is.  But nevertheless, it will give you insight, like
what you would call an x-ray vision, into the nature and structure of
synchronicity and circumstance and will give more ability to understand how
circumstance hinges upon the strongest definitions you have been taught to
believe are true.

We thank you for allowing us to share this notion, this perspective with
you this day.  And in return for the gift that you are giving our
civilization in allowing this communication to unfold, I ask now, in what
way may I be of service to you?

Q:    Bashar!  Bashar!  Bashar!

B:    You, good day.