Missing the Train Q: I have a scenario in my life that I feel that I should have completed by now. B: Should - should - should - should - should - should! All right. Q: It's beginning to cause me stress. B: Ah! Oh, etc. Here it comes, right? "It" is beginning to cause you stress. It? Q: I am beginning to cause me stress. B: Thank you. Q: Well, it's making me uncomfortable. B: It? Q: All right. I have created a situation that I am making myself very uncomfortable in. B: How creative! Why? How does it serve you to be uncomfortable? Q: At this point, I don't think it serves me any longer. The serving, I feel, should have been completed several weeks ago. B: Should? Q: All right. B: Now, let's take it one step at a time. Your physiological reality -- and everything that happens within it -- is there because it is a reflection of what you believe the most likely event that can occur. Therefore, if something is happening in your reality, it is there for a reason, no matter what you like to think about it. When you accept that it is there for a reason, perhaps you will allow yourself to begin to realize that it is actually never the same thing. You may have created what appears to be a repetition of a familiar symbol. The only reason that it may continue to feel like a repetition of the entire event is because you continue to insist on imbuing the familiar symbol with the same meaning over and over and over again. But no symbol has built-in meaning; no situation has built-in meaning. All situations and circumstances are fundamentally neutral, blank, zero, empty; you supply the meaning. The meaning you supply, and the type of meaning you supply -- positive or negative -- determines the effect you instantaneously create in your life. Now, recognize that many times when you know, quote/unquote, things should have changed; when you know you have changed -- but apparently they haven't, it is only because you do not truly believe that you have changed. And therefore, you think, "well, if the symbol doesn't change, then I must not have changed." You are taking your validity from the symbol, rather than giving your validity to the symbol. You follow me? Q: I do follow you. B: Therefore, if you know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you have changed, that you are now the idea you prefer to be, then allow whatever symbols occur in your life -- whether they appear to be the same symbols that used to occur or not -- to not have the same meaning. When you give them new meanings then you will allow the symbols to change. You still do live in a linear time frame reality. And therefore, any change you know has occurred within you, as an idea of yourself, may still take a little bit of time for the outward reality to go along and follow suit. However, this can happen the most quickly when you simply take it for granted that when you know you have changed, you have changed. KNOW your entire reality is now different, and don't keep supplying the same meaning to the symbols you used to use. When you give them different meanings is when you allow them to change along with the change you now know yourself to be. You follow me? Q: I do. It's my most difficult one, I find. B: If you say so. That is a belief. Q: Okay. Could it be, though, that I would be operating under an old belief system that I am not cognizant of? B: Oh, it could be. Do you think that is the case? Q: No, I do not. Q: Then thank you. Trust your feelings. You are different. If you know you are different, act like it. Do not believe that what used to be a symbol for you has the same meaning. Look at it this way, perhaps, if you actually were a different person, do you not think that the different person might have a different meaning for the same symbol? Q: Perhaps. Yes. B: All right. Then, in knowing that you are changed, it means you are a different person. So why look at the same symbols in the same way that you used to -- because you are no longer that person. Look at them in the way a new person would. Redefine them. It is up to you; your symbols are yours to define. When you say, "this is difficult to do," that is your symbol. Redefine it. Why is it difficult to do? Why? That is only a series of words. Q: Yes. B: Therefore, trust that whatever it is that is happening is a representation of the new person you are -- no matter what it appears to be. It is a representation of the new person you are. Then that perspective is what will allow you, in very short order, to see how the situation that is in your life does represent the now (new?) reality you know yourself to be. You will see it transform; you will transform it. Q: I understand that. B: When you simply trust, once again, that the symbols in your life are there for a reason, and when you trust you have changed, then you will know that no matter what the symbols are, no matter what the situations are that appear to be in your life, they are no longer representative of the you you used to be; they are representative of the you you are now. And therefore, when you allow them to be there for a reason that befits the new person you are, you will allow yourself to very quickly discover why those situations are occurring, relative to the new person you are - not the person you used to be. By analogy, let us say the old person -- once again with the train story -- the old person you used to be is on their way to catch the vehicle you call your train. You arrive at the station; the train has left. Now that is simply the neutral situation. There is no meaning in this. You are standing on the platform; the train is moving; you are not on it. Period. That is the neutral situation. Q: Okay. B: Now let us say that is a symbol, that when viewed by the perspective of the old you, might have been negative. "Oh, gosh and darn," you say, "I have done something wrong. This is very bad. I am now very angry. Those train people, they were too early. I was not late; no, no, no. They were too early. I will now go to someone and complain." All right. Your choice. Now you are the new person, the person you now know you have changed into. You are going for the train, you arrive at the platform; the train has left. Once again, the neutral situation, you are on the platform, the train is moving; you are not on it. But now you know, you know you are different, you know that everything in your life is there for a positive reason; you know that. So no matter that the symbol is the same, you know it is now filled with a positive reason. Because you now trust that, and do not go stomping off to complain, your anger no longer blinds you to the fact that having just stepped off everything will be synchronicity in your eyes. Thank you very much. Q: Thank you.