*Redefining of Beliefs*


Q:  My question has to do with: I feel like a black, kinda heavy little
space.

B:  Black, kinda heavy little space? Very creative.

Q:  And it gets in my way of relationships, and...

B:  "It" gets in your way! All right.

Q:  ... and of surrendering completely to the moment, and to taking all of
my power, and just being.

B:  All right. May I ask you a question?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Are you sure? You do not sound too sure that you wish me to ask you a
question.

Q:  I know. I'm scared to death.

B:  Oh, all right. It is all right if you want to be scared to life, too.

Q:  Okay. I do.

B:  Now, this question simply is: why do you assume that what you are
describing actually gets in your way - as opposed to being a part of the
path you are choosing to be? Why do you think it is not a part of your
path?

Q:  Well, I guess that's what I want to know: what's the agreement to have
that? I want to be... I'm finished with it now. I want to be done with it;
I want to be able to let that go.

B:  All right.

Q:  Different processes...

B:  All right. Can you do me a favor?

Q:  Yeah.

B:  "Yeah." All right. Can you define it in any more precise terminology
than simply the heavy little black space?

Q:  Okay. For me, in this "right now," it feels like Mom, and feels like
the unresolved stuff with Mommy... of something. I don't... (Crying)

B:  All right. It can be many of the beliefs you were brought up with.

Q:  Yeah, I'm sure that's what it is. And so I understand all the stuff in
your reality being what you created.

B:  Yes.

Q:  And so I wonder why I get myself right up to that point, up to that
wall, up to that window, to whatever, and why I just can't.. just go
through it.

B: Oh, all right. All right. May I ask you? All right, I'll ask you. Let me
ask you this: what do you imagine would happen if you did go through with
it?

Q:  I guess it comes down to death. I think if I be... or whatever, who I
am, or engulf all my empowerment, there's some idea I won't be loved. And
then if I'm not loved, then I don't exist. And if I don't exist, I'm dead
or...

B:  One moment. One moment. Your definition contains a contradiction. How
can you be all you are and not be loved? That is a contradiction; it is not
possible. You are made of love. How can you be all you are and not be
loved?

Q:  Because someone told me that or something.

B:  So?

Q:  So why do we believe it? Why do we believe it when we're kids...?

B:  I don't know. Why do you believe it? Why do you choose to exercise your
conscious commandment to continue to believe it, even though you know what
it is you don't want to believe in? Perhaps one of the beliefs you have
been taught is that it is not that easy to transform it.

Q:  Right. It's always the hard way, the hard way; the hard way is the best
way. I don't want the hard way; I want the easy way. I'm trying to find the
easy way.

B:  All right. You do not have to try to find the easy way. That's not an
easy way to find it. An easy way to find the easy way is to simply do the
things that are representative of what you imagine the easy way to be -
regardless of anything you used to believe in.

Also, what may be, in your terms, hanging you up is simply the belief that
you have to dig out all of the old beliefs before you can place new ones
in. If you simply act upon whatever new belief you prefer to be true for
you, it will automatically replace the old one - whatever it was, for
whatever reason it was there.

It is also that easy. You do not necessarily have to dredge all the reasons
up as to why the old beliefs are there. You may find it difficult to go on,
simply because you are standing on the threshold, not believing that just
activating the new belief will be enough to cancel the old one - but it is.

Q:  Is there any, like, exercise or affirmation or something that can help
me let go of this...

B:  There are probably 2 million, 578 thousand, 934 of them.

Q:  Okay. All right.

B:  Now: we could give you any number of them. However, your imagination
will always alter it to fit your best understanding anyway. So why not
begin with your imagination?

When you say: "Is there an exercise? Is there a technique?" Why not ask
your imagination for one? Since your imagination is the primary tool. The
reason you have an imagination is for /just/ such a question: "What can I do
to change into what I desire to be?" "Imagination: give me a sign; give me
a picture; give me a feeling, please." It always will. It's the tool that
is specifically oriented to the vibration of the person you are. So
whatever your imagination gives you will work for you - if you trust it.

So in your picturing of what you would prefer to be, how do you imagine -
if you were that person you prefer to be - how do you imagine you would act
that is different from what you are doing now?

Q:  I would be more active; I would just get things done, boom-boom-boom-
boom!

B:  Then understand: all you need to do is act that way. And that action
will completely cancel any other habits you have.

Q:  Okay. So all that stuff about karma with this person or that person or
agreements... is really not necessary...

B:  Oh, it's all valid, and it's all relevant, but in no way, shape, or
form does it control what you decide to be now. It is all a part of what
brought you to this point, but it has nothing to do with preventing you
from being anything you want. You, right now, just by whatever you define
yourself to be right now, will change all the focus of all the past
connections to validate what you choose to be right now. The past does not
control the present; the present is not a result - in a controlling way -
of the past.

You define yourself to be whatever you believe you are at any given moment.
If you find that a certain linear idea of your past connections no longer
serves the definition you prefer to be, why hang on to that connection?
Sever it by redefining yourself, and believing in the definition you prefer
now. Believing in the definition you prefer now will change your past to
accommodate whatever definition you choose to be in the present.

Q:  And believing is just your imagination.

B:  Just your imagination and your willingness to act, and trust that by
acting upon your instincts and following what excites you the most, your
physical reality always reflects that certainty back to you - that choice
back to you.

That is how the universe works. It works for everyone. No exceptions. It is
working for you right now. But it is only reflecting back to you what you
are choosing to believe is most true for you. Change your definition,
believe in your new definition. Act like you believe in your new
definition, and your physical reality has no choice but to reflect your
belief, your action, your new definition. That is all it really takes.

Now, if you believe, for any reason - and it does not matter why - if you
believe you need a process to acclimatize you into the understanding that
it's all right to believe you're that powerful, and that it's all right to
believe it's that simple and that easy, then by all means attract to
yourself a process, an exercise - whatever you find most enjoyable, just
because you enjoy it. And that will work for you.

Now one exercise, if you wish, that we did share with you of recent times
already exists in your tape form, and there are individuals who can refer
you to this exercise - which deals specifically with converting fear into
power. And if this works for you, use it; if it doesn't work for you,
don't. The idea is to simply trust that you will attract into your life
whatever tool will work for you.

And lighten up on yourself. There is no real heavy, small black thing in
your way. Only your assumption that there is something in your way creates
there to be something in your way. And the only thing that's in your way is
an assumption that there is something in your way.

That's it - truly it. Beliefs are what create your apparently solid
physical reality. So a solid strong belief in a very lightweight assumption
will create that assumption to seem as if it is made out of steel. And it
will seem to be immovable, just because that's what your belief does. It
solidifies your assumptions. That's it.

Q:  Is there any purpose in these beliefs? I mean do we manifest these
beliefs...?

B:  You can extract a purpose from anything. Perhaps, if you wish to keep
it simple, the fundamental purpose in experiencing limitation is to
recognize that you no longer prefer it. And then you will not be living it.

Q:  Oh God!

B:  You can keep it that simple. "All right, I've been through all of this
to recognize now, that by being able to compare the ideas I no longer
prefer to what I now know I do prefer, that I went through all this so I
would know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what I /really/ prefer."

Now, the last step is to simply believe that if you act upon what you
prefer, that will be, from that point forward, the reality you will
experience, plain and simple.

Q:  So you always know what you prefer - I mean...

B:  Yes, you do. You can create a scenario in which it seems you can hide
your preferences from yourself. But then, in a sense, to be very basic
about it, obviously, at that moment that's what you prefer to do.

But it is always a matter of conscious commandment. If you are "out of
control," then you are preferring to be out of control. But you are
controlling that scenario. So you are never really out of control.

Q:  Okay.

B:  Simply know that: you cannot be truly out of control. You cannot truly
be off of you path, because you are not /on/ a path; you /are/ a path. You
can't be off yourself.

You are who you wish to be; you are what you are. You are the creator of
your reality. Prefer what you prefer; believe in it; act on it. You will
always get the reflection back of what you truly prefer.

Q:  Okay. Thanks.

B:  Thank you very much for you boldness.