*Vulnerability* *III* Q: One of the greatest difficulties I have in being myself and realizing the synchronicity of all is the feeling of vulnerability. B: Vulnerability! Good one! Vulnerability is not weakness. Do you think it is? Q: No, I think there's a strength in... B: A strength; vulnerability /is/ strength. Vulnerability, complete vulnerability -- pay attention, follow along -- is being open to everything, being open to All That Is. Being open to All That Is, is being connected to All That Is. Being connected to All That Is, is a position of ultimate strength; vulnerability is strength, it is trust. Q: Okay. B: It is knowing that to open yourself up to All That Is, then you will be supported by All That Is, because All That Is wants you to allow yourself to recognize yourself as an integral - integral, integrity - integral part of All That Is. You then create yourself to function like an integral part, and All That Is would not be All That Is without you. Therefore, vulnerability is strength, by definition. Judgment is what creates the feeling of weakness - not vulnerability. Q: Judgment on yourself or... B: Yes! There is nothing else; there is no one else to judge. Judgment of others is judgment of yourself; judgment from others, if you accept it, is judgment of yourself. You follow me? Q: Yes. There are a lot of different frequencies of energy... B: Yes, so? The idea of unity is to grant equal validity to all the diversity within creation. Again: allowing all the ways All That Is has of expressing itself to be equal - on their own terms - does not mean it has to affect your life. Just because you recognize that there are other frequencies doesn't mean that one of those frequencies has anything at all to do with the life you know your frequency to be, if you simply recognize that it has nothing to do with you. Q: Well, okay. B: Just because you are, quote/unquote, exposed to the reality that other beings have chosen other ways to live and other ways to present their version of All That Is to you, it doesn't mean that you have to feel it as being forced down your throat. Q: Okay. I personally am... have been very influenced by other energies in my environment. Is that just... B: It is your choice to be influenced. Nothing influences you but you! Nothing! They are offerings: "Pssst. How would you like to be influenced by, oh, say, pollution?" "Yes? No? Yes, thank you. No, thank you." It is up to you to be influenced. But you created your version of that gift in your reality, if you are experiencing it. You have to create it for yourself in order to experience it. So all you are doing is agreeing that it would be, for you, an appropriate thing to create. If you simply understand that that tool you are being offered is equal to any other tool - is valid. If you should decide to accept it, it will serve you, because you do not accept anything else. But if you simply recognize that it is a tool you do not need and that you can learn what you need to learn in other ways -- in ways you consider to be more positive -- then simply recognize that it does not have to manifest in your life. That if you recognize what the purpose would be -- should you have accepted that idea -- then you can also recognize that the same purpose would be served by creating another way in which it can manifest in your life. One that is more relevant to the vibration you know is true for you. Does that assist you? Q: Yes. B: But ...? Q: I still have difficulty with it. B: Do you understand that the phrase, "I still have difficulty with it," is only a belief? Q: Okay. B: Why do you insist that that is a part of your reality? Q: Probably because it always has been. B: So what? One moment is not connected to the next. Now is now. It has nothing to do with the past, unless you choose to make a connection. The present is not a result of the past. Now is now; each and every now as seemingly similar to the last one does not mean it has to be. Q: Okay. Then what's your advice for clearing oneself of these fixed ideas? B: What I just told you, recognizing that every single moment in time is its own separate now. Now is now, and not the now you used to be a moment ago. The only things you experience in any given "now" are the results of what you define your reality to be, according to what you believe it should be. Redefine your reality. In other words, if you simply recognize that you have a choice between the preference -- the opportunity to believe, "it is difficult for me; it is easy for me," which one do you prefer? " It is difficult for me to change; it is easy for me to change." Which one do you prefer? You are making your choice right now, because you are choosing to make it difficult to choose a preference. Which one do you prefer? Q: The difficult. B: Why? Obviously if you prefer it to be difficult... Q: Because I need to learn from it. B: ... it must serve you. However, you can also understand that the opportunity to choose to prefer that it is easy is always just as equal a choice at any given moment. At any moment whatsoever, you have that option of saying, "all right, I am through with the belief that it is difficult; now I will choose that it is easy." And as soon as you truly do choose it, it will be easy. Q: Thank you. B: Understand something once again: change is the only constant in the universe. Things are always changing, always transforming, are they not? Q: Yes. B: Then recognize that is what happens anyway. What you think always stays the same is never the same, never! Every moment is a new moment even when it seems to be the same as the last moment. It is a new version of the idea. You are creating the idea that there is a continuity. You are creating, in the new moment, a continuance of the idea that nothing has changed. That is how you create the scenario that makes it seem as if changing is difficult. You are doing it all the time, but you are changing into ideas that allow you to think nothing has changed. But that is the definition you are creating. Q: If I'm not the same me that I was a minute ago... B: Yes? Q: And... B: Come on; you are getting it. Q: Well, what happens to identity, and where does memory come into place? B: Ah, very good! Identity - your personality construct -- is, in a sense, an artificial construct, created of three things: belief, emotion and thought. It is a prism through which the white light of your consciousness is broken down into the spectrum of the physical reality. Your identity is always changing; you as a person are always changing. The person is not a fixed thing. The consciousness is, in a sense, but the person is never fixed. Do you not understand that you yourselves recognize that many times individuals go through situations and when they emerge from these situations, you say, "well, you're an entirely different person, aren't you?" It is true. Same consciousness; you recognize the consciousness. But it is a different person, a different personality -- which is the same thing. It is an artificial construct that now has been tailored to fit the now idea that the consciousness is willing to be. Memory is created in the present as well. You may think you are dredging something up from the past, but if you really stop and understand it and think about it, you recognize you are creating memory in the present. Therefore, the idea is that you will find that many individuals will begin to forget the so-called past in fourth density, because they are beginning to recognize that they will know what they need to know in the present, when they need to know it. And do not have to have an association with the past in order to know what they need to know. Everything is created in the present -- everything. The present is the only time in which you ever exist, is it not? No matter when you are, isn't it always now? Well? Can you recall a time ever when you could say, "it is not now"? Yes or no? Yes or no? Q: I can look at myself at other times. B: You are doing that now. Q: Okay. B: In other words... let me rephrase it: anything you can ever experience yourself doing is always now. You follow me? Q: Yes. B: You are experiencing the idea of a memory of the past now! When you were, quote/unquote, living that past, it was still now when you were living it, wasn't it? Q: Uh huh. B: There is always, and only ever will be, now. It is the only time there is - now. Q: Is it the same moment all the time? B: It is one eternal moment that can transform in different versions of itself, yes; it does so and is so simultaneously; but because you have created a reality in which you have the idea of linear time, it does not seem to be the same moment, but it is. As we said, all things are one thing in different manifestations at the same time, including the perception of linear time. That is one manifestation of the now existence. Because the only time you ever perceive linear time is from the now. You relate to the past and the future from the present. You do not relate to the present from the future. You follow me? Q: Yes. B: All is now. Does that assist you? Q: Yes. B: Choose what you wish to be now. All the choices are equal; all choices are equal. Allowing all choices to be equal is what allows you to choose easily, because then nothing is beyond your reach; they are all on the same level. You follow me? Q: Mhmm. B: Thank you. Q: Thank you.