The Flower Bud Analogy: Allowing Your Direction to Unfold
Topics:
“Projecting Calm Energy”
“The Flower Bud Analogy: Allowing Your Direction to Unfold”
“Removing Obstacles by Rediscovering Fun”
“Being Self-Directing While Working Within Society’s Structures”
“Changing Physical Movement to Adjust to Bodily Changes”
“Intensified Dream Imagery”
Session 20070215 (2200)
“Projecting Calm Energy”
“The Flower Bud Analogy: Allowing Your Direction to Unfold”
“Removing Obstacles by Rediscovering Fun”
“Being Self-Directing While Working Within Society’s Structures”
“Changing Physical Movement to Adjust to Bodily Changes”
“Intensified Dream Imagery”
Thursday, February 15, 2007 (Private)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Coen (Chemie)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
COEN: Good morning, Elias. (Elias laughs) Long time no see!
ELIAS: And what shall we discuss?
COEN: Excuse me, I've made a list of a few questions, and I think we just start with the third one.
ELIAS: Very well.
COEN: Okay! When I got the transcript of our first session back, I noticed there was a little confusion about my essence name. Can you clear it up for me?
ELIAS: And what was your confusion?
COEN: When I listened to you and I went to make notes, my impression was that my essence name was Delaitre. I gave you a suggestion of Chemie, but in my mind you changed to Delaitre. When later I read the transcript, it mentioned Delaitre, meaning Chemie. So I’m now a bit confused which one of the two fits me.
ELIAS: The latter.
COEN: The latter. Okay.
Last week we scheduled an appointment, and ten minutes before time my television went blue. I guess it was a signal from you?
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: Okay. (Elias laughs) Thanks. It was a nice signal. (Elias laughs)
I have not done that much on focuses, but I've a few names I would like to check with you. The first focus of mine, it was of Genghis Khan?
ELIAS: Observing.
COEN: Observing essence? Okay. The other one I have is Machiavelli, the author of the book on organizations.
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: That's a focus. Okay. The last one, I've two names of cardinals in France. One is Montesquieu and the other Richelieu, and I think one of them is a focus of mine.
ELIAS: The first.
COEN: Montesquieu. And one of the three is political; where is the one of the three musketeers?
ELIAS: The first.
COEN: Okay. Thanks. I had a question about my cats. I'm bit surprised, as one of my cats has now joined me and is near me. I guess that it’s because he feels your energy?
ELIAS: Partially, but also partially it is associated with YOUR energy.
COEN: Okay. Okay. A few years ago, I think it's now two years ago, one of my cats just disappeared. We think it is because of old age, and then later the second one died and then we bought a new cat, a red one, and it died after one year. My impression is that it was our first cat who disappeared just because he wanted to say hello to us and, let’s say, pass away properly. Do you agree with me?
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: Okay. And the other cat we have bought, the blue one, is that the same energy as our first black cat?
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: Okay. And the white one we have now is a new kind of energy.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
COEN: Okay. Thanks, just checking. (Elias laughs) Amazing animals, cats.
In the last year since we talked, I would say, and also before that, I seem to have developed that I’m more relaxed. I give myself more compliments, I notice. I'm more creative, and I think I work much more in the moment. Could you give me from your perspective your view about this, or more information?
ELIAS: I would quite agree, and I would be acknowledging of you in your movement and your allowance with yourself. For in this, you allow yourself to be more productive and more effective also, which generates more ease in your directions and allows you to be more relaxed, not merely with other individuals but also with your family.
COEN: Yeah. I agree.
ELIAS: I would express my congratulations to you.
COEN: Okay, thank you very much. (Both laugh) The other thing I noticed is that people always view me as a kind of stable position or kind of basic or they can fall back on me. I'm always surprised by that, because that's not really how I feel. Has that something to do with my essence?
ELIAS: Yes, but it also is associated with your energy that you project. Let me express to you, my friend, many times what you feel inwardly is not necessarily an indicator of what type of energy you are projecting. And with the movement that you have generated in this time framework, you have allowed yourself to be projecting a much stronger energy.
Now; in that strength, there is also a gentleness which other individuals are naturally drawn to. Therefore, other individuals perceive you as being stable, in your terms, or grounded. And in that, it is received by other individuals in a manner which is comforting. And that is an energy that you are naturally projecting, which in actuality is more in keeping with your natural flow.
COEN: And by natural flow you mean essence flow, or…?
ELIAS: A natural flow of energy, which is an expression of essence. And in that, you project this energy outwardly in a type of calm energy which is received by other individuals and viewed as quite comforting and secure.
COEN: Okay. The point is I feel I can do or I have to do something with it, but I'm not sure what. It confuses me a bit.
ELIAS: It is not necessary for you to DO anything; you are already doing in merely being. And in that, it is merely a matter of acknowledging yourself in this natural expression that your very being is projecting that supportiveness that other individuals are receiving. Therefore, it is not necessary for you to engage specific actions, for you are already doing in projecting the type of energy that you are.
COEN: Okay.
ELIAS: Which is naturally offering a supportiveness to other individuals. Therefore, when other individuals engage you, they are already receiving a supportiveness. It is not a matter that you must engage some other action in conjunction with them; it is merely a matter of continuing to express that supportiveness which allows other individuals to generate more of a strength within themselves, for they are drawing upon your example.
COEN: Okay. Can you explain to me why there are some problems on the line? Sometimes I can't hear exactly.
ELIAS: Fluctuations of energy.
COEN: Okay. How can I establish them, or repair them, or…?
ELIAS: I would suggest that you do what you have being practicing: be present.
COEN: Okay.
ELIAS: You are engaging conversation with myself presently, therefore focus your attention in that action rather than dividing it. (Both laugh)
COEN: That was so spot on.
Another thing that I'm thinking of is, I see any number of potentials around me. I see an enormous lot of new things, new developments, new possibilities. Sometimes I ask myself what is the direction I’m choosing or what is going on here. Can you from your perspective give me some hints or information or clues or what's happening? What do you think I can do?
ELIAS: I would express to you, my friend, you are presenting yourself with new vistas; and in that, it is not necessary for you to incorporate a recognition specifically of the direction that you may engage. What is more significant is that you genuinely allow yourself to pay attention in the moment and merely to allow yourself to proceed in whatever direction you are engaging now, and in that, allow for the unfolding of new avenues. Rather than planning and anticipating, merely allow your direction to unfold. In that, view yourself presently as a flower bud, and what is occurring is the transformation in which the flower is beginning to bloom and open. And in that, you present to yourself the surprises of HOW you shall open and unfold and what the presentment of your petals shall be.
COEN: Okay. I agree with you.
ELIAS: In this, you allow yourself many more avenues, for if you are concerning yourself with planning or anticipating, you are less paying attention to the process that is unfolding; and in that, you create limits of what you can accomplish in potentials. Whereas, if you continue to be present and pay attention to your process, not concerning yourself with the outcome and allowing the unfolding, you generate a much wider array of what you can accomplish. And in that, you also allow for your own surprises.
COEN: Okay. Okay. I’m not thinking of examples of things I’m planning, but I think I know what you mean. I always thought one of my strong points was my planning, that I see the things ahead and I can anticipate them.
ELIAS: Such as?
COEN: For instance the challenge we have now with the [inaudible] and the new developments that are occurring – for instance the problems with the financial part of my father's heritage and how we try to solve them.
ELIAS: And you have accomplished.
COEN: Yeah.
ELIAS: And now, you embark upon NEW adventures. And what do you anticipate within these new directions?
COEN: I have no anticipation, to be quite honest. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: Very well!
COEN: (Chuckles). And it's also part of the thing that scares me. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: I would express an acknowledgement to you, for in this, you WILL allow for new surprises and new adventures without the anticipation of planning but allowing yourself to engage new directions naturally. It is not necessary to incorporate a goal, so to speak – although that is not bad either, but it is not necessary, for you can merely allow yourself to unfold, as I expressed. And in that, you may present to yourself different avenues that you would not have expected.
COEN: Yeah. So you are now telling me that it’s one of the challenges I've now put to myself…
ELIAS: …is to allow.
COEN: To allow. Yeah. Okay, I agree.
I'm coming back to the racket center, because there is now for me a kind of struggle with the racket center, as always, in the financial sector. And I have tried to think it over, and one of the things I put forth was that I put those challenges because it forced me to be more creative; for instance the marketing side now, the new ideas that are coming. Do you agree with me?
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: And are there more variables that play a role here?
ELIAS: You are presenting to yourself a challenge, and in that, to engage your avenue of communication through imagination, to practice more with imagination, and therefore allowing you to enhance your creativity.
COEN: Yeah. Okay, I agree with you. So, the thing we discussed two years ago was because of my struggle beliefs and that kind of thing? That has finished, for the most part.
ELIAS: I would express you have generated considerable movement in that area. I would also express to you a reminder not to be generating opposing energy, to remember to be engaging imagination and therefore enhancing your creativity, but also to be aware of not generating an opposing energy.
COEN: Can you give me an example?
ELIAS: Not to be demanding or judgmental, but to be generating an energy of acknowledgment and cooperation.
COEN: Okay.
ELIAS: That will generate your movement much more successfully, and more easily.
COEN: I understand, thanks. I’m now moving toward the other fields.
I started a few months ago with a book project about organizational behavior, and I want to try to link it to Christianity development. In one way or another [the project] stops; do you have any clues why?
ELIAS: This would be a matter of attention; and in that, there are two factors. One is somewhat of a scatteredness, allowing your attention to become scattered at times, and in that, not focusing in the process of the project. The other factor is pushing. When you begin to push your energy and you begin moving your attention too much into thinking, you create an energy of tension, and that energy creates obstacles. For the more you move your attention to thought and engage the thinking, thinking, thinking, the more you actually block your allowance to flow with the project, for you are generating it into a chore rather than engaging it as an investigation and fun and being a detective.
COEN: Okay. And that was the first part of the project and the signals were to writing, almost more about thinking than being a detective.
ELIAS: Correct.
COEN: Yeah, okay.
ELIAS: And in that, you created obstacles and blocks in how you were engaging the project. Whereas, you can alter that in rediscovering your fun in being the detective and investigating and engaging your writing, rather than it being a chore and work and not fun.
COEN: Okay. And do you agree with my analysis?
ELIAS: In which area?
COEN: Of the book project. One of the problems we have now in this age is that with the start of Christianity we hand over our power and responsibility to an external god which was claimed by a few people. And now if you look for instance within organizational behavior, people listen to a boss, and one of the things that always surprises me is why do they listen, for instance to me? Why do they give away their power?
ELIAS: I would partially agree, but I would also express an explanation, for many individuals function more efficiently with structure. But in not genuinely being aware of themselves, they express difficulty in generating structure themself. Therefore, they seek out structure outside of themselves, which can be expressed in religion. It can be expressed in employment, in which they do incorporate a supervisor that provides them with rules and structure and instruction in what to perform and what to produce, and in that, they can function more effectively, for they are being provided with that structure.
Now; I would agree with you that were individuals to be more aware of themselves and genuinely becoming intimately familiar with themselves they would be more self-directing, and in becoming familiar with their preferences and their guidelines and their natural flow of energy, they would be generating that structure themselves rather than seeking it outside of themselves.
COEN: Yeah, okay.
ELIAS: But this is for many individuals a tremendous challenge. I may express to you my friend, there are many, many, many individuals within your reality that will express the wish to incorporate considerable amounts of money and therefore that would offer them freedom, for if they incorporated considerable amounts of money, they would not perceive themselves as needing to work. But those same individuals that express this, were they to actually incorporate the amounts of money that would allow them to not engage employment, would be considerably floundering. For they are unaware of their own guidelines and their own preferences and how to structure themselves in a manner in which they would be comfortable.
Therefore, yes I agree with you in the theme, and I also would express to you in that, it may be also a fun investigation for you in conjunction with your writing to be developing scenarios in which you could encourage other individuals to be directing of themselves in the recognition of their preferences and continue to be functioning within the structures of your societies.
COEN: Yeah, okay.
ELIAS: For you can accomplish both.
COEN: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand what you are saying, and it’s useful. I can use it for my project. Thanks.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
COEN: Let’s talk about money. That leads me to another question, where two years ago we talked about the dreams of a little box, of a little treasure concerning the heritage of my father. Is the box still waiting for me?
ELIAS: Yes.
COEN: Okay.
ELIAS: But perhaps in the form of a new surprise. (Laughs)
COEN: (Laughs) Okay, thanks. That's all I need to know. (Elias laughs)
Two questions. One: I have at this moment often with my running, which I enjoy, pain in my feet, and also I have problems with my skin at this moment, some skin problems. I’m trying to figure out why, what it means. Does it have to do with my pushing my energy, or is it to do with I'm also changing my skin?
ELIAS: What do you notice in conjunction with both of these physical manifestations?
COEN: With the pain in my feet with running, I feel a bit frustrated because I want to accomplish something and it can't be done because of the pain in my feet. On the other hand, my skin problems I am not that concerned about. It doesn't really bother me.
ELIAS: I will offer a suggestion in association with your feet. In this, understand that when you want to accomplish some action in relation to the physical body consciousness, it is important to pay attention to the physical body consciousness.
Now; what is meant by that is, many times individuals may engage some physical activity such as running or swimming or biking, and when they engage the action they are not actually paying attention to the physical body consciousness. What you do is you engage the action, and you move your attention in different areas and not necessarily in relation to the actual body movement.
Therefore, the first suggestion that I will express to you is perhaps to engage the action of running differently. You are changing, and as you change, what you have engaged previously in the manner that you engaged previously will not necessarily fit into your reality any longer. As you change, as you widen your awareness, your reality changes, and every element of your reality changes.
Therefore, you can engage the same actions that you engaged previously, but the manner in which you engage them will also change to fit with your awareness now. Therefore, when you engage this action genuinely, allow yourself to connect and be present in the actual physical action, genuinely being aware of your body consciousness and all the movements that it is engaging – the entirety of your body, all of your muscles, all of the movements – and allow yourself in that connection with your body consciousness to genuinely be expressing an appreciation for the movement that you engage and the beauty of that movement.
I would also express another suggestion, in paying to the body consciousness, to engage pressure points within your feet. In this, that will allow you to redistribute energy rather than pressuring your energy downward through your body and holding that energy within your feet. If you engage pressure points within your feet, you can redistribute that energy upward and release some energy in which there will not be the pressure expressed in your feet.
When you are paying attention and connecting with the movement of running and your body consciousness, also be aware of your energy and be aware of flowing your energy in a type of circular motion in which it is not merely being expressed in pressure downward but that it continues to flow in a circular motion, moving up and down.
COEN: Okay. And the pressure points you speak about, that is the EFT story?
ELIAS: Yes, you can incorporate that as a method.
COEN: Okay. Thanks, I understand. [Inaudible]
ELIAS: And perhaps you will regain your enjoyment of that action also.
COEN: Okay. I want to go to another subject. I noticed the last few weeks an enormous intensifying of my dreams. Sometimes I remember part of them, sometimes I remember nothing, but one of the things that surprises me is that I wake up a lot of times during the night. Could you comment on that?
ELIAS: This is another alteration that you are generating. What is occurring is you are allowing yourself to incorporate more of your objective awareness within your sleep state, which generates more dream imagery. And in that, as you engage more and more of your objective awareness, it allows you to intensify your dream imagery, and in the intensification of dream imagery, that can awaken you.
For what occurs when you sleep is that generally speaking, you somewhat disengage the objective awareness for a time framework. And within some moments, or limited time frameworks in your sleep state, you engage the objective awareness to translate the subjective activity, and that creates dreams. Dreams are the objective expression of the subjective activity.
Now; the more you engage the objective awareness, the closer you are to waking state, for that is the expression of the objective awareness. In that, you can easily awaken yourself in association with dreams if you are engaging more and more of your objective awareness to create the dreams.
Generally speaking, individuals do not engage what you would term to be a large portion of their objective awareness in dreams. This is the reason that individuals do not remember their dreams or that they do not recognize the ability to manipulate within dream state, and also the reason that they do not incorporate what you within your terms express as lucid dreaming, for there is what you would term to be a small portion of the objective awareness which is being engaged to generate dream imagery.
The more you engage the objective awareness within the sleep state, the more vivid your dreams become, for the objective awareness is translating more. And in that, the more lucid your dreams become, the more real they appear to you, and the more you generate the ability to manipulate within them and alter the imagery that is being expressed. And in that, if you are engaging a considerable portion of the objective awareness, the dream imagery is almost not separated from waking imagery, and therefore you awaken.
COEN: A question that I think you already answered here: Talking about the metaphor, the flower that opens up, I feel that the more dreams I have and the more intense dreams are also sort of a start of a new area in which new challenges or new things will happen in my life.
ELIAS: Yes! You are quite correct.
COEN: At this moment I'm at kind of a turning point.
ELIAS: I would agree.
COEN: Okay.
I would also like to ask you a question about Kris. I think you know that I read a lot about Kris on his website, Kris Chronicles. Are we in one way or another related to each other?
ELIAS: (Pause) To that essence?
COEN: Mm-hm.
ELIAS: Yes. I would express that there is a connection in other-dimensional focuses, (pause) and I would also express that you do engage an action of mergence with that essence.
COEN: (Pause) Okay, because one of the things that really surprises me when I read his transcripts [is that they are] almost 100 percent spot on my reality.
ELIAS: (Chuckles) And there you have offered yourself another avenue in exploration. (Both chuckle) And another example –
COEN: [Inaudible] We are a bit early, but almost answered all my questions. The last one: I read quite a few times that Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, made a few discoveries and discoveries about reality and about Christianity. I'm extremely curious: Could you give me some information about whether he discovered something and what did he discover and what is so special about that focus?
ELIAS: And what information have you offered to yourself?
COEN: I was reading in books that he had special books, that he had secret information. I watched television and he took over Carolingus and that he knew things from the East – that kind of information.
ELIAS: For the most part, it has been a tapping into information within different areas of consciousness rather than actual physical manifestations. But I would express, although there is a factor of translation involved, there has been a considerable allowance to be tapping into information in association with worldviews and tapping into the energy of certain individuals and even into the energy of some writings.
COEN: Okay.
ELIAS: Remember, there is translation involved.
COEN: I understand.
ELIAS: This is not to say that it is not valid, but there is translation.
COEN: But in one way or another he keeps fascinating me, and I'm trying to figure out why.
ELIAS: For this is another avenue of your detective movement, in offering yourself other information that you can perhaps evaluate and play with and incorporate into your own story.
COEN: (Chuckles) Okay, I understand, thanks. (Elias laughs)
Okay, I think I'm done with most of my questions. The only thing I would like to ask is what do you think of my new sailing boat?
ELIAS: (Laughs heartily) What do YOU think of it?
COEN: I think it's fast.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Therefore I shall express an addition of my assessment of excellence. (Laughs)
COEN: Okay, Elias, I've no more questions left, so I would like to thank you very much for this talk again.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my dear friend. (Laughs) I'm greatly encouraging of you. You embark upon many new adventures and many new expressions of playfulness and fun. (Laughs) And I shall be offering my energy in fun to you also. (Laughs) Perhaps even with your boat. (Both laugh).
COEN: Okay, thank you very much.
ELIAS: To you in great friendship, in tremendous appreciation and in dear lovingness, my friend, au revoir.
COEN: Au revoir. Thanks.
9Elias départs after 54 minutes)
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