Conscious Creation

Question 4:  I'm miserably unhappy with my life. Didn't Seth say that I could just change my beliefs and that my life would change right away?

Mataji/John's response:  Yes he did, often and emphatically. However, it is easy to underestimate what is involved in changing one's beliefs.

At the time, the prevailing new age belief was that a person had little control over what happened to them because they were subject to eons of karma that would take further eons to burn off. People felt that they couldn't even know what their karma was. They often felt victimized by past lives. The effect of their beliefs about karma was a crippling of initiative and people often failed to really encounter the difficult issues in their life.

I was in the Seth classes. It was very exciting to see everyone so stimulated with the sense of infinite possibility. However, over the years, I was to make many mistakes as I struggled to make practical progress in every day life. I saw myself and others avoid encountering the real challenges of attending to and learning from our everyday experience. We thought we could just change probabilities and our superior understanding would free us from all unpleasantness. It wasn't so easy, and I grew to cringe every time I heard someone say "that's just a belief," implying that merely by changing one's mind in the way that one decides whether to go to a movie, that one's entire life would change.

All experience is sacred. All of our experience grows out of complexly interacting beliefs. Those beliefs are more than mental choices like "what shirt shall I wear?" The beliefs are woven into our bodies and our auras. Every experience affects our beliefs, yet for most of us, our beliefs change slowly, especially in the areas that are most difficult. Just by understanding that we create our reality according to our beliefs and by searching to recognize and transform our beliefs, we increase to some extent our freedom to create happier outcomes.

Sometimes, even in difficult matters, the change in our beliefs, and accompanying increase in our freedom can be rapid. For example, a person married to an alcoholic might rapidly change their own life by realizing that alcoholism is a disease in which brain chemistry changes and the ordinary decision making process is lost. (Only an alcoholic has to "control" their drinking. For the rest of us, our bodies say stop. I like to say that if you think you can "control" your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.) Upon realizing that alcoholic drinking draws on a different part of the brain than the rational decision making part, the non-alcoholic spouse will change their strategy for dealing with their alcoholic spouse. That change may involve simply learning to pull out of codependent behavior, or leaving the spouse.

Sometimes that simple kind of choice is enough to solve all the problems. Other times it is more complicated. The spouse who has stayed years with an alcoholic spouse might have financial difficulties that take years to un ravel. Theoretically, if they change their beliefs quickly enough, they can find wealth and a new loving healthy spouse right away. That can happen. It can happen if and only if either 1) Your karma is already set up to take a miraculous turn (This does happen from time to time); or 2) You fully accept and validate where you are (perhaps giving yourself years to completely transform what may have taken decades to create), you look at and release your relevant fears, you change your beliefs, and you correctly identify your heart's desires. Recognizing your heart's desires can be infinitely trickier than people expect.

Fear can make even the best of circumstances awful. An adventurous and even playful engagement can dissolve fear and disclose in even the worst of circumstances beauty, ineffable meaningfulness and joy. I expect in future weeks to discuss when we are likely to feel stymied, and how to increase our experience of freedom by recognizing our heart's desires, engaging our lives, and making the real changes that move our lives towards joy.

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