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Resolutions Actualized January, 1984 Session with The Herald, Held at Mississauga, Ontario Copyright 1984 and 2005 – Sheila M. Street and Integrated Dynamics Resources |
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(These notes were provided in an earlier session with The Herald, and were then distributed to the group to set the tone for the session, this being the fourth one being held at the earlier dates {October 1983 through June 1984}. This is Chapter 4 of The Seeker Sessions – Patterns in Life. It should be noted that the speaker for this session was not the speaker for the one to follow; therefore, you will note a slight difference in how things are phrased, for instance. Several different ‘speakers’ are available, and occasionally two or more will share in the same session. Other than voice, tonal and phrasing changes, the material retains consistency and consensus, and the “group voice and purpose” remains constant.) Now that many of us have made our New Years Resolutions for the year, and perhaps tucked them away where we can peak at them from time to time, we can sit back complacently to watch the seed-thoughts we have planted grow into beautiful trees of accomplishments. Or is it just that simple? We are all familiar with the instances where we have made one or a dozen New Years Resolutions, and before the first week of January has passed, we have repeatedly found a thousand and one ways to set them aside, perhaps to be re-resolved upon next New Years Day. Some persons even go so far as to NOT make resolutions – their past performance has proven to them that “it’s just a waste of time. After the Resolutions have been properly touted, and more often
than not, promptly relegated to the back of a dresser drawer, we may
find ourselves in the situation of giving ourselves a “guilt-trip”.
This guilting may not come immediately – it may even take a
month or so to catch up to us – even so, eventually some regrets are
expressed, and guilting meted out.
Or, if we are not prone to be self-guilters, we may find other
means to sabotage our original good intentions, simply because we carry
complexes such as “I’m not worthy,” “I’m not capable,” or
“I just don’t have the time,” to name but a few rationalizations
we may present to ourselves and perhaps to others. When we plant a seed in the ground, we do expect it to produce
fruit of one sort or another. But
do we just leave it up to Mother Nature to do the rest?
No – we water it, give it fertilizer, keep it free of weeds and
pesky insects, and as it peaks up through the earth, we cultivate it,
and perhaps even talk to it in loving tones.
Yet, how many ideas (and basically that’s the underlying
motivation for a resolution) do we let die on the vine?
Do we, in truth, really give those resolutions a chance to bear
fruit for us?
If we would just take the time, perhaps only a few minutes per
day, to remind ourselves of our resolutions and put some positive
thought toward ways in which we can accomplish them, before long we will
have established a good strong root structure in our Richard Bach, the author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” has stated, “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.” When you made your resolutions, you therefore gave conscious recognition to yourself that you have that power within you to actualize it: a very positive step indeed. You are worthy of that power. You are capable of cultivating that idea to fruition. There is no other better time than NOW to begin actualizing your dreams, wishes, hopes, and your New Years Resolutions. ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ THE
SESSION The Herald We give greetings to all here who participate.
We have taken the liberty of locating each of you in order to
interact with your consciousnesses and your subconsciousnesses. In undertaking to investigate the subject of
Resolutions Actualized, it might be well to begin with the actual words – what
do they mean? When
something is actualized, it is brought into form, it is made to appear
real, or it is made to become real.
The essence of the word, going beyond that though, is that in
order for something to become real,
or something to be made to appear real, that it would need to be acted upon; therefore, there is
action taken. How would
this be acted upon? It, of
course, depends upon that thing that was to become actualized.
The nature of the forces that are acting upon it are those forces
that surround it, as well as those forces that are an integral part of
it. We shall return in a small while to those words, those
statements. The word ‘resolution’ we do find here to have several similar
meanings. To resolve to do
something is to put conscious effort behind thought;
conscious effort of will behind thought, and therefore, it
is a must do, in one sense of the words.
To resolve as a group is to solve a problem, and basically when
individuals approach the instances of making New Years Resolutions,
their prime concern is to solve one problem or another that appears to
be an aggravation in their lives. Some
individuals, indeed, do set goals as New Years Resolutions, and, for
this, they are to be congratulated.
However, if the goal is basically to finish off a certain
situation, such as to quit smoking, or to promise yourself to drink less
at the next New Years Eve party, then you are looking primarily to a
problem solving situation. One particular meaning of the word ‘resolution’, however,
that has been somewhat relegated to the background, and a meaning that
has been used in times past, in that which you term medieval periods,
the meaning for the word in
prime, is to change, or the changing of unnatural conditions.
It is upon this aspect of resolutions that we will focus for a
time. We will take, for instances, an individual who has made for
themselves a New Years Resolution, and to give somewhat of a topical
interest to this, we would ask the entity Peter to provide us with an
example of a New Years Resolution, you may or may not have made for this
particular year. In brief
form please. Peter
In certain respects, we, as physical entities would come across
situations where individuals may, at times, have certain feelings to a
negative value with regard to goals that have been set.
For instance, if you are to discuss your goal of writing a play
with an individual who has in times past experienced the writing of a
play, it is quite possible from that entity, if their efforts had not
been successful, that they may give to you “Oh – don’t do that.
It will be a most difficult task.
You will have this problem, of presenting it, perhaps, to a
publisher, or you will have that problem in getting it promoted, or you
will have a difficult time finding appropriate actors, or your material
is stale dated – it is Our advice is such as circumstances would be, first of all, to go
back to your goal, re-visualize it in its entirety, give it love, and do
not allow the failings of other entities to take your goal from you.
Now, this can be applied to other goals that have been put
forward as New Years Resolutions. These
dreams that you hold within your mind, and within your heart, are as
gold bars, precious unto you. Protect
them. Hold them to you. Give
them love. Now, indeed you can share them, if you so choose, with others,
and our suggestion with respect to that is to choose carefully with whom
you share your goals, your dreams, your resolutions.
If you are quite aware that entity has had a difficult situation
with a similar goal, a similar resolution, you may indeed wish to
consult with that entity, however, in doing so, you must consider that
their particular position may be somewhat coloured by the disposition or
lack of disposition of their goal.
Indeed, if you so choose to discuss your goal with any entity,
attempt in all respects to speak of it in a positive sense.
This is not to say that you disregard the advice that they give,
or that there may be difficulties.
If these are brought to light of mind, then, of a certainty, if
there is a problem, there also is an acquainted solution.
Additionally, that is a part of your goal, to find solutions to
each problematic situation that may arise, pertaining to that ultimate
goal. Now – why do you think
Peter, that you have chosen this
particular goal, made this particular resolution in this point in your
life? In a few words,
please. Peter Now, we will go to
John – have you made a resolution for
something or other this year? John The Herald The Herald John The Herald Now – it must be understood that this may not be your
particular case, for all situations are different.
However, looking across the medium of mankind, it has occurred
time and time again, that certain entities will reach a point in life,
where they would appear to be traversing a plateau, a flat lands that
has neither valleys or hills; that
indeed, at times the ‘zip-bang’ of life has ‘fizzled’.
At such points in time, it is extremely difficult to push forth
either consciously, or subconsciously to reach forward, to set a goal,
and might we suggest here something that would be of value to any entity
who appears to be in the flat-lands of life, whether they are fifteen or
fifty, or one hundred. That
at times it is necessary not to wait until the spirit motivates you –
at times it need be that you take action yourself – that you
motivate the spirit. Now – we can give you the example of a salesperson who goes on his morning calls, and he drives around the block once, and he drives around the block twice, and perhaps he stops to pick up a paper, and there is a coffee shop down the road. So he stops for coffee for five minutes, and chats, and a half hour passes, and an hour passes. Finally, he gets back into his car, and he still has that first call to make – that first door to knock upon it. In a way, he has set a goal for himself, or made a resolution that of that particular day, he would make, perhaps, three sales. However, what are the chances of that sale being made at two o’clock in the afternoon, if the first appointment is made, or the first door not knocked upon until eleven thirty, and by that time it’s time for lunch. Now – if the entity waits for the spirit to
motivate him, and yet
he has given no amenable hints to subconscious to transmit to spirit,
that he actually wants to get a particular sale, then the spirit
somewhat will sit back and wait. Therefore,
might we suggest, might we restate here, that in order to get out of the
doldrums, in order to put wind in your sails, you may have to, at first,
blow upon them yourself, and motivate the air currents around to move
around you. This, in fact
can be carried a step further, in that of motivating people, of
assisting others that perhaps may be under you to get moving, to get out
and do something. First of
all, to motivate yourself to get out and do something, and then, also to
suggest to them, that if they put their hand to the oar, it will move;
if it is idle, it will float, and the boat will float also. However, it may drift down the stream of life, and because it
is not steered, because steerage has been abdicated, very easily runs
aground. In the framework
of human life, this can be akin to the contracting of a disabling
disease, and if enough complacency by personality is given, that the fire
is not there, then the flame goes out – it is not fanned, therefore it
does, and eventually, you cast clay.
Now, we would not expect to see a baby arrive from the womb
dressed in tails and top hat. Indeed,
it would be a most ridiculous situation.
The point here that we are
It is important in that relationship of marriage, for in a
certain sense that situation is a partnership, and at times can be a
business partnership as well, in that both entities would work, put food
on the table, pay rent, pay the hydro bill, the gas bill, etc.
Therefore, in setting particular goals, it is important to
consider that if you are to live in a First of all, because that energy of love is of the purest, and
therefore the strongest, and projects that goal that much quicker for
you. And secondly, in the
giving love to a particular goal, it should not, will not, can not, hurt
another entity, for if you are unable to give that goal love, if it does
not feel comfortable to you, at instinctual levels, and at intuitional
levels, then you will know in your heart that that love is being
pushed back, and perhaps you should change direction, or that energy
will be reflected back to you with the negativity of which it has been
sent. You cannot send love, in actuality, on a wave of negativity. Question:
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