Untitled Bashar: Deciding What You Want To Believe B: Yes, continue.

Q: Okay, I've been doing a lot expanding, and some very exciting things. But it seems like the more exciting the thing is, and the more perfectly it is what I want to do, the more I have a resistance to it, like B: All right. Why? Q: Well that's what I'm wondering. I think it might be some kind of subconscious programming B: All right. What kind of resistance do you experience? Q: Just nervousness and lack of "poise." B: Oh, poise! Q: Well, internal poise, energetic poise. B: Oh, all right. Q: My energy goes bzzzzzzhhhhhh, really unstable. Like if I have a job interview (audience laughter) Did you catch that? If it's a job I don't care about, my energy is fine. But if it's like the best job, and I really want that job a lot, and it really excites me a lot B: Yeees? Q: Then I get really nervous about creating the perfect impression. B: Oh, all right. May I ask you a question? Q: Yes. B: Thank you very much. You're saying, therefore, when it is a job you don't care about, no problem ... yes? Q: Right! B: All right. You are therefore saying when it is a job that does not represent you, no problem. When it is a job that does represent who you are, that is when you start getting, as you say, jittery. Q: Yes. B: But if you stop to think about it, you can reverse the circumstances easily. Because the job, the idea, that doesn't make you nervous has nothing to do with you; the idea that does make you nervous is who you are. And you can start to translate what you call nervousness into the recognition that it is simply excitement. Do you remember that anxiety and excitement are the same energy -- one from a different point of view than the other? Q: Right. I do understand that. And I was wondering how you polarize it B: One moment. One moment; we're getting there. Q: Uh huh. Page 1

Untitled B: Allow yourself to begin to realize that when you feel that feeling, when you feel that energy that you are calling nervousness, that energy is there telling you, "This is who you really are; you have hit it squarely on the head. You are in perfect alignment with who you chose to be; that's why you're getting this energy." Q: Right. B: Now the only reason, at that point, that it would translate into nervousness is if somehow you doubt that you can be who you are. How can you be anything else? How can you be anything but who you are? Can you answer that question? Q: No. Maybe you'd like to consult my subconscious mind, the programming that I agree with that, I understand that B: One moment, one moment. Let's take it a step further, shall we? Let's assume, right now, simply because it is my preference to assume this -- you don't have to assume this if you don't want to -but it's my preference to assume you do not have a subconscious mind. How does that feel? Q: Well, I feel more in control. B: Thank you. Exactly the response. Because if you realize you don't really have a subconscious mind, and that it's simply a convenient label, then all of a sudden you realize that the truth of the matter is, "I am choosing, consciously choosing to believe I cannot be who I am. Why would I choose that? I don't know. Maybe I don't have to choose that any more. Thank you very much; I won't. I'll choose to be who I am." This idea, this game of the unconscious and the subconscious mind, oh yes, it can have a real effect, but you have created it as a convenient label. This whole idea of programming, it can have a real effect, but it is only the product of a definition, a belief in a definition. And once again, if you remember: when you know you have a program, when you know you have a pattern, when you know you have a habit, you don't have it any more. A habit is something you do, that you don't know you're doing. That's the definition of a habit: when you know you have it. "Oh, maybe it's a program; oh, maybe it's a pattern; oh, maybe it's a habit." Once you make the realization, you are beyond it. Because you have to be outside of it in order to know you have something like that. Once you recognize that it might be what has been responsible for your behavior; once you recognize that, you're beyond it. And you don't have to assume that it has any inertia or any momentum on its own. Anything that then repeats from that point forward is simply your choice to believe that it must, for some reason that your society has taught you and you have bought into. Q: Mhmm. B: So forget about the subconscious idea and the unconscious idea. Once you recognize that you had a habit, you don't have it anymore. Ask yourself: "Well, does it serve me to continue to believe, or buy into, this notion? It doesn't; it's not what I prefer. What do I prefer to believe in? I prefer to believe this." Page 2

Untitled Then act that way. Use the idea we have already explained, of junctioning with the you, you prefer to be. You will develop a new habit; you will create it right then and there, consciously. And you will not have to assume that you really have some unconscious or subconscious barrier to break. Now some individuals can create a very strong fixation on that, and in a sense therefore, in essence they do have that to break. But the creation of the subconscious, the creation of the unconscious, is your creation. It is simply a convenient label that gives you a convenient place to put things that you don't want to look at. But it's all right there; it's all right there. You are one consciousness! Knowing that you are one consciousness, as you say, let's you know you're really in control. And it gives you the opportunity -- I say opportunity -- to take responsibility for having chosen to believe in negative things. So that once you take responsibility for having believed in a negative definition, you can decide that you no longer want to believe that. You can decide what you do want to believe. You can act accordingly, and you can get that reality. Understand? Q: Okay. B: Does this help you? Q: It does. It helps a lot, and I just wondered if you could give me any meditational techniques to help put more trust in the positive side? B: All right. But let me ask you another question as a response. Q: Okay. B: Why do you need any special tool to put trust in a positive side, when all you need is the same energy and the same amount of power you have always used to put trust in the negative side? Why not simply just decide that you will now put the trust in the positive side, and that will take care of it. Why not just decide? Can that be a sufficient meditation -- just decide? Can that be sufficient for you? Or do you believe that believing in the negative somehow is more intrinsically easy than believing in the positive? If you do, then examine why you have that belief, and that can be your meditation too. Remember, remember: what your society has labeled doubt to be is lack of trust. It isn't the lack of trust, but trust in the negative. Q: Mhmm. B: So if that's not your preference, why trust in the negative? Just decide: "Is this what I want? No, it isn't; I will now trust in the positive. That's my decision. It will stick; nothing else has a mind of its own to change this until I choose to change it." That can be your meditation if you wish. Just decide. Q: Okay I've been doing that a lot, and I've looking B: Why a lot? Q: I haven't been doing it all the time, right? But sometimes I do it, and then I get a reflection of a reality that I don't want to have anymore. Page 3

Untitled B: Nope, nope, nope! It cannot happen. You cannot do it and get a reality that is not reflective of what you really are doing. Q: Uh huh. B: So if you are getting a reality you don't prefer, you are still choosing to do that idea Q: At that moment. B: to buy into the negative idea. Q: Uh huh. At that moment. B: And it's giving you an opportunity to see that. Also, however, here's a tip, as you say, here's a clue: do not immediately, just because of the way it looks, assume that what you're getting is a negative reality. Remember: all situations are fundamentally neutral, and do not have built-in meaning -- just because it may look the same as it always has. If you really are a different person, why would you assume it has the same meaning because it looks the same on the surface? Q: Yes. B: So don't give it that meaning, and you will not be being an example of the old habit. Understand? Q: Yes. B: Does that help you? Q: It does I'd just like to share something with you, though. B: All right. Q: That's really good advice and it works for me; it really does. But I'd like to say that it's really a challenge. B: If you say so. Q: Like, you know, your car breaks, and it's going to cost a thousand dollars. And you're broke, and you don't have a job B: As you make a difference, it will have the effect of being different. As you take these things and say, "This is now different from this; this is more of a challenge than this is," and you make that differentiation, you get the differentiation -- that's a definition. Q: Okay. B: Why is this more likely to have more strength to remain in your reality than this? Why? Ask yourself why you are making the differentiation; and that, as a self-reflective meditation, can help you understand why you have the definitions you have, and help you equalize all situations all right? Q: Okay. B: You understand what we are saying? Page 4

Untitled Q: Yes. B: When you say, "Well, but this, but this. But it's so much harder to overcome this, than this! Oh, this I can handle, but that!" It's all the same; it is all the same. If they're all neutral props with no built-in meaning, they are all the same. They all weigh the same; they are all empty shells. Q: Yes, it helps to have kind of a detachment like they talk about in B: Very good! Attached detachment. Q: Mhmm. B: Put into it what you prefer to. Any meditation you desire -- and this can go for all of you -- it can perhaps take the following form: when any event happens, and you feel what you may call the old tendency to start reacting, step back for a moment. Say, "Wait a moment! All right, let's look fresh at this. What is this really? What is the prop? What is the neutral situation?" Define the neutral situation. Simply explain where all the props are, in what relation they are to each other, but give them no meaning. Then decide: "All right; I could give it this meaning; I could give it this meaning. Which of these meanings do I prefer? I prefer this; I give it this meaning." And in your meditation assume that you have unlocked yourself from the time cycle. And until you make a decision that you will give it a particular meaning, nothing will go into play, until you decide. "Here's the meaning; start time rolling... now!" Understand? Q: Mhmm. B: Get into that habit and see what happens. Q: Okay, great. B: Thank you very much. Q: Thank you very much. B: Sharing!

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