Text: MIND CREATES EXPERIENCES "When turmoil or chaos appears in your mind, it will be experienced as a form of confusion and chaos outside your mind. You do not create unpleasant or uncomfortable circumstances to teach yourself lessons. It is only that when there is a lack of clarity within your thought patterns, that lack of clarity will be reflected in the form of a chaotic life. The process is one where the ego receives information as to the confusion that exists and translates that confusion as not being able to control the outcome which becomes an unknown and therefore fearful. And as your attention is focused on these fears, they will become manifest. The message your ego allows you to receive from what I have just described will be quite different. It will say that once again, you have created something bad, something which you have interpreted as negative. This serves as its purpose very well, because it continues to keep your mind in a state of confusion and gives you the excuse to feel that there is something for you to do to straighten out the confusion. This type of thinking also leads you along another path which is not helpful; this is the one that tells you that something is controlling your life which is beyond your conscious ability to effect. This can come to you in two forms: as believing that there is another force of any type which has control over your life and which makes decisions for you, or, that the information can come from your subconscious mind which you feel is also beyond your level of understanding and therefore, beyond your control. I will tell you neither of these are true. What appear to you to be the thought processes of your subconscious mind appear so because you are unwilling to be in touch with them. These thoughts or issues lie clearly within your conscious mind but have been there in a form unrecognized by you and in this lack of recognition lies the basis for confusion. It is this confusion which leads to the manifestation of your fears. Once again, the process works like this: there is confusion in your mind and this is interpreted as being out of control which creates fear. Once your attention has been directed to those fears, they will manifest in your life because they have become real in your mind. It is not possible for you to experience anything in your physical life that is not encompassed within your thought patterns. Now, your ego will take this statement and attempt to make you a prisoner of it. It will attempt to create feelings of guilt, saying to you, "Now see what you have done! Now see what a pretty mess you have made." Do not listen to this information. Hear instead the truer implication of what I am saying. To know with utmost certainty that nothing comes to you that is not held in your mind is an offer of total freedom. You do have the power to determine what will be in your mind. The question for you now arises, how then does this fit with prior information I have been given which says, try to empty your mind, try to free your mind from fearful thought patterns. I will tell you this message has as its specific meaning to give up the thought patterns which have been created by your ego mind, by your mind which has within it a sense of limitation based upon prior experience, old tapes as you would put it. My encouragement is to allow you to open your mind to peace, to the peaceful attitude you have which reflects more accurately your natural state of Mind, the state of Mind which reflects your Being. It is in this peaceful state that you will experience clarity, that you will experience the absolute certainty that when you create an experience in your physical life from this state of peace, there will be no confusion as to its outcome. There is no force outside of you that has any validity upon the Reality of your Being which would bring to you what you have called lessons of any nature that would be experienced by you as less than pleasant. When you have, however, developed a state of thinking which believes lessons learned are, for the most part, unpleasant experiences, then you will bring those lessons to yourself to be experienced in this way. Allow me to remind you that this mode of thinking is one which has been developed over eons of time during which you have convinced yourself that you are a guilty and unworthy person and are not entitled to receive the experience of love that is yours as the presence of your Being. When you allow yourself to reside more consistently in a peaceful state, the truth of this will become known to you. Let me put it another way: when you are in touch with your natural state of Being, when you are in a feeling of harmonious peace, and requests are made from this state, there is only one way for you to experience the results. When your mind is in a state of confusion and a state of fear, the only way for you to experience what is manifest by those fears is in a fearful fashion. In its most simplistic form you may think of it like this: chaos in/chaos out, peace in/peace out, love in/love without. The meaning of what I am telling you is becoming more apparent. There is nothing that happens to you; there is only the thought processes and patterns, the state of mind in which you exist. That constitutes the sum total of it. What you experience as your physical reality is only a confirmation of what you are experiencing in your mind. And as you go through this awakening process, you will discover that it is not even necessary for the physical confirmation. All that is happening to you is happening in your mind. Should you continue to experience any unpleasantness in your physical existence, then know that there has been a value placed by your ego on these experiences. And once again, rather than judging yourself as being bad because you have allowed these to happen, see them as a reflection of what is going on in your mind, and choose again. Therein lies your freedom. Choose again, and again, and again and again until the process of your choosing becomes one of normally, naturally wanting to choose peace. Now, there is another thing which is troubling you and that is how can I choose peace, how can I consistently put these choices into effect in my mind when apparently my mind, my thinking, my life is so influenced by other lives around me? Allow me to assure you that this is another ploy of your ego to reinforce that your existing patterns can not possibly be changed unless all the other patterns around conform to your way of thinking. And I will tell you, this is upside down. It will not be seen by you that any other patterns of thinking around you are changing until you have changed your own. It is in your thinking processes that you have preceived the ego processes that are apparently taking place in those around you. When I say you will only experience that which resides in your mind, I do not say this is true with the exclusion of how you would experience the effects of someone else's activities. There are no exceptions to this principle. As difficult as this will be for you to believe and understand, I will tell you this: when your mind resides in a state of total peace, when it is impossible for you to experience other than peace, you will see everyone around you existing within that same peaceful state. I do not offer this to you as an intellectual exercise in trying to understand how this would happen. I offer it to you simply as a statement of truth. In your particular place of thinking at this moment, the primary value in having the physical experience is to show you what is happening in your mind. As you see something seemingly taking place in your life, see it as an opportunity to know what is happening in your mind. When you experience harmony and peace and boundless joy, know that your mind is in a state of reflecting a truer perception of your Reality. When you experience fear, or lack of any kind, simply know that is what is in your mind. Do not judge yourself for this, it is not even necessary to know why it is there. It is enough to know of its residence and to know with equal certainty you have the opportunity to choose for it not to be there. The truth of this could not be more simple. I recognize the practical application of your consistently choosing to have this unqualified peace is not preceived by you are being a simple process. But please do not confuse the simplicity of the truth with what you may experience as difficulty in implementing it. Do not be misled by your ego as you attempt to choose peace and when you do not see it manifest to say, there must be something more complex that I am not understanding, for indeed, there is not. The complexity lies only in the implementation of what I am telling you. I know that some of you have also had the feeling of needing to pull yourself out of a financial rut and have indeed been attempting many things to accomplish this. And when they do not seem to work, you ask yourself if perhaps there is something different that you should be doing, perhaps there is another path, a better way. To apply the principles of which I have just been speaking, I would suggest you approach it with an understanding that it is not what you do that will achieve the purpose that you desire. It is the frame of mind within which you find yourself that will be the difference. You have approached your many tasks with the thought system, the belief, that the harder you work, the greater will be your reward. This belief is based upon an historical reference of what you perceive as having been taught to you through prior experience. This is an incorrect perception. If you will examine it, however, you will see that it has illustrated to you the very point which I was describing earlier; that because you have made a belief of this, it has become a reality to you. In your current circumstances, the fear that is resident and accompanying this belief system has imposed the limitations which you are experiencing. How many times recently have you said to yourself, no matter how much I do, it doesn't seem to work! Your saying that is a description and an expression of the thought pattern which I am describing and it is that thought pattern which is proving itself to you by not working. It is what you are experiencing that is simply a confirmation of what you are thinking. Manifesting physical needs can be perceived and experienced in as limited or as limitless a frame of reference as you hold in your mind as being the appropriate expression of your Being. When you give any form of limitation to it, then it will be limited. When you perceive it as being unable to wortk, then it will not work. When you remove your sense of limitation, then you will experience it as being limitless. The only boundary that exists to an experience of any nature is the boundary that exists within your frame of thinking at the time that you shape it. So when your motive becomes to experience your Self, you will experience it without limit simply because that is the only true description of you: a Being without limit. To try to understand how all this works at this moment would only be an additional excuse for your intellect to enter the picture. What I am telling you at this moment will not register with your logical, rational mind. But as you release the boundaries within which that logical, rational mind holds you, then you will create the space for the recognition of the truth to resonate within you. Your ego would have you believe that it will become increasingly easy for you to experience your spiritual or enlighten Self as you are able to relieve the fiscal responsibility and become more peaceful and this too, is backwards. Choose to be within a state of peace. With assurance, choose to have your financial problems solved. It will be done. And in a way which brings peace and happiness, harmony and joy into your awareness. You cannot be joyful because you have solved a problem which has come into you awareness. This would only confirm to you that it is possible for other problems to come into your awareness which you would then have to go through the process of solving to bring you additional joy. When you recognize yourself as being the presence of joy, you will know that there are no problems which accompany it. Problems are not reflective of a joyful mind. So let's keep the horse in front of the cart. Attention directed toward the memory of your Self does not promote fearful thinking. You have but one choice to make and that is to either continue seeing through the blinders and veils of past perception, or to start anew. I would encourage you to begin this new process with the expectation that you have requested truth, and truth will come to you. It will come as rapidly as you create the space to enable yourself to hear it. So I ask you to begin the process now. Do not attempt to understand what I am saying; simply say to yourself, I choose peace instead of this. Allow yourself to feel the accompanying warmth of the love which envelopes you as you recognize the presence of the peace you have chosen. Recognize your Self in this space and the rest will be known to you. [Dialogue on Awakening, page 69-75]

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