What Is A Phobia?

 
We have many different types of experiences which we respond to according to our age and development.

This photograph demonstrates a baby’s natural shock when awoken from a deep sleep by a large licking beast. In contrast teenagers would laugh in delight.

Another example: a toddler would naturally be terrified when left alone in a large department store, while an adult would think nothing of it.

When an event is perceived as terrifying or dangerous (as for the child in the department store) our mind keeps a special record, to hopefully prevent a repeat.

Whenever the same situation could possibly happen again (walking towards the department store with mother), the mind and body react as they did during the first occurrence (panic).

Two psychological explanations of this are classic conditioning and stored traumatic memories.

Classic conditioning is when a normal everyday item (supermarket) is paired with a physical or emotional trauma (fear of being alone) which results in a stored link between the two (supermarkets are terrifying).

When discussing traumatic memories William Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D. states “Sensory cues, even if not recognized consciously, can trigger recall of disturbing memories or even just the negative emotions that went with the original bad event. Sometimes this is the basis for so-called “anxiety attacks,” which seem to come out of nowhere.”

Acquiring the fear of dogs (Cynophobia) is a good example:

• A child is running ahead of her parents in the park
• When suddenly she hears screams
• She jumps and becomes very scared
• Then a dog knocks her down and licks her face
• She screams and cries in terror

The screaming which frightened the child was her parent’s. They saw her running towards a dog and thought it might attack so they screamed to get her attention. Little did they know it was their action which terrified the child, and the dog that was friendly just wanted to lick and play with her.

The effect of this terrifying experience was that the child associated the fear with the dog – and decided that dogs were to be feared.

This decision (dogs are to be feared) was automatically sent to her subconscious mind and stored as one of her beliefs.

Like all of us, this child grew up living each day according to her subconscious belief system – in this case, terrified of dogs.

This effects the child (now a grown woman) every time a dog is thought of or seen – even if only on television or while driving.

• She feels the fear as strongly now, as if it was the original incident.
• She relives the feelings of that moment of terror, over and over, as if happening now.
• The child couldn’t go to friend’s houses because they had a dog, so she isolated herself by missing social activities.
• Her friends thinking her strange, gradually drifted away, so then she became isolated at school, which led to loneliness, depression, and a dislike of people in general.
• Life didn’t get easier when she grew up. She still avoids contact with dogs, and people. Making excuses not to visit friends who own dogs. Not walking or jogging because she saw a dog off lead while driving. Not allowing her own children to get a puppy.
• People still think she is rather strange and more often than not avoid contact, which creates even more issues.

The funny thing is, that if you ask the woman why she is so scared of dogs she couldn’t tell you.

Just like the person who is scared of heights, doesn’t think they deserve, or thinks they are a failure; the memory of the incident that led to the inception of her fear of dogs belief has faded, while the terrifying feelings from that event remain strong, and grow with each repeated fear experience.

 

How Your Core Beliefs Shape Your Experience of Life, and What You Can Do About Them

 

What you believe is the crucial aspect that determines your physical experience of life.

Core beliefs are those things you just know and trust to be true – they serve
as an internal ‘guide to life’ – telling you how to behave and react to the world.

Yet core beliefs were only meant to be temporary – to be used until we were mature enough to take charge of our own life.

The good news is that as when you release a core belief, a majikal Core Truth automatically comes to replace it. You will discover that core beliefs are not complicated at all, but instead simple, and extremely easy to access and rewrite.
 

“The realization that what you’ve been living and telling yourself all these years was based on a skewed perception of something that happened as a child,
is a freeing moment. You have to wonder how you didn’t figure it out
a long time ago.”

 
Important Core Belief Principle 1

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“No matter when you developed your belief, you still believe it.” Albert Ellis APA Convention 2000

Your core beliefs dictate the life you live.

• Who you are
• What you think of yourself
• What you are and are not allowed to do and be
• How to behave and react to people,
  experiences and the world
• What to expect
• Your success
• What you can and cannot have

 
Because a child’s role is to learn how to live as a human being, we used all that we saw, heard and experienced to form a set of core beliefs about who and what we are, the world and our place in it.

These beliefs were not chosen, but instead reflect the conclusions that a child reached about their particular experiences from their limited perception.

Your core beliefs are neither dysfunctional nor skewed. They are valid conclusions that were reached by a child, from that child’s current perception of an experience at that time. It is, however, inappropriate and often dysfunctional to filter your entire adult experience according to the life rules of an 8 year old.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 2

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“If you were able to rewind your life and watch it in slow motion from its very beginning, you would be able to see the key times when certain beliefs were formed and you would understand why you developed those beliefs.” Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)

Children are egocentric; they do not possess the ability to understand that their family circumstances are not their fault.

Young children believe everything is their fault: abuse, neglect, financial difficulties, or even parent’s relationship problems. If there are any family issues, children believe it is their fault, and that they are bad or inferior in some way because of it.

Every family has problems, as there is no perfect parent. Therefore, all children develop mistaken core beliefs about themselves, the world and their place in it. “Mistaken core beliefs cause a multitude of psychological, emotional and relational issues.”

A practical example of this idea might be how you interpret and integrate an experience like the divorce of your parents. This event may lead you to conclude “it is my fault“, therefore create the belief “I am a bad person and do not deserve good things.” You may develop a tendency to punish yourself and sabotage your success without any idea that you are doing so.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 3

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“I’ve never felt this ever before, and I had counseling for the abuse and thought that was all in order. I couldn’t believe when I started to cry because I really thought I’d dealt with it. Now I feel empty like something’s missing inside me Yikes! Wow, that is amazing!” Greene’s Release Result

Naturally, the people who endure horrific life experiences (neglect, abuse, assault, death of a loved one, and natural disasters for example) formed harsh conclusions (core beliefs) to base their self concepts and life on.

These conclusions, along with the expected emotional responses and the shock of having had this experience are stored in the subconscious.

In effect, their entire perception of life is based on those tragic events.

The good news is that the release process addresses all components of this horrible experience – actually, these releases are the quickest and easiest to do.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 4

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“I am astounded that I came up with that! I don’t think I could have contemplated that I felt guilty for their divorce. I’ve been punishing myself haven’t I? I have accomplished more this week than I have in the last 2 months!” Greene’s Release Result

You live what you believe. And that is where the confusion begins. “Do I believe that there is insufficient money because I am poor,” or “Am I poor because I believe there is insufficient money?”

And yet, my neighbor who believes “there is plenty of money” actually has plenty of money.

Which belief is the correct one?

The answer is both…..

Every person lives the core beliefs that they formed as a child. It is impossible to live anything else as they are your rules of life – your truth.

If you believe that no-one can love you, it is impossible to be surrounded by people who love you. If you believe that you are a failure, it is impossible to be successful. If you believe the world is a scary place, then it is impossible for you to feel safe, no matter where you are.

Why?

Your core beliefs are not stagnant ideas that merely sit in your unconscious mind. They are active, and play an important role in your everyday thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions to people and events.

• A person who believes that they are a failure (remember that this is an unconscious belief therefore beyond their awareness), constantly hears mind chatter to support this idea “you can’t do it right”, “you are hopeless”, “you aren’t good enough.”
• They feel the emotional response whenever they hear this ‘so called truth.’ It would be very sad to think that you are a failure.
• Their perceptions make them blind to success, and they miss opportunity after opportunity – all they can see is failure and hardship.
• They play the role of a failure personality (without any idea that they are doing so) – expecting the worst, irresponsible with money, ignoring their finances and financial responsibility, business failure, engaging in self-defeating behaviors.

This person physically lives their core belief that they are a failure.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 5

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“Oh My! They were wrong! After beating myself up for 30 years I’ve just realized there is nothing wrong with me after all. I can’t stop smiling.” Greene’s Release Result

Core beliefs were only meant to be temporary – to be used until we were mature enough to decide what to believe for ourselves.

We cleverly set ourselves up to realize this. At some point everyone gets sick of living with the hardship their beliefs create (even thought they are unaware of this), and screams out “enough!”, and then begins the search for answers.

The good news is that as soon as you release a core belief with the Greene’s Release Technique, a Core Truth automatically comes to replace it.

• When you release your belief that you are imperfect – you hear and just know the truth of how special you really are.
• When you release your belief that you are a failure – you hear and just know the truth that anything you do will succeed.
• When you release the belief that love hurts – you hear and just know the truth that love is the most amazing part of life.
• When you release the belief that people always hurt you – your pain will vanish and you hear and just know that you are safe and loved.

This is Your Life to Live Your Way so it is your choice to live the ramifications of beliefs that make you happy or the ramifications of beliefs that make you miserable.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 6

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There is an abundance of intellectual literature about life, the unconscious mind, core beliefs, and how to change them – from the perspective of our rational thinking mind.

• It makes rational sense to investigate and identify your core beliefs.
• It makes rational sense to watch for the interaction and impact that your core beliefs have.
• It makes rational sense to decide to ‘let go’ of dysfunctional beliefs once they are identified.
• It makes rational sense that thoughts and core beliefs are the same.
• It makes rational sense to consciously ‘tell’ yourself to believe something different.

Yet core beliefs reside beyond our conscious awareness – in the unconscious mind. Our logical mind can only investigate and modify their symptoms, and not the actual core belief.

We have become very good at working with these symptoms to temporarily silence and repress their impact. People often think that ‘feeling better’ in the moment means that their core beliefs have been altered or released when this is not the case.
 

Important Core Belief Principle 7

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“I’ve used the Sedona Method and EFT, but there is no comparison – this is a whole new level. I didn’t for one second think that I still had such immense pain in relation to my dad. Now all I feel is peace. Total peace!” Greene’s Release Result

Often, those who have worked to ‘release’ their emotional wounds and core beliefs, are surprised to discover that these emotions and beliefs (which have merely been tucked away and not released, as many techniques claim to do) are still creating havoc in their daily life and can resurface with the same level of strength and distress at any time.

There are 6 ways to confirm access to your unconscious mind, and successful modification of a core belief.

• You spontaneously discover the feelings of the child you were at the time when the core belief was originally formed – from that child’s age perspective. It will seem unreasonable to your now adult perception.
• The spontaneous information you are privy to is new information that you were completely unaware of – as it was previously hidden.
• This new spontaneous information will clarify many things about yourself. You will feel compassion as you understand why you do the things you condemn yourself for doing – and understand yourself for the first time.
• You will experience an epiphany as a new opposite core belief replaces the previously skewed one. You will view every experience differently, as if from a new person’s perspective.
• When you think about the original incident, you will feel blank or empty – as if there is nothing to think about.
• As the event has been neutralized, there is no longer anything to trigger an emotional response. You will never feel anything about this event ever again.

 
Important Core Belief Principle 8

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The unconscious mind is nothing like we thought. And that has been the problem all along – thinking and rationalizing.

While the conscious mind thinks and rationalizes, the unconscious mind feels, which is the key to gaining access to our core beliefs, fears, memories and storehouse of emotions that create our everyday life experiences.

The difference between intellectualizing core beliefs and experiencing them first hand in the unconscious mind is like night and day. However, it cannot make rational sense until experienced.

Think of a scientist, spending day after day investigating the cells of a human brain under an electronic microscope. Carefully analyzing each minute neuron and glial cell.

Now remember the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, where a scientist was miniaturized and injected into a human body. He traveled through the heart and had to overcome the risk of being destroyed by the valves, was violently shaken when the lab technicians voices vibrated through the inner ear, and replenished his submarines oxygen supply directly from the alveoli of the lungs. What an amazing adventure!

“It just feels like there’s nothing left in there. I just feel quiet inside.” Greene’s Release Result

The difference between rationalizing and experiencing core beliefs is just as dramatic as these two examples. Just as the scientist with the microscope cannot begin to comprehend or even imagine the miniaturized scientist’s experience unless he personally experienced it, you cannot comprehend the experience of walking into your unconscious mind until you experience it for yourself.

The Greene’s Release workbook materials speed up the process of changing core beliefs because they walk you through the steps to access your unconscious storehouse of beliefs, then heal and rewrite them, step-by-step. You will be amazed at just how easy it actually is.

Helping you become more consciously aware of your stored memories and core beliefs, and relieving the emotional charge allows you to view your life from an outside perspective – without the emotional triggers, you can ‘do the healing work’ calmly and easily.

You CAN do this. You CAN change any core belief. There is no reason for you to continually live with the pain and hardship that your beliefs create. All it takes is 30 minutes a day to heal and gain control over all aspects of your life.

If you’d like to experience the kind of dramatic, positive change the Greene’s Release materials can create in your life, take a look some workbook excerpts then order Heal Your Self: A Journey to Find You workbook today and take the first step to change your life.

 

Create.A.Better.Life

R.E.P.R.E.S.S.I.O.N

You have forgotten what it is like. To let your hair down.

Goodness = powerless while hate seen as efficient, feels powerfull. As your religious and personal beliefs dictate guilt. Does a flower reserve its vitality? Does it hold back, you see.

The following is Metaphysical, channeled by Marcus Greene. A special note to parents is included in the comments section.

It would behoove you to understand fully before we begin, that action – nay, controlled action, is paramount in all conscious beings, period. In your repression, that is, the conflict that stops forward motion, you transfer your power outside yourself. You create the enemy to fight, you see. With that said, and hopefully understood, we will begin:

Dear readers, make no mistake – you are here for a reason, so stay with us a while. Our words will be direct, as we know your attention may wander, so we will be short and on point today. We will speak through the outer layers of your personality, and remind you of the power you hold, the ability to change any area of life for the better. With that said, let us begin:

Portions of your lives may be in turmoil, you have problems that you cannot seem to fix, period. Whether it is financial, health or relationships, the feelings are overwhelming, and bring about a cycle of same-ness. That is, change for the better, say- may be beyond your control. You have been taught to look away from yourself, your dogmas paint dark black areas within your own mind. Too fearful for examination, or direct confrontation. Most of you are afraid that if your thoughts are left unchecked, if you don’t govern yourself accordingly, you will explode – in a series of hurtful actions – period.

Many of you hate your contemporaries, in your terms and according to your ideals, your angry at people, or the world at large. You are angry at yourself, your life, family members, parents, or even those who have passed on. You may have lost a child or spouse, and you find yourself grieving endlessly, each day feeling hurt, sadness, anger, resentment or any other valid emotions.

I want you to understand that no matter what the hole is that you have dug for yourselves, dear readers, there is always an opening.

I will tell you why you are in the state you are in, and then it is up to each of you to use Greene’s Release, included in the Heal Your Self Book to work through the process of change.

You create your life

You are limitless with no boundaries

Any circumstance past, present, and future can be changed (within your framework of experience, for instance you cannot grow an arm where there is none, that in itself is a specific challenge)

You are unique, you have gifts that are your own, and it is your right of passage to feel special and free

 

You may not understand, or be ready to accept these ideas about yourselves, but they are true none the less. The following is why you face today what you face, and feel the way you feel:

For your own individual purposes, accepting that your life is your own, eventually you will have to gather up your resources, in most certain terms to unite against a common enemy. (With strong intent we say this to you) You understand that most of your current beliefs are from childhood, you understand that you package and coordinate your life, organizing it neatly into events and experience based upon what you say to yourself in your own head. You have a basic understanding of your emotions and imagination, and when you find yourself daydreaming, you can see how these dreams effect how you feel.

Your mind is in conflict, as you measure direct experience with what you have learned to expect as children, about the world and your place within it. So you may say that you are split in two, quite naturally a result of repression and differing ideas, but this you may find hard to accept even as you argue with yourself about what you deserve and don’t, what you want, compared to what you have. You must accept the idea of conflicting beliefs in your own mind, and as you do, the barriers and divisions will melt alongside your comprehension of them.

Some of you have or have had cancer, in this case you have set up an internal enemy, your conscious mind along with its conflicting beliefs have to find a way to assimilate, come together, to gather up all of your resources in certain terms to fight a direct and very personal enemy. There will be great impetus for change, ideas and thoughts you had about yourself will come under scrutiny and self examination. Poverty is an example of externalizing the enemy, but in either case your purposes are creative, for you are creative beings, and what you have set up for yourself will automatically raise the conditions needed to resolve the problem. You will hopefully begin to search for the inner actuality that has given life to the physical manifestations. Unless you do this, removing body parts will not heal the condition.

Your mind cannot play tug of war forever and you cannot operate joyfully when you are split in two. Your current experience is the result of false and conflicting beliefs held and entertained within yourself, period. There are no exceptions. It is a rule. Your creative abilities do hold great power.

Although the basic work is always done within yourself, there is always help from all directions. (end)

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The Tools to Life

 
Your emotions and fears have made it virtually impossible for you to think and feel clearly, yet they are the key to accessing your inner mind.

The tools to life are a set of simple, everyday tools that that re-awaken your innate abilities to use your own thoughts and feelings in new ways which enables you to undertake a Study of your own mind.

The tools to life may seem like overly simplified activities that you already undertake on a daily basis. But, if you put aside your judgments and try them with an open mind, you will see a whole new world of thinking and feeling and experiencing open up before your eyes.

These tools will show you how to for the first time, form your very own conclusions about yourself, the world, your place within it and life itself; without bias from outside influences – other people’s viewpoints, your distorted perceptions, dysfunctional beliefs, painful emotions, and paralyzing fears.

These tools will empower you to venture deep inside your own mind and psyche so you may fully understand the importance of your life events, heal and release the past and its impact, open the door to hear and assimilate the inner knowing that flows from within you, and then venture into a new world where you are the director and creator of your own life.

These tools are found in the first section of Heal Your Self – A Journey to Find You and Heal Your Heart – A Journey to Find Your SoulMate, where they are presented in practical activities for you to experience them firsthand.

Take your time, complete every step as directed and most importantly want to experience and understand each fully so you make them yours.

The greater your mastery of each individual concept and exercise, the wider the door will open to your own psyche.

This is your journey of exploration.

Become the master of your own life experience!

 

Would you like to undertake a study of your own mind?

 
Imagine being able to follow any thought or feeling right into your mind to discover where it originated.

Imagine being able to think about one of your unpleasant situations and then letting what you feel about it lead you deep into your subconscious mind where you can hear the stories about it.

What if you could access where your past is stored within your mind and finish with its contents, so you stop reliving it day after day after day?

What if you could really change your thoughts, from inside your mind?

What might that mean? How might that change your life?

Imagine the silence when your mind is quiet. There is nothing left to worry about, nothing left to debate, no scary scenarios to replay over and over. Just peace!

What might you then decide to think about?

Love, peace, happiness, inspirations….

 
What if I told you that this study is not only possible, but very easy? All you need do is learn a set of simple tools that re-awaken your innate abilities to use your own thoughts and feelings in new ways.

 

A Christmas Wish

 
We humans go through our lives searching.
We search for happiness, a place where we belong, for inner peace and to be loved for who we are. It seems we are always looking beyond, for more than what we have, because we deem it not good enough. We humans live lives in search of self-gratification.

We can’t wait to grow up and separate from our families, so our search may begin in earnest. We take on the poor me role, victims to our family’s upbringing, thinking ourselves so badly done by. We humans have totally overlooked the true meaning of family.

Who are the people who are physically in our lives day after day, year in year out? Who are the people who stay, no matter what? Who are the people, who at the risk of loosing physical closeness and love, facilitate all the circumstances which result in our achieving the desired growth? Our family.

Look beyond your family circumstances, see the impact those specific events have had on you as a person, the tremendous learning. Our family’s do indeed provide the perfect learning ground just for us.

Do you really think their spirits enjoy living the opposite of what they desire to express? Do you really think the mother wishes to give up her children? Or the father to be distant or cruel? Do you not think all their spirits wish to do is shower us with the true expression of their love felt for us?

Families are those special beings who chose to travel this journey with us, to be here with us. Yet we are blind to that. They are the ones sharing the greatest spiritual love. Families are usually the ones we are least close to, so we seek our spiritual families. They will love us. They will fill that void.

It’s easy to find and connect with our spiritual families, and feel that pure love energy. There are no physical issues to confront, no pressures in this real physical world. No test of reality and endurance to overcome.

We forget one important thing though as we journey this physical life. The ones who really are physically here for us. Our physical families.

I think perhaps families have a role beyond what we have realized. To share our difficult experiences, then move beyond physical appearances into the spiritual bonds, and bring that love back into this physical realm.

We may be able to think of and feel a spiritual family member anytime, but that is all it is. Thinking and feeling. Our real families are here, physically right here with us, right now.

My Christmas Wish for you this festive season, is that you begin to open that doorway to the greatest connections you have, with your physical family. And the healing begins so you may know and witness the love they wish to share with you, beyond their mind’s fears.

We miss that bond, that closeness and feel alone without it. The physical life relationship is in opposition to how it should be. Please don’t leave it till it is too late to begin this re-coming together with your dear ones. It is the most sacred quest you will know this life-time.

I wish you a holiday filled with love and laughter, shared with your strongest and dearest connections. Your physical family!

Merry Christmas..

 

Apply the Seth Materials TO YOU (Remove the Ratings List)

 

 

Seth Quotes:

“Structured beliefs collect and hold your experience, packaging it, so to speak; and so when you look at a given experience that seems like another, you put it into the same structured package, often without examination.”

” Your own idea of the perilous nature of existence becomes so strong that the ego allows this data to emerge, even though it is out of time, because your fearful beliefs convince it that you must be on guard.”

“Listen to your own train of thought as you go about your days. What suggestions and ideas are you giving yourself? Realize that these will be materialized in your personal experience. “

 
Although Janet Greene had no awareness or prior knowledge of Seth, Jane Roberts, or any other spiritual philosophy, many people have attributed her works with simplifying the Seth materials into everyday language and understanding that enable us to apply the concepts.

The following article summarizes a new way to view life, according to the philosophies of Janet Greene. Heal Your Self – A Journey to Find YOU shows you how to remove the ratings list that prevents your feeling and experiencing events fully.

 

Remove the Ratings List

From Heal Your Self – A Journey to Find YOU by Janet Greene

Did you know that within your mind is a list, a very powerful one that rates all events on a scale from good to bad? This list is based on your past experiences, and the beliefs you formed from their experience.

Try this exercise and you’ll see what I mean. Think of 2 things you may do next week, one good and one bad. Perhaps sitting outside in the sunshine reading a book and going to the dentist. Can you feel them?

Stop for a moment and think on each. Watch and feel your mind and body reactions. The dentist vision may cause you to literally shake, while the other relaxes you. One simple thought has created such strong mind and physical reactions within you, purely because of this rating list.

Is not feeling about an experience? Is it not something we won’t know until the actual event? What are the implications of already knowing a feeling prior to experiencing it in reality?

We humans actually forgot to keep the act of feeling within the moment that we experience it. No wonder we don’t feel, no wonder we’ve forgotten how, we haven’t needed to feel anything because our minds have already determined what it would be like in its entirety and the judgment of good or bad already made.

That judgment dictates our expectations, mood and motivation to experience events. Why experience anything if our minds have already thought of, experienced and evaluated it? How could we have any real concept of what feeling is?

What if we choose to scrap this mind-rating list and discover what it is to feel for ourselves? What might we find? Is that possible?

Yes it is very possible and a truly wonderful and releasing experience. When we understand this concept and consciously work to eliminate it, a whole new world opens up to us. One of wonder and joy. Keeping this mind-rating list inhibits all we are and experience; it is draining and depressing.

Let’s do this gradually, step by step so we build a sound foundation of feeling in what will seem a new way, but which is really how we began as children.

Apply the Seth Materials TO YOU (Dream of an Entity)

 

 

Seth Quotes:

“Individual life, or the life of the present individual, could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity.”

“Your spirit joined itself with flesh, and in flesh, to experience a world of incredible richness, to help create a dimension of reality of colors and of form. Your spirit was born in flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness, to feel energy made into corporeal form. You are here to use, enjoy, and express yourself through the body. You are here to aid in the great expansion of consciousness, You are not here to cry about the miseries of the human condition, but to change them when you find them not to your liking through the joy, strength and vitality that is within you; to create the spirit as faithfully and beautifully as you can in flesh. “

 
Although Janet Greene had no awareness or prior knowledge of Seth, Jane Roberts, or any other spiritual philosophy, many people have attributed her works with simplifying the Seth materials into everyday language and understanding that enable us to apply the concepts.

This little animated ebook is the story that Janet shared with herself to clarify the creation of life. Heal Your Self – A Journey to Find YOU shows you how to discover your own meaning of life.

 

Once Upon a Time

 

Once upon a time

Metaphysical: A channeled account
of how we came to be physical beings.