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your confusion is your own, not that of someone else's. Your confusion is yours to resolve, not to use for hiding until someone else makes your choices for you.

Wow, this brings back memories! Back in 2004 I asked Michael about a challenging relationship I was in and I used the word "confused" to describe my feelings (I was basically asking Michael what the hell I should do about this guy!). Here is their response, or shall I say lecture. HA!: "MICHAEL: You are only confused because that is a way to avoid making a choice. You are waiting for a choice to be made for you, instead of by you. Confusion is a means of delaying participation in an event because you either do not like the options available, or you believe other options will eventually reveal themselves."

December 15, 2020

12 points

your confusion is your own, not that of someone else's. Your confusion is yours to resolve, not to use for hiding until someone else makes your choices for you.

@Heidi, I can see that the advice Michael gave you was right for you, in your situation. Another way of looking at it is sometimes confusion is a good thing — for precipitous people. The Evergreens used to say “confusion is the mind’s way of keeping you from making a decision too quickly”. Some people just need to slow down. Some people need more information. I used to tell clients that sometimes they needed to let the confusion just be, and roll with it like any other contracted state, and when they were ready to see what they needed to see, or do what they needed to do, the confusion would lift and the clarity would be there. For clients who got stuck in it, in the confusion, it was helpful for them to see what was there under the smoke. Then we would go on a guided tour. You can learn a lot about yourself poking around some of the denser, smokier places in your mind. 🌤

December 15, 2020

11 points

your confusion is your own, not that of someone else's. Your confusion is yours to resolve, not to use for hiding until someone else makes your choices for you.

Thank you, @Maureen. I hadn't considered that before. I can see how I was needing more information at the time. I was in a Mate Agreement with him, but the relationship was toxic and I wanted out but was afraid I would be abdicating our Agreement. I was still relatively new to the teachings then, so those were some of my worries. The good news is that the following year I got my Platform channeled and it was "True Choice," and the year I found the courage to break up with him for good. 2005 PLATFORM True Choice MICHAEL: The fragment in question has a platform in which we would describe as TRUE CHOICE. This is because it will be the pivotal year in which she grasps the nature of Choice and its power in her life. There have been other years in her life with a platform related to Choice, but this is the year where all responsibility is owned for all choices made in the life up to this point and beyond. There may be many instances in the year ahead (and in her retrospection of the past) wherein a choice may not have seemed so pleasant, or the choice may seem to be the only option, but the fragment will grasp that it was HER choice, nonetheless. This year could also be called her Year of Empowerment. As she grasps the nature of Choice and its open-endedness, she will begin to feel freed by, rather than trapped by, her choices. With the energetic support for her conscious approach to choice, it could be said that by 2006, this fragment will rarely fear the future again.

December 15, 2020

9 points

"or can you love someone just to love them, whether they choose you or not?"

I like this quote very much too, @Bogi!!! Have you ever seen the movie Adaptation? in a scene where two brothers are talking to each other, one of them states the same.

March 26

8 points

"or can you love someone just to love them, whether they choose you or not?"

The Nic Cage movie? Not yet, but it is on my list.

March 27

6 points

BE YOUR OWN PRESENT - You are the meeting ground of time and space and consciousness that creates your interpretation and experience of reality. You are the reason you are here. You are the reason you live and love and walk and breathe. Getting angry, upset, feeling lonely, depressed, confused, agitated, frustrated, sad, etc. do not erase you or reduce you. You are still here. If you feel less and less a part of the reality you live, it may be because you forgot that you are the gift you came to be. This is not a string of pointless words to console or distract you. It is simply true. You would be someone else if you were someone else, but you are you and that is who you came to live for and through. Bring yourself back to the present and allow yourself to be the present, both in terms of being a gift and in terms of owning your right to be a part of the equation that shapes your reality.

"No One does it better" Michael YAY Thank You @Jeroen for sharing

January 1

6 points

BE YOUR OWN PRESENT - You are the meeting ground of time and space and consciousness that creates your interpretation and experience of reality. You are the reason you are here. You are the reason you live and love and walk and breathe. Getting angry, upset, feeling lonely, depressed, confused, agitated, frustrated, sad, etc. do not erase you or reduce you. You are still here. If you feel less and less a part of the reality you live, it may be because you forgot that you are the gift you came to be. This is not a string of pointless words to console or distract you. It is simply true. You would be someone else if you were someone else, but you are you and that is who you came to live for and through. Bring yourself back to the present and allow yourself to be the present, both in terms of being a gift and in terms of owning your right to be a part of the equation that shapes your reality.

how beautiful and uplifting :') right to my soul!! thank you

January 1

6 points

"MEntity: When you care so much about how the next day will go for you, for your relationships, for your future, for your fellow humans, for the planet, for the animals, for life; when you care so much that it hurts, and you continue to care anyway, you have become the very heart of your infinite vastness."

aww, needed this today! thank you

July 8

5 points

ART and SCIENCE are nearly the same, except that one is a process of creation and one is a process of comprehension. Both are linked by an utterly original source. Art is the expression of that original source and Science is the search for that original source.

Yes to everything. This hits every truth, thank you.

June 21

5 points

"or can you love someone just to love them, whether they choose you or not?"

Oh yes, its a good movie.

March 27

5 points

Managing our lives is a fascinating art.

Oh yes!! So true!

December 27, 2020

5 points

"MEntity: When you care so much about how the next day will go for you, for your relationships, for your future, for your fellow humans, for the planet, for the animals, for life; when you care so much that it hurts, and you continue to care anyway, you have become the very heart of your infinite vastness."

can never forget that quote....

July 8

4 points

"or can you love someone just to love them, whether they choose you or not?"

Agreed! This quote was likely written by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is best known for writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malcovich. I recommend checking out Synechdoche New York; Anomalisa; or I'm Thinking of Ending Things if you're a fan of Adaptation.

March 27

3 points

The cells that make up your body, everything that is a part of your body, is not there randomly. It is not there as a shifting pool of mush to represent you. These cells that are your body are in a kind of incarnation of their own with you as their universe.

Sooooo who is in control? The body, Essence the Universe? Seth said nobody leaves their body without Essence consent....is that true? It seems the body might have its own say since it is in its own incarnation.....so many questions....never a full satisfactory answer....

February 28

1 point

Patience is not about remaining civil and dignified in the face of delayed satisfaction, it is about holding your space and your focus as a form of satisfaction. In other words, enjoy yourself as best you can while you deal with the reality of what is.

Love this...so true...the only Sane way to get through hard things is to find some enjoyment/humor in the thing.....the Italian movie a Beautiful Mind just came to mind when I started to write....I have learned this the hard way in the last almost 8 years of being the caretaker for my sick husband......I internally smile when people can’t handle the isolation of Covid because I have been living this way for years now, I was certainly ready for Covid.....I am an Aries and learning patient and non action is against every cell in my body.....but finding enjoyment in the small everyday things has helped....I laugh a lot now.... Happy New Year to everyone.....Health, Wealth and Love wishes for all in 2021....

December 30, 2020

1 point

To get used to the idea and practice of allowing the flow of Energy in your life, and accessing Vitality and trust in your choices- we suggest playing with each day as if it is an incarnation. You are the Essence of the day, and the day is your Personality.

This is helpful to using the litmus Eternal Recurrence test, many thanks @KurtisM!

September 6, 2020

1 point

You are already a lovable, loving, confident, creative, playful, intimate, and attractive person; there is no need to be rescued or wait for someone else to come along before you open your own gifts.

@Susanna, thank you! You instantly reminded me of marrying myself as a kid

September 6, 2020

1 point

The best approach to loving yourself as you invite another to love you is to decide that someone else's love and acceptance of you is not really any of your business. (...) You cannot control what others love and accept about you, no matter how much you love and accept yourself.

Thanks @Susanna! To my ears, RuPaul strikes again- paraphrased: « what others think of me is none of my business » ...

September 6, 2020

1 point

The more you let yourself have fun, play, and be useless, the more fun and lighthearted the path to feeling meaningful and useful.

Thanks @Rosario and @Jeroen - i read the quote and got a tummy ache, then its session and felt better... I really liked: MEntity: When and if there are physical symptoms, it would mean that you have reached a point of saturation of monitoring and need to process disappointment in physical ways.