January 3, 2016

Samuel: Greetings, dears.

Hello, Samuel.

S: All right, I’ll try again. Greetings, dears.

Greetings, Samuel.

S: Because your energy was so much better than that pitiful little “hello.” Aye, how are you? Your energy’s just all out anywhere, so got to have a little balance in there.

So you have a new year in front of you, and this is a great one. So, the first thing that you want to think about is how are you with last year, because it’s important to remember that last year was one of the most—well, I’m going to go ahead and say—important years of your life.

You had the opportunity over and over and over to find out what your deep issues are. Loss, abandonment, feeling like you’re not enough, physically and/or mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Those are the big three. Loss, which shows itself very often as a sense of being abandoned and feeling as though you’re not enough.

I’d like for you, well, first to remember that that’s not a limitation on it. There are all kinds of personal things you have learned about yourself. I just gave you something to start with as you think about it, but take a few moments and think about those things in 2015 that you needed to get over. Yes, I’m purposefully starting with the . . . think of the icky stuff you don’t ever want to deal with again. Are you thinking about it? As you think about it, allow yourself a few moments to find how it is you are grateful for the experience. And if you find you just can’t do that, I want to warn you ahead of time, it’s going to follow you around for a few years, because it’s not complete yet.

And other than that it will stop?

S: Having completion, there’s no reason for it to come back, but of course the key is completion, and one of the ways you know you have completed with an issue is that you recognize what it has given you. You’re grateful for it. Now, does that mean you’re grateful you got run over by a truck? No, it doesn’t mean you’re grateful you got run over by a truck. It means you are grateful that you have learned to stop stepping in front of them. You see the difference, because it’s a very important difference? And if you don’t have that, these issues that have so kindly shown themselves up for you this year are going to keep showing up. And they’re going to show up in every possible way so that you’ll get it one way or the other.

So, what is it you have needed to get? And you’re going to find that if it’s something that you cleared up in 2015, it’s something that has been showing itself up way before then. I’m not talking about something that just happened. I’m talking about core issues. Somebody, what is a core issue?

Self-worth.

S: Well, that’s a version of a core issue. I’m looking for a definition of “core” with regard to issues. What makes them different? Aye.

It’s something . . . it’s a belief system often that colors how you see the world and how you behave in the world. It adds a flavor to almost everything you do.

S: And a big key in there is almost everything you do is colored by this. And the reason it’s lasted so long is because you’re so used to it you don’t see it as a problem. Or you don’t see it as an issue. Core issues are things that you are usually blind to, but this past year—because you are so loved—they have shown up, and they have shown up over and over and over.

And where I’m going right now is, Did you get it? Have you made those completions? Have you worked through at least all that you’re aware of? And if you’re not sure, look back on anything that brought you pain this past year. That was a sign from God, because although it is true that there is plenty of pain and suffering and depravity and sadness and difficulty in this world—just in case you hadn’t noticed, I thought I’d let you know—you don’t experience that pain and suffering and depravity and difficulty unless you have attachments that connect you into it, and those are usually emotional, or if you’re not . . . well, you release and you stop relating. You let go and you stop listening.

Again, this does not mean you’re not compassionate. It does not mean you are not loving, thoughtful, kind, helpful when you are around others who are suffering or in pain. It means you don’t take it on. You take it on because you relate to it. You relate to it because—as Steven said—your life has been colored, in one way or another, by a belief that you have, and which needs to change, that flows right along with that pain and suffering.

So look at 2015. Have you experienced pain? Now, some of you have experienced a lot of pain because you’ve had hips replaced, and . . . that’s not what I’m talking about. I mean heart pain.

“Well, Samuel, are you saying we need to live our lives and not experience pain and suffering?” I’m saying it should not be a guiding force in your life. As a high-frequency, empathetic being, you’re going to feel others’ pain, but at the same time you’re not going to be, ideally, so attached yourself that you need that pain to bring you to a place where you can finally not want that pain.

Stuart first.

You may have said this, and I’m sorry if I missed it, but you said if we work through our core issues, and that if we’re not sure to look back at anything that brought us pain, and then I [got] lost. So if you do that, what’s the next step, to see if you have a reaction to that?

S: Well, I haven’t gotten there yet . . .

Oh, okay.

S: . . . but the pain is showing you the places where you have issues that ideally you have released over this past year. If you are still experiencing that pain, you’ve not released those issues.

Okay, so if you think of those things that brought you pain and it brings you pain again, then that’s an indication that you’ve not released it.

S: Well, yes. And as you look back on those things that brought you pain, if you know you didn’t work them through, you just did the good old “Well let’s just keep shoveling it away and not dealing with it. Let’s put it in the back of the heart; let’s blame someone else instead of looking at oneself, the old tricks,” then that’s not worked through and it definitely needs to be.

David.

I just want to speak up for those who have had the hip surgeries and that pain, in that I know of at least one person whose name I won’t mention, but it’s me, who took that opportunity. The surgery itself was finally taking care of myself.

S: Yes.

And the pain was what was leading up to it. And in the past I have put false priorities ahead of myself, and by learning to adjust and say “No, this is important,” and everything, so much good fell into place that it was miraculous. I had ten weeks off from work and they paid me full pay. It was just like “yes, you were supposed . . .”

S: And as a result, Phoenix has a website. All right. All right. Sorry. Has a new and improved website. It’s had a website for a very long time.

That’s very good input, because there is a very important point to be made that things that go on within your physical body, it’s not necessarily a cause-and-effect thing. If you have something going on in your physical body then that means you’re . . . I don’t know what: crazy, not dealing with something, a bad person, whatever. It doesn’t work that way, but if you continue ignoring what your body is trying so hard to let you know, such as you have lots of karma from your teenage years and it’s showing up right now—or something along those lines—then it’s vital that you listen. But if you’re not willing to give yourself that opportunity, it’s never going to happen and you will continue not hearing your body; it will get worse, and that’s on you, because you might have something in your blueprint that was never meant to get to the point where it is right now, whereas if you had stopped and listened when it first came up, if you had looked within to give yourself some time and allow yourself some healing, perhaps it would have not gone this far. You’ve always got to think of that too.

[To a member of the audience] No, does not apply. Just in case your paranoia was popping up there. “Is he talking to me?”

There was another hand. Bonnie and then Phyllis. All right.

You mentioned feeling not enough as far as the issues at hand.

S: Big one.

I have confronted my issues somewhat in my dreams.

S: Good for you.

And found that when I woke up, I was really embarrassed by what I . . . my reactions to my dreams. And in day-to-day life I have found that I think, “You know, I’m really not a nice person at times.”

S: How many of you can relate to that? So, no judgment in this room.

[. . .]

But there again you’ve talked about when your ego is playing with you, you know, that I’m sure is an ego thing, you recognize your issues and then you try to change those. What more can you do outside of trying to change those things that seem to be core issues? They’re kind of like—and I know this sounds funny—but they’re kind of like your issues from another lifetime that cause me to say and do and act in ways I don’t like.

S: Well, and of course it’s always possible that that is the case, but you’ve got to remember nothing, no thing, has happened to you in a past life that requires adjustment in this life. Do you understand what I just said there? Nothing carries over that does not show up in this life, this way, this time. You don’t have to go backwards to get this figured out. It’s showing up in your life right now as who you are right now. So it may be a weak spot, so to speak, but it’s continuing to allow it to own you that causes you to have to deal with it here and now. It doesn’t matter where the origin is because it’s going to show up as an origin right here in this life.

And here is what you want to look at. Does this issue run me? Does it control me, meaning does it create reactions instead of responses? Do you find yourself functioning on automatic pilot in certain situations instead of consciously? Are you behaving by habit rather than conscious choice? These are things that tell you that the issue is running you rather than you running it. And if the issue is running you, that means you need to let it go.

And here is where the part Stuart was asking about comes in, as soon as I answer Phyllis’s question.

Well I’d love to have a dialogue about cancer, but I’ll spare you that. I guess the thing that really gets me and stirs me up is this thing that I always thought was a good part of me. I’ve talked about this thing before that I think you’ve addressed before, the sense of fair. I want things to be fair. If there is a schoolyard bully or a workplace bully, I want it addressed, I want it corrected, I want it done. And it’s caused me a lot of stress and pain.

S: It sounds like a teacher, don’t you think?

I know it. Just like a teacher. And it causes me a lot of stress and pain for, you know, just having that. And you had said something, maybe at the Retreat, about justice and fairness, and you said that’s not what this work is about.

S: Right.

Yes, so okay, I’ll keep working.

S: It’s not what this world is about, not just this work. Justice, and fairness . . .

And I deserve.

S: . . . and deserving and expecting. They all fall under the same kind of category. What kind of category?

But I don’t see them as the same thing.

S: Oh, what kind of category do you think?

Expectations.

S: All right, expectations.

Judgment.

S: Judgment is the word I was looking for.

Whose definition of fair are you looking at? How much of what’s really going on do you know about? I’m not saying by any means that there aren’t bullies and people who choose to take wrong action, make bad choices, do wrong things. Your reaction should be compassion not anger, and when it makes you angry it’s because you’re fearing something and it’s vital that you look to see what you are fearing. And much of the time what you’re fearing is which one of those things I mentioned earlier? It’s the “I’m not enough” one. “If this were happening to me, what would I do? What would I want?” That’s the Golden Rule that fits into every culture’s religious beliefs. It’s not a bad way to look at the world; it is a wrong way to expect the world to function.

You have control over yourself. You do not have control over anybody else. They may make choices that run you over with a Mac truck, and yours is to learn to get out of the way of Mac trucks.

So if you see someone bullying another person . . .

S: I’m not saying that, Phyllis. You’re taking it to an extreme there.

That’s probably because of my own core issues, and that’s what I’m trying to . . .

S: But you would probably do better, more good, by helping the bullied than going after the bully.

Okay. Okay.

S: Yes.

My version of thinking how to respond to that is to find out when I step in and want to try to fix something rather than just trying to support with love and compassion, and be a person available in that situation. When someone has done something that is a consequence for them for something that they chose to do.

S: Or not a consequence for them for something they chose to do. They’re just different. You are different. You relate to those who are different.

Many people in this world, particularly children, are so afraid of different that they seek it out, point it out, and try to eradicate it. They are coming from fear. But it’s not likely that your running over and yelling at them is going to make a big difference, because you’re giving them power by that. What you want to do is to express your love and compassion to the one who’s the brunt of it, if you truly must act. But be careful—be careful—because it can be very disempowering. I’m not saying don’t do it. I’m saying be careful. It can be disempowering and it can be manipulative, because what you’re really doing is trying to save yourself.

You are going to live your childhood over and over and over—thanks, Samuel, that’s just what I wanted to hear—until you reach that place that you can separate who you are right now from that child; and only then are you an adult. Until that point, you have remained that wounded child. And that is really sad. So look carefully within before you jump right in and rescue. Rescuing isn’t about justice and fairness. It’s about control.

The children that are doing the bullying, is that a learned behavior?

S: Most often. Most often it’s a learned behavior. They were bullied and they learn that there is power in making others afraid, because they experienced it.

Now, adults rarely think they are bullying. They think they are just getting what they want, or motivating. You’ve got to be careful. You’ve got to look at what your personal motivations are about. Where are you coming from? The only person you can control is yourself, and that’s one of the hard ones for Guardians especially, because you know what is needed. You know what would help. You know exactly what’s going on. You get the whole download at once. You know you’re right, and it’s really, really hard not to step in. So be careful with that.

Gwendolyn, and then I’m moving to the what-to-do.

In many cases, is this not interfering in someone else’s learning?

S: Yes. Yes.

And it’s important that you get that part. And the gift that you give to them is to not interfere.

S: And that’s a hard one for Guardians: to recognize that sometimes your action is to not take action, that interfering can make things worse. “But my intentions were good.” Well, great, but you both get more lives to keep working out this issue because of it. You’ve got to be careful.

Guardians put on their cape every day. You get out of bed and you’re ready to save the world. Well, you are here to save the world. You are here to make a difference in the lives of others, but you’re not going to do it effectively by making your whole battle cry “Peace and justice and fairness for all,” because all you’re doing is expressing your perspective of what they should be doing. And forgive me, but how dare you? And when you interfere with another person’s lessons—a quick for-instance: what happens if you hold that baby all the time? It never learns to walk. You have created a cripple—that might be what you’re doing. Every situation’s different. You know that. Look within yourself.

So, you’re looking at these core issues that have shown up for you in 2015. “Thank you, Universe. These core issues are just what I needed to see in order to make the changes for me to be at my best.” Right? At least until you can say that, just keep thinking it. Putting it out there, putting it out there. “Thank you, Universe. Don’t feel it yet. Thank you, Universe. Don’t feel it quite yet, but getting more input all the time. Keep working at it.”

Not allowing it to run you happens by releasing your need to participate in the continuation of the issue. Somewhere along that line, you are adding to it. It takes two to tango. Where are you allowing the process to continue? That’s where you’re going to find your attachment, and that attachment may be a belief, a memory, it can be a misunderstanding, a miscommunication, but it’s going to be something that you can actually pinpoint the start of.

And I guarantee, it’s not out there; it’s in here [the heart]. You are the reason you don’t have—fill in the blank. “Well no, Samuel, it’s because other people, or circumstances, or the economy, or my parents, or . . .” You’re the reason.

What needs to change in you? And when you get that worked out, really, the issue goes away. Why does it go away? Because the blocks your self-image has put into it—your needs—have grown with it. That’s not the right way to say that. Your needs have . . .

Nurtured.

S: Nurtured. Thank you. I like that. Your expectations have caused it to spread, and progress into other areas of your life. And then you start being able to enjoy where you are with what you have at the moment, whether or not external circumstances have changed at all. And then you get the Buddhic crown.

Your issues with other people aren’t other people. Your issues with the system aren’t the system. Your issues with dogs, cats, rats, cockroaches, they’re not about dogs, cats, rats, cockroaches. You have the ability to clean it up, clear it out, and be done with it so that you can have that relief by way of that release, which takes me to the positive end of things.

What are the good things that happened in your life in 2015? Allow yourself to look at the ways you have progressed, the changes that you have made positively, the things that have brought you joy, the times you have experienced love. What made you happy this past year? This—wait a moment—take a moment, just like you did the things that brought you pain, and think of some of those things that brought you joy this year. Are you thinking? Seems I should be seeing more smiles if you are thinking about happy things. An experience of giving love, of feeling love, an experience of that sense that things are flowing as they should. You know, you might have had a couple of minutes of that in 2015. That sense of “I’m doing what I’m here to do,” the beauty that you’re able to see in the world in spite of the headlines. The joy that you have with friends and those you love—hopefully they’re the same. What brought you joy?

And as you think about these things, I want you to think of two things. One of them is: each one of those instances is a time in which who you really are, the greater You—and I’m talking the human you—but the greater You was functioning. What brings you happiness and joy are situations in which you’ve already cleared up and cleaned out. It’s not an issue.

But the second thing I want you to realize is that some of those things are new joys for you, because there was a time it wasn’t cleaned up and cleared out, and you couldn’t see that beauty, experience that peace, and you didn’t know that love and that joy. So recognize your growth. Pat yourself on the back for being adaptable and flexible and willing to change in order to function at your best, growing beyond normal, average—even growing beyond good, into the realm of magnificent.

Give yourself credit and think about what brought those situations about. “I was happy yesterday at noon.” All right, why?

The sun was shining.

S: What was going on? Louise said, “Well, the sun was shining,” but the sun doesn’t shine every day, so remember that moment and bring it out when the sun isn’t shining. (I almost said, “Where the sun doesn’t shine,” but I know that one wasn’t right.)

Recreate your joy. Recreate, remember, renew it. Remembering recreating and renewing are the roads that lead to joy.

In 2016 you are going to have so much energy coming your way. It’s a gift. The door has opened, and you are receiving powerful energy transmissions, and 2016 is going to be filled with them. Some big, some small, but major transformative energy transmissions, and what that means in the short story is that what is going on with you is amplified and accelerated. So, beloved ones, it is vital that what is going on with you doesn’t have the cloud of core issues still bandying about.

Core issues will get your attention physically, take your attention mentally, and accelerate your attention emotionally or dramatically. Do you understand what I mean by that one?

Oh, yes.

S: So don’t let them run you. Look to the joys, be filled with the beauty and the happiness and the love. Don’t empower what does not work; empower what does, and you’re going to be ready for all that this world is offering you now.

It’s a time of great power, and it’s going to need people who can wield that great power. That’s not going to mean that you’re going to be dancing in joy every moment, but it means those times you’re not dancing in joy are not how you judge yourself, they’re not how you judge your life. Can you do that? You’ll be delighted with this year then, because it’s a big one. It’s a year of great ascension, and you’ll look back on it as the great ascension. I want you living it, not watching it.

All right. Glochanumora.