Hello,
This is Guy,
And I'm delighted to reach the last of our sessions together,
Where we've been learning about the possibility,
And actually the inevitability,
Of a life that is successful without stress at all.
And I hope that our time together hasn't been too stressful,
Because I do understand that when we are looking at new ideas,
That our tendency is in fact,
Sometimes at least,
To feel confused,
Overwhelmed really.
But even those moments with these ideas can be opportunities to discover the very principles that we're studying together.
Because what is confusion other than something summarily deciding that it can't understand what's going on,
And then beginning to resist,
What if we persist with our studies,
Proves itself to be as natural to us as is the open sky to the bird that flies through it.
So now let's summarize all that we've looked at together,
And learn how we can walk through our life stress-free.
It should be clear,
By now anyway,
That our experience of life is intimately connected to the way in which we view it,
And further that this view changes from moment to moment depending on what we are relating to within ourselves in each and every moment.
When we see only our own ideas,
For instance,
About why we feel stressed,
Why we must be anxious,
And we see subsequently that they're telling us,
Those thoughts and feelings are telling us that we're entitled to be miserable,
Then in those moments,
Misery,
Stress,
Anxiety is making up for us the circle of our life.
But when we actually see within ourselves that misery loves company,
And that by accident we've become its closest friend,
Then we are well on the way to making a new and true friend.
To establishing a new relationship with life based in a whole new reality that will not only give us a new experience of life,
But if this friendship is made fast by our interior work to do so,
We will come upon a whole new order of self within ourselves that never feels despair,
Defeat,
Or stress.
Who is this powerful new friend?
Well,
We've been talking about it.
The light of a new understanding,
Of a new awareness,
Whose glimpse into the actual nature of our level of consciousness in the moment that it is taken up with stress,
Is the same as being able to dismiss that stress because we have dropped our relationship to that consciousness producing it.
How can this little bit of light dismiss what may have been a lifetime of stress and anxiety?
Well,
Think about the man in our story in the last session whose life,
Until a small streak of light penetrated in it,
Was limited to the reality of his one darkened room,
Meaning his life was limited to the reality of the thoughts and feelings that were stepping up to define the moments in his life as being dark and necessary to be afraid of.
At first,
In our story,
The man's relationship with that light was to be suspicious of it,
But he soon turned from being fearful to feeling grateful for its presence and how it changed the whole of his world.
It didn't take him long to realize that the life he had longed for was to live within that light that had come into his life to take the stress and anxiety out of it.
As the light of our new self-understanding expands,
Because of our willingness to work with these special ideas,
The exercises that we've been given in this series of talks,
We will discover beyond any shadow of doubt how stress is created and how up until now it's been able to keep us a captive of it.
And with each successful gleaning,
Each new understanding,
We will see increasingly for ourselves,
Within ourselves,
The evidence of another order of reality,
Literally of another level of being and a world within us that sits outside the circle of stress that we've come to think of as being the whole of ourselves.
The more we understand,
The more we're willing to work with these principles and bring their light into our life,
The more we awaken to a kind of incorruptible reality that awaits within us,
That is a safe haven on earth,
Wherein full and final freedom from stress and anxiety is already our own.
This realization,
That life is success without stress.
I do hope that you've joined me in the study of these ideas with a willing heart and an open mind,
Because if you have,
I can promise you that the light that has come into you will begin to change your life for you.
Bye for now.
