[from Marsha: If you\u2019ve ever started on the path of the teaching ideas and heard about complaining, sticking up for rights, pleasing, quoting authorities, blaming, self-improvement or trying to be different; and in that have observed those in self, you might have begun to think of them as entities because they certainly act that way. And when you try to stop them, escape them or ignore them, very often it seems like they are stronger than you are.\u00a0\u00a0 So you hear them over and over in your head. So here is yet another way to see them for what they are \u2013 they are not I\u2019s \u2013 they are not you. Below is an excerpt from a workshop #113 where we\u2019re given a little idea that might be nice to play with.]<\/p>\n
Now anybody that has experienced conflict, and I believe we could safely say that that is all of us. We have judged that a thing should be a certain way; and when it wasn\u2019t, we got our conditioned tools out — (not I\u2019s from A-side) — to try to change whoever or whatever wasn\u2019t the way \u201dit should be\u201d into what we wanted. In other words, we felt we were capable of judging what is, and it ought not be that way.<\/p>\n
Then as soon as we got that said and done, then all of a sudden we heard the \u201cB side\u201d of the picture of man (see website) with the methods to achieve that nondisturbance start hollering \u2013 The not I\u2019s say, I got to be a good pleaser — then we decided that we ought to quote some authority we had chosen to believe or we put on a front or try to change ourselves into somebody that has more self determination, huh? Be assertive! We was tired of just being a door mat. And so we begin to struggle. We pushed over here and then they pushed over there; and that\u2019s the conflict to and fro. \u00a0We resist what is and see it as bad.<\/p>\n
Now what if you could just see, well there is an \u201cacquired personality in me\u201d that wants to do it this way, but I\u2019m not subject to it \u2013 I don\u2019t have to do it\u2019s bidding, it\u2019s just hollering.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot of ladies have indulged in making little craft items for sale; and so you could gather or if you\u2019re crafty, make a bunch of talking dolls, and sit them on the kitchen table. mantle or somewhere where you see them. They can remind you that they all talk in opposites \u2013 all the time! Would you have to go by and\/or do everything those talking dolls you made this afternoon told you to do?<\/p>\n
(No.)<\/p>\n
You wouldn\u2019t pay a bit of attention in the world, is that right? So you see that as soon as we recognize that these are \u201dacquired, self created little personalities\u201d that we have, we absolultely pay no attention to them.<\/p>\n
So when we see what a not I is, those are little dolls that we made huh? We materialized them out of nothing one day long ago; and maybe set them on our shoulder \u2013 three on one side, and three on the other and a little chooser on top of our head that listens to one side and then the other, so they talk and talk in our heads and we\u2019ve been listening to them ever since, huh? And they\u2019re still there since you acquired them.\u00a0\u00a0 So they are constantly giving orders. They\u2019re all yakkin\u2019 away. Did you create those little dolls?<\/p>\n
(I guess I did.)<\/p>\n
Are they all homemade little gadgets, huh? Is there any rhyme or reason to do what those dolls that you made say to do \u2013 have you any reason to be subject to them sir?<\/p>\n
(I don\u2019t have to be.)<\/p>\n
They\u2019re little dolls that each of us make, huh? That\u2019s what conditioning is is a bunch of little dolls that all holler. We taught \u2018em to talk. We put the programing in; and they talk. Now are you subject to conditioning or the little dolls? Are you subject to them when you see they\u2019re little dolls that lie and tell you what you \u201cshould do\u201d or what somebody else \u201cshould do\u201d or how \u201ccircumstances should be\u201d or how to get what you want right now! If you don\u2019t recognize them as not being you, then you think that is \u201dI tellin\u2019 myself\u201d this, but instead it\u2019s one of the little dolls \u2013 soon as you see it\u2019s a doll you no longer feel subject to it.So the discovery that we can make is what?\u00a0\u00a0 That we can see these little things as what they are \u2013 all things which I created and made talk. I materialized \u2018em, set \u2018em up, put \u2018em on each shoulder so they\u2019d talk. And it is really that they\u2019re not I, not you. So we could call it conditioning. We can call it devils. We can call it little dolls or demons or whatever you want to, it\u2019s still something you made, is that right?<\/p>\n
Now once you see that that\u2019s what it is, could you be objective to not pay any attention to it anymore.<\/p>\n
(I guess.)<\/p>\n
You could do that right now \u2013 is all of this stuff \u201cyou\u201d or is this all acquired?<\/p>\n
(Acquired.)<\/p>\n
See, that wasn\u2019t you at all. You acquired the ability to complain because you hoped it would be a way to \u201cget something\u201d and then you set it off like it was you. It says I. Did you acquire the thing, the idea about sticking up for right?<\/p>\n
(Right.)<\/p>\n
Did you acquire the idea very definitely of pleasing everybody. Did you acquire the idea that it was correct to believe and do what you\u2019re told by you authorities. Did you acquire the idea or make a little doll or piece of conditioning that says you ought\u2019a be different \u2013 the self improvement bit. Did you create, define, or agree to the idea that you were perfectly capable of judging everything? That\u2019s a little idea, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s a little old thing.<\/p>\n
Once you see that you created these and then forgot you created \u2018em, they keep on operating. They\u2019re still little dolls sittin\u2019 on your shoulder, right? Could you be subject to them any longer? Cause what are they \u2013 things you made yourself, is that right \u2013 whether you call it conditioning or whether you call it a little devil or a demon. And once we see that, we\u2019re bound to be somewhat more objective.<\/p>\n
[from Marsha: It might be fun to find or make these little dolls and put them somewhere with their respective names and attribute to them what the ones inside you are saying \u2013 what a wonderful way to disidentify. Further, couldn\u2019t this be a really fun way to play a game and bring the not I\u2019s to a physical level because it\u2019s been said that they can\u2019t stand the \u201clight\u201d being put on them.\u00a0\u00a0 They can\u2019t stand to be laughed at.\u00a0\u00a0 With the dolls, we can maybe point an laugh and see their diabolical schemes to create misery, conflict and struggle in our lives.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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