
Make Real Changes In Your Life GF Live 12-30-23
by Guy Finley
Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in a self-renewing awareness that remembers the following truth for you: no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.
Transcript
We have something very important to look at today,
And I suppose you could say it's important today because in The world as it were and pretty much around the world at least in one form or another we are Sitting on the day before what we call the new year now,
I don't know how far or to what depth you have come in your inner work,
But Certainly there must come a point in a person's life where they recognize that sipping champagne and kissing friends and laughing and shooting off fireworks at midnight on the 31st of December 2023 Doesn't change a thing Just another party.
It's an excuse for a party actually I want to talk to you about and And using this day before the day of New Year's Talk about what real changes are How do I make real changes?
Certainly,
We've had enough experience with this idea of You know I'm gonna start over with this new year I'm gonna make new choices,
And I'm gonna get rid of this my New Year's resolutions but not to cast a Pale over the parade to what end the hope of changing ourselves if in the end All we have is another day of judging ourselves for not having changed whether it's January 2nd or January 15th 2025 So I want to put in your mind something that's very important.
We talk about often and it's difficult to understand until we have the proper knowledge and experience to validate it,
But Change is now and I'm going to show you this and now The true now is evermore There is no moment that isn't now and it is now or never when it comes to change and This is just a fact Let me show it to you.
Don't get negative Because that certainly wouldn't be a change would it what's more what's more common than getting negative?
God When is the moment of change?
When is the moment of change?
Have you thought about this have you got to the point where you realize that you keep thinking and hoping?
Planning on someone to become or someplace to go where change is going to take place But what is the real moment of change certainly it's not when we're negative Certainly,
It's not when we resist what the moment asks of us That's not the moment of change because what's more familiar than not wanting a moment or not wanting the experience of ourselves and Change can't have anything to do with gearing ourselves up to act.
Can it?
Because gearing ourselves up to act is the same old Gearing ourselves up to change is the same old that getting ready change comes When we can no longer act from the past Change comes when the past is not extended into the present moment.
That's when change comes When what we are and who we have been No longer Acts from the moment that triggers this condition consciousness to make the choices it does based on the reactions it has Change has nothing to do with the continuation of the past Okay,
Let's bring up the second actually let's bring up the first key lesson if we can please Just to touch on this main idea read along with me everybody,
Please nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as Long as you choose to live in a self-renewing awareness that remembers the following truth for you No old dark thought has the power to define you let alone drag you down No,
Old thought has the power to define you let alone drag you down and let me say right at the outset here That we're not trying to motivate.
We're not trying to bring some Beautiful idea about a time to come when I'm not dragged down.
I'm saying to you that the moment of change Occurs in the same moment when we are no longer acting from the continuation of a conditioned mind That only knows one way to respond to whatever has triggered that consciousness into that reaction So now and this is a bit It's something to chew on but it'll remain posted and when this is Inside timer is posted again,
And we do post it.
We do repost it.
I think on our website Certainly they do You can reread this Kate.
Let's bring up the second key lesson.
This is right to the heart of the talk Read along with me any moment of real change is the past made perfect Through the reconciliation of the will of heaven Acting upon the will of earth and In that Union creating the birth of a brand new creature any moment of real change is the past made perfect not the past reconfigured Disguised as some new plan,
But the past made perfect and the past is made perfect in This intersection of what is perfectly celestial and timeless in its activity Working upon what has been created in this world in this earth called myself and in the reconciliation of the will of the earth with the will of heaven a Union brings forth a brand new creature and a brand new creature Doesn't have to try to change it is the expression of what is changeless in time itself and If we can understand and I hope we can because certainly we work on this all the time What is any moment of now in the world?
But not of it that which is created being acted on by what is the perfect creative force?
What is any moment of that intersection other than an endless interaction an endless?
Relationship and you can see it as above so below I talk about it all the time There's no moment where Change meaning rebirth isn't taking place and maybe that's the problem for us Is that we don't really get this idea that when something is changed.
It's changed It hasn't become a better version of itself It isn't some strange Extension of what was almost okay,
And now it's near to that Real change must be understood as being synonymous with Becoming a new creature a new creation in that moment because everything around us is in fact Becoming reborn remade moment to moment and if it is and you can see that Then why in the name of God are you and I not?
Changing why do we live outside of?
This celestial harmonious relationship between what is timeless and what is in time between what is true and loving and that which is intended to be the reflection of that So that's what I want to look at with you Evidence suggests and we have to do a little detective work here Evidence suggests that we don't see at all not really When a moment comes along and our attention is seized by it and it always is The reason our attention is seized by the moment is because this consciousness sees that moment as Something that is set against itself so that I am literally in that moment looking only at a negative reaction To the moment and the negative reaction is suggesting as it always does what I need to do to change the moment What I have to do to make that moment just go away So we don't really see at all Because this resistance this summary resistance born of a conditioned consciousness that is looking for the confirmation and the continuation of itself through time It is a blinding force.
It is a binding force So that in those moments when we are filled with this resistance All we see is what our negative reaction points to outside of us And by the way,
Then blames accordingly for the pain of our experience in that moment I'm gonna slow way down here because I'm gonna Bring in a slight change of words And I hope you will just listen to this first and foremost It is impossible and if I could underline it or shout it it is impossible to blame any moment for the pain we're in and Be changed in that moment as well If you blame a moment,
There will never be any change in that moment The change will only be what you see as in the past Causing it or the future you hope to reach where you're not in pain anymore If you want to change you've got to get rid of the whole Notion of blame it has to go It is a lie it is a deceit But the only way in which we can be free of this blaming nature Which if you can see it does not exist apart from the conditioning that measures the Moment according to its expectation and when the moment doesn't match how it is supposed to be Then this consciousness can't find fault with itself.
And so it blames the circumstance For not being the way it's supposed to be then it plans how to change it But let me go through this with you.
I'm going to use these words Have you not heard the word the expression the change of life?
Mostly it has to do I think with getting older I'm going through a change of life.
I Want you to understand there is no change of life in the highest sense of being changed into a new human being Without you and I being willing to go through the change of light the real change of life at every level Requires that we go through a change in light that can only take place in that light because as I said,
What is blame other than a condition manifestation of a mind that looking out wants that and doesn't want that or doesn't want that and Correspondingly wants something else.
It is a mind that lives in a perpetual divided state endlessly comparing and measuring each moment To what it expects it to be and when it doesn't hit the mark Then everything's got to change about you.
Everything's got to change about the world but the last thing that we suspect is that the reason that we keep meeting these same moments is because this consciousness blames the experience of the moment on the condition instead of its conditioned state Just for grins and it's not the exercise,
But I'll throw this out at you just for 24 hours Resolve set an intention Anything that comes up in me that wants to blame him her this or that for this Rush of negativity this anxiety this fear anything that comes up wants to find something to blame I absolutely under no circumstances Will agree with it.
I Will become the observer of this consciousness that wants to blame instead of serving it Unconsciously and hoping that the changes it suggests I make will produce a change in the way I experience my life We have the evidence in front of us all the time.
It doesn't work Just over on the board ever so quickly.
Can you see at least some of the truth and what I've been Spelling out here.
Yes or no Can you see how futile it is?
To immediately identify with anything that wants to blame a Circumstance for what ostensibly is this consciousness resisting anything that doesn't match its own image Good good.
Good good So if we can see as we are all saying that we do then we should be able to see Given what we've described that what we are really blind to is That we live from a mind That never stops resisting its own expectation that never stops resisting Anything that doesn't grant it what it's desired So that living in a consciousness like that That only knows listen That is never in the light of the moment but rather is always shining what it calls its light on the moment and when that light reveals what it doesn't expect to see in that moment,
It says the moment is dark and No moment is dark every moment is a marriage of Infinite Divine forces each and all Interacting Blending bringing about endless new creations of which you and I are intended to be a part but are not yet now If we are as I've described ever so briefly in a talk like this,
But that's how it has to be forever identifying with a consciousness that will resist anything that doesn't match the image it has of how I Should be you should be life should be I am an involuntary prisoner and I'm a prisoner of a mind that never stops trying to escape its own conditioning By calling on its own condition content to release it from itself It would be worth Capturing that however you get it Just to consider the the implications of that insight.
I am a prisoner of without knowing it of A level of consciousness that is always trying to escape its own conditioned reactions to anything that it doesn't want By calling on its own conditioning and the content of its past to produce a new future in which everything will change Because I'll be different then and it never happens Can you see this with me?
Yes,
Or no,
Please We're working our way towards a special set of writings If you see this with me,
There's only one way to liberate ourselves from the confines The confinement of this unconscious relationship.
There's only one way And I called it a change of light And I called it a change of light because whether we understand it or not yet I look at everything around me through the light of my own mind through what my mind Says it sees and My mind as I've taken the pains to show you hopefully it Only can see what it wants to see or what it doesn't want to see.
That's all it can see it is blind completely Other than that.
I want to see this.
No,
I don't want to see that.
I don't want to see this I want to see that so that my experience is Inseparable from my perception of the moment and My perception of the moment presently is totally conditioned into want and not want into what I want to see what I don't want to see and there's only one way as I've said that we can begin to change that and that is by this change of light Christ said the light dwells in the darkness the darkness Comprehends it not he is saying in a simple sentence what I'm taking 20 minutes to point out to you That we must have a new mind a new awareness and the new awareness Must be what it costs us to remain in the captivity of That consciousness that listen that we don't know.
We're a captive of yet We may suspect it But if we really knew that in that moment and I look out and I've got this negative reaction I'm resisting this tooth and nail if we really knew it in that moment that all of that pain was the result of what?
Amounts to a Completely mistaken perception of the moment in that moment we would be released from that consciousness Just like that There wouldn't be a time to come The separation would be the same as the transformation because what's transformed is our relationship to that consciousness in that moment Let's look at this a little bit better So man,
Let's run through something quickly Honest answers will go quite a way here to help us What possible good is there if you can?
Womp one up to to wish a moment didn't happen You I'm asking here I oh I wish this didn't happen first thing I feel Lower the tone.
That's the first thing I feel I wish this wasn't going on Tell me what tell me what happens in a moment like that.
That's good You're all you are looking at is what you don't want to see as Goes my attention so comes my experience So my experience is predicated on a part of myself that says I don't want to see that and that's exactly all I see And that's my some the sum of my experience and does that pain in that moment?
Prove that I know what's right.
We think it does We think it does because we see that moment through the light of a consciousness that by resisting a condition Actually proves to itself that it knows what reality should be So the more we don't want any given moment that we find ourselves in The more without understanding it It seems to us to this consciousness that the moment is more powerful than we are.
Otherwise,
We wouldn't have to go through it and The corresponding reaction according to this consciousness is to call on the content of itself Redesign some new power some plan put it in place and then hope tomorrow or a year from now when everything is better I won't be so bitter I won't be an angry frustrated anxious person because everything will finally work in a time to come There is no change in a time to come It is a bittersweet lesson for a long time But gradually as you start to recognize what we are going to cover now in some depth,
You'll start to realize thank God I understand that because every time I think to myself this moment shouldn't be like this and I start getting negative and mulling over What's wrong and why I'm miserable I have been handed over to a mind that lives in time To create the time it doesn't want that's actually what happens.
This is the level of dream so if what I'm saying is true and this false perception Constantly is suggesting new powers and those powers are not new.
Where are we going to find the power that we need to change?
Here's a whole new definition of that power real power to change is Knowing that we don't have to go looking for it Real power to change is knowing that we don't have to go looking for it is Knowing that we're not missing any power required to change in that moment.
That's power And the thing is it's not your power.
It's not my power.
It is the change of light It is the change that takes place Instantly inwardly when we begin to understand that what we must do in these moments when everything goes dark Is we must remember to enter into?
This awareness that reveals to us that the reason we're suffering the way we are is because our mind is gravitating to and lending itself totally To the thoughts and feelings that are confirming we have no choice in this moment,
But to suffer it and By the way,
When I say we have no choice in this moment But to suffer it trying to escape a moment you don't want is an unseen choice in its continuation Because the attempt to change the moment in a time to come is the perpetuation of this painful mind That is always hoping it can change things in a time to come So the first work in any moment that we don't want is to remember to enter into this change of light a shift out of thought into awareness out of resistance into a wish to discover To remember to enter into this awareness where rather than fighting as we do to change ourselves or someone else We enter into this order of this light of change Whose power in that moment by being in it reveals that the things we thought were real art a Man walks into a room.
It's totally dark.
He bumps into a rope on the floor.
He thinks it's a snake He turns on the light He laughs at himself because he realizes all of his fear was the product of a mind that imagined what was real But couldn't see it That's what this light of change is a change of light and We not the ones we are not the ones that change the light We are the ones that recognize when we are in this unconscious pain resistance That we are looking at life through a false light a false God Fear anxiety all of these negative states They're all false gods and they all show us what they need us to see so that we serve them And we can practice this new power anytime that we wish That is anytime we wish to have its strength and safety as our own and how do we do it?
We start each time by remembering Ours is the power to choose what we will and what we will not give our power to That is our power to choose whether or not we enter into this moment Caught up as we are we're not going to escape the negative reaction.
Don't dream that that's nonsense The negative reaction is this unfinished business of a consciousness being revealed in that moment So that it can go through that marriage and exit that moment a new creature So Kate,
Let's get ready.
I'm not gonna have time to explain these but I've written three ways as the talk title suggested To begin to affect this real change in our life.
I'm gonna bring up number one.
Please don't post while it's up I will read it with you and I'll bring up number two and number three I wish I had more time to explain them,
But we can if you have questions I hope to open it up for a little bit after this and certainly you can join me on any Wednesday night or Sunday morning where I talk for free just find me on the net Nothing to join.
All right Kate number one Read along with me,
Please everybody rather than live with the pain of a thousand regrets We must work to remember what we always seem to forget anytime we're tempted to relive some pain from the past No number of visits into our past has ever changed one thing about it No number of visits into our past has ever changed one thing about it Let alone the suffering that we find waiting for us there The light of that higher awareness is the new choice Because within it we can see who and what we can no longer agree to be Please see this with me as best you're able to The awareness that I am about to become complicit with a part of myself that ensures its continuation through my identification with its pain the minute I see that change takes place because Instantaneously,
There is a separation between my will and attention and what was formerly commanding it Okay,
Let's bring up number two rather than look to anxious thoughts To help put whatever we fear behind us We must work to remember this one spiritual truth.
We always seem to forget until too late fearful thoughts are Powerless to free us from any dreaded time to come Fearful thoughts are powerless to free us from any dreaded time to come why?
Because no anxious moments exist without the fearful thoughts that create them No anxious moments exist without the fearful thoughts that create them So every time I turn to thought to free me from some anxiety I'm actually putting a leash and a collar around my life By giving my will over to a consciousness that has created the very condition.
It says we must have power to escape to see life in the light of this new understanding that I just described is The new choice that changes everything Because again within that new awareness We can no longer agree to be who and what we've been Who would agree to willingly serve something that you serve because it promises to bring an end to your fear?
By creating new desires that you become identified with and conditioned to believe you must have That become the source of your next fear of your next anxiety Last one Katie,
Please number three nice deep breath Rather than struggle to escape or try to overpower some negative state as we always do Let alone identify with some old excuse that we have for them We must remember that all dark states are the spawn of an unseen dark master All dark states are the unseen spawn of a dark master Just let that sink in for a moment.
I'm trying to escape this negativity Who am I serving?
It seems to me that I'm serving my own best interest because who wants to be in that pain?
But the truth is the pain only exists because that consciousness that dark master that divided nature Has set itself against whatever the moment is that has come to us to give us an opportunity To have this change of light How else would I even know that I need a change of light?
How else would I know I need to change my life were it not for the repeated immersion inside of experiences that Continually promised tomorrow will be better and the tomorrow doesn't get better It's filled with more bitterness because it doesn't live up to the expectation.
I have of it that this consciousness is made of it So that the power over us in these moments is that we believe the promise that it gives us is going to change us If we all do its bidding Make make bricks without straw and because if you don't I'll put my lash to you That's the power of a negative state It's painful and if you don't do as it bids you to do seeing life through the light of its eyes that tells you just around the corner is the end of this conflict and if you don't Do as it bids the anxiety the fear ramp up and you and I both know what happens the lash comes out and we live in the fear of a pain that only exists because we see it through the light of a Consciousness that never stops looking at lights life through that Through a darkness through a light that it through a darkness that it calls the light to see the truth of that to see the truth of that lie is a new order of awareness that releases us from that dark influence and At the same time places us in the hands of a living light that can't act against itself.
Let alone anyone else If change if real change was easy We could live in a world that was changing for the better Our world isn't changing for the better.
That's absolute madness to think that's true Our life is in the hands of an unconscious nature That when it fails to affect the changes it promised by acquiring the powers it demands Then comes up with an excuse or someone to blame for the failed execution of its own eminence and Then creates more laws more restriction more demands and It sucks the life out of itself and the sensation of its life ebbing is what it calls the sensation of life It is not real life is inseparable from being part of the change of light that brings about The new light in us that changes us if we're willing to see it That's my New Year's Day message please Let me be present long enough to recognize that this pain inside of myself is The continuation of an unconscious nature that seeks conditions So that it can read so that it can double down on its own insistence Do your work we have five ten minutes?
I'm take whatever time that we can You're welcome to post make comments anything that you want can go up in that block and we can look at it together if you wish and if not,
I'll wait a few moments and say Fairly well,
Hi Jill is doing something.
I don't want to do acting against that dark nature Jill Stay tuned in the next week or two I'm going to give an entire talk on the beauty of doing what you don't want to do Because it is in doing what you don't want to do that You reveal this consciousness that only has it's got like it has like two paths.
It has like two parts It can't can't step outside of itself and it will always resist It will always resist anything that brings about the awareness of it That's what an unwanted moment is.
The reason it's unwanted isn't because the moment isn't right There's no God doesn't make mistakes the cosmos that God doesn't play dice with the universe to quote Einstein every moment is the perfect interaction and intersection of forces that are reconciling themselves at levels beyond comprehension and high and low and This very self-centered consciousness is egocentric Dark master it it can't afford for there to be something greater than itself And so it makes everything in its image and when the image isn't fulfilled by the condition Then it blames the condition because it sees and it knows what's right It doesn't know we want to reveal this nature not glorify it.
Let alone worship it non-dualism Yeah,
Yes seeds in one respect We can say non-dualism.
Well,
The cows comes home till the cows comes home till the cow comes home But I I am I am presently but how long However old you are how long have you been in a dream?
And how long has that dream?
Meaning the content of this consciousness that is millennia in its age how long has it been folding in on itself and Changing conditions to validate its conditioning Blaming circumstances to ensure that it continues as someone who knows the problem but never solves it.
It's been going on forever in one respect So we have this idea that somehow we can just you know I get this idea about whatever it is and that's gonna change.
No,
No idea is going to change anything But you if you will act on the knowledge I've laid out for you pretty clearly here everybody That the moment that we are filled with resistance and then Caught up in the negative reaction that follows.
It's because in that moment our Consciousness and it it demands that we see it.
That way is telling us.
That's what happened If you have a negative reaction You don't know what happened the negative reaction and you're and the continuation of that negative reaction is the proof You don't know what happened.
How about that the continuation of any negative reaction is the proof You don't know what happened not the proof that you do use that Because if I actually understand any of that and here it wants to go on it wants to think about this and relive that Actually goes through some of the iteration of I of acting indeed I will see what I've never seen before I'll see that this consciousness wants that I Thought it was me that wanted and didn't want no this consciousness doesn't want that it wants this and if I actually see Then there's a moment of separation.
The wheat is separated from the chaff just like that and that's change Because never again will that same a Body of attention and awareness respond in exactly the same way why it's changed When when it's understood the observer and the observed or a singularity you change any part of the observer or the observed and the whole system changes the whole paradigm changes and Then there'll be something there a little stronger a little clearer to take that next action where you understand that that I That There must be a change of light There must be a change in what I give my attention to That's that has to be the first thing because if I can actually change or at least catch that I don't want to That my attention is gone and it's resisting summarily Returning that's change because now I know something I didn't know before Now I have understanding not in thought through experience That's what changes us The devil is a thought is darkness.
No the devil of thought isn't darkness,
Do you know?
Thought in its divided state creates the devil.
I Find it shocking how strong a grip this dark nature has a gigantic whining self and to send a self-centered entity I can feel its grip right now and the anxiety creates through these talks good Good Because you know what most of us think like we're okay until something happens We're not we're not okay till something happens because something's always happening,
But we've become so Blunted and dulled by this summary resistance to it that we don't even know our we don't even know We're being given a life moment to moment we don't know that there is a light of change and that that light of change is Constantly changing the the construct changing the the creature.
We don't know it,
But we can Aaron I'm trying to undo the habit of immediate negative reactions with a breath first then move on Anything that you do now listen not to control Aaron.
Don't try to control That's a fool's game Because the only one who seeks power is someone who feels powerless in that moment I only try to control things because I think I lost control.
There's no you who lost control There's no you that ever had control the way it's imagined.
That's how the game goes on So don't try to control Aaron Try to see Let the light of that moment show you what it is.
That is afraid not to have control Then you'll understand why control seems so important because it is a Creature of fear looking to find a way to be fearless if it could just get its hands on everything it wants Life is non-stop change humble attitude.
Yes.
May God help us What a beautiful thing it is so can bury when it so can theory when when as a result of this Light of chain change of light The last thing that we think is beautiful becomes the most beautiful thing in the world not in the moment but we start to see that that real change is Inseparable from a certain kind of humility born of seeing the truth of ourselves know the truth.
It'll set you free We want to glorify that when you know the truth that sets you free It will make you understand immediate immediately blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are the meek you'll understand perfectly the beatitudes When you start to understand what we're talking about here Unless it's trauma response than a deep breath would be I'm gonna say it again a deep breath is great But not just to breathe to release to relieve yourself Not breathe to release yourself because it gives you a sensation to give your attention to so for a moment You're not caught up in whatever that dark feeling is If you want to take a breath,
Let let it be the full awareness of everything in you Not to isolate yourself from some instant But to bring you more deeply into the integration with it If you breathe the moment then you're breathing everything that's in the moment and that's different Guy,
Can you give a talk on there is no us as we think I Do I do all the time Tracy and I will I will This is this is as you know,
Those of you who have been working for a while.
This is not This is not child's play But it is something that we can begin to participate In such a way that we no longer fear the play of life that we no longer play a part trying to change life We find our part in life That's what we want and that part in life is to be in this interior place where this light this change of light Changes us because we see the truth of ourselves and in that truth We are realized we are released and we become a new creature With by the way,
When these things happen if you've ever had an epiphany Do you think yourself I've got a change now or is the change in that moment the realization that there was something living inside of?
You just waiting to be recognized and lived There is a way takes work takes work Bye
