From Private Session 224 ~ February 02, 2008
(Joanne’s note: Resting-in-Rose is a simple meditative practice to feal your direct connection with essence, “a way of finding your truly deepest self enfolded in Rose’s loving arms.” The practice creates a deep sense of love, appreciation, and divinity. To enter this state, it helps to mentally let go of the things we oppose or judge harshly.
(Practices like treantea and giving inner voice to the contrary self complement the process. They help the mind and ego to relax by lessening their grip on automatic responses, beliefs, and expectations.)
The way of spirit is a way of treantea, because the treantea exercise is about using your noggin, so to speak, to tap into spirit. We’ll explain.
The way of spirit includes the way of equanimity. This means that there is very – now listen closely – there is very little judgment in your way of spirit. We said, “Very little judgment.” To say, “No judgment” is a judgment. So we are saying that when Elias said, “No judgment,” that was a wily, exciting teacher telling you what you needed to hear, because you needed to hear that you were judging way too much. But we are correcting the course, so to speak, to say that the judging will happen – trust that it will – and you are wise to only minimize it. In this, the treantea, the contrary self, and the resting-in-Rose all work together to help you do just that. Here’s how.
The treantea gets you out of your patterns of thinking in ways that are very closed. You have certain expectations that you would like to see met, but you don’t really allow yourselves to find alternatives that you’d find even better. The treantea exercises will help you get the hell out of your way of thinking that every expectation needs to be satisfied without even, sometimes, the most brief consideration of any other possibility.
So treantea will open you up in ways that are truly remarkable and will express to yourselves what you truly desire most, in your terms. For your wants get in the way of your desires, and treantea helps you remove the undergrowth, so to speak, so as to help you get happier, in a sense.
The contrary self in similar fashion allows you to expect the worst at times, and the worst can sometimes be the very best that you can create. So it helps you change in ways that allow your best selves to thrive because it relies on essence to make the calls, not just your ego self, but you as essence, including the ego self. The way of spirit includes both ego and essence selves in determining the actions you take every day. The desires will find you, because they are what you are born to do.
In this, the resting-in-Rose helps you connect directly with essence. It is the next layer, so to speak, that will allow you to turn off even your contrary self so you can rest in your divinity. Indeed, your divinity is your essence. …So trust that you will find the exercises more easy to digest if you treat them as a threefold manner of teaching you how to connect directly with essence in layered ways, so to speak.