Stress, the fear at its root, and choosing to love what one is

Frederic returns to the recurring topic of stress, noting that techniques exist but are context-specific and only sometimes work, and asks for a deeper perspective.

The Wonders explain that at the root of all contraction - in the energy of existence, in the fabric of the cells, in vitality and in thought processes - lies a fear in the mind that overwhelms the body, and consequently the emotional and spiritual, so that the mental becomes the only means by which people assert 'I exist'.

This creates a stress against existence, life becomes difficult, and the stress manifests back into the physical as ill health and cellular destruction.

Asked whether he wants guidance on how to choose or what to choose, Frederic says what to choose, and the answer is: choose to love that which you are - regardless of what the mind perceives as fear, judgment, guilt, flaws, mistakes or misunderstandings.

He is reminded that he was a non-physical being who joined himself to a physicality in order to experience it and its limitations - parental, emotional, spiritual and mental - and that fear, judgment and guilt are part of the nature of the human experience he chose.

The question is whether he loves himself for having those flaws and crises, enough to say 'this is me, I am expressing myself'.

Reaching that point of loving who one is without judgment brings an ease in which one can choose without fear of one's circumstances, which pulls attention out of past and future and back into this moment - all there really is, since the human body is a frail construct easily destroyed by its environment.

Rather than clinging to the constructs of one's life, relationships and judgments of what matters, one should enjoy what one likes and even what one does not like, without having to interact with it.

Doing so moves a person consciously through the psychologies and belief structures with which the mind constantly labels things good, bad or frightening, replacing them with 'do I choose this or not?' and then 'what do I choose next?'.

The Wonders acknowledge that meditation and mind-strengthening techniques such as Silva mind control all have benefit, but say the greatest benefit is not control - it is making a choice in the moment, as close as possible to observing it, since the moment has passed by the time it is observed.

The more one chooses in the moment, the more happiness, quiet, ease, presence, peace and tranquility follow; these cannot be achieved by seeking them or by a how-to method.