David: Cancer is just a specific form of what? Of sickness and separation.
And as long as we still have an unconscious hidden belief in sickness, that's a predicament.
And how can we heal when subconsciously we still believe in sickness.
So, really what we're doing here is we're starting off with the questions and the things that come at us.
And that's the fun. I really enjoy being around Armelle.
Cause I watch her just, people are coming daily and this, this, this and this.
Some of the amazing guidances that come through.
And at the other end of the phone, they're like, WHAT?
Or, whatever, we get lots of practice at being uncompromising.
At TRULY being uncompromising and I think that's really where your joy comes in.
You're just this bursting joy is coming from having practiced true empathy, being uncompromising.
Really, again it's all really with thoughts in the mind.
It's not so much with people, because people are just reflections of thoughts.
But it's really in the mind having that much determination to be in true empathy, to be uncompromising.
Armelle: It's just one self, that's really what it is.
It's just not allowing thoughts of littleness, thoughts of separation
to really linger in the mind, not allowing to believe them.
To give them power, to give them attention to go with the story.
But just really staying in truth and have this determination really, to stay there. -
(member of audience asks): How do you stop yourself or does one, give us like a situation.
I mean, most of us aren't gonna be there right away, right, so
you begin to believe the story and then what do you, how do you stop yourself?
How do you center or empty or just what's the process for you?
Have you mastered it that it becomes second nature?
Armelle: I've no idea.
I don't know.
I think that's, when I wasn't actually...
I've been put in many, many assignment, many roles in this community.
Spirit has used me in many assignments and I've been put in many of stewardship roles
where I was holding expression sessions,
and it's such a great opportunity to watch my mind.
To watch what I was believing that people were telling.
And the more that stories were told, the more I would watch where there was a reaction in myself,
where there was no reaction and I would just practice forgiveness for myself.
Realizing that whenever someone is sharing, if I have any reaction, it's my forgiveness.
It's never about them at all.
If I don't have any reaction, then it's just flowing through.
It's just part of whatever is happening in the moment.
But, if there is the smallest contraction or smallest upset, like
even a 'uuhhhh', that is an upset.
And, it is just to look at, okay, what is it that I'm believing in right now
that makes me feel separate from that person and that I believe in their story.
And so, I just watch my mind CONSTANTLY, constantly for years or months, I don't know.
Yeah, at some point I was just, I would just realize that,
I don't know how it happened, but just that truly it's all thoughts.
There is never anyone outside of myself, that it's all myself, only me to myself.
And everyone is always talking to me about what's going on in my mind.
And that I'm always encountering myself and whatever comes my way, it's actually,
it's not even that it's MY mind, it's THE mind that has such a strong call to wake itself up.
It brings in awareness everything.
And, just by this awareness I would just be very present.
And, really practice a deep listening, not listening to people's words necessarily,
but just really listening to the Spirit inside.
So, my listening would not be outside, I even have that experience right now actually.
But, for several months, two years ago I think, for six months I would not hear from this ear.
And, it would change my whole experience.
It was so BEAUTIFUL. I was so grateful for this experience.
Because it felt like this break was, I took it like the Spirit was telling me, it's time for you to stop to listen to the world now.
And to really go inward.
And during that time I had so many deep mystical experience
where I just felt that everything fell away.
That I could really feel there is no one living this life.
It's all empty, it's just life happening every moment, there's really no one here.
And just having those experiences over and over and over again.
And those experiences would be what convince me of the truth.
Because these are glimpses that are very helpful to be able to let go of what I still think I am.
Because how do you jump into something that you think you don't know,
when you're so identified with something that the Spirit needs to do a convincing job.
And, it's by having all those deep experiences that you can realize that,
Oh, but I've never been all those things, actually.
I've never been what I am holding on to, I've never been what I think I am.
And so, that is just allow and ease the letting go, actually.
And, yeah I feel that everything has been given.
So, it's really difficult for me to answer your question.
Because I'm really not aware I did it, I don't feel that.
I feel that none of this process of awakening that I'm walking, I did anything.
I could say, yeah I did that, but it doesn't resonate in my heart anymore.
I feel like it's been done through, over and over again, I never did any of it.
And, I think that we all have this inner wisdom and when we share, we share what's coming through us for sure.
And, that resonates deep inside and there will be a word,
like, I remember David at New Year's Retreat would've said something like,
everyone is always bringing up all your unconscious beliefs.
And I would take that and that would be the hit for me and I would just stay with it.
EVERYTHING would be that only practice.
It would be my whole practice, it would be,
Okay, this is my unconscious belief so, if I want to release my mind from the belief in separation,
and empty my mind, I'm just gonna watch everything that I'm reacting to,
everybody that I'm reacting to and I would come in touch with those beliefs in myself,
and I would be totally uncompromising with that.
That's how all those experiences would happen.
Where I would realize, but there IS no one else outside of myself.
If they are bringing up my unconscious beliefs then they're me.
Then, I would just come into those experiences where it's seen that it's all thoughts.
There's never really anyone telling me anything, asking me anything,
requesting anything from me, wanting anything from me, blocking me,
limiting me, demanding anything, it's never the case.
It's always the mind that wants to wake itself up,
that's bringing up all the unconscious stuff that is there so that it can be released. -
(audience member asks): So, can you just go back a little and okay, maybe that was the early part, right,
so, when there's a reaction coming, like when you're reacting or contracting,
having slight fear or discomfort, how do you interpret that?
That this is my, what is it, how do you, what do you tell yourself?
This is not now, I mean then, I guess. At the beginning when you were acting and reacting to the unconscious what? -
Armelle: Beliefs.
(audience member): Beliefs, so your reaction, is that what you're looking at?
Armelle: Yeah.
(audience member): I might be too much in my head, what I don't understand, you know?
David: It can be simplified, it's just, in Austin Powers it's called Mini Me.
It's the little I, the little personality or whatever.
Any thoughts that involve the personality self or the mask, are the substitute for Christ.
(audience): I'm making it up.
(David): Yeah, if you just stay in the moment, then whatever arises,
you can see that if you just, if you're constantly just seeing, hmmm, releasing,
it's almost like the eastern neti neti, not this, not that.
There's a lot of not, not, not, not, not, not.
It's through negation of just watching, like you were saying.
Noticing, watching, just watching, watching in the mind.
And, then you stay really vigilant with that.
And then you suddenly are clueless about the whole world.
Like, people will say, what IS a retreat or what is a gathering or
what is a one on one or what is whatever.
No, it's you don't identify with any of it.
It all turns into the same.
It's the same moment. The MOMENT is the same.
The images don't change the moment.
You stay with the moment, you stay living in the moment.
Very attentive, like you were saying and it's just anything arises that's a false identity idea,
it's that I that wants to claim something, did something in the past,
could do something in the future, whatever it's all hypothetical.
The hypothetical I, we have to let it fully flush up.
And we have to have a good laugh at it.
We have to really, REALLY watch it and just see that we are not ANY hypotheticals.
That God didn't create us to be a hypothetical.
We're created to be a Divine Being, created in the likeness of God.
We aren't a hypothetical.
And, it's actually very practical when you really use this as your practice.
You can practice with ANYTHING at all.
And then for some it's like well that's a bit far out,
because how can you practically even live in this world?
We call that guidance.
Even THAT'S in the present moment, we're not talking about future guidance,
or guidance on the time line, like some intellectual discussion of guidance.
But, what are you given in the moment?
Isn't that glorious, that anything that you would even seem to need will be dropped in and just given to you?
Perfectly, easily and wonderfully.
Without having to try to even FIGURE IT OUT.
It's so easy, really. It's the easiest. It's really a lot of fun to be so trusting and let everything just be given.
And also just watch, give your full attention to watching your mind,
FULL ATTENTION.