by Vadim Zeland
Now we’ll discuss in more detail the meaning of what we talked about in our previous lesson: you can turn a reflection into an image (the subject), by pretending that you have something you don’t yet have or that you are someone, who you have not yet become.
This means that you are capable of generating an image, as well as a reflection. In the first case, the image appears as a reflection, whereas in the second, the opposite is true, the reflection appears as the image.
Why does one appear as the other and why is this process two-way? It is because in the mirror, the image and its reflection are concurrent. The image in the context of your ability to shape reality, is your thoughts and actions. The reflection is also you and your entire environment, i.e. your physical reality.
First (direct) process: what you put out is what you get back; what you give is what you receive; and who you really are is what you have.
Second (opposite) process: as the game, so the reality; what you imitate is what you get; who you pretend to be is who you will become.
Directly: the image appears as the reflection. Composing the image is your way of putting a message out to reality. What you put out is what you have.
Reversed: the reflection appears as the image. Make-believe and imitation is your way of composing the reflection. Who you have pretended to be, is in reality, the person you have become.
All these exercises with the mirror are what is being referred to when we say, ‘moving from within’.
What is the difference between shaping an image or a reflection and shaping reality? When you compose an image or a reflection, you are working with the mirror. When you shape reality, you illuminate the upcoming frame. In each case, you are using a different aspect of the nature of reality. In the firstcase — the mirror, in the second — the film. The technique is different in each case, but the result is the same — what you desire becomes manifested in physical reality.
You may question whether faking it is really enough to somehow miraculously turn something into reality. Don’t worry, my timid little ones, reality is quite pliable. It will find its ways and hows, for this is a film in many variations, and the illusory mirror, is also an illusion, which can be shaped and controlled; all you have to do is remember, and use the right approach.
The first essential condition: it’s a very serious game. When a good actor plays a role, they become transformed into their character; they literally live it, because playing a role is a serious game. Your task is to perform the reverse path. From the character that you currently are, which you aren’t satisfied with, you should become the actor, playing the role of an imaginary character. You must live your role to such a degree, that you genuinely are transformed into that being. This is the reverse process, in which the reflection is transformed into the image of the subject.
The second essential condition: the game needs to be consistent. The mirror of reality does not respond instantly. It has a time delay factor, so in order to create change, you have to act purposefully, methodically and regularly. Once you have begun playing with reality, you must be patient. At first you have to act blindly, without relying on instant results. Results will most assuredly appear, but only if reality, observing your game, is the first to lose patience.
Composing a reflection means creating your own illusion for reality. If there is something you want, pretend that you already have it. If there is someone you want to become, behave as if you already were that person. Be in the role, take it seriously and live it like a professional actor. Live it in your thoughts, in virtual space, and where possible, in your actions, in reality, until you totally believe in the illusion you have created. As soon as you believe it, reality will believe it too. Then a miracle will happen.
And now the reflection method, again and again, over and over, my boring ones!
Catch yourself thinking: I want something or I want to be a certain type of person.
Become fully present: wanting is futile, you have to start composing.
Fake it and behave as if you had already achieved what you desire.
It doesn’t matter how exactly you fake it, that’s for you to decide. But be inventive! That’s something you don’t need my advice on. The more creative you are, the more effective you will be.
The technique of image composition is mostly used in relation to people; the technique of composing the reflection, mostly in relation to reality. It is better not to pretend with other people but to be sincere and to be yourself. But you can pretend as much as you like in front of the reality mirror, within limits of course and, without losing a sense of reality.
Remember that playing with the mirror and the upcoming frame alone is not enough. You also need do everything that is required of you to realise the goal in the current frame, that is, to take concrete action, and not just lie around on the sofa dreaming.
Fatal dilemma
In the last lesson, I, divine and wonderful as I am, told you, insignificant and hateful as you are, that reality itself is an illusion. That does not mean that it is fake. To itself, reality is real. It is only to you that reality is illusory and uncontrollable, because you aren’t aware of the properties of reality or how to use them.
It is like not knowing that you can ride a horse. If you don’t ride the horse, it will gallop away with you, and won’t be yours to control. Reality isn’t yours to control either; it has nothing to do with you. But if you are aware of its properties and use them, the illusion will become subject to your will; it will be yours.
The image is the subject of your thoughts and actions; this is always primary.
The reflection is you, your environment, your physical life.
The image is the message you send out: what you give out is what you get back.
Make-believe and imitation is your way of composing the reflection.
What you imitate is what you get; who you pretend to be is who you will become.
Prerequisites: it’s a game, but a systematic game taken with absolute seriousness.
The image and the reflection become each other.
They flow into each other in the sense that the image of your thoughts and actions has an effect on your entire life, and life, in turn, affects your behaviour and thinking. If you let this process take its own course, you and your life will gradually deteriorate, as is usually the case. This is because when you observe such a life, your thoughts become more dismal; and the more dismal your thoughts, the worse life becomes, and so on, via the feedback loop.
This is the fatal dilemma: do you want to be happy and beautiful or do you want to be devoured by a hippo? If you don’t want the hippo, then, quick, quick, stop suffering, stop suffering, and get composing, — get composing!
You can compose an image, a reflection and reality separately, depending on the circumstances, or you can integrate these techniques. For example, to achieve a certain goal, you can systematically compose the goal frame, at the same time pretending that you have already achieved your goal; and at the same time, making sure that all your thoughts and actions are marked with a plus sign beside them.
The knack of using all the techniques together will come with practise. To build up experience, you should regularly and repeatedly practice strolling live through a film. You should constantly track yourself, wake up and carry out the method.
You may wonder whether so many different methods are really necessary. They are and the reason for this is that the methods help you develop new habits. Because you are ruled by your habits, without them, you are not capable of controlling yourself, or, consequently, reality. You live according to the habits you have developed. So you have to create the kind of habits that will work for you.
You cannot stay being fully present all the time. You do everything by habits when you are in a non-conscious state. This means that if you are not s
ufficiently present and self-aware, you need to be able to carry out the right actions automatically. And for this to happen, at the very least, you must...
replace the habit of wanting with the habit of giving.
replace the habit of rejecting with the habit of accepting.
replace the habit of dropping off with the habit of waking up.
These methods release you from the script, animate you in the movie, and at the same time, make beneficial practices second nature. The proverb affirms: “better good habits than good manners”. The most beneficial habit is this: don’t want things of reality; visualise and compose reality. This is the main thing, and it has equally important derivatives:
Don’t be afraid, compose instead.
Don’t wait, compose instead.
Don’t hope, compose instead.
Don’t lament, compose instead.
As soon as you catch yourself waiting for something, hoping for something, being anxious or burdened by something, wake up and be aware: you are being led by the external script, not your own script and that is what is really burdening you. You feel subconsciously that you are not free, that you are dependent on reality, that you are limited by circumstances like a character is limited by a plot. You may sense it, but you cannot do anything about it. Because you are not fully aware you can do nothing except wait and hope.
Now that you know that you can release yourself from the script and jump to another film roll, the habit of waiting and hoping makes no sense at all. Instead, you should wake up and compose a picture of the reality you want. In the same way, it is futile to waste time lamenting your sorry lot. You have to wake up and derive benefit from the situation. Divination is also futile. You have to wake up and follow the dictates of Power. For every situation, there is a corresponding trigger and method that can be applied.
You have to get to the point where you truly know that holding out for something to happen or not happen, to work out or not to work out, is foolish and pointless. It is within the power of your will to compose an image, a reflection, or reality, or all of these things at the same time. Compose whatever it is that you want. Do it yourself, do it! Compose, and compose some more! And don’t forget to admire me! You are my favourites, captivating and entrancing, and I am your Tufti, magnificent and stunning!
You are amazing
In one of our previous lessons, I stood here, magnificent and resplendent as I am, before you lot, useless and unattractive as you are, and uttered the brilliant phrase that reality pretends not to be a mirror. Similarly, reality pretends not to be a motion picture. This comes easily to reality.
Try telling your neighbours, sleeping snails, that their life is a film. Or in a dream, some time, try telling the dream mannequins that you are sleeping and that you are seeing them in a dream. Neither the former nor the latter will understand or believe you. There is no point in trying to persuade them. Convince yourself properly first! You need reprogramming!
You sense, that you are being led by an external script, — this is what burdens you.
The different types of composition can be applied individually or together.
Strolling live has to be practiced constantly and consistently.
The methods instil new habits that work for you.
Holding out for something that may or may not happen, is foolish and futile.
Don’t want, wait or hope; compose your own reality instead.
Last time we racked our brains over a highly complex dilemma. Which is better: to live with misfortune or to happily be eaten alive? No, that wasn’t it. Which is better: a charming hippopotamus or a despotic priestess? No, that wasn’t it. A hippo, studious and gentle, or a maleficent and all ways round malevolent Priestess? But you know me, I am not really evil; I am super kind, I could eat you all up myself. I am merciful and good!
It is your lot that are miserable and unfortunate. And why? Because it isn’t your movie that is playing in your life. It’s not just me that doesn’t like you; you don’t like yourselves and that’s another reason for your ills.
Why isn’t your movie playing in your life? Because you don’t understand that life is a film in the first place. You might know this in principle, but you are not fully aware of it. So, I remind you again and again of where you are, my tiresome little ones, until you really get it.
In normal life, you are used to watching a film on a screen. Now, imagine that you are inside the movie. Feel it. Here you are at the mercy of the script, but you have a degree of freedom, nonetheless. When you are being fully present, you are capable of carrying out actions that are not foreseen by the current script. You receive a degree of freedom in the moment you wake up. In this moment, you are capable of giving yourself a shakeup and setting up a different film roll. Later, you’ll be back in the hands of the script again, but, if the moment is not lost, your film will start playing in the meantime.
The reason you don’t you like yourself is that all the screens and printed covers illustrate the ideals of beauty, success, and happiness. And you, my faithful ones, are taken in by these illusions, obediently trying to become something else that isn’t really you, every time finding that you don’t fit the norm. In actual fact, beauty, success, and happiness can never be standardised; they are things with a very individual cut. Still, you prefer to believe in the illusion and try to keep up with it.
Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult for you to remake or improve yourself? Have you ever asked yourself why, on so many occasions, you’ve planned to turn over a new leaf on Monday and never actually managed it? It is because you are lazy? No. It’s because you are being led by a script. Why should the script change, simply because you have decided to turn over a new leaf? Your desires are your course, but that course is not written into the script and so has no effect on it whatsoever.
Have you ever wondered why, when you leave the cinema all inspired, you think: I can do that too! You think, I will become like him or like her! Sometimes you even try to emulate them, but you don’t become like them in the end. The reason for this is that although you wanted to be like that person, you didn’t know about the emulation technique, which we have called imitation, and that the technique does actually work, at least it works when it is carried out correctly.
First of all, you have to totally believe that imitation is possible in principle. It is possible to compose not only reality but yourself, your own new mannequin. And at the same time, the mannequin will change. By shifting the film roll and the reflection in turn, you will change and become the way you dreamed of seeing yourself.
Do you find this hard to believe, my wary ones? This is because you have already tried something similar and it didn’t work; you have always tried and failed because you were working in passive mode. In your dreams, you draw yourself in rays of glory, but this is ineffective, as you now know; you have to use the plait. You tried emulating your idols, but you weren’t serious about your approach because you thought you could compose the reflection directly. You were not consistent because when you did not see instant results, you decided to give up.
It is totally realistic to improve and remake yourself, only, in order to do so, you must listen to your priestess! When you propel yourself from within, you can be amazing. Moving from within, you can become great. And when you move in this way simultaneously moving your own film, you can transform your entire life turn into splendour. Um...I envy you! And why am I telling you all this?
And now, the integrated propelling — strolling method
Compose a new reality and yourself within it.
Pretend that you already live in this reality and have already embodied that new self.
And, of course, act, create, fan the Creator’s Spark within.
This is what we talked about earlier; it is what you are capable of doing inside the film: prop
el the forthcoming frame, propel yourself, propel yourself from within. Take it all seriously, practice consistently and for a relatively long period of time — always. Then, from film roll to film roll, from reflection to reflection, your mannequin and your life will begin to change. You will see change; of that there is no doubt.
You are perfect
I hope you have understood at least some of this, my dear snails. If you are unhappy and unfortunate, if nobody likes you and nobody needs you, if your situation is desperate and you can see no way out, know, that there is a way out.
Don’t be envious of what you see in others; and don’t be discouraged by what you see in yourself; be like fireflies and propel yourself from within. Don’t look at your reality as something that is beyond your control; instead, compose a new one. Shift your forthcoming reality by using the plait, and shift your current reality by propelling yourself forward using the image you visualise, and the reflection technique.
You don’t like yourselves, because you compare yourself to other people’s “norms”.
Beauty, success, and happiness are unique to every individual.
It’s hard for you to remake yourself, because you are being led by the script.
Your desires are not written into the script and have no effect upon it.
By composing your own reflection, you can change yourself, your mannequin.
Propel and stroll: an integrated technique taken seriously, consistently for always.
In the last lesson, we looked at the following idea: not only can you compose your own reality, you can compose yourself as well, your new mannequin. If you weren’t asleep, you would see that this is possible. So, what do I mean by this?
Let me remind you. You have your own mannequins in the films rolls, which are stored in the Eternity archive. When you see one of these film rolls in a dream, your consciousness finds your corresponding mannequin, and then it comes to life and starts to move. For as long as you dream this dream, you occupy the body of the dream mannequin, as one of your many potential variants.