In case I happen to be wrong anywhere in the above suggestions I made to Stephanie, other spiritual partners, please please feel free to correct me. I consider it very important. I want to learn the correct stuff and not hold on to wrong ideas developed by me.

Thank you all.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Quite an experience reading these exchanges! I can barely keep up with the rhythm but love coming here and finding so many new posts. I am traveling right now so my time is limited. I just wanted to express appreciation and also to add on what Sundar wrote about the power of fps. As I recall Gary and Linda saying, fps don’t actually die but they lose their power over us with time as we continually recognize them and challenge them. I guess the end result is similar–what no longer has power is as though dead. It gives me hope that I can eventually reach the point where I see a fp trying to gain control over me without my letting this happen.
With love,
Catherine

Thank you for the update Stephanie. It seems like you’ve really been able to get in touch with your emotions and connect them with sensations in your body. That is powerful! Just remember, that these things you are experiencing are not YOU, they are frightened parts of your personality, and they will continue to want you to please people and not want you to feel the pain. Recognizing what they are saying and being able to be with the pain is so courageous and will help you see your light. Who ever knew that feeling so much pain could be so joyful! I totally relate to that. Thank you so much for sharing this journey. Love, Ame-Lia

“You can catch more bees with honey than with vinegar.”

That is a saying I learned anew today at the end of a conversation at my pharmacy, which made me think further and make a connection to Gary’s teachings. The following is the context.

I happened to enter into the pharmacy in the middle of the interaction between an old lady and the pharmacy staff. I heard the old lady murmuring quite a bit (which was not clear). I then heard one of the 3 ladies in the pharmacy tell her something like, “if we had the medicine, we would give it to you; it is not that we don’t want to be nice to you”. A little later, the old lady angrily threw a packet of medicine she had picked up from over-the-counter and left the pharmacy in anger. In Gary’s terms, her fp was pretty active.

After she left, one of the 3 staff told me, “you are so sweet and we all really like you”, and the other two nodded their heads (if that is true at all, the credit definitely goes to Gary). Understanding the context from what I heard, I said, “she unfortunately didn’t realize that you are here to do business; so, if you had the medicine, you would definitely want to sell it and not send her empty-handed”. Then I was going to say, “probably it is some emergency situation; she probably needs it right away”. Before I could say that, another staff said, “she is going out of the country tomorrow and so she badly needs it”. I said, “well, the lesson she probably learned today is that she should order it a few days ago so that even if you didn’t have it in stock, you could procure it and give her”.

Then another staff said, “we could order it from Walgreen’s (which happens to be next door) if she had been nice”. I said in a friendly and nice way, “you should actually do it; that is a way to respond; it helps our own spiritual growth and it could also help the other person’s spiritual growth”. One of the three then said, “you can catch more bees with honey than with vinegar”.

After coming back home I checked the meaning of the above proverb. I found: “It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands”. I realized I had initially wrongly guessed the meaning.

Given the above meaning, I started to think about it from the point of view of Gary’s teachings. I reiterated to myself the gist of the message during the last call by Gary and Linda: Even if the other person is trying to catch me (the bee) with vinegar instead of with honey, it is so important to ACCEPT that person’s fp and respond to that person using a suitable lp that my soul has brought with me in this lifetime rather than using any of my fp’s. And then I thought, given Pam’s current topic, it is so important to develop the COURAGE to do so.

It appears that we have to be so careful in the way we apply in our lives the proverbs that are so prevalent.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Patrice,

What is the meaning of this proverb when said with a loving intention, without judgement or criticism? I very much like to know. It is possible the staff said it in that meaning.

Also, can you illustrate person by person how there appeared to you to be many fp’s active in many people present? It would help a lot in the understanding of Gary’s teachings.

Thank you in advance.

With love and trust,
Sundar

Sundar,
I had a FP come up when I read your response. A pain in the solar plexus and a familiar feeling of nausea. The thoughts were “did I say something wrong?” “Was I teaching?’ Etc… Very familiar FP’s for me and I did not want to reply.

I can only tell you the feeling I got from the story. The customer seemed to be reacting from FP’s and the clerks also seemed to be reacting from FP’s and were in agreement with each other judging the customer. You may also had a FP that judged the customer and was in agreement with the clerks FP’s. I don’t know if that is true or not. If any of the clerks were coming from love they might have just ordered the medicine from Walgreens regardless of what was happening with the customer’s FP’s.

The proverb when said in a five sensory way is about manipulation and external power. From a multi-sensory point of view when your intention is love “honey” rather than fear “vinegar” the outcome will always be perfect for everyone, whatever that outcome may be.

These are just some of my thoughts on it.
With love,Patrice