Hi Roxanne. I though I got this posted yesterday but apparently I didn’t complete all the way:

You ended your share with “For now, I will simply be with the physical pain in my body with the intention to heal”. How are you challenging the FPs you described since you posted this?

Roxanne,

You said: “I had a shift this morning. I realized that I was believing that my sister-in-law’s fps were really her. I know that’s not the case, just like I am not my fps. Once I saw this, I was able to let go of the passive-aggressive fp that wanted to punish her in some way.”

That is extremely, extremely powerful!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this. I have often wondered: Maybe that is all there is to it, namely maybe that is all there is for anyone to understand and apply in life!

Yesterday I was explaining to my wife what it means to say that Gary’s teachings constitute a spiritual theory. Without going into all the details I went into, briefly speaking, the function of a theory is always simply to explain various facts; that is, to help us make sense of and understand why and how the facts are the way they are and not some other way. The larger the number of facts a theory helps us understand, the more powerful it is considered to be. Quantum theory and theory of relativity on which Gary wrote his first book (Dancing Wu Li Masters) are considered to be very, very powerful theories.

In order to offer such an explanation we are often forced to invoke aspects that are not directly visible, not directly observable; in other words, we are forced to invoke aspects that are not facts themselves. In turn, a theory is simply a collection of just a few postulates. A postulate is a statement that is assumed to be true without our actually knowing whether it is true or not. That can and does immediately bring a negative reaction on the part of many. But, even though we don’t know whether such statements are true or not, we go for them and after them because they are found to have the power of helping us understand, make sense of, explain why and how the facts are the way they are.

To me, in Gary’s teachings, such a postulate, or an assumption, is the statement that the soul of each of us decided, before each of us was born, to bring with the corresponding personality some selected fp’s and lp’s, and what is expected of each of us is to discover, challenge and change the fp’s, and to discover and nourish the lp’s. This is an extremely powerful assumption as it explains basically everything about life and life’s experiences. It is a postulate since we didn’t directly see our own souls making such decisions nor do we see our souls directly now. What we do see, rather what we do experience, are the effects of such a postulate, making us place the kind of faith we happen to in it. In our own lives we are able to experiment with the effects of the fundamental ideas conveyed in the above postulate and a couple others.

In other words, Gary’s spiritual theory helps us realize that when our own fp’s happen to be active (and, according to the theory, they are meant to be very active when we don’t take any effort otherwise), it is not just our own fault. We don’t need to feel guilty. Instead, we have to recognize their being active through the physical sensations in the concerned chakras, challenge them and replace them with lp’s. That is the name of the game to be played. Similarly, when they are active in others, such as the sister-in-law in this case, we don’t have to blame them either. Instead, we just have to help them, if we can, and accept them whole-heartedly as we are all on the same boat.

The moment I understood the above by reading Gary’s books, I felt like all my questions getting answered, which couldn’t happen earlier by reading so many other works. Since then it has been only a question of continually applying this understanding and slowly spiritually growing, of course, falling down many times and slowly getting up and so on.

Yes, Roxanne, the sister-in-law’s fp’s are not really her. Her soul decided to bring them with her to work on. You are not your fp’s. Your soul decided to bring them with you to work on. And, I am not my fp’s. My soul decided to bring them with me to work on. We all can and should help one another in this journey.

Again, thank you so much for sharing. Right when I read it, I could feel its depth.

With love and trust,
Sundar