By Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack
Chichilianne, France
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The following material was presented on April 19, 2008, during an online workshop with Saint-Germain. It has been edited and expanded from the original transcript for greater clarity and understanding.“Beloved friends,
With these words we began the workshop, Welcoming the New You, the first of three online events with Saint-Germain to explore the Soul-blended self.
“We are here today to experience another way of sharing, fathom another way of feeling, and explore a New Way of embodying your Soul Self.
“I am Saint-Germain, and I am delighted to be here with you, to feel your particular energies, and to create with you a space that will enable you to grow in consciousness.
“I can feel your excitement, and I am very happy to work with you in this stimulating environment.”
The New You is the highest expression of Self that we can become in this human form, when we consciously choose to embody and live our Souls’ desires. The New You is characterized by many attributes, including sovereignty, Self-governance, and freedom.
Exploring the New You
Saint-Germain began the session by asking participants how they perceived the New You. How might it feel to step into the New You?“Turn your attention inward on this matter. I would like you to feel deeply into this. Don’t be shy, but please take time and check your feelings before responding.”
Answers varied from person to person, but there was a common thread… to live outside the box, stop pretending, go beyond the rules, release habitual reactions, and to be one’s Self again.
Proclaiming the Truth About You
Saint-Germain followed with another question, asking the participants what it means to be your Self. Then he launched into a clear explanation of stepping into the New You.“Being your Self means that you have nothing to demonstrate. Nothing to justify. There’s nothing to defend or argue about.
This was the crux of the workshop: Naming, claiming, and proclaiming Who You Are.
“You don't have to prove to yourselves, or to the world, Who You Are.
“You Are Your Self. Period.
“You assume this stance from within, and maintain it with every breath you take. You stop pretending that you are anything different!
“You claim your Self, and proclaim it.”
By engaging the Truth of your identity at this fundamental level, you begin to disentangle yourself from the complications of living and expressing your Self in the world.
When you proclaim the Truth About You, you will stop struggling with the world.“You will find that the challenges you encountered in expressing your Self were only imaginary. They only reflected the energy you expended keeping your masks in place – masks that hid your true identity.
Being Authentic
“When you decide to drop your masks – when you stop pretending to be something you are not, you will stop wasting your energy.
“You will simply embody Who You Are…apply ‘effortless effort’ to your life. This requires nothing of you other than being your Self.”
Saint-Germain made it perfectly clear that welcoming the New You means proclaiming the Truth About Who You Are. And as you become more comfortable expressing this Truth, you will step into Authentic, Self expression. He used an example from the Master Jesus to illustrate this point.“To be authentic means to be anchored in the Truth – the truth about Who You Really Are.
Sovereignty
“Jesus said, ‘Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.’ This means that the Truth frees you to make Authentic choices. Soul-felt choices.
“You can express your Self in any way you choose, love and accept your Self just as you are, and enjoy everything that life has to offer.”
Proclaiming the Truth leads directly to sovereignty. It does this by freeing you from the illusion of limitation.“When you are anchored in the Truth – the constraints imposed upon you by your beliefs, and by the people and situations around you, lose their power.
What Happens When You Proclaim the Truth?
“They no longer stop you from expressing your Divinity. You are governed by Truth, and this supercedes all else.
“When you take this step, you become Self-governing. You remember the Truth About You, and you never deny it to yourself or the world again.
“You are Sovereign.”
When you proclaim the Truth About You do things get magically easier? Not exactly. Instead, there is a natural process of alignment that takes place.“When you claim and proclaim your Self, you invite experiences into your life that will align your personal truths with Divine Truth.”
This was clarified further…“When you go deeply within and allow the Truth to penetrate you – when you immerse yourself in the Truth – it brings situations into your life that activate a deep desire to be and express Who You Are.
Saint-Germain indicated that there is a principal of spiritual physics involved here. He described it this way:
“This desire builds in intensity.
“It activates…a natural process. Organic, you might say.
“What happens is this: Your personal truths begin to find their points of convergence, or resonance, with Divine Truth – with the Core Truth of Who You Are.”“Truth has a resonance. A vibration, if you will. And every time you express your willingness to speak the Truth, to embody Truth, your willingness to do so initiates a process of entrainment.”
What does entrainment mean?“[This] means that your personal truths, which have a certain vibratory rate or resonance, begin to fall under the more potent influence of Divine Truth – the Higher Truth about Who You Are. Under this influence, your personal truths evolve into more accurate representations of Divine Truth.”
This is similar to the effect of striking one tuning fork in the close proximity of another. The vibration of the one causes the other to begin vibrating, too.“So, when you choose to orient your experiences toward the Highest Vision of Truth you might imagine for yourself, then this desire naturally brings everything you hold to be personally true into greater alignment with the Truth About You.
How Do You Proclaim Your Self?
“In other words, your Truth-aligned beliefs will be enhanced. And they will evolve into their Higher Expressions. But if your personal beliefs are not aligned with the Truth About You, then this entraining does not take place. It will become apparent that you are deceiving yourself, about your Self.”
Participants asked Saint-Germain how to proclaim the New You, the Soul-blended self. He replied with typical candor.“It’s really very simple. A willingness to proclaim the Truth About You is all that is required.”
Then he elaborated on this response.“The Truth grows from within itself. It has a life of its own. It is your life.
Proclaiming Your Self Before the World
“Just as the seed lies dormant in the ground, waiting to grow; so the Truth stands within you, ready to be awakened. All that is required of you is your willingness to express it. Then the Truth begins to grow within you.
“You can delay this…But you cannot detain it. The Truth About You is inevitable. It will be revealed. It is natural, spontaneous, and inevitable. Your willingness to accept the Truth activates and accelerates a natural process of Self discovery – of Self proclamation.”
Toward the end of the workshop, Saint-Germain reiterated that when you proclaim your Truth, you are choosing to blend with your Soul and embody the New You. And as you do this, the Truth About You will begin to permeate your daily experiences.“People will begin to see you differently.
According to Saint-Germain, you are able to assist others using the same principle of resonance that aligns your personal truths with Divine Truth.
“They will perceive, perhaps not consciously, that you have changed and that you are now in greater resonance with your Truth. Some will react with fear. They will judge this as inappropriate because it doesn’t fall within their normal range of experiences.
“But please understand that it is your fearlessness in embracing the Truth About You that they fear.
“If you are no longer deceiving yourself, about your Self, how can they continue doing the same? How can they justify their cowardice in the face of your courage?
“But your fearlessness will help them expose their misperceptions, if you will allow it.”“When you fearlessly embrace the Truth About You – when you courageously choose to blend with your Soul, in this lifetime, and on this Earth, then you will begin to affect others around you by your example. Your willingness to do this will create a resonance…around you that offers this possibility to others.
Harmony, Truth, and the New You
“They will sense the Truth About You, consciously or unconsciously, and begin to wonder if this Truth might be theirs, as well.
“Some will respond with openness. Others may close with fear. This is not your concern. All you need do, is embrace the Truth. Be It, Live It, and Express It.
“Nothing more is required.”
Proclaiming the Truth About You creates harmony with your Divinity that expands into your day-to-day living. It begins with an inner calm that eventually spreads outward, offering you the possibility of living peacefully with everything and everyone around you.
Saint-Germain didn’t present this as a utopian solution to human relations, however.“Living in Truth creates…harmony for you.
He continued by saying that if you resist this process, hanging on to the untruths about you, then naturally your conflicts with yourself and with others will be prolonged. You will spend more time moving through difficulties to get to a place of harmony.
“Here’s how it works.
“Greater harmony will come to the parts of your life that are already grounded in Truth. But the things that are not Truth-aligned will become strained and begin to fall away. You may experience this initially as conflict. But remember, this is a process. It is the process of harmony through conflict.
“When Truth enters your life, it does indeed create conflict with anything that is untrue. And it drives it out. Your willingness to cooperate with this process, rather than struggle with it, will make it easier.”
Stepping Into the New You
Saint-Germain closed the workshop by addressing the question - How do you step into the New You, into this New Life? - with a bit of encouraging news.“Your first step is to align with the Truth About You. Call it to you. Then be willing to blend with your Soul, when it answers your call.
With that Saint-Germain, thanked everyone for their presence and encouraged them in their willingness to step into the New You.
“And speaking of truth, as we have been doing for quite some time now…The truth is that you have already taken this first step!
“Just accept it. And allow this blending with your Soul Self to take place. As you do, your experiences will guide you further in exploring the Truth About You.”“Trust, be willing to continue, and have no fear! You are deeply loved and honored. Thank you. I Am Saint-Germain.”
Saint-Germain has provided much information that we are incorporating into a book called "The New You, New Relationships, and the New Society".
If you enjoyed this material, we will be exploring the topic of "New Relationships" in our second, online workshop with Saint-Germain, re-scheduled for Saturday, May 17th. To participate, or for more information, please click here or contact us at mahlimay@yahoo.com Thanks!
Alexandra and Dan
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
“Highlights from Welcoming the New You” - A Saint-Germain Channel
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Message from Saint-Germain's Online Workshop
By Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack
Chichilianne, France
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Our workshop entitled "Welcoming the New You" -- the Sovereign You, the Soul-blended you, was wonderful.
Very soon, we will post a summary of what was presented in that two-hour session.
Here are some excerpts of the information that came through Saint-Germain during that workshop:
"When you are anchored in the Truth – the Truth About Who You Really Are – you feel your freedom again.
"This means that the constraints imposed upon you by your beliefs, or by the people and situations around you, lose their power. They can no longer stop you from expressing your Divinity.
"You are governed by Truth, and this supercedes all else.
"When you take this step – when you become Self-governing, you remember the Truth About You, and you never deny it to yourself or the world again.
"You are Sovereign."
Lots of love,
Dan and Alexandra
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
A Painting: "After the Birth"
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
“Shame, Blame, and Money” - A Saint-Germain Channel
By Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack
Chichilianne, France
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"For most of my life, I have had issues with finances and money, or more specifically, issues with financial institutions. This has filled my life with stress, fear, and an acute sense of powerlessness. At this point, I no longer want to play the game. I want to release it, and be free… Please, help me release this game – this illusion of form and exchange I play with financial institutions. I want to feel powerful, free, and abundant. Not fearful and powerless. Thank you."
(Question and session reprinted with client's consent.)
Beloved Friend,
Things are not as bad as you imagine.
We are going to take a look at the part of you that is feeling powerless and living in fear of financial institutions. But first of all, we need to do a bit of reviewing.
This may feel like a digression from your question. But we will get back to it.
Sub-personalities and the Ego
Please recall that most human beings identify heavily with their personalities, and not so much with the Higher Aspects of their Being, such as the Soul or God Self.
The human personality, or ego, including yours, is formed of many sub-personalities. Some of these play dominant roles, while others are less important.
The mixture and emphasis depend upon the person involved and their circumstances.
For example, a young mother with children at home may identify herself with the role of “caregiver” very often. But the sub-personality of “free spirit” that formed during her college years at art school may reveal itself much less frequently.
An executive might suppress the sub-personality of “nurturer” at work, fearing that his colleagues would consider this a sign of weakness in a competitive business climate. But at home each evening, he may drop the façade of “leader” to tend his greenhouse orchids with loving care.
A sub-personality is a type of psychological coping mechanism. Like the ego, it is not who you are.
The ego is a false identity state.
It is predicated on the belief that you are flawed.
The ego is you, embodying the false belief that you are unwanted, unloved, and rejected by God and others – and therefore unprotected, threatened, and exposed to danger.
The ego, with its sub-personalities, is your psychological identity. It perceives the world through the eyes of fear, rather than truly seeing it through the eyes of love.
The Creation of Sub-personalities
The ego consists of several dominant sub-personalities and a few minor ones. Every sub-personality created by your ego appeared at a time of heightened stress – in a moment when you felt ashamed, blamed, or guilty, or when a chronic need for approval, validation, or love was left unfulfilled.
Your ego with its sub-personalities began to form the very first time you felt unloved. For many, and perhaps for you, this was in early childhood.
At this time, you created an identity (a sub-personality) that accepted responsibility for the interruption in the flow of love, and then tried to repair it. This breakdown in the flow of love may have happened with your parents, or with someone else you trusted. It was your first experience with blame, shame, and guilt.
Sub-personalities like this may be of service in the moment they are created because they reassure you and help you restore a sense of safety in an otherwise stressful situation. But they can become quickly internalized by reinforcement.
How does this happen?
Every time you feel frightened – every time you believe that scarcity, hostility, disapproval, or any number of possible threats are assailing you from the outside world, your ego will call upon a sub-personality to deal with it.
As long you perceive a threat to be there, you will wear that sub-personality like a mask – until you become the mask.
What the Ego Offers You
The ego with its sub-personalities tries to protect you from whatever is feared, whatever is threatening, or whatever is perceived to be lacking. It promises to help you survive physically, emotionally, and psychologically during challenging times.
It says that it will deliver you from fear, by first assuming that the world is a fearful place, and then trying to convince you that you are in danger.
This is a false assumption about the Nature of Reality and about Who You Really Are.
And this brings us back to your concern about money.
Fear of Financial Institutions
You have learned to be fearful and feel a lack of control over your life when confronted with debt and obligation to financial institutions. This is because for you, and many like you, having money is a measure of worth. Not monetary worth, but self-worth.
Until you grasp that this is not about your financial worth, but your self-worth, you may continue to struggle with financial institutions.
More specifically, the sub-personality you have called upon to fight this battle for you will struggle. And you will suffer for it. As it continues to demand validation from a source of worth it also fears.
Dear friend, you are projecting your inner conflict, “Am I lovable? Am I worthy?” into a world of money lenders and debt collectors in order to examine it and come to some definite conclusion about the matter.
What will you decide?
Shame, Blame, Money, and Worth
Every time you find yourself in conflict with financial institutions, you activate and reinforce a sub-personality that equates money (or the lack of it) with self-worth. As long as you identify with its struggles, you will not see that it is Self-love and your own validation that you need to reinstate, not your financial worth.
What you are doing here is projecting an inner conflict outwardly into your financial situation. You may be doing this for fear of addressing Self-validation consciously. Or you may be afraid of exposing your heart to the old wounds of Self-love denied.
Regardless of these conditions, your fear of financial institutions, like all aspects of your ego, can be traced to a core belief about yourself. It can be traced to the first moment you ever felt unloved and believed it to be true – to the first moment your Wholeness and Worth were questioned and you felt ashamed of it, and then blamed yourself for it.
Once you accepted this core misperception about yourself to be true, you made it possible for doubt, fear, and lack of control over your circumstances to spread like a disease, infecting all the parts of you that felt insecure. You granted it the right to pattern your experiences of reality, including your encounters with money and self-worth.
But now, you say you’ve had enough.
You say that you want to end the illusory game you’ve been playing with financial institutions.
I say, “Bravo!”
You say that you’ve lived through enough of these stressful situations to question whether they need to be real for you any longer.
I say, “Good.”
But first, let’s end the illusory game you’re playing with yourself.
Let’s proclaim your self-worth first. And then watch how your relationship with money changes.
The End of Illusion
As you call for an end to the illusions that dominated your life, you will step into a New Consciousness. You will begin to engage a Self Awareness that gently corrects the distortions and misperceptions laid down by your ego.
In taking up this broader awareness, you will also become aligned with your Authentic Self – the New You that is your Soul-blended self.
The New You is able to express your Soul’s desires. Its perceptions are Truth-aligned, so you see things clearly. And because you see them clearly, you recognize that your Soul is the author of your experiences.
You become sovereign and free.
You are able to create your life easily, using energies that respond to the call of your Soul.
Stepping Into a New Level of Consciousness
How do you step into this New Consciousness? This New You?
The first thing you do is stop fighting with yourself and with the world. You stop struggling with the illusions, and you let go your fears and misperceptions. Fighting with them only makes them real in your mind. You must step out of this circle completely.
You can end your conflict with a simple proclamation, “I Am Whole, and Wholly Loved, Worthy, and Complete.”
Then live this Truth with all your conviction.
As you do this, you will realize that your outer struggles only mirrored your inner conflicts, and you will see that the True Nature of your reality was other than the sum of your fears.
As you step fully into a New Consciousness, your fear, powerlessness, and sense of despair will fall away – as will any beliefs that you’re not good enough, perfect enough, or smart enough to be valued and loved just as You Are.
None of these things will matter.
The only thing that really matters is that you trust your Inner Knowing. Have confidence in the part of you that knows Who It Really Is.
Your willingness to allow this, will make it happen.
It can be as easy as letting a cloak slip quietly from your shoulders.
Yes, it can be as simple as this. You can shift your awareness with nothing more than your willingness to step into a world of Self-love restored.
So, please remember that you are fully supported in this.
We are Saint-Germain and Your Angelic Team, and you are deeply loved.
Saint-Germain has provided much information about the ego and sub-personalities that we are incorporating into a book called “The New You, New Relationships, and the New Society”.
If you enjoyed this material, we will be exploring it further in a channeled, online workshop with Saint-Germain scheduled for Saturday, April 19th. To participate in this workshop, or for more information, please go to the following link, Welcoming the New You, or contact us at mahlimay@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Alexandra and Dan
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
A Saint-Germain Workshop: “Welcoming the New You”
An Online Event Scheduled for Saturday, April 19, 2008
By Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack
Chichilianne, France
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We live in a time of transition.
As the structures, beliefs, fears, and energetic entanglements of the Old World fall away, a New World is emerging.
You will inhabit this world. But who will you be? How shall you live?
How will you form your relationships?
And what will be the basis of your communities and social bodies?
In a series of three, online workshops presented by Saint-Germain in April and May, we will begin to examine these questions.
We will explore the New You, New Relationships, and the New Society.
Welcoming the New You (April 19)
New Relationships (May 17)
The New Society (June 14)
On Saturday, April 19th we will inaugurate this workshop series with “Welcoming the New You”. Here are some of the topics that will be covered:
What is the New You?
The New You is your Soul-blended self.
As your Soul-blended self, you consciously and conscientiously express your Soul’s desires, in this lifetime and in this body.
Sovereignty
The New You is sovereign.
As a sovereign being, you are centered in your Soul’s awareness. You radiate the power, authority, loving kindness, and will-to-goodness of this magnificent Being.
Self-governing
The New You is Self-governing.
Because you respond to your Soul, and not to the fears of the ego or the demands of others, you are free. You are free from the illusions of constraint.
Freedom
The New you is free.
Sovereignty and Self-governance give you the freedom to live your life right now. Right here and now, you can enjoy the fact that you, as your Soul, are having a marvelous human experience.
This interactive online workshop is scheduled for Saturday, April 19th from 8 to 10 pm (using Paris, France for the time zone reference. Click here to convert to your local time.)
The session will be conducted in English in typewritten format. To participate, you will need a Yahoo email address (sign up here) and Yahoo Messenger (download here) installed on your computer. Both are free. If you are not familiar with Yahoo Messenger, please send us an email several days before the workshop and we will orient you.
We ask you to please log on to Yahoo Messenger 20 minutes before the workshop begins, so we can send you instructions about the Conference Room we will be using.
The fee for this workshop is $30 USD. To subscribe, you will first need to pay. (For payment instructions, please click here.) Once your payment has been made, please send an email to mahlimay@yahoo.com with the words “Welcoming the New You” in the subject line. It’s very important to include your full name, Yahoo email address, and the transaction ID number of your payment in the body of this message.
Payment is required no later than April 18th, one day before the event.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
A Saint-Germain Reminder About Sovereignty
By Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack
Chichilianne, France
www.joyandclarity.com
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Hi Everyone,
There's much to be inspired about these days. But it requires me (us) to step into sovereignty. There's only one more thing I have to do about it. And what's that?
I have to accept the fact that I AM my Soul having a human experience, and that there's no more work to be done.
It's not about integrating anymore.
I've arrived.
My work is done, as soon as I accept that there was nothing to do in the first place. There was never a moment when I was not whole. When I was unholy.
Neither is it about potentials.
Endless speculation about my future self, or what I'll be doing later, only postpones it now.
This is like dangling a carrot in front of the horse to pull the cart farther down the road.
I say, "Let's eat the carrot now."
It's about being sovereign, here and now.
I like the way Saint-Germain put this in a post that Alex and I published some months ago.
When your mission is dead and your purpose accomplished, you begin to live your life. You begin to live a life without a mission, where the only purpose is to Be That Life.
Lots of love,
Dan Bennack
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