Another Seth exercise. Sorry, I cant help it, I am posting a bunch of these, but hope they will help people empower themselves.
"You can change the picture of your life at any time if only you realize that it is simply the one
portrait of yourself that you have created from an unlimited amount of probable ones. The
peculiar aspect of your own probable portraits will still be characteristic of you, and no other.
The abilities, strengths and variants that you may want to actualize are already latent, in your
terms, and at your disposal. Suppose that you are unhealthy and desire health. If you understand
the nature of probabilities, you will not need to pretend to ignore your present situation. You will
recognize it instead as a probable reality that you have physically materialized. Taking that for
granted, you will then begin the process necessary to bring a different probability into physical
experience.
You will do this by concentrating upon what you want, but feeling no conflict between that and
what you have, because one will not contradict the other; each will be seen as a reflection of
belief in daily life. As it took some time to build up your present image with its unhealthy aspects,
so it may take time to change that picture. But concentration upon the present unhealthy situation
will only prolong it. Period.
Each condition is as real or unreal as the other. Which you? Which world? You have your choice,
broadly, within certain frameworks that you have chosen as a part of your creaturehood. The past
as you think of it, and the subconscious, again as you think of it, have little to do with your present
experience outside of your beliefs about them. The past contains for each of you some moments
of joy, strength, creativity and splendor, as well as episodes of unhappiness, despair perhaps,
turmoil and cruelty. Your present convictions will act like a magnet, activating all such past issues,
happy or sad. You will choose from your previous experience all of those events that reinforce
your conscious beliefs, and so ignore those that do not; the latter may even seem to be
nonexistent.
As mentioned in this book (in Chapter Four, for instance), the emerging memories will then turn
on the body mechanisms, merging past and present in some kind of harmonious picture. This
means that the pieces will fit together whether they are joyful or not.
This joining of the past and present, in that context, predisposes you to similar future events, for
you have geared yourself for them. Change now quite practically alters both the past and the
future. For you, because of your neurological organization, the present is obviously the only point
from which past and future can be changed, or when action becomes effected.
I am not speaking symbolically. In the most intimate of terms, your past and future are modified
by your present reactions. Alterations occur within the body. Circuits within the nervous system
are changed, and energies that you do not understand seek out new connections on much
deeper levels far beyond consciousness. Your present beliefs govern the actualization of events.
Creativity and experience are being formed moment by moment by each individual.
You must understand that your present is the point at which flesh and matter meet with the spirit.
Therefore the present is your point of power in your current lifetime, as you think of it. If you
assign greater force to the past, then you will feel ineffective and deny yourself your own energy.
For an exercise, sit with your eyes wide open, looking about you, and realize that this moment
represents the point of your power, through which you can affect both past and future events.
The present seen before you, with its intimate physical experience, is the result of action in other
such presents. Do not be intimidated therefore by the past or the future. There is no need at all
for undesirable aspects of your contemporary reality to be projected into the future, unless you
use the power of the present to do so.
If you learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most effectively to alter your
life situation in whatever way you choose - again, within those limitations set by your creature
hood. If you were born without a limb, for example, your power in the present cannot
automatically regenerate it in this life, although in other systems of reality you do possess that
limb."