The Value of Vulnerability
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings
during a “Shifting into Your New Consciousness” group 6-25-09
(Clients’ names are changed to protect their privacy)
(Melanie was saying she doesn’t like being vulnerable and crying.)
“The trick for you, since you’re such an amazingly strong woman, such a strong personality, is to get past using those attributes as part of your defense system. Life or your higher self, or whatever it is, is causing you to be more and more vulnerable, and is piling more and more things on you, and you don’t have the strength to bat it all off. And so it is conspiring to get you in a vulnerable place, so you can learn something different.
When you’re vulnerable, you are going into the territory of where the limiting decision is coming to the surface. It is going past your defense system and so you are liable to find out whether the limiting decision is true or not. The reason you’re hiding the real stuff underneath it is because you have a negative decision about what is really true. And so you want to keep it not conscious. The power of this group is that you have as many people as are here, who want you to be real, and who are pushing for you to be real, and who will not accept the false defense system, and push you into where the limiting decision will come out and you will find the truth. You will find out whether it’s really true or not. And it always turns out to not be true. That’s the power of this work. Limiting decisions are never true. When we push past your defense systems, which is what’s happening right now, and into the vulnerable emotions, where you are at the center of attention in your vulnerability, you find that it is a positive thing, not a negative thing, and that people have a positive response to you, not a negative response to you. It allows people to love you. And that happened to some degree for you last time at the very end, which is what you were referring to.
And that’s what happened to Anita. When people reveal where they’re really at, where they think something negative is going to happen, what actually happens is it makes them accessible to other people — for them to love you. Whereas in your original situation, the response you may have gotten was the opposite, in which case you made a limiting decision about what happens when you’re real and vulnerable.
But that’s not in accordance to reality. When you’re out in the world, you tend to attract people who interlock with your structure. You recognize people as potential people to be involved with who are similar to people in your past, which you made your limiting decisions in relation to. And so they will most likely respond the negative way you expect them to respond. Whereas you did not choose the people in this group. These are not people that interlock with your defense system. And therefore, you’re going to get a different response, and you’re going to find out reality is different when you don’t actively, on an unconscious level, choose people to prove your limiting decisions are true. This is an experiential situation. It’s like a little community or microcosm, in which you’ve got a different world perspective, different people responding to you, and holding in place a different reality than what you’ve previously believed. It helps to shift the internal reality that you’ve been holding in place.”
