Emotional Defense Systems Keep People from Evolving
Transcript Excerpt of Jane’s Teachings
during the “Shifting into Your New Consciousness” group 10-1-09
(Participant’s name is changed to protect her privacy.)
(During a discussion Melanie was saying she never learned how to respond with her vulnerable emotions.)
(To Melanie) “If you were not blocking being affected by someone’s vulnerable emotions, and having your own vulnerable emotions respond, you would naturally respond with your emotions. It’s not something you have to learn how to do. You are actively, on an unconscious level, blocking it. If you weren’t blocking it, it would happen.
I’m not saying you’re bad or wrong. I’m helping you get a sense of something that could cause an amazing transformation, that would allow you to have intimate, emotional relationships with men and women. I gather that relationships with people is very important to you. And so this is a process for you to get so you can actually do that. So rather than seeing this as you’re bad or you’re wrong, it is that you revealed where you are at, and I’m working with you to push you beyond that, so we can get you to the other side. You are too identified with your defense system as your value. And that is leaving behind your real value. I’m moving past your defense systems to the gold that is you, underneath the defense systems. That’s what I’m after. I’m not after making you feel bad or wrong. I’m after the real you that’s hiding behind the defense system. The problem is the defense systems keep you from evolving as a soul. And so as your desire to evolve as a soul gets stronger and stronger, the defense system gets more and more in the way, and so it gives you more and more impetus to get through the defense system. And getting through the defense system can feel like jumping off a cliff.
And on top of that there’s a large evolutionary force at play, other than each of our individual lives. This world is shifting, with the whole economic turmoil and whatever else may be raining down. People cannot remain comfortable in their defense systems any more. It’s time for major, major change. So if it’s not going to come internally, it’s going to come externally, because things have to shift and change, and so that’s part of what’s happening. People’s defense systems, even the really effective ones, are not going to continue to work. That’s a big shock for a lot of people. And a lot of people who have gotten away with feeling very normal as they are following all of the different rules — having their stocks in the stock market, and all of the different things you’re supposed to do to do well in the world. For a safe citizen following all of the rules, it’s a huge shock when those institutions are falling apart, because they’re having to make changes. And you could say people who have been struggling all of this time are not having as much difficulty as people who haven’t been, and now have to start changing.”
