110. Understanding Personality

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Preparation for 3DI:

Understanding Personality

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

It is a wonderful thing to appreciate our helpers. Who has been with you today, nudging, talking, answering, guiding you?

2. What is the Personality?

The personality is a combination of several Mental, Astral, and genetic entities. The Astral Body is a strong factor in its maintenance and creation. Each lifetime, we get/design a slightly different personality to work with in order to meet certain challenges, accomplish certain assignments, and understand certain karmic lessons.

Ninety-nine percent of the personality resides in the living tissues of your physical body. Your birth place and time, your genetic code, your hormonal tides, all lace together to become what we identify as the personality. It is easy to map out the predictable patterns of a certain personality by using any type of astrology.

Needless to say, your essential self is not your personality. That part of you that is boundless and eternal resides above all that exists here below in the lower realms [Mental, Astral, and physical dimensions]. Imagine that each incarnation is like a board game with its own set of rules. Before you begin the game, you are allowed to pick some advantages and handicaps to increase your skill level. The game Dungeons and Dragons is very similar to this concept, wherein players choose their characters and adopt certain characteristics in order to work within the parameters of the rules.

This is how the personality works for you as well. You have certain karmic talents and disadvantages that aid or hinder your quality of life. How you use the personality to increase the quality of your character and to improve the lives of others is up to you. Your main Soul Ray also plays an important factor in your personality. First your weaknesses and inclinations stand out, and then in successive lifetimes your strengths and values emerge.

The personality is separate from one’s character, which is a permanent and powerful accumulation of wisdom, integrity, consistent behavior, dedication, discipline, and receptivity.

3. Are intelligence, talent, beauty, attractiveness, and health part of the personality? What are other elements of the personality?

Yes. They are blessings of the personality that should be cultivated and given thanks for on a daily basis. These are very useful in a successful life, and are also valuable tools in delivering messages of truth and physical aid to others. It is an irony of this world that the same gift delivered by an attractive and powerful person is perceived to have more value than when delivered by someone who is not. Since we want our good efforts to be well-received and taken to heart, we can use these instruments of personality to be effective.

The personality is a complicated thing, but we can include many familiar parts to it. It is safe to say that anything related to the physical body belongs to the personality.

•Desires and goals are rooted in the P. They sometimes have origins in past lives, where a wish began a series of events culminating in the present lifetime. Whether these are worthy and should be carried through is a different issue. There is always something valuable to learn in any situation, and so it is never a mistake to at least explore the possibilities of succeeding in our dreams. They give us the energy to move forward and the courage to try new things.

•Preferences in food have a two-fold karmic source. One cause is genetic and can be helpful in maintaining a healthy body. The other is emotional or sentimental. This can cause some health challenges as the behavior cues are artificial and not always related to what would benefit the body.

•Entertainment preferences are hormone driven. They are usually selected on the soothing, challenging, stimulating, or inspiring effects that they have on the mind and body. These do not always have a spiritual relationship with soul development, but they are great barometers of emotional and mental strength, and are easily predictable based on western astrological sun signs.

•Physical endurance and exercise preference are genetically planned before incarnation. They determine how easy it is to meet the challenges of daily effort. They teach us the wisdom of living within the boundaries of our physical limitations. They provide us with certain obstacles of resistance in order to bring ourselves to good health levels. They test us to understand the physical weaknesses of others.

•Hormone balances are the most changed from lifetime to lifetime. They calibrate our anger levels, our fear tendencies, our sexual drives, our nurturing impulses, our sleep, our aging, our appearance, and our lifespan. Part of the challenge of each lifetime is to learn to control the hormone levels through diet, exercise, and meditation.

•Pace is the term we use to describe a person’s rate of comprehension, expression, action, and cadence of daily living. As we live and work with people who operate under different paces, we learn patience and tolerance through our bonding with these people.

•Visual and other sensory cues that ring up the attention are genetically motivated from ancient survival instincts. These can be used as helpful aids in everyday living for safety, intuitive reception, and information gathering.

•Instinct is an integral part of the P and must be always remembered as a potent motivator for every action and reaction. A person who is not conscious of the Lymbic system’s influence over our behavior is doomed to be a meat puppet until such time arrives that one can understand that there are choices in life beyond reaction and feeling. Flight, fight, territory, possessiveness, defensiveness, power, nurturing, bonding, hunger, hunting, and desire are all impulses that must be regarded with questioning, logic, and search for higher reasons than automatic response.

4. Can we change the personality?

Yes. Of course, first you must divorce yourself from the notion that you and your personality are one and the same. Your personality is part of you and your life, but you are greater than your personality.

Neurosis belongs to both the identity and the personality. It is always desirable to remove whatever neuroses we become aware of—mostly, because they impair our successful living. A neurosis is a big dark tangle of many strands of wrong beliefs and habits. Affirmations can help to remove one string at a time, and a good therapist can help to identify each one.

The most advantageous use of the personality is not to alter its traits, but to learn to use them in venues that lend you advantage and power.

For instance, if you do not enjoy disciplining children or other people, then make a clear stand within yourself that this is not to be considered a weakness. Instead, make this a policy for your approach to relationships. If someone tries to manipulate or intimidate you into behaving contra to this part of your nature, then stand up for your gift of personality. Be strong in acknowledging your philosophy. This decision will create power in your life and bring more harmony to your career and family.

Another example would be someone who gets enjoyment from picky, detailed types of work. Of course, it is obvious that some career choice such as accounting or engineering would be very compatible with this tendency. A less obvious life choice would be to welcome other less-detailed people to act true to their own traits. Each person functions by their own strengths. In this way, you can shine as the champion of nit-picky-obsessive-compulsive perfection. Everyone can shine forth as a unique personality in your family. It is our defferent talents working together as a team that creates a successful outscome.

It does not necessarily improve the personality to strive to be more outgoing, sexy, studious, creative, etc. Instead, it is safer and more effective to ask yourself whether your life would be more pleasant with any type of change. From there you may take your answer and decide if your alterations should be internal or external. Sometimes the answer lies in the abusive people around you rather than in your own personality.

5. Does the personality have its own Elemental?

Yes. You could say that the archetype for this lifetime’s personality is acted out through the genetic and Etheric embodiment of your physical body and its collective cellular Astral form. Guess what? This is an expression of your Astral Body, which is a many-faceted organism. So, the physical body and its Elemental act out the programming for the personality that the Astral Body has ordained, and which you and your Kindel Archangel have designed for your spiritual advancement and increased personal power.

6. Exercise: My Heart Has Told Me a Secret

•Sitting comfortably so that your body does not distract you, breathe normally.

•Place your hands over your Heart Chakra—your finger tips touching comfortably, pointing down with space between the thumbs and fingers.

•Breathing normally, visualize a stream of golden Light entering your Heart Chakra through your hands. Breathe for ten reps.

•You hear a telephone ringing. Imagine that you are picking up a phone and answering the call. It is a little child who needs to tell you something. What is the message?

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Little child, playing in the snow:

Little child, playing in the flowers:

Little child, playing in the sand:

Little child, playing in the house:

Why are you so serious?

No matter how old you become,

you will never feel grown-up.

The time for playing never stops.

You may think that you are working hard,

but you are really still playing.

To understand this is to learn to enjoy the game.