When Your Diamond Shines, You Draw In What You Need
The Following is a Trance by Betty Bethards Recorded at Asilomar, 1987
As you look at a diamond and see the beauty and the colors that shine forth from the diamond, realize that each of you is this pure diamond. The light that is emitted from within you shines out to all people. This is why, as you walk your path, if your diamond, your light, is shining clearly you will draw to you always exactly what is needed to help you advance to a higher precipice. Every seven years the diamond is turned and a new facet is worked on. Any remaining residue in the rest of the diamond will have to also be cleaned up so that it will shine. If you see three-fourths of the diamond blacked out, as if in black ink, what you are seeing is the unknown, the unknown beauty. Look how it cuts the light when it is blackened out.
Your purpose in each incarnation is to work on each facet every seven years: shining and cleaning it until the light bursts through and emits nothing but clarity and purity to you. You see why it takes a number of lifetimes in order to accomplish this. There is so much to be learned. You are so ignorant when it comes to seeing your beauty. You keep it blanked out from yourself. Yet others feel it, others can see it. Stop condemning, judging, and criticizing yourself; take the time to look and search, daily, for how you can best improve the light in the facet on which you are now working.
The excitement comes as you realize that as you walk your path you are leading to you other people who are walking the same path. As you share in your growth and in your lessons you are both teaching each another. It’s through the interchange of ideas, how to do things, how not to, discussing what you have learned and, if that person is interested, that you can make your trip easier on the way to your masterhood.
What you have to learn to do is to take the time to set aside your busy mind and give yourself permission to just sit there, looking at the beauty of the diamond that’s within. Look at what you’re working on, see how you can best shine it up and polish it.
Any of you that were in the military, or in any organization where you had to spit-polish boots, you will remember how rubbing, working on it and tending to it was a daily job. Those boots didn’t just shine unless you attended to them daily. This is where meditation on a daily basis is going to help you to look at and remember to see all of the beauty that’s going on in and around you. Anything disturbing – change it! Change it within yourself. You don’t have to change the outer; you only need change the inner for as you change within, the outer naturally has to change.
If you’re one who is forever helping others and you spend your time and energy dealing with their problems, then your diamond stays dark. You’re not opening your light, and you forget you can’t do it all for them. All you’re giving them is your energy for them to stay the same, rather than giving them the tools to work with so that they can find their own way out in their time and in their own way. The exciting thing is that each of you has different talents, skills and tools in which to share with one another.
In order to concentrate, feel energy and send energy forth in a directed manner, you have to calm and heal the mental part of yourself. In addition, you have to discipline your physical part. Many people, when doing visualizations, if you tell them to see something or feel it, their mind goes off to other things. This can also happen in your meditation. Gently bring the mind back and tell it, “No, this is what we want to focus on; this is what we want in order to get insight and direction on….. whatever.”
The scattered mind is like the wind scattering seeds. The seeds blow about, and where they land, no one knows. They could land on rocky soil, on sand or it could be on cement. When you direct and place the seed exactly where you want it, you cover it with soil, you water it, care for it and you weed it. This is your garden. This is what you are doing for yourself. You are telling the mind, the body, and the spirit what you expect of it, and you’re doing it with love. Any time it becomes undisciplined you’re there to listen to it, monitor it, and pull it gently back to the task at hand. This is a full time job.
When you get involved with un-wrapping the diamond of your soul you realize that you don’t have time to go out and to tell others how to live their lives. This gets the greatest results because as your light shines, you draw people in who say, “How are you doing that? How can I do that?” It’s then that you can give them the tools. You are not to go and plant their seed and water their crop and weed it and be responsible for how they grow. You are only responsible for your own garden and you can take joy in seeing the love that comes forth from it.
As you do your lessons with joy, rather than saying, “Oh, dear! Here I have to go again!” you’ll find that by working on un-wrapping your diamond that it changes your energy and you’re able to get through things easily and effortlessly. This is how you stay healthy. If you see something as hard or painful or bad, that it shall be. What the mind creates will be. Change the thinking. Monitor your thoughts daily. Create life to be fun and joyful. Change your thinking to how wonderful it is to have these beautiful teachers come into your life to jam buttons to see if you react. Judge no man, except yourself. Treat yourself with love and tend to your crops. What you will reap will be beyond your belief. It is so easy to create in your life to be one with God twenty-four hours a day. It’s always there anyway.
It’s just that man forgets and he thinks that he is separate from God. You are all God. Imagine the sun and ribbons coming from the top of your head all going back to the source. You’re not separate from one another. You are no different from one another. You’re just all on different paths. Imagine standing at the top of a mountain and looking down – you would see many people that look like little ants, climbing the mountain. Some are going around and around in circles, others are climbing the steepest precipice. How you get to the top of the mountain matters not, but you all will ultimately reach the top, and from the top you will see the easiest way to have gotten there. It is always within.
If you listen to your inner treasure map, the inner voice that becomes stronger and stronger as you befriend it, you will find that your life can go easy and that you can create anything you want because this is illusion. The earth plane is a place that man chooses to come to see how far he can develop his gifts and express himself, to eliminate fears, guilt, anger, resentments, and most of all judgments of one another. Where everyone is, understand it is perfect for them to be there. Where you are is perfect for you to be, at this time.
As you look at what needs to be changed from the third eye, be gentle with yourself. You are a precious being. You are a child of God. Your motivation and how hard you work on yourself and your tests come from where your energy is. If your energy is low, you’re not going to have the motivation. You can talk the talk, but you cannot walk the walk. The walk takes energy. It takes insight. It takes light.
Daily look at the diamond within yourself. See how much more light is coming through each day, and remember throughout the day to be a loving child of God and to treat God’s other children with love and respect that everyone is due. God will judge. You don’t judge. You love them and you support them. You can take with you the ability to find truth within yourself by looking at your inner diamond. See the diamond again. See it glowing. Now imagine yourself taking the diamond and putting it in the center of your heart. Let this light shine forth to people. It shines out in all directions around you and sends love.
Love is the strongest force in the universe. If you can handle every situation with love, there can be no anger. There can be no disruption. Love yourselves. Love your neighbor and love all those with whom you come in contact each day. If anyone jams a button, bless them for they are a teacher in disguise. You know not when you could pass Jesus himself. Many people are disguised. Watch, listen and change what can be changed within yourself without blame to someone else.
We wish you the very best and we’re with you all the way, cheering you on and encouraging you. We love you. We want you to love you.
God bless you all. Close your hands in a fist, feel the white light around you, and go with God.
Asilomar, 1987
