Neale Talks About The Tool of Tools...

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May 05, 2023
My dear friends...
In What God Wants , we are told about "the Tool of Tools," a two-layer
mechanism for dealing with life that can change everything in your
personal experience overnight.
The Tool of Tools is a two-step process bringing an individual to a place

of mastery. It all has to do with how a person handles her or his feelings.
What God Wants tells us that "The first level of mastery is to

consciously decide how you choose to feel about a certain thing. The
second level of mastery is to consciously decide how you choose to
express any feeling you are having, whether you chose that feeling
deliberately or not."
The point that What God Wants seeks to make, perhaps more forcefully
and more explicitly than any of the other CwG books, is that feelings and
emotions are two entirely different things--and that both can be
controlled.
Many people--perhaps most--go through their lives believing and

experiencing that feelings are things that simply come over them. They
are, basically, reactions to the events around us. In the minds of most
people, feelings and emotions are pretty much the same thing. What God
Wants , however, tells us that a feeling "is simply a thought that you hold
about something."
An emotion, on the other hand, is "an eruption, an emergence, an

expressing of that thought in a particular way."
Emotions make thoughts real by putting them into action. Emotions are
"out-picturings" in physicality of an inner idea that exists only in the non-
physical. Emotion is energy in motion (e + motion). It is what you do with
the feelings you have .
Often we "display our emotions." That is, the body does stuff (we jump
for joy!) which telegraphs to the world what we are feeling. There's a very
soft difference here, I know. To me it seems that an "emotion" is what our
mind then tells the body to do about what we feel. We "feel" a thing, and
then get "all emotional." That is, full of Energy in Motion.
Feelings are always true. Emotions can sometimes be deceiving. A

person standing across the street, watching another person cry, has no
idea what's going on. He does not know what the second person is
feeling (it could be sadness, relief, or joy), only that the second person is
being "very emotional about it." So feelings are our deepest truth.
Emotions are the mental and physical manifestations of feelings after
the mind gets through with its endless (and rapid) analysis of them.
The mind doesn't know a darn thing about feelings. Only the heart does.
The mind thinks it knows, of course, and so comes up with all sorts of
responses. Some of them are actually in accordance with our true
feelings. Some are not.
At moments of great decision and choice in our lives, it would benefit

us to therefore go deep inside and look at our True Feelings. Therein is
our truth--not in our Emotions.
Now the wonderful news here is that we can go past simply looking at
our true feelings. We can decide ahead of time what we want them to be.
This is difficult for many people to believe, but this is exactly what
masters do. It is the first level of mastery.
What God Wants makes the point that there are really very few things
that we are experiencing for the first time. Very few situations are really
first-time situations. Most moments in our lives are replays of moments
we have experienced before. The astute student of life sees this--and
understands the power that this give us.
If we do not like the way we reacted that last time a particular situation
occurred, we can now decide ahead of time how we are going to react
the next time something similar to it happens. This takes a lot of mental
discipline, but it can be done.
May I offer one example? I have a lot of trouble with patience in my life.
It is apparently a lesson I have brought myself to this lifetime to learn.
And many times in my life, when I have lost my patience I have said or
done things that I wish, later, that I'd not said or done.
Now, I have learned how to notice when I am losing my patience. And I

have made a decision ahead of time that the next time I lose my
patience I am not going to act as I have often acted before. This is
called, in the truest sense of the word, reacting. It is a re-enactment of
what I did the last time I was at this place.
Deciding ahead of time how I am going to feel the next time I begin to
experience my patience being tested has made a huge difference to me
in my life. I have got a long way to go on this one before I can announce
that I've got it licked, but I also want to give myself high marks for
making very good progress. And that is just a small example of what I
mean when I talk about picking out a feeling ahead of time. Now, when I
see a situation arising that would ordinarily begin to try my patience, I
choose quite deliberately to feel peaceful and calm. And a surprising
amount of the time, it works!
The second step to mastery is learning to control our emotions. That

is, the out-picturing of whatever it is that we are feeling. I have learned
how to out-picture anger in a much better way than I used to. There are
things that I simply no longer choose to put into physicality, even though
I may be angry.
Learning to "come from choice" in the experiencing and expressing of

feelings and emotions is the stuff that mastery is made of. I hope you
will have a chance to read the section of What God Wants that is devoted
to this.
Because it is time now for all of us to make our move toward mastery.
We cannot wait much longer. The world requires a new level of
understanding and expression of what it means to be human if we are to
find peace and harmony in our time.
This is a critical moment for our species, individually and collectively.

We cannot continue to interact with each other and with the world as we
have been. Our behaviors must change--and mastery of our feelings and
emotions is at the heart of that challenge.

With Pure Love,
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The Conversations with God

The Tool of Tools is a two-step process bringing an individual to a place

What God Wants tells us that "The first level of mastery is to

Many people--perhaps most--go through their lives believing and

An emotion, on the other hand, is "an eruption, an emergence, an

Feelings are always true. Emotions can sometimes be deceiving. A

At moments of great decision and choice in our lives, it would benefit

Now, I have learned how to notice when I am losing my patience. And I

The second step to mastery is learning to control our emotions. That

Learning to "come from choice" in the experiencing and expressing of

This is a critical moment for our species, individually and collectively.

With Pure Love,

Read this week's Letter to Neale here

Read a message from one of the prisoners impacted by our Prison

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