Conviction (Part 2 of 4)

All right. All right. Thank you for your chatting! Thank you. One moment. You then back there. See you again, be with you. I didn't with you anyway. I had a couple of questions. All right. Last night I had a dream about being here with me tonight, and I dreamed that we were in a house, and he had these three black voodoo dolls, and he asked me to use them on him. used them on him and he said they were very hard to find. He couldn't find it anymore. They were very rare. And I said, no way, I'm not going to use those on you. And he said, well, I'm going to leave. So, um, I was wondering if you could give me a little, I know it was probably some path I put seeing you. In what way? Were you expected to use them? Sexually. Somehow used them sexually. I don't even know. But I got a feeling it was the Orion connection. Is that? To some degree, yes. Yes. And can you give me an idea of what the Buddha dolls represent? First of all, understand again the exemplification of the triad. There is some connection to the idea of the translation of that Orion energy through what you have called upon your planet the idea of magic, what we have discussed. You follow me? I sure do. In this way, allow for now, Steven, to explain at another time some of the idea of the connections we have discussed in that. way and simply know that you are forming an opportunity within that symbolic dream to know that you are beginning to translate the energy from that area through into another set of manifested symbols that represent more the positive affirmation of the planet you are now on. You follow me. I have another question. I've been doing a lot of family work. Nice. And for the last few weeks, I've been doing a lot of family work. weeks, up in the upper left-man part of my head, it feels like there's... It is an activation of a pressure point. You are feeling a flow of energy shifting. You are feeling a glandular and a neuronic shift. Is the pineal? No. Neuronic shift as a nerve? Yes. So it's not like a plague. No. No. No. I don't know if you can tell that the other night I was received a lot of information and I can't remember anything other than the date April 7th. Can you give me any more information on this? Simply in this way you will find that what we have called the timeframe of your 4th of April to the 11th of April in this way and the idea of 7 in the middle, 4, 7, 11.

don't know if you can tell that the other night I was received a lot of information and I can't remember anything other than the date April 7th. Can you give me any more information on this? Simply in this way you will find that what we have called the timeframe of your 4th of April to the 11th of April in this way and the idea of 7 in the middle, 4, 7, 11. In this way, the 4th month, 4th day, 4th, 4th month, 7th day, and in this way 4th month 11th day, the combination of the 4 in the way and the 7 in that sense, in that sense is simply an exemplification of high degree of activity of many different consciousnesses surrounding your planet and interacting with your planet on energy ways. You follow me. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes? Thank you. I don't know where to begin on this, but I... You kind of begin in the same place? That she did earlier. Whatever you want to. Basically, I would screen pretty much everything everybody's been talking about here. Nice. And reflecting on it. And my... All right, all right, all right, all right. What? Now, first of all, allow yourself to begin to recognize the idea that you are being given an opportunity, let us say, to tinker with, the opportunity to view your own female energy within yourself and to find them to already be married within you. You follow me? And in this way, recognize that when you allow the service that has been provided by you, by the other consciousness to be performed, it may not be necessary for the full fruition physically of the consciousness. You follow me. However, the opportunity can go both ways. For recognize this. Agreements that you have made have the potential for being interacted both in a non-physical and a physical way because this is the transformational life and though you may wish to interact with those other consciousnesses in a non-physical way, you also have the opportunity to want to share the transformation with them physically. As your associates in life. You follow me. As my associates are my. Nice. They have been associates in this way before, including the one you now have. Even though you in that sense may be doing the mothering, they have been equal to you many times in the same way, and in that sense you may find that you are on your own terms, bringing through, well now, this is only an analogy, but you are bringing through your own crew. You follow me? All right, now it does not have to be that way.

before, including the one you now have. Even though you in that sense may be doing the mothering, they have been equal to you many times in the same way, and in that sense you may find that you are on your own terms, bringing through, well now, this is only an analogy, but you are bringing through your own crew. You follow me? All right, now it does not have to be that way. First of all, recognize that the offering being offered to you at this time by the situation you have co-created with that entity is to simply first and foremost allow yourself to know that you are dealing with the blending yet again another phase of the idea of the marriage of the masculine and feminine energy within yourself. All right. And an assimilation of the polarities that are connected to many other lives and many other dimensions of experience. It is all part and parcel of what you chose in this way. Relax in a loving manner into the situation and the condition that you have co-created, for always once again, it all serves your purposes and recognize that no matter in what way, in what manner you choose to exemplify and bring it to fruition, it will always be the right way. You will not have regrets if you will know that you are always living in the moment. You follow me. For a regret is only a connection to a past you do not prefer. Right. But you are a judging, and that creates regret. If only, what if? If only, what if? If only, what if? All of that is illusion. All that is is is simply what is. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Two things. Number one, the idea of pain and you said that people have sinus pain, which I feel right now, and the heart palpitations. Okay, and you said that could be because of the earth energy. Now, but then you also said that pain is, what I thought you said anyway, that pain is caused by the conflict that when we don't allow our association. Separation. Okay. So is that still, then the pain that's caused with the sinus thing and the heart palpitations because of the earth shift, is that the same thing? Separation that causes the pain? causes the pain? Yes. It is nudging you to feel the separations you are making, still, in this way. Not that you are still doing it so much, but simply that you may be creating remnants for yourself. And it is simply allowing you to assimilate them at a rate that is comfortable. Okay, so we don't need to, like, I don't, I don't, for instance, I've felt the... For you, for you, for you. The sinus activity is also an indication of your expertise. of harmonic resonance, for that is your resonating cavity. Okay.

that you are still doing it so much, but simply that you may be creating remnants for yourself. And it is simply allowing you to assimilate them at a rate that is comfortable. Okay, so we don't need to, like, I don't, I don't, for instance, I've felt the... For you, for you, for you. The sinus activity is also an indication of your expertise. of harmonic resonance, for that is your resonating cavity. Okay. In this way, you are beginning to break through your own veils in that way, and simply are exploring caves you have not yet explored. And in that sense, finding that as you enter each and every cave of a different size and a different shape, as you make your own tonality, the cave will echo back to you the tonality of its reflection of the idea you have shared. And as you continue to explore this idea, this idea, you will find that you will bring to bear the harmonic resonance and synchronicity of all the different caves you are exploring in that way. It is simply an idea that may have a little bit of separation within it only because, for you, it is still, in your eyes, new. Oh, I see. All right. Okay. Okay, great. That's number one. Number two is, I had a dream yet, and it wasn't separated from this dream, okay, right now. Yes. Okay. way I feel that I can talk about it is to share it in a way that separated, even though truth is my experience in the dream, was the purpose of the dream was to say that, well, anyway, what my experience was, was that I was totally conscious in the dream as I'm conscious now, and that there was no separation, and that was the message of the dream, and that is the way. Well, thank you! So when I woke up, I didn't feel like I had a dream, it was like a continuation of my life. My life. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you. I have been accompanying you. Yes, thank you. Yes. Yes. It's sound. Sounds wonderful. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yes. I'm interested in the first question and answer of this evening about the shocking incidents. Yes. Are you allowed to tell me if that would be part of my experience? We perceive that that does exist within you, and we perceive that there's a great capacity, capacity, capacitor, capacity, to store the type of energy that can electrically, automatically, very quickly, rewire, rewire your entire brain. Now, toying for a moment with that portion of your capacity, can you for now, imagine a mirror, but a mirror that mirror that you can you can pass through through. Yes. All right. See that mirror, step through that mirror, look to the other side and see the same reflection but changed.

great capacity, capacity, capacitor, capacity, to store the type of energy that can electrically, automatically, very quickly, rewire, rewire your entire brain. Now, toying for a moment with that portion of your capacity, can you for now, imagine a mirror, but a mirror that mirror that you can you can pass through through. Yes. All right. See that mirror, step through that mirror, look to the other side and see the same reflection but changed. What do you see that is different on this side of the mirror than what you saw on the beginning side of the mirror before you step through it? Well, I body and will as an ability to see path, future, and others have... Ah, thank you. have enough. In this way, understand that what you are creating for yourself is a recognition, a conscious recognition of yourself as a holographic creation. You follow me? The explosion of your capacity, of your electromagnetic capacity, can allow you, once you have, let us say, lay down the pattern of the holographic reality you are describing, to create yourself in a sense to be what we have called a flash matrix. That is that you are enabled to function as a capacitor that once you have laid out the schematic of the holographic reality you wish to experience, you can then flash and activate it, granting it life and solidity and experience and experience that dimensionality in that moment, in a flashpoint perspective. You follow me. Right. It can or it can flicker. It is up to you. It depends upon the instructions you lay out in the original template. Okay. That was a very nice answer. Thank you. I have one more. All right. I'm also a little bit confused about this idea of following your heart or... Your intuition, your excitement? Yes. Simply what we are saying is that what you call excitement is the physiological translation of the vibration that represents the path you chose to be. Okay, now I'm doing a few things presently in my life that are bringing me a great deal of stress. All right. I think on the one hand, I go, okay, this is what my soul wants me to experience. Why? So I better push myself to it. Why would your soul want you to suffer? I don't know. Well, it doesn't. On the other hand, I'd say I'd really like to walk away from all of you. But understand, it is not that you have to view it as walking away from anything, but walking to what is the vibration that represents what you know yourself to be. In other words, it's like, I'd say, okay, even though there is some suffering here, that's not really the point. Recognize that very often, the point of choosing to create suffering is to know that you don't need to have that. Thank you. Thank you.

understand, it is not that you have to view it as walking away from anything, but walking to what is the vibration that represents what you know yourself to be. In other words, it's like, I'd say, okay, even though there is some suffering here, that's not really the point. Recognize that very often, the point of choosing to create suffering is to know that you don't need to have that. Thank you. Thank you. Understand, as we have said, you did not have to do anything to deserve to exist. You do not have to continue to do anything. to deserve to continue to exist. Do what excite you. For what excites you is a reflection of the vibration of the path you chose to be. And that excitement, the feeling of that excitement, is being in synchronous harmony with your soul. That is what excitement is. Thank you. For sure. You. Then you. Guys. Okay. Okay. Um, several things. First, a question about some pain that I've had in my... No, that second. What else? Other physical pains? Other physical pain. What else? Um, I've had poor venous circulation for a long, long time in my legs. What else? And more recently, in the last two weeks, I've had pain in my lower back. What? We are waiting for you to stop saying the same thing in many different ways. Okay. Um, can we stop now? It is up to you. Okay. What else? Um, there have been some changes in my nostrils and my breathing. All right. How does it allow you to feel? The breathing? Yes. Um, I feel some disturbances there. What do you mean disturbances? Changes to... All right? Something uncomfortable. Uncomfortable? Yes. Is change uncomfortable to you? Why? Do you do me a favor? Right. Yes, no, maybe? Yes. Oh, all right. This is up to you. You don't have to. Right. Will you sit up straight? Will you take your arms and do this? Now will you do this? Now will you do this? Including the breath. Again! One more time. Oh, will you do this? Will you do this? Now, will you do this? Now! I will say a word, will you say the first thing that comes into your mind without thinking. Conviction. Don't think. One pointed. Very good. Trust. Faith. Faith. very good. Life. Live it. All right. Choice. Shoes. All right. Shoes. All right. Get rid of it. Thank you very much. You cannot get rid of anything. There is nowhere to get rid of anything, too. You follow me. You are your own universe. There is nothing outside of you. You cannot get rid of any portion of yourself. Trying to get rid of portions of yourself is what causes you to push those portions against the wall of your universe because there is no outside.

All right. Get rid of it. Thank you very much. You cannot get rid of anything. There is nowhere to get rid of anything, too. You follow me. You are your own universe. There is nothing outside of you. You cannot get rid of any portion of yourself. Trying to get rid of portions of yourself is what causes you to push those portions against the wall of your universe because there is no outside. In pushing against those portions, attempting to get rid of them, you are impacting them with more energy than they need to have. And you are loading the spring by pushing them against the wall that causes them to be able to overpower your push and spring back upon you and disassemble and shatter you in all the different areas that they hit. Shrapnel throughout your body. Psychic shrapnel. You follow me. You follow me. You are shattered in so many areas of your body from psychic shrapnel, attempting to get rid of something and pushing against it when it has nowhere to go until it explodes in front of you and peppers you with psychic shrapnel. You follow me. All of the different physiological pain you are experiencing is from the same explosion. They are not different. They are not unconnected. It is all one idea. having fear and thinking that you need to get rid of it rather than live through it. You follow me. Are you following any of this? Yes. All right. Now. Not all the business without the exploding. All right. View the idea that you are your own universe, yes? I'm creating my own life, yes. You are your own universe. Completely, totally, 100%. Allow me to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. How do you know? How do you know that you are not creating everyone else you see in the room? How do you know? How do I know that I'm not creating... Yes. Or do you know that you are creating everyone that you see? Your version of them? I... Yeah, I think that I do. Alright. Then recognize that everything you are seeing is your version of that idea. Not so much the actual thing. There really is no such thing as an actual thing. You follow me. All that you perceive is a reference point from an interactional idea with other ideas that you have created to be separate from yourself. In other words, You are, all that is, you create the idea that there is something else and then form an interaction with it that creates what you perceive to be the objective universe. You follow me? No. All right. Let us begin with the idea that you exist. Do you exist? Yes. Are you sure now? I want to start out on the right foot. Are you sure you exist? Yeah. No, thank you. You do.

words, You are, all that is, you create the idea that there is something else and then form an interaction with it that creates what you perceive to be the objective universe. You follow me? No. All right. Let us begin with the idea that you exist. Do you exist? Yes. Are you sure now? I want to start out on the right foot. Are you sure you exist? Yeah. No, thank you. You do. Now, recognize, however, that there is only one person to whom you can prove you exist, and that is you. You follow me. You cannot prove to anyone else that you exist, for you do not know that if you are sitting there convincing someone else that you exist and they are nodding their head very obediently that you are not looking at a hallucination. There is no way to know that you are actually talking to anyone else, really. You follow me. You can only know. prove to yourself that you exist. Do you follow me? Yes. Are you sure? Yes. All right. Then recognize that that inner of itself means that you are, in a sense, the only one in the universe. Now this is true for everyone. Don't panic. You are both. One thing, one idea, one all that is, and you are also everything. So in this way, you always have both ideas. It is always the polarity. However, for the purpose of this conversation, simply understand that you are creating everything, you are perceiving. You are interacting with other consciousness in a sense and creating your own version of all these other people, creating for yourself an image to which you can relate. You follow me. It is a projection. Let us say, upon a 360 degrees, spherical screen around you. You are the projector. Your personality, in that sense, is the prism, the lens, through which the white light of your knowingness projects through the prism and fractionates into the seeming separate images that you perceive up, down, sideways, below you all around you. It is a projection on the inside of a 360-degree spherical screen. It is an illusion. It is your version of the consciousness with whom you are in contact. contact. You follow me. It is as if every being was surrounded by this little globe and did not actually see each other directly, but only received messages that each other existed, and then they are forced to project an image on their 360-degree screen about what they think the other person they are talking to looks like. You follow me? You follow me? No. Keep it simple. Use the analogy in this way that I am suggesting. that I am suggesting. You cannot know the idea of existence except for yourself. What seems to do you have the idea, do you understand the idea that you are energy? Yes. You know that matter is energy, energy is matter. Yes? Yes. All right.

think the other person they are talking to looks like. You follow me? You follow me? No. Keep it simple. Use the analogy in this way that I am suggesting. that I am suggesting. You cannot know the idea of existence except for yourself. What seems to do you have the idea, do you understand the idea that you are energy? Yes. You know that matter is energy, energy is matter. Yes? Yes. All right. Understand, therefore, that matter, if you wish to look at it, is only solidified energy. Yes. Yes. All right. Now understand that your senses are not perceiving an actual world. They are creating it. You follow me. What you perceive as the arrangement of energy and matter in your world is what you choose to create, what you choose to filter. Now understand, perhaps what may be confusing you is the idea that there seems to be the agreement and that is all there is, in that you are making a, let us say, non-physical agreement with all the other consciousnesses to project a similar picture on the inside of their screens so that you can share something in common. You follow me. But understand that every person's projection is not identical to yours. Literally is not the same reality. In other words, you will find that, let us say, you are sitting on what you call a chair. You have your own version of creating the concept that you are sitting on a chair. Since you know, as an energy being, time and space are your own illusions. You are projecting yourself into an illusionary dimension you call physical reality. And you are creating the concept that you are at rest. And in symbolic identification, you are patterning the idea of, here is a symbol to show that my symbolic physical form is symbol symbolically at rest by sitting in a symbolic chair. You follow me. It is all an illusion. You follow me? I lost you for long time. Why did you not say so? I did, but you didn't hear me. All right. Now, pay attention. You are not lost at all. Simply, you are encountering the unexpected. Understand that we have established with you that from many different points you do have you do have an understanding of the, let us say, transcendental, transient nature of your existence. Are you, by nature, are you, let us say, fundamentally, a physical or a non-physical being? Are you a soul or are you only your physical body? What is your perception on that? You have not thought about this? Of course I thought about that. Well, what is your perception? I'm first of all, soul. All right. What is the soul to you? All right, your essence, will that do as a definition? Yes. All right. Now, is your soul something that is, let us say, basically physical or non-physical to you? All right.

soul or are you only your physical body? What is your perception on that? You have not thought about this? Of course I thought about that. Well, what is your perception? I'm first of all, soul. All right. What is the soul to you? All right, your essence, will that do as a definition? Yes. All right. Now, is your soul something that is, let us say, basically physical or non-physical to you? All right. Then you have the concept that if you were to exist just as a soul without a physical form, you could do that. Yes? All right. Then understand that the idea simply is, if you wish to take it another step further, is not so much literally that a soul projects itself into a physical universe that is already there. It is that the soul is the creator of the physical universe as it chooses to project itself into that idea. You follow me. Your physical body is a reflection of the soul in physical terms. It is not so much truly that a soul inhabits a body, although that is the illusion that has been created. It is more simply that your body is a reflection of the soul in physical terms, not necessarily that your soul has hands and feet, but simply that it is exemplifying itself in whatever manner represents the essence of the soul and its ability to do things, to create things, which in physical reality requires the idea of what you have created to be hands and so forth. Now, if you can understand the idea that as a non-futable, physical entity to begin with, you are the creator of all that you experience literally, then you can understand that physical reality is only an expression of the imagination of the soul. Does that make sense? Yes. All right. Then understand in that way that all we are saying is that anything you are experiencing in a physical reality, is in a sense a product of the imagination that you possess. And in this way, you can know that your physical reality, any physical reality you experience, is a product of that imagination. Whatever you imagine your physical reality to be will be what you experience as a physical being. You follow me? It is from your belief system what you believe the reality to be. That is what creates what you experience. in life. Now, if you find that you are having an experience in physical reality that you do not prefer, then simply recognize that what you are experiencing is from the product of the belief system that simply says, I believe that this is the most likely reality I can experience for whatever reason.

me? It is from your belief system what you believe the reality to be. That is what creates what you experience. in life. Now, if you find that you are having an experience in physical reality that you do not prefer, then simply recognize that what you are experiencing is from the product of the belief system that simply says, I believe that this is the most likely reality I can experience for whatever reason. Now, the idea of having a fear, a fear that something can happen, a fear that something can happen, a fear that an idea is more likely to happen than any other idea is the same thing as saying you believe that that is the most likely reality you will experience. And of course, as you say in one of your languages, wall-off, there it is. You always manifest what you believe your reality to be about. Even if it is not a reality you enjoy, even if it is not a reality you want, you can manifest a reality that you do not prefer simply by believing a reality you enjoy. believing and or fearing, same thing, that that reality has more potential to become real than the one you desire. It is only out of the habit of believing so in what you call your unconsciousness that allows you to create and attract situations within your body, within your reality that you do not prefer. But recognize simply in this way that it is all your creation. Ultimately, you are choosing to believe that that has to be the way it is in that sense. And if you know that you are making that choice, if you know you are creating your reality literally, then you can know that the choice you have made is equal to any other choice you could make. And you can simply, therefore, all choices being equal, now prefer to experience the one you would rather have. Not judging the others you do not prefer, not invalidating them for all the experiences you have created, have created, have gotten you where you are, and therefore you can love them, and they have been of service to you, and you do not need to judge them. And paradoxically, by not judging them, that is what will allow you to choose the reality you do wish to experience, and have only that manifestation in your life. What we are saying and what we said before is simply the idea that as you project yourself into physical materiality, as you create yourself to be this so-called physical being, as you create yourself to be this so-called physical being, as you create a all the different levels of separation within that physical being that you call a consciousness and unconsciousness, a subconsciousness, all of these being arbitrary divisions in this way. Recognize that your soul is one unbroken wholeness, yes?

said before is simply the idea that as you project yourself into physical materiality, as you create yourself to be this so-called physical being, as you create yourself to be this so-called physical being, as you create a all the different levels of separation within that physical being that you call a consciousness and unconsciousness, a subconsciousness, all of these being arbitrary divisions in this way. Recognize that your soul is one unbroken wholeness, yes? All right, therefore recognize any so-called divisions that you perceive in physical life are arbitrary illusions imposed upon the idea of your physical being to serve a purpose. Now, as you find in this way that you are one wholly contained idea, that has many divisions, you can recognize that as the soul has created you, it has created you to be exactly within the parameters that are defined. Therefore, anything that is contained within you cannot step outside of the being that you are in that way. And an attempt to get rid of something you don't like is actually a reinforcement of that idea because you are placing more energy in it than you need to give it. because you are not letting what you are trying to get rid of be equal to anything else within you and give yourself the opportunity to choose what you prefer you follow me now the idea of fear all right let us say you have fear so what it is simply one choice out of many so acknowledge it say all right obviously i am creating my reality obviously i am choosing to feel fear if you know So it is a conscious choice, if you make it a conscious choice to have created the fear, it will automatically be under your control again. And the second it is under your control, poof, no fear. Because you know that if it is simply under your control and it is one of the choices you made out of many choices you could make, you will simply say, oh, I chose it to serve me, obviously, it showed me something, all right. All right. Now that I know I can choose that whenever I want to, I also know I can choose anything else. So fear, thank you for doing your job and letting me know that I might prefer some other form of life style. I will now allow you to re-assimilate within me, having done your job so well, and I will now choose another way to view myself and therefore automatically another way to live my life without fear, without pain. not saying that I will not allow the idea of pain to exist within my potential reality if I choose to need it, but I simply know that I no longer need the idea of pain to allow me to see what ideas in my life I have chosen to experience.

well, and I will now choose another way to view myself and therefore automatically another way to live my life without fear, without pain. not saying that I will not allow the idea of pain to exist within my potential reality if I choose to need it, but I simply know that I no longer need the idea of pain to allow me to see what ideas in my life I have chosen to experience. Now that I am no longer invalidating what occurs in my life because I know I have chosen to create it, because I know there are no such things as interruptions in my life because I am not so much on a path in life, I am the path in life, and I cannot be off myself. Therefore, in this way, anything I encounter on the path that I am must be serving my purpose, my higher self-purpose, to know myself, to assimilate, to integrate, and to become asynchronous harmony with my soul being so that I know that it is my right to live in physical reality in the same manner and methodology. as my soul exists, and that is constantly, continuously, and creatively within a state of complete and total ecstasy and unconditional love. For myself as well as for all that is. You follow me. How do you feel? How do you feel? I'll be fine. You are fine. You are fine. Why, you can, but why choose to assume that the fineness that you are now must take place at some point in the future? I will be fine. If you are willing to allow yourself to know you are fine right now, then you will allow whatever seemingly negative manifestation you have chosen to experience to flow through you and integrate and disperse. For anything that you choose, if you allow it to serve its purpose, will not stay in the same shape in which it delivered the original message. If you allow something to serve its purpose, it will then be able to transform into something else. Understand, you do not have to make anything change. You allow things to change. Change is the only constant in the universe. You only make things stay the same. Allow the change to come in by acknowledging everything in your life to be what you want to experience. want to experience. All the physical pain you have experienced in your life is what has gotten you to the point where you are now realizing you don't need to learn by experiencing pain any longer. You are tired of it. You follow me. It has served you. Let it have served you. The second you let it have served you instead of trying to get rid of it, that is when you don't feel it anymore, and you don't need to feel it anymore.

in your life is what has gotten you to the point where you are now realizing you don't need to learn by experiencing pain any longer. You are tired of it. You follow me. It has served you. Let it have served you. The second you let it have served you instead of trying to get rid of it, that is when you don't feel it anymore, and you don't need to feel it anymore. You create positive manifestation in your life by approaching your life through the idea of paradox, allowing yourself to know that whatever it is you don't want to experience, allow it to be all right to experience it equal to anything. And then you won't have to experience it, because everything, once it is equal in your eyes, will be able to allow you to choose what you want to experience clearly you follow me. Thank you very much for your loving sharing. You may all take a short break.