This is the eleventh session of the ninth series of Lanzarote Sessions, transcribed during a break to the Canary Islands in March 2025. During our frequent visits, I sit in the power of the spirit at least once daily and allow the spirit-connect to share a message with me.
|| This summary written on 20th July 2025 | 126 days after session
I’ve always been a slow learner, a slow developer you might say. I was immature for a long time in my early years, leading to making mistakes and developing a blasé attitude to life and personal responsibilities. My actions were to shape my life and the inevitable outcomes.
MY father used to tell me that a leopard never changes its spots. At the time, I thought that meant I was who I was and made me believe that it was beyond my control. I learnt later that that often mis-quoted phrase has little truth when it comes to a person’s character. Everyone can change who they are. They can change the direction of their life. Every day offers each of us an opportunity to make changes to our direction of life, whether for the good or bad.
People tend to want to blame their situation on circumstances that they feel are beyond their control, “the lot they were dealt“. Although there is some truth in that, they are conveniently forgetting that ‘their lot‘ can be changed, and the only person that can change them are themselves. But first, they need to want to.
I wouldn’t put myself forward as someone with the ability to help individuals change their life. Just because I’ve made many changes over the several decades to how I live and my outlook on life, doesn’t mean the way I did it is how others should. One of my favourite phrases is that to change the way someone is walking, one must first walk in that person’s shoes. That simple phrase has a deeper meaning that so many advisors and counsellors forget. Change is a personal choice and something only that person can do.
First, the individual has to accept that to change their lifestyle, they are going to have to make changes. For me, these changes didn’t happen overnight, rather more like a drip-drip effect over time. The speaker in this session talks of one area that we can all take control of quite easily and make life-changing differences. But as I always say, “ya gotta wanna“!
Often, a trigger point is needed for people to make life-changing decisions. But subtle changes add up and an accumulation of subtle changes mounts up.
THE SPIRIT INSIGHT
transcribed on Saturday, 15th March 2025, at 3:45 pm
Good day to you again. My topic today, is one you’ll be a tad familiar with you at this moment in your time. It is that of over-indulgence.
Yes, I’m aware, by how your body energy is feeling to me, that you’ve done a bit of over-indulgence yourself in the past few days.
But there is more meaning to the phrase than eating and drinking too much. Of course, that is over-indulgence, but the words stretch way beyond those simple pleasures.
There are a great many other words that can be closely connected with over-indulgence. The root of it is greed -a negative emotional state to avoid.
People in your world nowadays appear to obsess with things like food, drink, drugs, assets and possessions, sex and even other people.
Greed is an unpleasant trait for anyone to partake of in no matter what form or manner. Greed is a personality disorder that can, and often does effect the physical, biological and emotional state, not in a good way.
People seem to want everything now and often without waiting and working for it. When someone saves their money, the thing they want becomes more valued and looked after. But when their greed, their over-indulgence rules their decisions, their desires become the least important, whereas then greed drives them to get it, by whatever means they can, immediately. That is over-indulgence at its worst.
Everything on God’s earth has value. The humble lettuce, the loaf of bread, the fresh water, the sunlight and the air. But because these things often appear in abundance, the person’s drive to be greedy, to over-indulge takes hold of their morals and their thoughts on life.
Just because something is available doesn’t mean that you need it. Just because you don’t have it, doesn’t mean you need to get it. Especially not, just because your neighbour has it.
A good word to throw into the mix now is restraint. People that restrain from things are usually always the ones that are better off for it.
Compare the two emotional traits side by side. Over-indulgence and restraint. Which feels right, and which wrong?
Those people who choose to participate in habits for the pleasure alone, soon find out that all they want is more of it. And then more still. Greed is the outcome.
Fame and fortune is another example of over-indulgence. Wanting more attention, more of the spotlight, without reason or rhyme, other than to over-indulge their egos.
My dearest friend, walking, and breathing God’s air as a person of restraint is a wonderful quantity and more inline with the desires of your soul’s purpose. To give and not to takeover when you could. To stay silent even when you have words to share. To wish someone well, even when you might perceive them as an enemy or rival. Those are the ways of the restrained person.
Some might even consider over-indulgence as a disease, a mental disorder. It’s not. Its greed at it’s worst.
My lesson for you reading my words this day in your time is to
work with the word restraint at the forefront of your mind. Remember that common phrase,
” Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”.
Think,” I can, but I won’t” instead. Live your life with restraint, reserved and in order. Everything in proportion. Anything else is over-indulgence and as I’ve said, that is nothing more than greed.
My friend, thank you for transposing my words so enthusiastically and as I wanted them. You go and have a good day.
Goodbye.
original Notes (click pic to read)
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS
written at the time of this presentation
🔷 I wonder if the reason that the speaker chose this topic was because at that time in the break we were concerned about putting back on too much weight from the meals out in the restaurants. Jane and I had become disciplined at home about what we consumed. But we were aware that there may be a temporary lapse due to our circumstances. The thoughts that we might be putting on weight again was something of concern, though we had expected to. Even if that was the reason for the topic, the way that this speaker is covering the issue is far broader and more important.
🔷 Being a critic of this work, as many people other than me would be, could it be that the sentiments of the message were sourced from my alter-ego? I looked up the meaning of an alter ego and found the following interpretation from Wikipedia: An alter ego (Latin for “other I”) means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person’s normal or true original personality. Finding one’s alter ego will require finding one’s other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as alterations.
🔷 I admire the way these speakers, and specifically this one, break down simple words and explore them deeper. This speaker, for me in a moment of time, came up with the opposite of over-indulgence as restraint. How insightful is that? I might have thought of that connection given the time and preparation, but for it to appear in a transcribed conversation in a single moment is quite remarkable for me.
“People that restrain from things are usually always the ones that are better off for it… Compare the two emotional traits side by side. Over-indulgence and restraint. Which feels right, and which wrong?”
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PHOTO: An evening meal of local fish and trimmings at Puerto Marineros, Playa Blanca
