The Character Can NEVER "Fix" Itself - Manifesting With Sylviane

I have just written the content of this blog article for my Living As I AM workshop members, and as I did, I felt the urge to post it here on my blog, because this is SO, so important to grasp this once and for all.

The character is in the dream. She or he exists in the dream; therefore, she or he can never fix herself or himself because he/she only appears in the dream. But you are NOT Jane or Joe (whatever your name is) in the dream; YOU are the dreamer of the dream in which Jane or Joe appear.

From here on, for the sake of simplicity, I am going to refer to the character as HER, and I am going to call her JANE, because going back and forth between him or her is distracting from the point that needs to be the focus.

When you perceive the character to BE you, that’s when problems start. That’s when “manifesting” becomes a job that you’ve got to do, because you believe that it is the character that needs to do something to get what you want.

If Jane practices affirmations long enough, if she does SATS correctly, if she controls her thoughts enough, if she does her best to stay in the state, etc., then she will get what she wants in the end.

But the question is, in the end of WHAT?

That “end/goal” is within the dream. So, there is no ending place that the character, Jane, needs to go to, because the character cannot and will never get anywhere.

Remember that the character is IN the dream; it is not the dreamer. In other words, you, Jane, are in the dream, and since the character that you believe to be “you” is in the dream, “you” don’t get to change the dream — you can’t.

So, in other words, when you identify as the character, you identify as the character in the dream, while this whole time you are the dreamer of the dream in which the character exists.

It’s like the character of a movie, for example. While it appears that the character is living her life in that story, she is experiencing things and challenges; there is a storyline that she goes through, and it appears that she makes choices… But that character never made any choices. She never experienced any of those events and challenges. She could never decide mid-movie that she wanted to change the story.

Why?

Because that character is part of the movie. She only exists in the movie. The only one who can change the trajectory of that character is the writer of the script.

So, when you try to “fix the character,” from the character’s perspective, you are essentially beating a dead horse. You are putting your energy into something that has no energy of its own to receive it.

That character who sees that she doesn’t have enough money, or doesn’t have the SP, or is not feeling well, cannot be fixed by “doing” something, because that’s just a role within a story, within the dream.

You don’t need to make her affirm a thousand times, or force her to do anything. She doesn’t even have to convince herself that she’s not the character, because she IS and always will be a character.

The problem arises when you believe that you are HER. When you identify with the character, you start to believe that whatever the character is not, you are not; whatever the character does not have, you do not have. But you were never the character to begin with.

When you no longer identify AS the character, it means that you no longer let the character define YOU.

This means that no matter what Jane is thinking or doing right now, it doesn’t matter, because Jane was never YOU to start with. She just appeared within Awareness in the dream, but she doesn’t change the dream “by doing techniques,” because the character in a dream cannot change the dream. Only YOU, as the dreamer who is dreaming the dream, can change the dream and the character’s experience in it. Because you are not a person — you are just experiencing the person, aka your human character.

I AM is not just who you truly are; it’s ALL that you are, because you were never this character to begin with.

Just as you exist without having to think about your existence, you, as I AM, do not have to convince your character that you are I AM/Source. You simply are. Regardless of the character’s circumstances, your existence as I AM remains unchanged.

You can’t experience I AM from the character’s perspective, which all points of reference go back to the person that she thinks she is. You are looking inside the dream to decide what is true for you, because you’ve forgotten that YOU are the dreamer; you’re not in the dream — the character is.

This is why, when you rest as I AM, who you truly are, you know that just by deciding, just by desiring, it is ALREADY yours, because you were never this character that believes they don’t have it, to start with. You were never in the dream. You ARE the dreamer.

This is what it means to “drop the character”: you completely stop identifying yourself as the character. The character is simply part of the manifestation within the dream—it was never you. Whatever appears to the character—her experiences, circumstances, thoughts, or perceptions—is also not you.