"Understand, it is not a new concept to any one of you that everything that occurs, every physical occurrence, is a fundamentally neutral occurrence.
That is nothing new to you.
I think at this point we can safely say you have bought into that one to some degree.
What you are experiencing within your mentality as a negative thought is simply your label of that neutral occurrence in a way stemming from your old perception that the present is a result of the past.
And therefore, when a fundamentally neutral situation does occur that in your past was perceived as negative, you then, acting on this outdated belief system, assume that this new fundamentally neutral situation must also be negative, for that's the way it has always been in the past.
You can now see why we have shared with you the idea and reality that the present is not a result of the past.
Each and every situation that does occur, aside from being fundamentally neutral, is a new situation, even if many of the parameters are similar to the way in which you have encountered them in your past, it is not exactly the same, and therefore, by definition, not the same at all.
If you change but one seemingly minor aspect of any interaction, it is a completely new interaction.
If you perform an action, and moments later perform what you perceive to be the exact same action, understand it is not, for the second time that you had performed that action, you had already performed it a first time, whereas the first time you had performed it, you had not performed it at all.
So, even though the motions may be similar, by fundamental definition, it is a new situation.
We cannot stress from our perspective the importance of allowing this concept to sink into your belief system." - Elan (Action 2)