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===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Unknown]]===
===TR: [[Unknown]]===
==Session==
==Session 1==
August 27, 2004
===Lesson===
===Lesson===
Let us begin with the [[topic]] of [[listening]]. It is a most difficult [[skill]] to master, as most listening is done [[superficially]]. Most people listen but is seems to ‘go in one ear and out of the other’, because of un-[[focused]] listening. Listening is a skill which can and needs to be cultivated and refined over and over by the one who does the listening. It has [[everything]] to do with [[focusing]] and the level of [[intent]]. Outward listening is [[shallow]], the reason for this is also a sort of protection because of the [[cacophony]] of way too many [[words]] on this planet, which are carelessly and thoughtlessly spoken, so the hearer develops a ‘deaf ear.’ This can be a subconscious protection against too much [[noise]].
Let us begin with the [[topic]] of [[listening]]. It is a most difficult [[skill]] to master, as most listening is done [[superficially]]. Most people listen but is seems to ‘go in one ear and out of the other’, because of un-[[focused]] listening. Listening is a skill which can and needs to be cultivated and refined over and over by the one who does the listening. It has [[everything]] to do with [[focusing]] and the level of [[intent]]. Outward listening is [[shallow]], the reason for this is also a sort of protection because of the [[cacophony]] of way too many [[words]] on this planet, which are carelessly and thoughtlessly spoken, so the hearer develops a ‘deaf ear.’ This can be a subconscious protection against too much [[noise]].
Continue to learn and listen to My [[voice]], stay [[focused]] and pay close attention as I Am leading you deeper into yourself.
Continue to learn and listen to My [[voice]], stay [[focused]] and pay close attention as I Am leading you deeper into yourself.
==Session 2==
August 28, 2004
===Lesson===
This is another little [[Discourse|treatise]] on listening. I will endeavor to lead you deeper into yourself, but in order to do so, you really need to sharpen your listening [[skills]]. Actually, listening involves both the [[Mind|head]] and the [[heart]]. The heart being the most important as [[feeling]] and [[discernment]] are lodged there. We have spoken before how the heart is the true mind in the [[body]] and the [[brain]] the [[material]] [[Computation|computer]], where the necessary connections are being made and un-made. There is a great true-ism in the [[words]]: ‘What you don’t use, you lose’, and so connections in the [[thinking]] [[process]] will wither and die off due to lack of use. So if one has a potentially [[brilliant]] [[mind]], this can increase the connections considerably through continued right thinking. It is also true that with laziness in thought these [[potential]] connections become weak, but this rolls ‘down the line’ so to speak, as the attention given to listening also lessens.
The [[fact]] is that the more you turn within, the more the [[quality]] of listening improves over [[time]]. It is the [[Inner Life|inner]] [[focus]] which matters, so the outward [[noises]] become less intruding, and even when a sudden noise erupts on the ‘outside,’ you will no longer be startled by this, because your habit of concentration has become so established that it has become ‘second nature’ to you. This is being accomplished over time. As you well know, you have tended to be [[Fraction|scattered]] in your [[thinking]]; your mercurial mind has a tendency to 'hop, skip and jump' from subject to subject.
[[Meditation]] is an excellent [[discipline]] to the still unruly and [[Turbulence|restless]] minds. God has bestowed many gifts unto [[mortals]], which as yet lie dormant in the mind, and which can only be turned into perfect actuals in [[eternity]] if the [[mortal]] [[chooses]] [[immortality]]. The question arises: How does one go about that? Actually, it is very [[simple]] and yet at the same time the most [[complex]]. In a nutshell, one starts out with a [[belief]] in [[God]], the Maker and Upholder of everything. The mortal [[rationalizes]] belief to make sense out of life.
[[Faith]] grows when belief is put into [[practice]], and it comes alive in the activities of the believer through the exercise of [[trust]] and [[hope]] of a better future by putting into practice the [[love]] of the Giver of Love towards all others. Head and heart will have become involved together and start to move into a greater [[harmonizing]] [[balance]], and in time all the ‘pieces fit together like a fine clockwork.’ There will be [[harmony]] in the [[physical]] [[body]] as the great central [[nervous system]] is under the calming [[influence]] of the heart/brain, which filter down to all the nerve endings, in the fluids, tissues, bones and all the organs of the [[physical]] [[system]]. The mental, emotional and physical are ruled by the [[spiritual]]. As a man or woman thinketh, that he or she becomes.
Therefore, sharpen your listening skills by taking time to turn within and learn to listen with [[focused]] [[attention]]. The benefits accrued over time are enormous.
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