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Group: Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

 

Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you this evening. Tonight, let us talk about how the Master remained always open-hearted. As you go through your lives and experience the ups and downs of it, it is tempting always to close your heart, to react to circumstances by a certain degree of closure, for protection.

Greetings, children, I am Ham and I welcome you this evening. Tonight, let us talk about how the Master remained always open-hearted. As you go through your lives and experience the ups and downs of it, it is tempting always to close your heart, to react to circumstances by a certain degree of closure, for protection.

 

When circumstances are disappointing, or people are a source of disappointment, it is easy to close down and be afraid of opening again. Indeed, the life of the spirit is a constant combat against that animal reaction. That tendency to pull within, and to withdraw, which is always struggling to manifest from fear which creates an instant reaction. The mind is a bit more sophisticated in its justifications, its resentments, and so forth, but it is that animal adrenalin reaction of closing off the outside and pulling the life force within.

When circumstances are disappointing, or people are a source of disappointment, it is easy to close down and be afraid of opening again. Indeed, the life of the spirit is a constant combat against that animal reaction. That tendency to pull within, and to withdraw, which is always struggling to manifest from fear which creates an instant reaction. The mind is a bit more sophisticated in its justifications, its resentments, and so forth, but it is that animal adrenalin reaction of closing off the outside and pulling the life force within.

Also, this is difficult to do when you are tired, when you are fatigued and stressed in any way. It is very important for you to receive rest, relaxation, to be able to separate yourselves from the problem at hand and to minimize the stresses on the body as much as possible. Drugs, alcohol, all these things create more stress on the body, and the mind follows that stress and moves inward even more. So please be careful with the Father's temple and treat your bodies very well. Get enough rest. Give it exercise. Be careful not to abuse drugs or alcohol in any way. And then, you will find your will is much freer and your mind is much freer to attain higher and higher levels during your daily life.

Also, this is difficult to do when you are tired, when you are fatigued and stressed in any way. It is very important for you to receive rest, relaxation, to be able to separate yourselves from the problem at hand and to minimize the stresses on the body as much as possible. Drugs, alcohol, all these things create more stress on the body, and the mind follows that stress and moves inward even more. So please be careful with the Father's temple and treat your bodies very well. Get enough rest. Give it exercise. Be careful not to abuse drugs or alcohol in any way. And then, you will find your will is much freer and your mind is much freer to attain higher and higher levels during your daily life.