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You also [[assure]] us that [[spirit]], being the [[creative]] [[origin]] of both [[body]] and [[mind]], is all-inclusive of them.  When we return to a genuine spiritual base within ourselves, it too is all-inclusive.  [[Spirit]] brings us into more [[intimate]] contact and [[understanding]] of our body and mind.  So we thank you for these gentle reassurances.  We thank you for ever pointing the way for self-understanding and [[Self-mastery]]-mastery.  [[Amen]].

You also [[assure]] us that [[spirit]], being the [[creative]] [[origin]] of both [[body]] and [[mind]], is all-inclusive of them.  When we return to a genuine spiritual base within ourselves, it too is all-inclusive.  [[Spirit]] brings us into more [[intimate]] contact and [[understanding]] of our body and mind.  So we thank you for these gentle reassurances.  We thank you for ever pointing the way for self-understanding and [[Self-mastery]]-mastery.  [[Amen]].

   

   

MICHAEL:  Good evening once again, my [[loyal]] sons.  It’s [[good]] to be here with you.  [[Mother spirit]] and I have been [[pondering]] very deeply in our own way just how to introduce some of the, what we see as enormous [[challenges]] to your more [[materially]] developed countries and [[cultures]] of the world.  Mother Spirit [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reevaluating_Physical_Life-2010-02-01 last time] pointed out some of the [[historical]] [[ironies]] concerning [[health]] facing you because of your very success with amazing [[machinery]] and now your digital [[technology]].  With digital technology you can do so much really detailed [[physical]] work once done only by hand, like welding cars together and then painting them, or making intricate rocket parts.  Most of your everyday [[product]]s now are mass produced.

MICHAEL:  Good evening once again, my [[loyal]] sons.  It’s [[good]] to be here with you.  [[Mother spirit]] and I have been [[pondering]] very deeply in our own way just how to introduce some of the, what we see as enormous [[challenges]] to your more [[materially]] developed countries and [[cultures]] of the world.  Mother Spirit [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reevaluating_Physical_Life-2010-02-01 last time] pointed out some of the [[historical]] [[ironies]] concerning [[health]] facing you because of your very success with amazing [[machinery]] and now your digital [[technology]].  With digital technology you can do so much really detailed [[physical]] work once done only by hand, like welding cars together and then painting them, or making intricate rocket parts.  Most of your everyday [[product]]s now are mass produced.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Health]]''''', '''''[[Attitude]]'''''====

===='''''[[Health]]''''', '''''[[Attitude]]'''''====

The central [[fact]] of these stimulants, my [[children]], is that they [[work]].  They do the job.  But each has a cost to the [[human]] [[body]] and [[soul]].  Those drugs that are smoked are certainly the most debilitating by putting the [[product]]s of combustion directly on tender, sensitive [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungs lung tissue], and then the further [[effects]] of [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine nicotine] and the other by-products all through the [[body]]--the diseases that come about most certainly.  Yet the stimulants work else they would not be used so extensively.  But what of the [[will]] [[power]] they replace?  What about that old-fashioned notion of gumption?  What about the [[dignity]] you are able to earn through sheer [[will]] [[power]], when the genuine accomplishment we speak of is done more or less on your own?  Almost without exception you’ve experienced this too, my children.

The central [[fact]] of these stimulants, my [[children]], is that they [[work]].  They do the job.  But each has a cost to the [[human]] [[body]] and [[soul]].  Those drugs that are smoked are certainly the most debilitating by putting the [[product]]s of combustion directly on tender, sensitive [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungs lung tissue], and then the further [[effects]] of [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine nicotine] and the other by-products all through the [[body]]--the diseases that come about most certainly.  Yet the stimulants work else they would not be used so extensively.  But what of the [[will]] [[power]] they replace?  What about that old-fashioned notion of gumption?  What about the [[dignity]] you are able to earn through sheer [[will]] [[power]], when the genuine accomplishment we speak of is done more or less on your own?  Almost without exception you’ve experienced this too, my children.

Here seems to be something not of [[ego]], not of your notions of yourself, but something positively [[spiritually]] there when you decide to give up some unhealthy [[habit]].  As day by day when you are able to do so, something of this will power seems to accumulate with a genuine [[freedom]].  Might I suggest this is part of your [[soul]], part of the [[wealth]] you are building as you go through life.  This is the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Regaining_the_Ability_To_Love-2005-10-04 ability] to do [[things]] directly without any intermediary but good [[nutrition]], good [[rest]], and [[will]] [[power]].

Here seems to be something not of [[ego]], not of your notions of yourself, but something positively [[spiritually]] there when you decide to give up some unhealthy [[habit]].  As day by day when you are able to do so, something of this will power seems to accumulate with a genuine [[freedom]].  Might I suggest this is part of your [[soul]], part of the [[wealth]] you are building as you go through life.  This is the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Regaining_the_Ability_To_Love-2005-10-04 ability] to do [[things]] directly without any intermediary but good [[nutrition]], good [[rest]], and [[will]] [[power]].

This is the direction we would have you lean toward, all the while you continue to prize above all, self-[[honesty]]--in your [[meditation]], in your [[prayers]].  Seek [[understanding]] and the true [[moral]] [[value]] of what you are [[doing]].  Sit in your spiritual base and [[embrace]] all that you are, all that you are doing.  Keep that high [[standard]] of optimum health ever before you whether or not you are able to accomplish it, and just lean in that direction.  Do the best you can day by day, then let it all go and rest.  Forget about it and start anew: again and again.  [[Exercise]] that will of yours.  Earn that inner [[dignity]] you are capable of.  Put your [[mind]] and your [[spirit]] and your will power right down into that [[body]] of yours and don’t be driven out by even a great effort.  Be strong, my children.  [[Embrace]] all this [[physical]] [[human]] life has to offer you while you have it.

This is the direction we would have you lean toward, all the while you continue to prize above all, self-[[honesty]]--in your [[meditation]], in your [[prayers]].  Seek [[understanding]] and the true [[moral]] [[value]] of what you are [[doing]].  Sit in your spiritual base and [[embrace]] all that you are, all that you are doing.  Keep that high [[standard]] of optimum health ever before you whether or not you are able to accomplish it, and just lean in that direction.  Do the best you can day by day, then let it all go and rest.  Forget about it and start anew: again and again.  [[Exercise]] that will of yours.  Earn that inner [[dignity]] you are capable of.  Put your [[mind]] and your [[spirit]] and your will power right down into that [[body]] of yours and don’t be driven out by even a great effort.  Be strong, my children.  [[Embrace]] all this [[physical]] [[human]] life has to offer you while you have it.