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Group: Nashville, Tennessee

 

===Group: [[Nashville TeaM]]===

Teacher: HAM

 

===Teacher: [[Ham]]===

Topic: COMMUNICATING

===TR: [[Rebecca]]===

 

 

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I thank you each individually for coming here this evening. We are extremely pleased with the progress you have all made over the last several months. You are each coming into a new understanding, a greater awareness, that will serve you well in the months and years ahead. Yes, these times have been difficult and filled with complexities which have forced you each one to delve more deeply into yourselves and to find new and growing awarenesses concerning the spiritual world which impacts upon your lives and guides each one of you in your path toward the Father. You have all made progress concerning self-esteem issues and you are all flowering, budding, and bearing the fruits of the spirit in your daily lives more and more. You are learning self-restraint, and are perfecting the art of communication which can be more complicated and subtle than you might have understood before.

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I thank you each individually for coming here this evening. We are extremely pleased with the progress you have all made over the last several months. You are each coming into a new understanding, a greater awareness, that will serve you well in the months and years ahead. Yes, these times have been difficult and filled with complexities which have forced you each one to delve more deeply into yourselves and to find new and growing awarenesses concerning the spiritual world which impacts upon your lives and guides each one of you in your path toward the Father. You have all made progress concerning self-esteem issues and you are all flowering, budding, and bearing the fruits of the spirit in your daily lives more and more. You are learning self-restraint, and are perfecting the art of communication which can be more complicated and subtle than you might have understood before.

 

Tonight, we shall discuss this art of communication even further. How shall you be open and honest while at the same time avoiding unproductive injury to someone's feelings or the misunderstandings that can so easily occur. First, it is best to have all the information you can get on whatever it is that you are discussing. The more you understand about the other person's point of view, the better able you will be in fashioning your communication to fit that person's understanding.

Tonight, we shall discuss this art of communication even further. How shall you be open and honest while at the same time avoiding unproductive injury to someone's feelings or the misunderstandings that can so easily occur. First, it is best to have all the information you can get on whatever it is that you are discussing. The more you understand about the other person's point of view, the better able you will be in fashioning your communication to fit that person's understanding.

I hope that this has been some aid, practically, for you in your lives. I wish that all my lessons are all so practical and helpful. Are there any questions at this time.

I hope that this has been some aid, practically, for you in your lives. I wish that all my lessons are all so practical and helpful. Are there any questions at this time.

 

Q: Your lesson brought to mind the way that Socrates taught and his method of asking questions and leading his students to a conclusion. Is that part of it?Ham: Certainly, yes. When you ask someone a question, you draw them out, you have something to build on, to work with and that person becomes engaged in the conversation and is not simply listening to some kind of lecture or diatribe.

Q: Your lesson brought to mind the way that Socrates taught and his method of asking questions and leading his students to a conclusion. Is that part of it?Ham: Certainly, yes. When you ask someone a question, you draw them out, you have something to build on, to work with and that person becomes engaged in the conversation and is not simply listening to some kind of lecture or diatribe.

Are there any further questions? Very well, until next week my love and my prayers are with you each. Farewell.

Are there any further questions? Very well, until next week my love and my prayers are with you each. Farewell.