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Group: Nashville, Tennessee

 

Teacher: HAM

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

 

Topic: Eye Contact

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

 

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

 

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am happy that you all have come tonight. This evening we want to discuss actualizing your spiritual potentials. Each level of new spiritual awakening opens up the potential for actualizing these new found spiritual values in your life and once these values are actualized, a new level of potentials opens as a spiritual awakening in the mind. Each human is continually blessed with a spiritual bombardment that seeks to lodge in the mind. Your mental task is just to recognize these progressive spiritual values and embrace them and actualize them in your lives.

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am happy that you all have come tonight. This evening we want to discuss actualizing your spiritual potentials.  

Each level of new spiritual awakening opens up the potential for actualizing these new found spiritual values in your life and once these values are actualized, a new level of potentials opens as a spiritual awakening in the mind. Each human is continually blessed with a spiritual bombardment that seeks to lodge in the mind. Your mental task is just to recognize these progressive spiritual values and embrace them and actualize them in your lives.

The further along you go spiritually, the more subtle are the new values being received and actualized. Maybe you are learning to open your hearts to others ideas or suggestions. Perhaps you are learning to express yourselves tactfully but openly in ways that are not provocative. Perhaps you are reaching out instead of holding back. Perhaps you are looking into another's eyes without turning away.

The further along you go spiritually, the more subtle are the new values being received and actualized. Maybe you are learning to open your hearts to others ideas or suggestions. Perhaps you are learning to express yourselves tactfully but openly in ways that are not provocative. Perhaps you are reaching out instead of holding back. Perhaps you are looking into another's eyes without turning away.

As an embassador of the kingdom, your message must carry power and weight and yet most of you have difficulty meeting another person's gaze. You carry the old patterns of acting out low self-worth and stare at your shoes or the walls or any where but directly at another person's eyes. Most people do this, but as ambassadors of love your eyes must always reflect love and be unafraid to look directly into anyone's eyes. Also, you must practice speaking clearly and distinctly, being confident in your speech as in your bearing.

As an embassador of the kingdom, your message must carry power and weight and yet most of you have difficulty meeting another person's gaze. You carry the old patterns of acting out low self-worth and stare at your shoes or the walls or any where but directly at another person's eyes. Most people do this, but as ambassadors of love your eyes must always reflect love and be unafraid to look directly into anyone's eyes. Also, you must practice speaking clearly and distinctly, being confident in your speech as in your bearing.

Others of you must practice listening with a full attention and concentration. You will have plenty of time to respond without planning your response while the other person is still talking.

Others of you must practice listening with a full attention and concentration. You will have plenty of time to respond without planning your response while the other person is still talking. You don't need to be afraid that others won't accept you, your spiritual confidence is past that now. The man or woman who is confident of acceptance generally has that acceptance. Once you have a fairly complete self-acceptance, then acceptance by others is guaranteed.

 

You don't need to be afraid that others won't accept you, your spiritual confidence is past that now. The man or woman who is confident of acceptance generally has that acceptance. Once you have a fairly complete self-acceptance, then acceptance by others is guaranteed.

You must all remember that you are ambassadors of the higher ideals and greater values inherent in true spiritual living. You all have an ever widening impact in the world and as you step into these higher levels of functioning, you must learn when to speak, when to be silent, when to use tact and show delicacy towards other's feelings, and when to be direct and forceful. All these social nuances become increasingly important as what you say and do increasingly influences more and more people.

You must all remember that you are ambassadors of the higher ideals and greater values inherent in true spiritual living. You all have an ever widening impact in the world and as you step into these higher levels of functioning, you must learn when to speak, when to be silent, when to use tact and show delicacy towards other's feelings, and when to be direct and forceful. All these social nuances become increasingly important as what you say and do increasingly influences more and more people.

Fortunately, spiritual growth gives you increased insight into the minds of others so that your best course of action will be increasingly plain to you. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss social self-mastery for many different circumstances and I hope that you all can participate and practice the exercises that I will give you. Are there any questions at this time.

Fortunately, spiritual growth gives you increased insight into the minds of others so that your best course of action will be increasingly plain to you. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss social self-mastery for many different circumstances and I hope that you all can participate and practice the exercises that I will give you. Are there any questions at this time.

 

Q: Ham, I was trying to understand what you were saying about the new potentials being subtle and I came up with an analogy of painting a picture. When you start a painting, you use broad brush strokes and get in the figures, trees. buildings, etc. As the paining progresses, you need to use finer and finer brush strokes to turn the outlines into a thing of beauty. What distinguished a good painting from a great painting is those small brush-stroke details. Is this a good analogy for what you were saying about spiritual values becoming more subtle?

Q: Ham, I was trying to understand what you were saying about the new potentials being subtle and I came up with an analogy of painting a picture. When you start a painting, you use broad brush strokes and get in the figures, trees. buildings, etc. As the paining progresses, you need to use finer and finer brush strokes to turn the outlines into a thing of beauty. What distinguished a good painting from a great painting is those small brush-stroke details. Is this a good analogy for what you were saying about spiritual values becoming more subtle?

Ham: Yes, that can help.

Ham: Yes, that can help.