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===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, for your [[love]] and [[support]].  From time to time I ask for your [[peace]] to fill me, and sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. I was [[wondering]] what I can do to get more of it?  I know it’s not you, it’s me.

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, for your [[love]] and [[support]].  From time to time I ask for your [[peace]] to fill me, and sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. I was [[wondering]] what I can do to get more of it?  I know it’s not you, it’s me.

===='''''[[Peace]]'''', '''''[[Presence]]''''''====

===='''''[[Peace]]''''', '''''[[Presence]]'''''====

(Accepting Michael’s peace)

(Accepting Michael’s peace)

MICHAEL:  Yes, my son.  In keeping with my lesson tonight, sometimes it takes [[effort]] and seems like real [[work]].  Other times it seems to come of itself and can be [[experienced]] as fun.  But it always starts with your [[intention]].  It always starts with your [[choice]].  By your very [[ability]] to ignore us, so vital to your [[independence]] and [[freedom]] even from us and [[our Father]]; by your very ability to ignore us and the whole [[spiritual]] world, you have to choose to receive us.  As we’ve said before, [[God]]’s [[love]] is pouring down on your bare head like a driving rain.  It’s up to you to acknowledge it, and appreciate it.  All we suggest, my son, is that you open your [[soul]] for this.

MICHAEL:  Yes, my son.  In keeping with my lesson tonight, sometimes it takes [[effort]] and seems like real [[work]].  Other times it seems to come of itself and can be [[experienced]] as fun.  But it always starts with your [[intention]].  It always starts with your [[choice]].  By your very [[ability]] to ignore us, so vital to your [[independence]] and [[freedom]] even from us and [[our Father]]; by your very ability to ignore us and the whole [[spiritual]] world, you have to choose to receive us.  As we’ve said before, [[God]]’s [[love]] is pouring down on your bare head like a driving rain.  It’s up to you to acknowledge it, and appreciate it.  All we suggest, my son, is that you open your [[soul]] for this.

Student:  How do I let you in?  I [[thought]] I had done it.  I mean I think I do it but it doesn’t seem to working very well.  It seems like there’s something in the way.

Student:  How do I let you in?  I [[thought]] I had done it.  I mean I think I do it but it doesn’t seem to working very well.  It seems like there’s something in the way.

MICHAEL:  My son, it could very well be your [[expectation]]s, which are still your own [[ideas]] of who we are and what our [[presence]] is.  We don’t [[literally]] speak in your [[mind]], nor does your [[Father Fragment]].  We’re not like a [[voice]] that talks to you.  We are a [[presence]] like the background to your [[consciousness]] itself, and so [[spirit]] is a very [[subtle]] [[thing]].  We are ever so [[observant]] and [[respectful]] of your [[intention]], of your [[will]].  We are not intrusive, and so the best way is to give us some [[time]].  [[Value]] our presence enough to set aside part of your life in [[pure]] [[meditation]] where you’re just sitting down and simply, but [[profoundl]]y paying [[attention]].  That is the price, and that’s what it takes to get beyond your own [[expectation]]s of what this contact should be, this life of yours with us in it.  You have to gain some [[wonder]] at what it is, to [[discover]] anew each time.

MICHAEL:  My son, it could very well be your [[expectation]]s, which are still your own [[ideas]] of who we are and what our [[presence]] is.  We don’t [[literally]] speak in your [[mind]], nor does your [[Father Fragment]].  We’re not like a [[voice]] that talks to you.  We are a [[presence]] like the background to your [[consciousness]] itself, and so [[spirit]] is a very [[subtle]] [[thing]].  We are ever so [[observant]] and [[respectful]] of your [[intention]], of your [[will]].  We are not intrusive, and so the best way is to give us some [[time]].  [[Value]] our presence enough to set aside part of your life in [[pure]] [[meditation]] where you’re just sitting down and simply, but [[profound]]ly paying [[attention]].  That is the price, and that’s what it takes to get beyond your own [[expectation]]s of what this contact should be, this life of yours with us in it.  You have to gain some [[wonder]] at what it is, to [[discover]] anew each time.

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, it does indeed make sense.

Student:  Thank you, Father Michael, it does indeed make sense.

   

   

Student:  Well, Michael, [[thinking]] of the well-known [[phenomena]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_illness psychosomatic disease], there are without a [[doubt]] poor spiritual [[habits]] that can result in somatizing (Sp?) [[stress]] or something else--bad [[psychological]] [[behavior]] or [[stress]] in the [[body]], and disease results.  It would seem each of us has something that we [[express]] as disease in our body that really must be traceable to [[childhood]] or inherited [[patterns]] of [[behavior]], imitated from our [[parents]].  I currently have a reoccurring malady in my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system respiratory system] that I seem to get every year, and it must be the [[expression]] of something really deep.  Can you make any comments about this sort of [[thing]], maybe some [[idea]] of how to [[work]] through an issue like this?

Student:  Well, Michael, [[thinking]] of the well-known [[phenomena]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_illness psychosomatic disease], there are without a [[doubt]] poor spiritual [[habits]] that can result in somatizing (Sp?) [[stress]] or something else--bad [[psychological]] [[behavior]] or [[stress]] in the [[body]], and disease results.  It would seem each of us has something that we [[express]] as disease in our body that really must be traceable to [[childhood]] or inherited [[patterns]] of [[behavior]], imitated from our [[parents]].  I currently have a reoccurring malady in my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system respiratory system] that I seem to get every year, and it must be the [[expression]] of something really deep.  Can you make any comments about this sort of [[thing]], maybe some [[idea]] of how to [[work]] through an issue like this?

===='''''[[Health]]'''''====

===='''''[[Health]]'''''====

(Psychosomatic illness)

(Psychosomatic illness)