[tmtranscripts] Welmek, Jan. 16, 2003

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – STILLNESS
January 16, 2003


Good evening, my friends.  This is Welmek, your friend and teacher.
Tonight I wish to return to the basic instruction that we, as your
teachers, began our intensive course of spiritual education. And that is
a lesson on the stillness. 

This stillness practice is the most important time of your day. For as we
have instructed you, it is a time when you devote your thoughts
exclusively to the Father to come into a deeper and fuller and more
trusting relationship that you share with him. There is nothing as
important or fundamental that you can do with your time than to practice
stillness. Each of you has experience of this now, and you know the
validity of my words for you all have experienced the greater awareness
of the presence of the Father within you.

Now I would like to begin a more in-depth exploration of the work of this
Divine Monitor within your mind, and help you to gain a stronger foothold
in stilling your mind so that your Adjuster has more of an opportunity to
impact your thinking, your feelings, your ideas, and your behavior. I’d
like you to spend a few moments now and go within. What I would like to
ascertain from you is what is the quality of your stillness practice? And
how may I assist you in furthering and encouraging you to maintain a
dedicated practice each and every day? Take a few moments, and when you
are ready, I would like to hear your comments. (Pause)

Student: Welmek, I find lately in my stillness practice I seem to be in a
lot of confusion as to format. I have been given different suggestions
over the last few months or year on different things to focus in the
stillness. One of the first suggestions that was given was to focus on
the love that the Father has for me and ask him to fill me with that
love. There’s been suggestions on how to pray. Now I find myself spending
a little bit of time trying to figure out what format to allow the
stillness practice to take on that morning. Sometimes I just want to
speak to Michael. Other times I try to feel the Father’s love. Other
times to pray and to be in a state of gratitude or thankfulness –
worship. 

But as of late I find that after a few moments I start going into that
semi-dream state where I begin to visualize what I would call the
beginning of a dream, and have a hard time falling into that state.
Perhaps more exercise before I go into stillness would help this. So
there’s two questions I have. One on the problem of starting to fall
asleep, so to speak; and the other as to what format you would recommend
– if a format is even necessary. I think possibly just whatever feels
comfortable that morning. 

Welmek: May I have your permission to scan your mind? 

Student: Yes. I would love you to commune with my Adjuster, if you can do
that. 

Welmek: One moment, please. (Pause) I have ascertained that your mind is
going through a period of great tension releasing, as you are now engaged
in a very active process of allowing your indwelling Monitor to more
fully spiritize your thinking. And this is a time of great mental
activity and spiritual re-patterning of how you use your mind and how you
think. Therefore, I would suggest that your stillness practice for a
period of several months be confined strictly to the realm of asking for
the Father’s will to prevail within your mind. 

When you are in this state of quiet inner focus on the Father, go into
that place where you believe and trust that his will for you is the best
and highest good that could ever possibly occur in your life. When you
are in that place, open your heart and invite him into all of those ideas
that you have in your mind that you are confused about, and ask for his
will to prevail. It is not necessary to identify those areas of
confusion, for your Monitor knows where they are, what they are, and how
to add its subtle influence into the way you have perceived reality. I
will pause here and ask if you need clarification or if you have any
other questions. 

Student: I’m clear on the concept you just relayed to me. It will
definitely simplify things for the time being. The question that comes to
mind: what is your ability to communicate with my indwelling spirit? Can
you communicate with it as easily as another teacher? 

Welmek: It is not as if I have direct contact with your Adjuster. But I
am able to perceive those areas within your mind that require more of the
influence of the Adjuster to correct your current environment and the
current climate of your emotional stability. There are certain thought
configurations that are clearly identifiable when I am allowed to scan
your mind. It is as if there are holes in your thinking, whereas if the
Adjuster was more active there would be more spiritual coherence and
truth substance. So it is in this way I would say I am able to sense or
see what is occurring in your mind and where your Adjuster has an
influence. Does this answer your question?

Student: Yes, it does. And I have to say I am, the term is ‘tickled pink’
to have someone do a mind scan. I don’t think I’ve ever been asked before
if someone can scan my mind. It was an enjoyable experience. You’ll have
to teach me someday how to do that. Yes, I do understand what you are
saying. It rings very true, and I will take your counsel to heart. Thank
you.

Welmek: Spend several months as I said in this focus. Do not analyze or
overly concern yourself with what is happening. You are inviting more
Adjuster availability into your mind. You will, in time, find yourself
mentally clear, emotionally stable. But do not make the mistake of trying
to ascertain where you are while this is all going on within the depths
of your mind. Do you understand my meaning? 

Student: Yes, I think I welcome that approach. I feel a little weary of
the things that have happened in the past year. There’s been a lot of
changes happen quite rapidly for me, although I know I am still just an
infant in my spiritual growth. So the simpler and easier it is right now,
I think, probably the better. Thank you for your advice.

Welmek: You are most welcome, my friend.

Student: Dear Welmek, similar to R, I feel I need to improve my
stillness. And I really thank you for your prayer at the end of the other
evening to hope that we increase our effectiveness a hundredfold; and I
asked Christ Michael about that, and he said to stop analyzing, just
learn to love – probably like the apostle John – just love one another.
And I have a feeling I’m going to have to be in stillness more minutes,
hours per day. I hope that you could help me to improve that, so that I
can eventually be able to be more effective, with the grace and ease that
you and Michael have. .

Welmek: What I perceive in your awareness is the striving to be, as you
say, effective like Michael. Think about his effectiveness in loving the
individual. Put your enthusiasm that you have such an abundance of into
learning how to love your brethren – each individual at a time. Engage
less your intellect and more your feeling. Spend time in your stillness
focusing on one person that you know, and asking to feel what the Father
feels for that individual. Become familiar with what it means to be in
love with that person.

When your mind is quiet, and you found that enthusiasm to love an
individual, ask for the Father’s love for that person to swell within
your heart and to fill you with a greater affinity and attraction for
that person. Do not engage your analytical mind at this point. There will
be a tendency for you to do this, as you begin your awareness of who this
individual is. But when you feel yourself doing this, stop for a moment
and return to that place with your heart of feeling pure love, pure
acceptance and understanding; and you will have no need to try to figure
that person out. I will pause here and ask if you have questions or
require further clarification.

Student: I think that’s the answer to what will greatly improve my
stillness. I didn’t quite know what to do with the stillness; and my
focusing on one person at a time, not worrying about the affect range
that we were talking about or anything, that is going to be the key to
enjoying it and staying more alert and feeling the hunger tension for
Paradise perfection get better. So I think if I can do that, that will be
the key for me for awhile. Thanks again for a great answer.

Welmek: Be aware that your mind will wander and that it will seem quite
natural to engage the intellect while you are developing this other
sensing ability within you. There will be a natural tension in this, as
you gain greater range of your spiritual abilities. This is a time of
great mindal expansion, in allowing more of the spirit to work within
you. Release the tension by continuing to ask that the Father’s love for
this person swell within your heart. Focus on your heart, that heart
center that is a great sensor of emotion within you. Practice also
engaging this center by returning your focus there, and taking a few deep
breaths if you feel you have engaged your intellect too much. Allow
yourself to melt into this center. And by asking the Father’s love to
come into that center, you are opening the door to engage this great
presence within you: to detect, to discern, to intuit, and to appreciate
more of the Father’s love. Is this something you think you can readily
do? 

Student: I think I can. I’ve been starting to feel something like that
has begun to happen. And it helps to make it a new practice from now on. 

Welmek: See if you can also engage this center when you are involved with
individuals. Let yourself be in that place where you discern this love
for them. And this will further disengage yourself from the tendency to
over-intellectualize, or to share too much with them that may be
over-illuminating. Do you understand my meaning?

Student: Yes, I do. I was struggling with that even today. And I realize
I need a technique like that continually.

Welmek: The more you practice this, the more you will gain confidence in
using this technique. It will feel unfamiliar and clumsy, at first. But I
would suggest that you give it a good six to eight months of regular
practice, and then reaping the benefits later on. Are you comfortable
with this time frame? 

Student: I think that’s the perfect time frame, because I was noticing
today that it’s going to take a long time to overcome the cultural style
and everything to just prepare myself ahead of time. Like when I used to
do the libraries, and keep it very simple and prayerful. I’ve been
wanting to do that. This will help to formalize it, and write it down and
read it; and I am committed to do it. 

Welmek: Very well. And in a few months we can review how you are
progressing, and you can share with me how this is working for you in
your life. (Pause)

Student: Yes, Welmek, what I notice that I need to do stillness and pray
and worship every morning before I go out into the world, whether it be
to work or on an errand or to ride a bike or swim that it is important to
me to meditate or to pray or to commune with the Father; more important
to do that than even eating. I know that when I have truly connected with
the Father within that there is a strong capacity to love, and to be a
focus of goodness in this world. That the natural offspring of connecting
with the Father is to do his will, and to have his agenda prevail in my
life. 

And what I also noticed, especially in the last couple of weeks, as my
mind is absorbed in this capacity to love and to be expansive, is a
stronger desire to be in stillness. And there are even times when I feel
agitated, because I want to be in stillness more. But my external life
takes precedent: my work, my family, my relationships. And there are
times during my busy day I’ll take 5 or 10 minutes and stop to connect
with the Father and to kind of realign with the present moment. And there
are times at night when I come home from work where I’ll sit outside and
do the same thing: connecting with the Father or connecting with the
present moment. 

And that’s where I wish to be more disciplined: that when I come home
from a busy day I give myself time to do that. And I do notice at night,
when I go to sleep, and we talked about this one other time, that I don’t
have a full night’s sleep. It seems like I wake up in the middle of the
night, and my thoughts are on the spirit, on God and truth, and my
teacher. And so I wonder whether I should just get up and meditate or
write or do something that will enhance my life, and the life of others. 


Welmek: The goal of stillness is to open your mind to the presence of the
Father, and how the Father wishes you to perceive your reality each
moment of the day. All of the thoughts that you think are eventually
capable of being His thoughts. Do you understand my meaning, D.?

Student: Yes, I do. 

Welmek: What is transpiring within you is that desire for greater Father
thinking within your mind. Do you agree with this now?

Student: Yes, very much so. It seems like I want to rest in that spot. I
want in my Father, or universal consciousness. Like I want to give myself
up.

Welmek: The devotion to this quest is admirable. And because you have
sincerely made this pledge, your indwelling spirit is now striving to
help you achieve this. So there are several points that I would like to
share with you now to take you into the realm of even more an expansive
Father awareness. This restfulness that you seek can be experienced
throughout your day. And you are already practicing stillness breaks
throughout the day. And I would encourage you to continue to do that. But
I would also add a challenge now to you: to see if you can, in the middle
of your day, in the midst of your activities, turn your mind to the
Father while you are going about your tasks, and asking for his peace,
his quiet, to overtake you while you are actively doing your chore or
activity. 

It is normal that you would be agitated after your busy day. You work
hard, you have a physically intensive job, and so your body is in a state
and requires a period of de-stressing,before you can become still again.
This is very normal, and if you can, make more intensive stillness
thoughts in your active day. Over time you will find this period of
decompression after work becomes less and less, for you will have
expanded that place of stillness throughout your day, and thereby giving
your body the needed spiritual stamina it needs in the fulfillment of
your heart’s desire. Do you understand what I am suggesting to you here
now?

Student: Yes, yes. What do you mean by intensive stillness? 

Welmek: By practicing being still and peaceful in the midst of your
activity, by asking the Father to be with you as you are doing your
chore; and filling you with peace, filling you with comfort, filling you
with joy, filling you with acceptance for what you are doing and love for
what you are doing. And as to your wakefulness in the early morning
hours, might I scan your mind as well? (Yes, you may.) (Pause)

The mental currents are softening and opening as you sleep. The
indwelling spirit is becoming more adept, or should I say your mind is
becoming more amenable to your spirit’s ministrations. And there are
certain times when the thoughts become so crystallized as to awaken you
and to stimulate your ideas and nerve impulses so that you are able to be
aware more fully of the indwelling Adjuster’s leanings. It is up to you,
whether you wish to awaken yourself fully as to rise out of bed and
record your thoughts or to be in communion with the Father. 

Do not be frustrated by this activity. Instead, see if you can for a time
be in that place of rest in the Father that is very physically and soul
rejuvenating. Invite your body to receive [side one of tape ends] ask for
a deeper impressioning of his love going into your being – mentally and
physically. Rest in his love. This period of restfulness in his love will
be very satisfying to you, both mentally and physically. But if you fight
this happening, you will become frustrated, and you will create more
tension within your mind and body and not awaken refreshed and renewed.
Do you understand what is happening here now and what I am calling into
your mind as a distinction?

Student: Yes, I do. I had an understanding that that’s what was going on.
I have felt that when intensified my stillness or prayed during the day,
I feel more at peace and flowing and energetic even at the end of the
day. So I have experienced that, as well. 

Welmek: The body carries within it many pockets of tension. They increase
your level of agitation. If it is to rest in the Father that you desire,
would it not make sense to allow this tension to dissipate by being in
stillness as much as you can during the entire 24-hour period of the day?
(Yes) Here again, you are expanding the time that you are in stillness,
so that you, too, can gain greater mastery over those thoughts in your
mind so that it is not just you who is doing the thinking. But it is the
Father and you, combined. Do you understand? 

Student: Yeah, I feel so strongly in my heart. And then from that place
where I and the Father are one, I am naturally of service. I am naturally
a force of goodness and love in this world  and a catalyst of
transformation, just by being who I am, at oneness with my Father. 

Welmek: Above all, we desire for each of you to come to the deepest
possible recognition of who you are as a dearly beloved child of our
Father in Paradise. Are there any other questions on your stillness
practice that I may answer for you this evening?

Student: Welmek, perhaps you can clear up a small matter. When I ask for
the Father’s will in stillness to prevail, does it matter whether I ask
for Michael’s will or the Father’s will, since they’re both in my mind
one and the same? Sometimes I feel more comfortable just speaking with
Michael. Other times with the Father. Does this make a difference? 

Welmek: You have correctly determined that the Father’s will and
Michael’s will are one. Where you deviate in your thinking is that there
are specific functions of your Father’s action in your mind and Michael’s
action in your mind. And there are times when you will feel more of a
leading or urging to commune with Michael and more of a desire to be with
the Father. This is all a part of your growth, as you lend your mind to
them for their use and their ministry into it. Truly, how could you go
wrong? It is impossible. Allow your heart to lead you into that realm of
Father communion, and you will know to whom you should direct your
appeal. Does this answer your question, my friend? 

Student: Yes, it does. I can feel that, what you are saying. I have what
I would term a curiosity question now. I don’t know if it’s appropriate,
but I will ask it. Is it possible to commune with my Adjuster through the
transmitter at some time as I am communing with you? 

Welmek: One moment, please. (Pause) Indwelling Monitors do not
communicate with other individuals directly. There is a fraternization of
Monitor to Monitor, and thereby rendering certain leadings or impressions
from one individual to another. But this is dangerous ground, and I
caution you to think very carefully about what it is you are asking. For
the other person to be an effective conveyor of where the Adjusters are
fraternizing, and how and what they are sharing may not be detectable
within the other human. And so, if this is done prematurely or
insincerely, you are opening yourself up to great spiritual fraud. What
would be the point of you wanting to do this?

Student: The reason I have thought of this is, within the last eight
months I felt that I was finally for the first time in my life aware of
communication with my indwelling spirit. As of late, I am not sure if I
have been deceiving myself; and I have not quite reached this point where
I can actively commune with my Thought Adjuster. Or if I am just
deceiving myself thinking that it is my Adjuster that I am hearing, when
in fact it is just my human mind. In our text, there’s an Adjuster that
speaks about his experience once the individual reaches morontia realms.
And I found it very endearing. And I was wondering if at this point of my
growth that would be possible. But I believe you’ve answered the
question. It’s a little bit premature. I guess my main concern is that I
still need to purely rely on faith that I am communing with my Adjuster
or if there’s a little bit more assurance that it’s actually taking place
at this time. 

Welmek: My friend, in your desire to commune with your Adjuster, you are.
The question becomes how much of the Adjuster’s leadings are you
correctly receiving and interpreting? That is the puzzle, is it not?

Student: Yes, it is. 

Welmek: And so there are several things that are operating here that I
would draw your attention to. One is your ability or I would say your
tendency to judge yourself. Let go of that, my friend. It does not serve
you well. The other idea I wish to share with you is that as you become
more sincere and devoted in your stillness practice, your Adjuster is
taking the thoughts that you think and leading you into experiences for
you to try on the ideas, and to see how well you have come to understand
what you have been receiving through your thoughts and through your
behavior. 

So this is a progressive awareness. Your mind’s opening to your
Adjuster’s leadings does not make you instantly illuminated. Ever will
you learn to appreciate the small step of faith you take, acting on what
your Adjuster is prompting you to do, time and time again. And so here
again if you are less judgmental about yourself, you will be more
accepting of the small steps of faith you take each day and appreciate
the experience and the growth that you are gaining. That way you can
always be assured that you are growing, that you are trying to lead a
more Father-like and Adjuster-focused life. And this is all that is asked
of you: each day to gain more confidence in this faith walk and trusting
that the Adjuster knows where you are going and how to get you there. Do
you understand?

Student: Yes, I do. 

Welmek: Has this satisfied your curiosity? 

Student: I think that’s the best we can do right now as far as my
understanding. I had recently tried a method of asking simple questions
that would require a yes or no answer. I tried to feel the vibration of
the yes answer and the no answer. I tried to get guidance from my
Adjuster. This is an exercise suggested by an author of a book “In God’s
Counsel”, and for awhile I felt that I was correctly discerning the yes
answers. But from listening to your counsel now, it’s a little bit
different than that. It doesn’t exactly work that way, at least at this
point in my development.

Welmek: The point of this book was to help people realize that there was
something internally within them that was guiding them. But you who are
appreciating more of the levels of your mindal patterns are more able to
discern that it is a little more complex than a mere asking a question
and getting a direct answer. Sometimes it will be thus. But sometimes you
must wait. But if you always strive for the Father’s will to be prevalent
in your life – and to ask for the courage and the strength and the
patience and the wisdom to always follow that – rest assured, your
Adjuster will help you achieve that and make you more Father-like, more
beautiful, and more good. And you will be very satisfied in spirit and in
your soul. 

Are there any other questions before we conclude?

Student: Welmek, I was wondering when you said that a Thought Adjuster
tests out one of our ideas and that it leads us to a real experience, is
it even in the social arena, working seamlessly with our Guardian Angels?
Is that what is implied here, or is it more of a mental testing? 

Welmek: It is both. It is testing the environment of your mind for your
receptivity to try a new experience. And you must be convinced in your
thoughts first before you can act in the Father-like manner. And so does
the Father fragment continually look for those openings in your mind
where you have an interest to do things the Father’s way and to see
things from the Father’s vantage point. Does this answer your question?

Student: It’s the perfect answer. Thank you. It’s wonderful. 

Welmek: On behalf of the other teachers, I would like to lead you in a
prayer, as we conclude. Please join hands. 

Creator Father Michael, Creative Mother Nebadonia, we bring these
children before you this evening and ask that the circuits of their mind
be harmonized with yours: to be more open and receptive to the leadings
of the Father fragment. We ask that you continue to minister and to find
those openings within their mind where action is necessary in order for
the Adjuster to make new impressions and to guide their thoughts into a
more Father-like manner. Simply soften them. Sweetly open them to your
love, to your steady hand, gently tending the soil of their mind,
rendering it more beautiful and more receptive to the Father’s light, His
love, His wisdom, His beauty. We offer our prayers to you now. Amen.
(Pause)

Good friends, rest in the Father. Let His love enfold you in stillness.
Breathe Him in, breathe Him out. He is your life. Good evening.