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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2010" Day="22"
Month="3"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">March 22,
2010</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The seasons of living)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Health and unhealthy habits; the role
of faith)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The real, deep fun)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Learning truth with faith)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Finding a living balance)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Further--on
health)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Stretching mind and body)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Marvelous curiosity)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for your recent
series of lessons on how to become aware of, and how to deal with, some of our
more intractable physical problems--defining a bad habit--for now--simply as one
that’s unhealthy. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This last year we’ve had a very
vigorous national debate on the role of government in our health care--just
where the many and interrelated responsibilities lie. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do take your point that that no amount
of after-the-fact care can make up for years and years of neglect when it comes
down to an individual human being of free will dignity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m informed that a large percentage,
perhaps way over half, of our health care costs are due to chronic illnesses
caused by those choices we make, and most of this is due to a few things like
smoking and drinking, junk food, serious drug abuse--prescription and non-; all
of these coupled with far too little physical activity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We take your further point that until
these habits can be become more conscious, an individual has no choice in
changing his or her behavior. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We thank you for presenting us with the
problem honestly, that as human beings we can only choose an ideal like better
health and move in that direction from a position first of consciousness, but
also then toward something better, some practical, realizable choice of
something better to put in the place of those things we’d rather not
continue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are thrown back upon
our essence of being spiritual beings, creative beings who need to--both
individually and collectively--alone and together--create these alternatives for
ourselves and for those we love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
thank you for stating the human dilemma so plainly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my sons, this is
Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I
receive your thanks, and we thank you in turn for, first of all, just being
here, and then too for really doing your best to open your hearts and open your
minds, open your feelings and your understanding, your hunger and curiosity to
know more about us and yourselves, and each other. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that marvelous, marvelous gift of
God’s--this living thing of curiosity springing up. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s that part of your human spirit and
mentality that Mother Spirit augments with her own being: your thirst for
knowledge--just the pure facts of life; then how you correlate and put them all
together in understanding--all the infinite connections across time and space
you can discover between them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her
Holy Spirit augments your courage to use your power to explore the wonder, to
get into the inner and outer adventures that await you, and embrace them with
enthusiasm.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The seasons of living)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You say of the very stuff of life--the
fun, sometimes too is the scariness, the terror of the terrible, for in this
adventure of living you will all know to some degree physical pain and injury,
mental anguish and uncertainty, spiritual exhaustion and loneliness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is that essence of the adventure
that will try you, and it does take a mature wisdom to whole-heartedly embrace
this trial, for you don’t know--at first--this is how you grow. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your childhood willpower blossoms like a
little flower, totally unbounded, yet meets the firm edges of other-reality,
either the physical stuff of the world, or your compatriots, and all your wild
imaginations and dreams, all your childish, youthful gleefulness for simply
more, do meet those objective edges of reality and get trimmed back. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You go through your internal seasons of,
first, spring time--blossoming with boundless ambition. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do have your summer times of
accomplishment and accumulation. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But then because of only half-conscious
overreaching, you suddenly find yourself as if up in the air, off the real
ground, and comes the crash. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are in a kind of fall, an autumn when the cold winds of reality start to trim
you back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where you were once
blossoming--extending yourself in all directions--you find you are being pruned
rather severely with what may seem to be personal mistakes and mis-estimations
of the world, of people. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Then comes the winter when you have to
withdraw back into yourself, hibernate as it were to mull over all that that
last inner round of seasons has been.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You do all this a little every day: evaluating.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You rest, pondering all these things,
and sleep, and heal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then here
comes another spring inside, and now you’re a little wiser. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve got a soul and it’s grown; it’s
more active in your life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now your
intentions blossom forth again, maybe just to get through the day, but you have
a bigger, hard-earned real ground of experience to stand on, so your desires are
a little more down to earth, a little more practical, a little more
realizable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re learning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Off you go again into a new adventure
that is partly your own--along with the rest of the universe. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re taking the next step, a necessary
step, my children, because the adventure has no end to
it.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>About the time you’re getting nice and
comfortable in this human life on Urantia, you’re just totally whisked
away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You awake on another world,
an architectural sphere with its own plant and animal life, and Morontia
material.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re in a body that’s
so transformed we can give you only a few hints as to how expanded all of your
physical senses and inner spiritual sensitivity and understanding will be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ll be overwhelmed at first with the
simple fact of having survived--in that place, all about you--yet there is still
another step to take, and another, as you walk out into that more soulful world
with a glorious new spring time inside.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As Mother Spirit said last time, the
situation is ever changing, yet ever the same for the increasing understanding
of your personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
growing; your past keeps getting larger. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this human life of yours you are
earning this realm, this material, living plant and animal world, and so you
will always have this. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
always be able to perceive and relate to the evolutionary worlds of the cosmos.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ll always feel a kinship with
all the different, various orders of human beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This past of yours is literally being
captured by a presence of God. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is your soul. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is to you now an
enormous, extra-dimensional Morontia reality that you have to grow your
consciousness in order to encompass it on the day you merge with it and its
co-author. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You have a future that you rightfully
give the name eternity. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you
will spend all eternity fulfilling--filling out, if you will--that concept.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right now it’s just a word symbol
pointing at something you have only begun to
experience.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So far, as a human being, neither past
nor future has any personal existence for you outside of this eternal now in
which you enjoy your ever changing consciousness of being. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your memories and forecasts are dependent
upon, in part, the workings of your material mind based in a living physical
brain and nervous system; and general health.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet as your Urantia book informs you,
you are super-minded. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
God-given personality endowed with creative spirit makes you more than just a
super animal. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a personal
being with all the powers and responsibilities of a unique being who can, in the
final analysis, relate totally only to God’s presence within you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will always be an irreducibly
inexpressible part of you and your experiences you cannot share even with your
own kind--just because you are unique: something that is just yours and
God’s.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Further, you are to yourself a mystery
insofar as your past, as captured by your soul, is unfathomable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To soulfully relive even a few moments
of your past in all fullness you have to sit down and totally give up your
awareness of your present surroundings, perhaps by listening to a piece of music
from that time. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then too your
memories constantly change as your understanding and your soul grow, for as your
soul is a more perfectly balanced, part-spiritual entity, the more you are in
touch with it the more you achieve a balance and understanding of the past that
is more than just memory. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Simple
memory, without the depth and breath of soul, is always partial: memory is
always just your part, and then only as best as you can remember it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul contains your life as seen
from God’s spiritually all-inclusive point of view as
well.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Health and unhealthy habits; the role of
faith)) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so when you approach something like
a bad habit--something established in your past that seems to arise
spontaneously all by itself--these impulses are generally part physical craving
for a good feeling, and part psychological realization--immediate reward that
something works. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Material mind and
body are obviously living intertwined and this felt relief is both physical and
mental, yet spiritual too insofar as it is being valued.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do have to find and create something
of greater value--something to replace this dependence--that works too, only
better--with greater freedom. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
has to be the choice because, as Mother Spirit noted, there is truly something
to give up. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is that immediate
physical comfort and mental reassurance of what has worked in the past: but at
what cost? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is also, to give
up, just the fun of being bad--deliberately doing what you know you shouldn’t,
and/or flaunting social regulations--the fun of breaking the law. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s also just that pure, irresponsible
fun of irresponsibility--nonchalantly choosing to not respond to, and try, what
you do know better.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to
replace unhealthy ways with more fun, more feeling in both body and mind of
growing good health.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>True, there sometimes is that gap--for
some an enormous chasm of sickness--between your intention, already weakened by
bad health, and that time when, after you have successfully given up this bad
habit, you can start to feel the willpower and physical strength, along with the
mental clarity and genuine reassurance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So it’s not only your will power but your faith that carries you over
that gap of just, truly, giving something up; faith that something even
better--if you will, will come about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We call this faith because nothing else will do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why your more successful programs
to help folks give up really severe addictions do start with a recognition, by
faith, in something greater than their selves. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your connection with spirit, your
reaching out to someone greater than yourself for company and council.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes it is this essence of prayer
that helps you acknowledge to yourself the predicament you’re in. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s your faith in creative spirit--your
own and Other, greater Spirit--that gives you hope and enables you to act on
things not yet seen or felt.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Faith
in spirit bridges the gap between the ideal--the better health hoped for here
and now, and the real--when it starts happening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We ask you to have faith, my children,
even if you feel you cannot yet directly access it and use it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have faith in not only your Creator but
also in His absolute and infinite wisdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He knows how to create beings such as yourselves and endow you with
spirit, with a portion of His creativity: you are co-creator of your
future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He does this out of
absolute and infinite love for His children: it’s your freedom. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He has given you a way to create your way
forward--always with His help right within you, and with Mother Spirit and
myself beside and within you as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We’re here. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Together with
you we will come with that new life you need: beyond that it’s your
choice.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The real, deep fun) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yes, you do have to go through this
trial, this gap of not knowing exactly what that better life will be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That awaits the passage of time and
involves everything and everyone else. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not there yet: that’s your
orientation, your spirit of truth. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here’s where your faith comes in: that
your Father has given you the means to create your part of the future. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nothing shy of this will do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that better life by
definition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where you
realize--make real--that you yourself have the creative power to be happy, to
know a growing, ever greater good even beyond need--by free choice, just for the
fun of playing with God. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So consider these things in your
meditations. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give part of your day
to exercising your faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your
heart to feel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your curiosity
to wonder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your mind to
greater understanding of where you are, and what works, and what doesn’t, and
why, and at what cost. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have faith
in yourself, my children, that you are this creative spiritual being who will go
on into eternity creating your way forward with evermore constant, conscious
activity, lead by curiosity and faith, rewarded with still another step to take
into infinity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not some one
time thing you do, my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is moving into an ever more dynamic relationship with your self and all that
is--the rest of God’s living creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The future is unbounded: get used to
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Look forward to playing a healthier part
in it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
yours.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Now if you have any questions or
comments this evening, let them come forth.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t have any questions, Father
Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for the clarity
you bring to life; and that life is really very exciting.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s all moving forward, irrespective of
how it looks like from time to time.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Learning truth with faith)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re very welcome, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I do register the
spiritual suffering of our children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Urantia has been almost unique, with only a few other worlds, of being so
bereft for so long, in human development, of the presence of a high spiritual
Son living on the planet with his material staff.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then later, also a continuously
present Material Son and Daughter--Adam and Eve--would have helped further a
world-wide culture where these truths we offer would be felt from birth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As it is you have to learn these truths
with faith; they are not yet an intrinsic part of the broader social fabric in
which you’re raised.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have been
evolving your civilizations--your means of being civil with each other, in a
way, alone but for spiritual presences within and without.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel lonely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel being not only separated
from your spiritual parents and God, but worse, with no conscious awareness of
the soul-fulfilling spiritual dimensions of reality at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s actual for many: they feel only
the mental/physical unsatisfied hunger for something more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The real, good feeling and security of
creative spirit is still only potential for them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is a large part of what all
these unhealthy habits are trying to compensate, to fill up the time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>To these tortured souls the idea of
meditation seems beside the point; as in: What’s the point!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To one who has been killing time--your
very apt expression, a few minutes of highly-conscious being still and paying
attention can seem an unending hell because it does open time up to the
bottomless present moment<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>of,
perhaps, enormous pain and sickness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yet it is in your deliberate meditation and prayer you find the willpower
and the faith to open your hearts and minds to God’s presence within you, and
start a conscious relationship. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So carry on, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I are happy you are
finding this clarity in what we offer, and in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I don’t have a question
but more a concern about my own lack of fun in my life, or lack of faith or
initiative to step out of the encasements I put myself into, overworking
myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t really listen to my
soul and my body enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not
really unhealthy but I’m feeling a lot of discomfort and pain and
stiffness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything’s really sore
from all the work and sports I’ve been doing, and I am trying to take this as a
notice I should be paying more attention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So in thinking about stepping out into a more creative life--there’s a
lot of fear in that for me, like maybe I should drop a few clients; but in this
economy?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet I don’t want to live
my life always having to work for a living…but still not be irresponsible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I did participate in a retreat last
weekend that was really powerful, called Great Freedom; and before that, in what
I mentioned--something called Quantum Touch that was quite interesting as
well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am open to new things, but
my body is telling me something else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When Donna was here, transmitting, it was my Guardian Angel coming
through and prompting me to initiate some action from her perspective.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So...??<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Finding a living balance)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The greatest reassurance I can give
directly is that, with your hard-earned wisdom, your feeling for a kind of
balance in your life between work and play is a necessary, ongoing thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a part--(Michael chuckles)--of
being a human being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to
provide for yourself, your children, your old age.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel good about this
orientation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are learning how
to weigh things in that balance, both through your meditations and your
spiritual quests. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Further--on
health)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Spirit and I have given this
series of lessons to help our children put their personal understanding, and
their creative spirits, and their curiosity, right down into their bodies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gently stretch and explore your bodies
with all of these from the inside out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Each time is unique, and changing: alive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your bodies are so often taken for
granted and only paid attention when something goes wrong, or during times of
pleasure--though usefully so when you’re lost in what you’re doing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s how to break the dulling, routine
unconscious identification with your bodies and bring them more into
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For so many folks
what you call the laying on of hands, or more commonly, good massage and
body-work, part of the healing comes from these ways of introducing people to
their own body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They get to lay
there physically passive while someone else reminds them they have these
particular legs, and these back muscles, and these shoulders.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This re-introduction brings the power of
spirit and mind awareness into their body, and these alone can heal through this
inner awareness and God’s presence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>My son, your human life is a life-long
study of learning your body, not only because it is changing with the rest of
reality, and aging, but also because, as we’ve put it, your body too is another
infinity and mystery to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not
all your books in all your libraries have yet to plumb the depths of what it is,
and for you personally, moment by moment, your body is what?--99.99999 percent
unconscious processes?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Michael
chuckles)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You eat an apple and your
body converts it into energy for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You cut your finger and it heals.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Stretching mind and body)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is why Mother Spirit and I suggest
that, as you read these lessons, you let your minds and spirits stretch to
entertain what we offer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Later, gently, lovingly stretch
your bodies to feel them too, from the inside.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This becomes ever more critical, and
useful, as you get older and the joints become restricted with mineral
deposits.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Muscles and ligaments and
tendons tend to shorten.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Folks who
do find a great deal of physical work in their lives--like yourself--can get all
cramped up, the inflexibility putting pressure on any old injury.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you need more stretching, ever deeper
stretching as you feel it subjectively, just to keep your objective range of
motion; or better, increase it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Becoming all locked-up is the sad and tragic fate of old folks who were
never taught these simple principles, yet these principles of mind/body
union--yoga, were developed extensively in the Far East and have been in the
West for over a century.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So let me suggest this as a daily
exercise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Learn ways of how to
stretch your body, not by using muscles to pull you into some position, but
using the classic yoga positions that let gravity do the work while you
concentrate on feeling the muscles lengthen and the joints open up
by--relaxing--into the ache.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
pain you feel is your body telling you you’re approaching the usual limits of
motion here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to learn some
loving patience to let things relax.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>A famous dancer once said that a dancer
might know so much more pain in her life just because of the incessant
stretching to stay loose and limber; but then look at the marvelous lives of
supple, delicious movement they have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So consider this stretching of your body.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s another way of getting to know
yourself from the inside out, another deliberate continuity day to day--another
continuous thing you’re bringing into your life to learn and stay in touch
with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How does your body feel--this
morning as compared to yesterday and all that yesterday held?--or even a month
ago?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Now I know--(Michael laughs)--I’ve just
suggested another thing to do, but this is one of the most critically useful
things we could suggest for our physical children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No matter where your mind and
imaginative spirit may--and should--roam, your body obeys universal physical
law, God’s law, here on Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Cherish this fact: you have been given a living contact with the real:
stay in touch. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Marvelous curiosity)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Let me close this evening on that
note.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For so many it might seem
strange that your Creator Son, your Father and good friend, is giving you
physical advice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I say again that
this body of yours is a living infinity to you, a moment by moment strange land
you need to explore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s an
adventure, a challenge, to accept that you need to know more about yourself--all
these bones and muscles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So use
God’s gift of spirit curiosity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let
it bubble up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t assume you’ll
know how it’s going to feel until you get there and try it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stretch by relaxing, by letting go deep
into that ache that means the muscle is lengthening, the joint is
opening--gently! <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Slower and
slower.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To relax your body has to
learn to trust you will be careful; you have to earn that trust.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a greater sense you’ll be learning
simultaneously to trust your body’s wisdom and structures, and how to approach
them with love and wonder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This tender care is the opposite of
masochism--the simple-minded idea that if it hurts, it must be good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re only going gently beyond the
bounds of comfort because comfort, alone, has the tendency to shrink--first your
curiosity, then your body: less and less feels comfortable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is going the other way toward
greater range of movement, mentally and physically.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So cherish this marvelous gift of
God’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Treat it well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Learn it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s another dimension of who you are
and what you are adding to your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will, in time, give it up for something even better, but for now, let
your curiosity tickle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine a
healthier life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have fun with this
body of yours.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bring it ever more
into conscious awareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take
care.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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