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[From Marsha – We all experience times when someone is angry at us or giving us a bunch of disapproval or a hard way to go. Usually we mechanically react and think the only recourse is to get angrier back or run away in fear.\u00a0\u00a0 Below illuminates other ways to look at the inner turmoil and deal with those situations when they occur.<\/em><\/p>\n

All of us feel mistreated from time to time, particularly when someone violently disapproves of us and starts hollering. We suddenly find ourselves trying to \u201cdefend \u00a0what we did\u201d and then \u201cvowing to please them\u201d or \u201cself improve so they won\u2019t abandon or hate us\u201d.\u00a0 This is trying to deal with the situation by the \u201cB\u201d side.\u00a0 [see the picture of man on the webpage]<\/em><\/p>\n

And the other common way of dealing with this violent disapproval is to get angry and blame them, saying, \u201cThey made me do it!\u201d Again we are on the defensive, but in this case we use loud complaining, attempts to stick up for our \u201crights\u201d which, of course, they refuse to hear and so the conflict increases.\u00a0 And this is dealing with the situation with the \u201cA\u201d side.<\/em><\/p>\n

If we use the \u201cA\u201d side we create alienation, which leads to an emotion of guilt and\/or fear especially if we go too far in our outburst of anger; and sometimes we find out that we were in error in our blaming. In other words we misunderstood their words and\/or motives or some unseen part of the situation.<\/em><\/p>\n

If we use the \u201cB\u201d side we can create emotions of guilt from not speaking up and\/or fear of one kind or another, and this can result in self-blaming and self-pity.\u00a0\u00a0 It all becomes a din of emotions, inner arguments, and a lot of misconceptions and mishandling of situations.\u00a0 I have experienced these emotions at times to the point that I couldn\u2019t understand anything I was reading in the present moment.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t remember what I had just done, couldn\u2019t figure out what to do next \u2013 not only about the situation but also about regular daily activities.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

It can be said that this is \u201cmotion\u201d coming into us. It\u2019s a form of energy that perhaps we don\u2019t like.\u00a0 Below are ideas of what we can do about this incoming motion.\u00a0 They\u2019re taken from a talk given on 7\/14\/79 and another one in Newport Beach in 1980.\u00a0 It may be old news, but the ideas are as necessary now as they have always been.\u00a0 There are four ways we can deal with energy or unpleasant emotions when \u201cI feel mistreated\u201d.\u00a0 Our teacher describes the \u201cmechanical ways\u201d we use in reaction to incoming motion along with some different ways we can work with it.]<\/em><\/p>\n

From a Workshop Given 7\/14\/79<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(Audience participation is in parenthesis.) [Clarifications and my comments are italicized with brackets.]\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Now we’ll try to talk about what you can do with energy or unpleasant motion that comes to you from others. I think those two words are interchangeable.\u00a0\u00a0 So there\u2019s four possible things you can do with energy when it comes along:\u00a0 You can return it, hold it, destroy it and\/or originate a new motion.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Now if you received a bit of energy from someone\u2019s anger and you returned it, you have a fight on your hands; and as we said, that’s hard on your clothes, huh? Real hard.\u00a0 Or you could be very polite and hold it; and then of course, we get ulcers and headaches and backaches and all sorts of other physical miseries that come along with held resentment.\u00a0 And there is still one other thing we can do.\u00a0 We can destroy the incoming motion from somebody <\/em><\/p>\n

So now one of the nicest things that any of us could learn is that we don\u2019t know how to prevent somebody originating a motion I don\u2019t like; and all of a sudden I get some disapproval and I want to return that motion or hold it.<\/p>\n

To return motion is dangerous and to hold it is deadly; but there is another way to deal with incoming motion. You have this beautiful ability to imagine and you can burn up all this incoming motion so you don\u2019t have to adapt to it.<\/p>\n

So now you could destroy this motion. Now we all fantasize certain things.\u00a0 Do you fantasize a little bit? So now we could use that ability to fantasize to destroy motion.\u00a0 Now could you sit down and fantasize a lot of violence?<\/p>\n

(It depends on what you call violence.)<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s say explosions, taking swords and chopping their heads off, whacking things. Could you fantasize that?<\/p>\n

(Yes, I can sit here right now and do it.)<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about. Do you feel bad about it?\u00a0 Does it hurt anyone?<\/p>\n

(No, not really.)<\/p>\n

But it might relieve you of a lot of tension. If there\u2019s some guy who was so worked up with mobilized and unreleased anger in him that he wanted to go out and kill 16 people with his axe, which would you rather he do: \u00a0fantasize it or act it out?\u00a0\u00a0 Would you rather he fantasized blowing you up or would you rather he come with his axe and chopped you up?<\/p>\n

(I would rather he fantasize.)<\/p>\n

I believe that would be appropriate because that doesn\u2019t hurt you or anybody else, is that right?<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t harm anyone, but it does relieve it within you\u2014it destroys it. It\u2019s like if you had an old steam engine.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have many steam engines anymore, but we\u2019ll draw one. [he draws one on the blackboard]<\/em><\/p>\n

So you got a firebox under here and you put a big fire in. You put water in the boiler.\u00a0 You got a pipe for the steam to come out here.\u00a0 And you got a whistle stuck on the boiler and you got a big wheel on it.\u00a0 And you got a safety valve \u2013 a pop-off valve they call it.\u00a0 Any of you here ever been around a steam engine and know about those things?<\/p>\n

So you had a pop-off valve in case the pressure was too great for the boiler. You had a gauge to let you know if the pressure was too great.\u00a0 Now if you block the wheel and you block the whistle and you couldn\u2019t let the steam off with the pop-off valve because somebody said, \u201cI don\u2019t like the sound of that pop-off valve,\u201d but you kept pouring the fire in here\u2014would you tell me what\u2019ll happen to the boiler?<\/p>\n

(It will explode.)<\/p>\n

It will crack \u2013 in no uncertain terms. Now most people are put together somewhat analogous to that steam engine.\u00a0 Sometimes there is a continual inflow of irritations to you.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had a little bit of those, haven\u2019t you?\u00a0 So you\u2019ve been taught not to beat \u2018em up.\u00a0 That\u2019d be the wheel.\u00a0 You can\u2019t scream and yell \u2013 so that would be the whistle.<\/p>\n

So the pop-off valve is to imagine different scenarios that would destroy the incoming motion, ok? And you\u2019re not allowed to use that either because that\u2019s \u201cbad.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s bad to sit around and fantasize all kinds of violence \u2013 that\u2019s terrible, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

(Yes, I\u2019m not free to fantasize violence\u2014my parents and teachers said it was a bad thing to do.)<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t do that. So you don\u2019t say anything, you hold the emotion in and then have a whole lot of held resentment.\u00a0 So that\u2019s when the unpleasant scene goes through the mind over and over and you wind up, within 24 to 48 hours, with stiffness and soreness and if continued on indefinitely, then you have unusual cellular activity, unusual sensation, tissue cell alteration and breakdown and the folks say, \u201cYou just never know when illness will strike!\u00a0 You just never know\u2026\u201d\u00a0 But what\u2019s happened?\u00a0\u00a0 All the mobilized and unreleased energy generated and held has to be adapted to and the body gets rid of it through what we call illness.<\/p>\n

Now to be sick is respectable\u2014you can burn it up that way. It\u2019s all right to have various of your organs cut out and thrown away and taking innumerable medications\u2014that\u2019s all right isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 That\u2019s acceptable.\u00a0 In other words, it\u2019s all right to patch boilers, but first the boiler cracks and blows, is that right?<\/p>\n

So you inwardly react to the unpleasant things said and done to you. You can almost feel it, like the fire in the firebox of the steam engine, only it\u2019s in your solar plexus and you react to fight or run.\u00a0 But, of course if you let the anger out, all kinds of conflicts occur with the world outside of you.\u00a0 If you hold it and don\u2019t do anything, that mobilized and unreleased energy (steam in the engine) has no place to go.\u00a0 So now, you could get off by yourself and use your imagination to destroy that motion\u2026 but you never have thought about using that.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve all been taught to be \u201cnice\u201d and that any alternative is \u201cbad\u201d, so we couldn\u2019t use the safety valve. You can\u2019t blow the whistle because that\u2019s not nice; and you certainly can\u2019t stop the wheel because that\u2019s sure bad.\u00a0 So the only thing left on the steam engine is for the boiler to crack, is that right?\u00a0 That\u2019s when you get sick, hmm? Violent headaches and all these things \u2013 so you have the unusual cellular activity, the unusual sensation that goes with it.\u00a0 And if you keep it up long enough\u00a0 finally the tissue cells will alter or break down.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

Now does that make sense that you can\u2019t use the safety valve? Wonder how come we are designed so that we can fantasize things.\u00a0 How come you have that faculty?<\/p>\n

(So, imagination is a gift.)<\/p>\n

It is a gift, but you\u2019re not allowed to use it only for very little things, is that right? You can\u2019t use it to save your life or the body with; you only can use it for making a poem, painting a picture or composing a song.\u00a0 Those activities are wonderful and valuable but it seems to me we can also use it to alleviate the body from a lot of stress we put on it in our mechanical reactions to unpleasant things that occur.\u00a0 So you\u2019re not hurting me if you sit here and imagine poking swords through me are you?\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel a thing.\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n

(I\u2019ll get you\u2026\u2026\u2026.)\u00a0\u00a0 (Laugher)<\/p>\n

Well good, it won\u2019t hurt me a bit in the world. So you see you could hit me on the head with a hammer or anything in your imagination if I did or said something you found yourself reacting to.\u00a0 You\u2019d have total charge.\u00a0 Now you could burn all this mobilized and unreleased energy up and that would sure be better that tearing holes in the body. \u00a0And you know if you do this little exercise a few minutes, you can either feel lighter or you start laughing.<\/p>\n

A story\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

One time I was down here in the southern part of the country and they brought in a nice old gentleman who was sitting in a wheel chair and he\u2019d been there for three years.\u00a0\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t move without the wheelchair.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t stand up.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t walk \u2013 couldn\u2019t do anything.\u00a0\u00a0 So we talked for a while just rambling around.\u00a0 I asked him some kind of questions of who he disliked most and he said the next door neighbor.\u00a0 I said, \u201cWhat\u2019d he do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, the old gent lived on a farm. He said his neighbor went out on a windy day in March and set the field afire (sage grass) and the fire came across and burned his barn down.\u00a0 You know he got some incoming motion here and he wanted to return it.\u00a0 But he was scared to do that because what he wanted to do was take his shotgun and go shoot the man.\u00a0 But he got to figuring that would get him in jail, so he just held that motion.\u00a0 So after three years, he still had all this motion having his barn burned down from this stupid neighbor setting the field afire on a windy March day.\u00a0 So he found himself in a wheelchair unable to move just like he was also unable to return that motion to the neighbor.<\/p>\n

So we started to work that he fantasize putting this neighbor on a stump and putting two big sticks of dynamite in the stump and blowing the man up. I said, \u201cNow go gather up the pieces, put the guy back together\u2014you know, if you blow him up in your head you can put him back together and set him up there again because once wasn\u2019t quite enough.\u00a0 Set him on the stump and blow him up again.\u201d\u00a0 So he blew him up a number of times, then he took the pitchfork and piled all the bones up and the pieces up and suddenly he starting laughing.<\/p>\n

And I said, \u201cWell, let\u2019s go out and see the rest of the family.\u201d They were in the living room and the rest of them out in the Florida house in the back yard.\u00a0\u00a0 So he got up out of the chair and walked on.\u00a0 He walked out the back door and his grandson came out and said, \u201cGrandpa, you<\/em> can\u2019t walk!\u201d \u00a0\u00a0So he got rather embarrassed, you know, because his grandchild, the little guy, had never seen him walk.<\/p>\n

Now which was better\u2014to fantasize or to go along for years holding this motion with mobilized and unreleased energy being paralyzed? So he had unusual cellular activity and unusual sensation\u2014he was tied down, paralyzed, couldn\u2019t walk \u2013 had not walked for three years since the barn got burned down.\u00a0 It took two weeks to get himself worked into that situation<\/p>\n

Now he could have undone that mobilized and unreleased energy quite easily with a little fantasy, which didn\u2019t hurt the old neighbor, right? It didn\u2019t hurt the neighbor a bit\u2014he\u2019s still out there setting fires.\u00a0 Do you think it was wrong for him to fantasize?<\/p>\n

You know when it\u2019s just fantasy you can let it really rip.\u00a0 It\u2019s not going to hurt anybody but it\u2019s an awful easy way to destroy motion.\u00a0 Now I don\u2019t say it\u2019s the only way; there are gobs more.\u00a0 I just happen to find that one kind of funny and delightful.<\/p>\n

(Now other than to the gentleman himself, was there any difference whether the man held those feelings or imagined them? Did it make any difference to anybody else?)<\/p>\n

A difference to anybody else?\u00a0\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t hurt the guy that set the fire, one way or the other\u2014whether the old guy said, \u201cI forgive him, I forgive him.\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m going to blow him up!\u201d\u00a0 It didn\u2019t make any difference.\u00a0 But it made an awful lot of difference to the man sitting in the chair, yes.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t move, he was immobilized with this mobilized and unreleased energy because he was really ticked off at that guy for settin\u2019 that fire on a windy March day and lettin\u2019 the wind burn the fire right up and take his nice barn down.\u00a0 Obviously he was a little upset about it.\u00a0 But immediately he can get over it.<\/p>\n

So if you want to turn all that mobilized and unreleased energy a\u2019loose tonight, you can just have yourself a Hitchcock horror show and get rid of it. You can write the script, direct the part\u2014you can have a Vincent Price deal and get it over with tonight.\u00a0 You can build you a nice big room about this size full of every conceivable kind of torture instrument; and you can go down there and work all evening.<\/p>\n

(Sometimes I enjoy holding that resentment.)<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t say you had to use it. If you want to hate him for a week or six months or two years, hate him up a storm. But when you want to get over it, use the safety valve, ok?\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about an avenue of use where you don\u2019t have to be in a bind and you don\u2019t have to destroy the body because you don\u2019t know what to do with motion as it comes into you.<\/p>\n

Now these are things we weren\u2019t taught in second grade, third grade or graduate courses in college, is that right? Once energy is mobilized, it\u2019s a one-way street.\u00a0\u00a0 Now it\u2019s got to be used.\u00a0 We all have the potential of mobilizing a lot of energy but we don\u2019t mobilize it until we have a use for it.<\/p>\n

See, if I stood up on that table and jumped off, I\u2019d mobilize exactly the amount of energy for whatever the body weighs this moment from the top of the table to the floor. I wouldn\u2019t hurt it.\u00a0 Were you ever driving down the street and a kid run out in front of you?\u00a0 It takes a little bit of effort to step down on that power brake; but in that moment, you\u2019ve mobilized enough energy in that few seconds to probably pick the car up and throw it around.<\/p>\n

Did you ever have that happen, Betty? Something run out in front of you? \u00a0Slam on the power brakes?\u00a0 You don\u2019t use it up, but you mobilize a great amount of energy because you saw the child being hit, thrown all over, you in court and everything else\u2014the split second you saw him.\u00a0 Ok?<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t reverse it. Now it has to be used.\u00a0 So how about destroying the energy?\u00a0 It won\u2019t hurt the kid.\u00a0 Use your imagination in any way you can to creatively destroy the mobilized and unreleased energy.\u00a0 It might save you many violent headaches.\u00a0 Might save you all kinds of degenerative disorders through the years.<\/p>\n

So could you use the gift given you as a means to destroy these motions or energy that we mobilize sometimes without having a use for it? Is that right?\u00a0 So you mobilized it \u2013 it\u2019s there. \u00a0Now you don\u2019t have to carry it around and let the boiler break, do you?\u00a0 You can go use it up right now.\u00a0 It won\u2019t hurt a soul; nobody knows what you\u2019re doing but you and it\u2019s a very private affair.\u00a0 Now you have a little incinerator where you can burn up mobilized and unreleased energy.\u00a0 You got one built in.<\/p>\n

(What about when you\u2019ve gone through this fantasy and you haven\u2019t seen the other person for maybe six months or so and then you see him and you come apart again?)<\/p>\n

Oh, I\u2019d blow him up again. Fantasizing is available any hour of the day and night, honey.<\/p>\n

(Do we get a similar type of release from when we dream at night, as when we fantasize?)<\/p>\n

Well, thank goodness dreams do a little of it. We won\u2019t do it ourselves in daytime, so we have to dream at night.\u00a0 But a lot of times the dream is not quite powerful enough because it keeps waking you up if it\u2019s powerful enough.\u00a0 But we\u2019re talking about day-dreaming and night dreaming \u2013 are very similar.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how you go to sleep, but when I lay down I start me a dream that I like; and that\u2019s the end of it. I start it and go into 20 more before morning, I guess.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, but I always start one.\u00a0 That\u2019s the way to go to sleep.<\/p>\n

(Would you comment on physically channeling some of this energy as opposed to just fantasizing such has heading out toward the woodpile and imagining somebody\u2019s face there?)<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t get anything from just the physical, it\u2019s still only the fantasy you put into it. You go out and get that block of wood, Roger, and you haul off and whack him one.\u00a0 Now you\u2019ve got the amount of energy mobilized against the block from what you\u2019re going to do, from fantasizing you got enough to burn up your mobilizing.\u00a0\u00a0 Still has to come that way, otherwise it won\u2019t work, ok?<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s so interesting. It doesn\u2019t work unless it\u2019s actually fantasized.)<\/p>\n

On no, because if I\u2019m going to pick you up and throw you around it takes that amount of energy. I have to mobilize that to pick you up.\u00a0 Now, if I go do something else, then I\u2019ve got to fantasize in order to burn up this excess stored energy from yesterday or the day before or ten years ago, ok?\u00a0 What are we waiting for?\u00a0 It is the fantasizing that does the work.<\/p>\n

(The other stuff would be unnecessary to cause the fantasy to really sink in.)<\/p>\n

Right, because I just want to know who I\u2019m burnin\u2019 up and who I\u2019m exploding and what all I\u2019m doin\u2019, ok?<\/p>\n

Originating a motion from Newport Beach, CA \u2013 1980<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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[Before we go on with originating a motion, which can be based upon understanding, I\u2019d like to offer the definition of Agape: It means that I see that whatever anyone (including self) has ever done, is doing or ever will do is at the moment of doing it felt to be right, or proper, or justifiable with the amount of light one has.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anti-Agape is seeing a person as knowing the right thing to do, but the person goes on and does wrong anyway.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Ok, somebody comes up and gives me a bit of anger or some unpleasant emotion. I could destroy it because I see that it is totally worthless, ok?\u00a0 So we use the thing called Agape to destroy energy, incoming motion from somebody else.\u00a0 They’re doin’ what they feel is right, proper and justifiable; and I’m not having any of it, ok?\u00a0 And then one is free to generate energy.\u00a0 Now I can begin to be friendly to the person.\u00a0 I can have a nice feeling about them.\u00a0 I can be enthusiastic about getting along with them or getting away from them \u2013 either one would be all right.\u00a0 Just get out of the area.\u00a0 And then we can be generating energy.\u00a0 Now I think that most of us could usually stand to be able to be a human generator, huh?<\/p>\n

You see, the way you act, you will produce a feeling, is that right? Now if you have a feeling of enthusiasm or vital interest or even just being very thankful that you’re alive and all in one piece today, able to get around, you are generating tremendous amounts of energy.\u00a0 Now if I generated a bunch of anger energy, everyone would want to be away from me.\u00a0 It’s a repelling energy.\u00a0 Now it may be very energetic, but it would be repelling to you because there’s different forms of it.\u00a0 If I was very enthusiastic, you would like to be around me.\u00a0 If I’m very happy, you would like to be around me, is that correct?<\/p>\n

(Yes.)<\/p>\n

And a pleasant person is full of energy, is that usually the situation? Hmm?\u00a0 They generate it because they are thankful.\u00a0 Now when you’re very thankful and you\u2019re very alive and showin’ off your pretty wines and everything, people like to come, don’t they?<\/p>\n

(You bet.)<\/p>\n

And when you’re down in your dumps \u2013<\/p>\n

(They don’t come.)<\/p>\n

They don’t come, do they? Now we have talked about this in relation to a business.\u00a0 If you’re around in a business and you’re very\u2026 generating a lot of energy from a very high mood of enthusiasm or whatever (thankfulness, you name it, plain downright gratitude that you’re alive, ok?) people flock there for some reason.\u00a0 They don’t know why but from way off, they will come because they are attracted to that feeling.\u00a0 Now most of us are unaware of what’s attracting us to a place.\u00a0 I have people tell me, “Well I just stumbled into that place.”\u00a0 But then they keep going back all the time.\u00a0 Now they didn’t just stumble in (or maybe they did) but something was attracting them and they kept going toward it in spite of themselves.\u00a0 They had no particular intention; but you follow things where there is energy levels of a kind.<\/p>\n

Ok. Now if somebody attracts you, it is because they have a certain kind of energy and you like to be around it.\u00a0 If somebody repels you or leaves you “blah”, neutral, it is a kind of energy that you either don’t want to be around or really doesn’t give you a lot of interest.\u00a0 Now what kind do you most feel you would be attracted by?<\/p>\n

(I like when people are serene.)<\/p>\n

That’s a pretty good one, ok? Now that, to me, is vital interest \u2013 that a person is vitally interested.\u00a0 They’re serene and peaceful and that’s kind of nice to be around, right?\u00a0 Now enthusiasm is not quite as serene \u2013 it’s serene and peaceful, but it’s more alive, it’s more vibrant, hmm?\u00a0 Now can you by your own efforts and your own intentions generate the kind of energy you want for all the rest of us to be attracted to rather than repelled by?\u00a0 You can.<\/p>\n

(But the family generates energy waves I don’t like.)<\/p>\n

Yes they do….but you know, you can, instead of fightin’ about somebody else’s energy waves, you just get one higher and generate the kind you would like for them to put out and they’ll do it. But who’s responsible for the household’s level, you or others?<\/p>\n

(Well, I guess I\u2019m responsible for mine….)<\/p>\n

Yes you are \u2013 you\u2019re the only one who can be\u2026 and you can by taking yours two notches higher, at least, than anybody else’s is. Everybody will follow, ok?\u00a0 So let’s say that somebody is generating anger here.<\/p>\n

(Yes.)<\/p>\n

The next one above that is Boredom [see Tone Scale on the webpage]<\/em> and the next is Contentment.\u00a0 Even if you only radiate contentment, they will shut up in a very short order.\u00a0 I just quits like that.\u00a0 It really does.\u00a0 Don’t take my word for it, go try it out.<\/p>\n

(Can you generate so much enthusiasm about everything?)<\/p>\n

Without opening your mouth, yes. I can do it, and it even travels at a distance and you don’t hear a word, is that right?\u00a0 It will be there because you can start it going, yes.<\/p>\n

Having run restaurants, sometimes they’re very noisy. There’s certain people come in (especially if they’ve been waiting two hours in a holding pen and they’ve imbibed a certain amount of alcohol) they’re very noisy and I don’t like noisy restaurants.\u00a0 I like a pretty smooth hum.\u00a0 And I’ve walked out in the middle of the place, leaned against a post and in 15 minutes it’s quiet and the pretty hum’s back.\u00a0 All you do is generate some serenity in there over the level of the booze talkin’, ok?\u00a0 That’s all it takes and you can do it without saying a word to a single person.\u00a0 But you’ve really got to be feeling<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

So I can act enthusiastic without ever openin\u2019 my mouth. Now, of course, in my<\/em> case the mouth gets involved \u00a0because I’m a storyteller, so I’m liable to start saying somethin\u2019 right quick.\u00a0 But under many cases, just go stand against a post like that out in the restaurant to calm it down.\u00a0 Because it’s getting out of hand when it starts getting \u201cstaticky.\u201d\u00a0 The next thing they do is start complaining and when they start complaining, they start causing other people to do the same.\u00a0 So we\u2019d go out and generate a wonderful bit of enthusiasm; and they would all come down to the nice pleasant hum that you can hear in a restaurant where everybody’s very happy with what’s goin\u2019 on.\u00a0\u00a0 All the customers are happy.\u00a0 And that is a very decided asset and you don’t have to say a word.\u00a0 You can only act the way the body is.\u00a0 In other words, you can wear a smile.\u00a0 You can stand up straight like you were feeling vibrantly good, that you could barely keep your feet on the ground, hmm?\u00a0 You’re about to levitate.\u00a0 That’s what it takes to get it there.\u00a0 That’s the way it works, and it will do it very quickly.<\/p>\n

(And that is with a feeling of thankfulness or gratefulness…..)<\/p>\n

That would be one of ’em \u2013 enthusiasm. I’d start with at least being very thankful, yes.\u00a0 And I could go a little bit higher, you know.\u00a0 You could go up to where you were just decidedly enthusiastic about something.\u00a0 But definitely start with the level of at least being thankful, ok?<\/p>\n

Now you got to act it out, not just talk about it. The body has to be involved in these things, not just your head. \u00a0Because I have never seen a mind runnin’ around by itself and I’ve never seen a body runnin’ around without some sort of a vital system in it.\u00a0 And I’ve never seen the vital thing runnin\u2019 around without a body.\u00a0 So don’t think you’re a mind and a body \u2013 you’re a human being and that includes both of ’em.\u00a0 The whole thing’s gotta work or you’re not generating.\u00a0 In other words, if you had a greatest dynamo in the world and you had a great waterfall to run it with, but you didn’t have the water pouring on the paddlewheel, you wouldn’t generate any electricity, ok?\u00a0 So all of us has gotta be involved in it.\u00a0 In other words, I think this is probably what is meant by commitment.\u00a0 It’s easy to sit and think about something, huh?\u00a0 But unless you act upon it, it is totally worthless. It has no value, no push, no punch, no nothin’ else.\u00a0 If you act without being aware of what you’re doing, it wouldn’t have any punch, ok?\u00a0 But you are a unit and all of you has gotta be involved in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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