[from Marsha.\u00a0\u00a0 Only time I\u2019ve ever heard the statement \u201cbe of good cheer\u201d was in some Christmas song.\u00a0\u00a0 What is it that cheerleaders do?\u00a0\u00a0 How could we apply that to our everyday life?]<\/p>\n
The dictionary says:<\/p>\n
Noun 1. shout of encouragement, praise, or joy.<\/p>\n
From #110 at a workshop our teacher described the \u2018dream state\u2019 or \u2018sleep state\u2019 as when we just react mechanically to stimuli; and if it\u2019s something we don\u2019t like, we try to get rid of it and if it\u2019s something we do like, we try to hang on to it by methods appropriate for a child but not an adult.\u00a0\u00a0 See website and picture of man for the methods\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n
Here begins the ideas:<\/p>\n
And if you wake up out of your \u201cdream state\u201d long enough to consciously be awake enough, you could have your inner feeling rather optimum. The most optimum inner feeling I like best is laughin\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 See the joke.\u00a0\u00a0 And the best joke I see is the one I played on myself for a long long time.\u00a0\u00a0 And if one sees the joke; one, of course, is not making anything very important \u2013 is not dead serious which most everybody is. You know getting someone to smile sometimes is like pullin\u2019 teeth.<\/p>\n
So you see that our inner feeling can be optimum when we see the joke in things. How would your nutrition get along?\u00a0\u00a0 There has been many tests run that if you\u2019re eating when you\u2019re sad and\/or anxious, that all the digestive juices don\u2019t work \u2013 the food just lays there and rots. And, of course, no matter how good a food was when you dropped it in there, it lays and decays because you\u2019re sad, angry or anxious and pourin\u2019 something other than digestive juices on it, so it rots. And rotten expensive food is just as rotten as cheap stuff, right?<\/p>\n
And there is other indications that when you\u2019re enjoying yourself, havin\u2019 a ball, seeing the joke in things that the digestive juices are rollin\u2019 freely and it digests the food, cleans up the whole deal. So the optimum of nutrition is not only the food but also the inner feeling of the person that eats it, right?\u00a0\u00a0 But if you can see a wonderful time, seeing the joke as you look at \u201cwhat\u2019s goin\u2019 on\u201d or \u201cwhat you\u2019re doing\u201d and having a ball observing those, then the food digests. We have a little statement around the place that says the food tastes good when it is prepared with TLC \u2013 that is the best seasoning there is with it \u2013 \u201ctender loving care\u201d because we\u2019re enjoying cooking and eating it.<\/p>\n
Missy Diane cooked lunch the other day and she said nobody would eat it because she was all pushed out of shape when she cooked it. It smelled awful. And she finally went and threw it in the garbage pail. She said she would never even offer to serve it again because she was \u201cpushed out of shape\u201d about something when she cooked it; and it obviously wasn\u2019t very appetizing. And she is a wonderful cook — has the technical know how and prepares beautiful meals, but this one particular moment, she had her buttons pushed somewheres \u2013 some little thing she wanted to look at; and that meal was no great shakes. But any meal that\u2019s prepared with TLC and served likewise, why you keep things goin\u2019.<\/p>\n
I used to pay a \u201cchameleon\u201d (a woman at the front desk) to work in my medical office when I did general practice. She was a tall skinny gal that most people wouldn\u2019t consider very attractive; but she was an expert chameleon at seeing the joke in things (harmless jokes, not like the caustic humor on TV sit coms). And when people walked in, she kept the reception room constantly in laughter; and there was 14 chairs and then some additional chairs startin\u2019 out in the hall; and they were usually full. We were movin\u2019 people pretty rapidly; and there was never anybody that was really feelin\u2019 badly when they got into the private office because they already had a good laugh and were feelin\u2019 pretty good.<\/p>\n
There was one guy came in said I thought I was in a doctor\u2019s office \u2013 there\u2019s a bunch of people out there that are laughin\u2019 and nobody\u2019s sick here. I said, naturally that\u2019s what it\u2019s here for — a doctor\u2019s office is to get people well. Well, he didn\u2019t see the joke so he didn\u2019t stay. \u00a0There was another guy who noticed the wonderful mood in the place and commented when he got into my office.\u00a0\u00a0 He said, \u201cWell, everybody\u2019s so happy, do I have to pay?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 I said, \u201cYou\u2019d better believe it!\u201d<\/p>\n
So when you can really enjoy yourself and laugh, you are feelin\u2019 pretty good. And when you\u2019re stressed you\u2019re pretty well out of shape \u2013 you can\u2019t feel real tense and up tight while you\u2019re laughin\u2019. Did you ever try it?<\/p>\n
But you see, there is a little order out that you shouldn\u2019t laugh because that way you\u2019re not taking things seriously. I\u2019ve even heard it said that laughter is the work of the devil.<\/p>\n
But the great teacher said \u201cbe of good cheer \u2013 and in nothing be anxious\u201d. Is that in the Holy Scripture? That\u2019s another one of the things about going along with \u201cjudge not\u201d. In nothing be anxious; and \u201cbe of good cheer\u201d. What is good cheer? Is that sittin\u2019 around with a long face moanin\u2019 and worryin\u2019 and whimperin\u2019 and mumblin\u2019 in your beer when your talkin\u2019?<\/p>\n
So break out with joy, be of good cheer and in nothing be anxious \u2013 judge not and be awake. All these go all along pretty well together \u2018cause if you\u2019re awake, I\u2019ll guarantee you, you\u2019ll be of good cheer \u2018cause there\u2019s so many unbelievable jokes going on, and you\u2019re the biggest one. Can you see that sir?<\/p>\n
(Maybe.)<\/p>\n
So as an exercise, we\u2019re not gonna keep these commandments (that we\u2019ve heard and read about through the years) for this week. We\u2019re gonna go directly opposed to them. We\u2019re going to make everthing serious like we\u2019ve been doing all the time anyway, only we reacted and did them unconsciously.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna worry and fret \u2013 we\u2019re gonna stay asleep and do everything mechanically.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna make everything important and find out the cause of it \u2013 what we can blame it on, okay? And we obviously are not gonna be of good cheer.<\/p>\n
If you really break out laughin\u2019, you feel kind of guilty about it, don\u2019t you? Especially when everybody is all seriousness around you.<\/p>\n
In nothing be anxious, but we\u2019ve been anxious about the kids, the family, the automobile, the finances, the food, the doctor and about this and that. What have you not been anxious about this week? Tell me one thing you weren\u2019t anxious about last week.\u00a0\u00a0 So this week we\u2019re gonna deliberately follow it the way we have been all along these many years; and next week you might find it\u2019ll be a little easier to be of good cheer.<\/p>\n
I get calls all day long every day. The \u201cstuff\u201d that pours through my telephone wire didn\u2019t sound like good cheer \u2013 stopped up the septic tank and run all over the floor and had to tear up the carpet to clean it up.\u00a0\u00a0 Is that like bein\u2019 of good cheer? I won\u2019t buy any of it.<\/p>\n
How about you Esther?<\/p>\n
(I\u2019ve been pretty anxious.)<\/p>\n
And when you was anxious, you was lookin to see how to get out of bein\u2019 anxious, so you were judging something.<\/p>\n
(I was judging, yes. I was sound asleep.)<\/p>\n
Sound asleep or you wouldn\u2019t have been making anything important, is that right? So you haven\u2019t been much of a follower of the teachings in the last few days, is that it? So you\u2019re deliberately not gonna follow the teachings this week, okay?<\/p>\n
(Okay.)<\/p>\n
Oh good, have fun.<\/p>\n
[from Marsha: If we look at that word \u201ccheer\u201d, how could we express it both to ourselves and others.\u00a0\u00a0 So if we take the idea of \u201cHow do I want to feel, and \u201cthink\u201d of the word \u201ccheer\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Then how would or could I act out the word \u201ccheer\u201d? Then after 30 minutes of acting it out, I will feel it and be able to express it.\u00a0\u00a0 When I observe someone who\u2019s cheerful, what do they do? How is their face? What do they say?\u00a0\u00a0 What a nice exercise to experiment with through this very day.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[from Marsha.\u00a0\u00a0 Only time I\u2019ve ever heard the statement \u201cbe of good cheer\u201d was in some Christmas song.\u00a0\u00a0 What is it that cheerleaders do?\u00a0\u00a0 How could we apply that to our everyday life?] The dictionary says: Noun 1. shout of … Continue reading