[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 01/09/05

[rickgiles]

North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics: Spiritual Balance and Momentum.
Teachers: Elyon

January 9,2005

*	Elyon  (Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this is Elyon.  
While you are aware of my presence by way of this system of 
communication, you reflect that you have with you in your 
presence at your various locations, teachers.  It is our 
privilege to attend to your well-being.  We are sensitive to the 
presence of God within you and are humbled and honored to assist 
in your spiritual progress.  We observe your interest and 
enthusiasm as you receive our contact and incorporate our 
messages into your lives and your philosophies.  Yet with this 
attention you give I must remind you that the prime purpose of 
our work is your progress, that you are the reason for our 
enthusiasm and interest.
	This time of your year many consider changes in habit and 
behavior  and often are defeated from their intentions as the 
inertia of lifestyle erodes the energy from that new hope of 
change.  I wish to speak today about spiritual balance and 
momentum.
	You are in composition as a personality much like a wheel.  
By way of your will you have set into motion your spiritual 
growth.  Too often spiritual growth is viewed as merely another 
aspect of your whole being, seen as other than your various 
endeavors, assignments, responsibilities and titles.  In this 
view undertakings in your life are wrongly weighted with greater 
or lesser eternal value, and therefrom emerges conflict between 
what is holy and what is mundane.  What may result is an 
imbalance.  A conflict arises between the seemingly minuscule, 
temporal events and the more sought-for eternal endeavors.  As I 
said, you are like a wheel.  When such an imbalance takes place, 
the momentum of your growth is altered.  Your progress becomes 
wobbly and, if unaddressed, may bring you to a standstill.
	All points along this wheel may be thought of as every 
aspect of your individual self and your interface with people, 
projects, and responsibilities in your life.  Spirituality is 
the entirety of all these elements in harmony.  By establishing 
this perspective all things become sacred, the turning of the 
wrench, the sweeping of the floor.  As you grow in this 
understanding you contribute to the momentum of your growth, for 
you continually balance your life elements.  As one arena 
becomes burdensome, you elect to lighten its load.  As another 
element becomes wispy, you nourish it and increase its vitality 
and reestablish balance.  By your will you may increase 
velocity, upstep your momentum to a new level.  And by your will 
you may apply breaking forces and retard your progress.
	At times slowing progress is important that you may acquire 
time to process lessons learned and to distribute your wisdom 
throughout the multiple dimensions of your being and life.
	To be successful in applying a change in your habits or 
lifestyle, look to incorporate the change throughout all of 
yourself.  Adjust your attitude; reorganize your activities, and 
rearrange your desires.  By making changes in each element of 
yourself, you establish a greater stronghold, for your choice 
for change is planted at more places along your wheel than one.  
In so doing you better establish balance; the momentum of the 
past is allowed to continue and gently change as you proceed 
into the future.  This gradual transformation is less disruptive 
and quite successful.  To suddenly increase the velocity of a 
wheel can break elements within it, but a gentle increase 
encourages a healthy upstep.  Successful change is brought about 
by drawing out of your past that momentum which will propel you 
into your new sought-for condition, rather than a disruption of 
your past, a skidding to a stop and a restarting of a new 
direction.  This far too often fails.
	Carry forward with what you have and use your current level 
of attainment for the momentum of future growth.  Father dwells 
within you as an aid in maintaining your progress.  We dwell 
among you eager to assist.  You are the sole decision maker as 
to how you will grow, as to how balanced you will be, and how 
stable your momentum will stand.
	We have given you techniques such as stillness that 
encourage success.  These techniques are like balancing weights 
to your wheel that compensate during periods when other aspects 
of your being create imbalance.  When extremely busy and 
burdened with responsibility, stillness is the counterweight to 
bring balance.
	I am happy to be again with you.  I enjoy our fellowship.  
If you have any, you may ask questions.

	Evelyn:  I like your suggestion to find a change to make 
that appears in all areas of our lives.  It increases the 
likelihood of keeping it on our minds and encourages creativity 
in thinking of more than superficial change.  I could say, “I 
want to loose ten pounds.”  The way to make that happen is to 
want my health to increase, to be more active, to find ways to 
spend my time wisely.  That could repercuss in a lot of areas 
and more likely be successful and the focus to be more spirit in 
the end.

*	Elyon:  I applaud your comment.  I thank you for your 
attention to my lesson, that you understood the meaning.  
Indeed, a change in diet, while physical, also entails a change 
in desire, that is mental, and an adjustment in devotion, which 
is spiritual.  Spiritually you have increased a sensitivity to 
truth, goodness, and beauty which balances the desire to change 
diet.  One without the other two is unlikely to succeed.  All 
three will bring about the results you seek.  Thank you for 
using this as an example of this lesson.
	Good friends and dear brothers and sisters, thank you for 
turning  your attention to me today.  Ever am I willing to 
commune with you, to associate in mind, to draw close in heart.  
Each of us shares that common goal of the realization of God 
within our beings and across the universe.  The sublimity of 
truth realized within oneself is also recognized in the 
profundity of the realities of an immense creation.  We are 
undertaking the great journey of time.  I thank Father that I 
can spend this part of my journey with you.  I will now close 
our session.  Farewell.