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People like to think that spirituality is supposed to be about being high, feeling love, openness.

That's a very wonderful thing, if that's what's happening,

but true spirituality is about how you handle when that's not happening.

There's no way you're going all the way up or even part of the way up until you can handle the lower energies.

It's just the truth.

It's not as though the low energies of the devil, it's that the lower energies are your blockages.

Your lower energies are what are keeping you from being high.

So at some point you decide, and that's what we're going to talk about tonight, how to deal with the lower energies.

People ride us all the time with these problems they're having.

And they say we're trying to live the teachings, but it is very, very difficult.

So here's how you live the teachings when times are difficult.

You start by relaxing.

You always start by relaxing. There's not a single thing in your entire life,

you don't start by relaxing. Because if you don't relax, you tense. If you tense, you close.

If you close, you get drawn further down into lower energies so relaxation is the first step

and people say but I try to relax and it doesn't I love that nobody said you're

going to get the lower energies to relax that's not your job your job is can you

relax in the face of the lower energies? No one, except a great, I suppose, a great master,

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