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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day thank you martha what i was going to say was

um we did this one time in um georgia and we it was because the meditation we were going to do

this meditation with the gongs and the bongs and all this stuff. And the machine did not work, thank God. And so, Charlie, so why don't you explain positive prayer? And so I said, okay, that'd be pretty cool. And I'm going to read something later when we get into the 11th step about this, but I have never, the word meditate in 1935 minutes, deep thought or contemplation. Well, we're going to do that again in the 11th step. But, so, yes, dear, there you go, just yes, dear. I'm not, I'm just giving it, this is just for us here to do this for the three-minute

meditation so what meditation meant was deep thought or contemplation right and so instead

in the 1960s the whole clear the mind sit in the lotus position get the fingers going all this

came about so everybody thought that that's what meditation meant. So I could never

achieve that. I cannot sit still and quiet my voice. I've tried for a long time. It just doesn't

work for me. And so when I heard that definition, I went with, you know, it's an old idea,

what meditation meant, until I got the definition,

I got a different answer.

So what I did was, I learned this procedure, which we will explain in the 11th step,

on how I got there.

But this is what I want you to try if you struggle with the silence.

And that is to take maybe, since we're going to do three minutes take maybe two people

possibly three might only be one and say you have trouble with um a child if you're stubborn

of a parent that just you feel doesn't love you a relationship that is taxed very taxed relationship

and i want you to take that relationship and think about if you a relationship that is taxed, very taxed relationship.

And I want you to take that relationship and think about if you could write the script what it would look like.

Say you have trouble with your father and you two just buckheads and you don't get along.

You say, my father and I have a relationship built on integrity and trust.

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