I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of exercise:
Exercise
During the Ra contact Ra said my nature was one of exercising power, and that it would be spiritually helpful for me to exercise daily:
Firstly, it would be well for the scribe to engage, if not daily then as nearly so as possible, in a solitary strenuous activity which brings this entity to the true physical weariness. Further, although any activity may suffice, an activity chosen for its intended service to the harmony of the group would be quite efficacious.
The second activity is some of your space/time and time/space taken by the entity, directly or as nearly so as possible to the strenuous activity, for solitary contemplation. 99.5
Ra suggested that for my exercise to be most helpful, it could be focused on being of service to our group of three. This exercise could take the form of vacuuming the house, cooking food, cutting the grass, and working in the garden. The fact that I enjoyed doing all of these exercises made them doubly effective as they were being done from a consciousness of love and joy. Ra also recommended that after I was done with my exercising that it would be well for me to enter into solitary contemplation which took the form of reviewing the work I had done with the feeling of service and accomplishment. Now days, since Don and Carla are gone, my exercise takes more of a personal flavor as it did before I had ever met them.
For all of my life I have found that physical exercise has been a regular and helpful feature of my daily round of activities. When I was in grade school, junior high school, and high school I enjoyed whatever sport was in season and stayed in good physical shape in that way. While I was in college I used weight lifting to become the strongest that I ever was in this life. After I was out of college, and in my twenties, I moved to the woods of central Kentucky and got all the exercise that I needed by building my log cabins, splitting firewood, digging and weeding my gardens by hand, and just doing my daily chores.
When I joined Don and Carla I would accompany Carla on her speed walks, and I had to hustle for all I was worth to keep up with her. Jazzercise was also an exercise that she enjoyed as she also worked hard to stay in good shape for the Ra contact. After the Ra contact I got plenty of exercise for the next twenty years here at L/L Research by creating stone walkways, stone retaining walls for gardens, and once again digging my gardens and weeding them by hand. After the turn of the century and with the interest rates declining on the insurance and benefits from Don’s work at Eastern Airlines, it was necessary for me to go to work to earn money to support Carla and myself. So from 2002 through 2012, I ran my own lawn service and got plenty of exercise cutting people’s grass and doing the odd jobs of landscaping like cleaning gutters of leaves, spreading tons of mulch, cutting down and removing large areas of the invasive honeysuckle bush, and hauling away lots of tree limbs that came down in storms.
Now that I am in my mid-seventies I find that I actually need to work harder at getting exercise as various aches and arthritic pains make exercise more difficult. However, I have found that the best treatment for osteo arthritis is physical exercise. So I think that each of us needs to take a look at our physical bodies and see what their condition is at the moment. Then we need to ask ourselves whether or not we might benefit by engaging in some kind of daily exercise. I think that as we get older we are dealing with a “use it or lose it” situation. If we exercise less as we get older we will find that we are less able to function physically. Just getting around gets more difficult.
For myself I find that doing a fifteen-minute series of stretching exercises seven times a week keeps me limber. Carla and I developed this routine from combining exercises from her dance background in ballet and from my athletic background. Then three days per week I have a modest weight-lifting program that is designed to increase the bone mass in my lower back where I have osteopenia. I also take a walk of a mile and a half each day at a regular pace now as I no longer need to take shorter speed walks, that had the purpose of relieving the arthritic pain in my right hip, since I had hip replacement surgery in October of 2022. I also greatly enjoy improvisational dancing just for fun, but dancing is also a way of increasing bone density plus it aids the brain in its function of helping us keep our balance.
However, each of us is unique in just about every facet of our life experience, and what kind of exercise is best for each of us could well be different, too, depending on your age and your current state of health. Ra made suggestions to Carla regarding exercise that would help her be of service to others when she functioned as the instrument for the Ra contact. From the time she was a child Carla especially loved trees because they brought her joy. She communicated with them by hugging them. So, in 104.2, Ra made this suggestion for Carla’s daily speed walks:
In some ways the walking is the more appropriate exercise due to the proximity of the entity to second-density creatures, particularly your trees.[1]
Ra seems to be suggesting here that it is not just the actual physical exercise that is important, but how that exercise is fulfilling to us as spiritual beings. Walking, or doing any kind of physical exercise, in nature could be inspiring to anyone who enjoys the beauty of the trees, the hills and valleys, the dirt trails, animals, meadows, clouds, the breeze, the sky and sun on the skin. Exercising in nature is like plugging ourselves into the energy of our Mother Earth to recharge the batteries of our being.
Ra also suggested that Carla look to the long-term effects of strenuous exercise that might seem overly wearying in the short-run:
In answer to the question of exercise, now that the intensive period is over, this instrument may, if it chooses, exercise one period rather than two. In scanning this instrument’s physical-complex distortions we find the current period of exercise at the limit of this instrument’s strength. This is well in the long run due to a cumulative building up of the vital energies. In the short run it is wearying to this entity.[2]
Challenging our natural selves to the point of exhaustion can be very wearying, but it produces an increase in our physical and vital energies that can be quite helpful as we go about providing whatever service to others we have chosen as our means of increasing our polarity and following the direction of our hearts. Making conscious decisions about how exercise influences our ability to serve others in both the short term and the long term is an important spiritual consideration. Thusly do we become Exercisers on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life!
This morning I was once again on Jonathan Tong’s Seattle Law of One Study Group to take questions from the group regarding the spiritual journey that we all are traveling within this third-density illusion. As usual, the questions were thoughtful and offered me an opportunity to share what I have learned about the Law of One and how to apply its various concepts in the spiritual journey that we all make.
This afternoon I went outside and finished cutting the daffodils out of the gardens around the fish pond. Then I used my trimmer to cut the day lilies out of the garden on the west side of the pond. Then I used my backpack blower to blow all of the cuttings into the grass where I will mulch them with my big mower the next time I cut the grass. My next job was to water all the gardens around the fish pond. My last job was to see if I could raise the level of the fountain in the fish pond by cleaning the filters in the schemer. That didn’t work, so now I am wondering if I need a new pump.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
May 6
Joy Upon Joy
I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness of love.
This is the spirit’s word for you today: come down from your cross, my children and nourish your faith upon the common ground of ordinary life.
There is the concept of suffering. There is the suffering of the past, of the present and of the future. Yet, the spirit of the living God is with you. You need not suffer, but open to faith and hope.
The spirit of Jesus the Christ is one of comfort, consolation and strengthening. There is no damage that cannot be mended by faith; a faith that brings about the climate of forgiveness; a faith that brings about the healing of all that is broken; a faith in which fears for the future may not live. For fear is a hothouse flower and when exposed to the love of a living Christ it must perish as a weed before the burning sun.
In this light, may you be impregnated with faith upon faith, joy upon joy. To prepare your ground for faith this day, ask in sincerity and truth that it may be so. Ask with all your heart and it shall be so.
We leave you in the blessed peace and love of Jesus the Christ, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
[1] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 104.2.
[2] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 53.1.
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