[tmtranscripts] Welmek, July 18, 2002

[Donna DIngillo]

WELMEK – REHEARSING YOUR LIFE
JULY 18, 2002


Good evening. This is your friend and teacher Welmek.  I am pleased to
see so many eager students here this evening.  And I commend you on your
dedication to your spiritual growth.  It is indeed heartening to us to
see the perseverance and the commitment that you bring to your seeking
the Father.  We have said this to you on many occasions, but I do believe
it does bear repeating.  You are the heroes of your civilization.  You
are the true role models.   

I know there are times in your life when you think you have failed,
stumbled, lost sight, misplaced hope about your lives.  But I say to you,
we do not look at you in this light.  We see you as courageous,
dedicated, questioning, learning, striving and walking in a realm where
your certainty is always being tested.  This takes great dedication –
great strength of character to move against the tide of your culture, and
to rise to a new level of awareness and living.  

So I encourage you to see yourselves as the heroes that you are; to see
the good that you do; to see the best in your strivings; to look ahead in
hope; to move forward in faith.  You give us much to be proud of our
younger brothers and sisters, and we applaud your efforts, and are he re
to cheer you on when you feel you need that helping hand.  

So it is now in this light that I wish to continue our discussion on
rehearsing your life.  For this is what you are doing.  A rehearsal is
practice; practicing those skills you have learned; those ideas that are
born in your mind - new ways to look at your world and yourself.  And you
get to practice this over and over; and many times until you have
mastered living; mastered what you are being prepared to do in service of
your brothers’ and sisters’ on this planet.

So before we begin our experiential exercise for this evening, I ask you
are there any questions from our adventure last week that you would like
to ask me now, or any comments of what you may have experienced this week
if you used this exercise at all in your stillness practice to help you
feel more connected to the Fathers’ love? 

Student:  Well I have several questions relating to my health.  I took a
book out of the library called, “Mozart’s Brain” and the author has
outlined 28 steps for cognitive enhancement, and I would like to know if
that is a good routine for me?  

The second is: there is a videotape, it’s called the, “Tao of Practice”. 
And I’ve heard watching an activity can be perhaps seventy-five percent
effective? The third question is should I resume work with Helen Thomas? 


Welmek:  Embedded within your mind are many potentials - new ideas, new
creative associations that when you exercise your intellect, you will
find new ways to think.  I would encourage you to experiment with
anything that improves your cognitive abilities and those therapies that
help to improve physical/neurological responses.  For your brain
chemistry must be healthy in order for your cognitive functioning to be
at its optimal level.

You are fortunate that you live in the part of the country that has
multiple and manifold approaches to this.  And so I encourage you to
seek, try, and experience those therapies that you feel will assist you
in improving your cognitive functioning.  As to specific ones, I do not
feel qualified to guide you, as my perspective on this is somewhat
altered, and I do not wish to influence you in one way or another due to
your own free-will choices.  

But having said that; knowing that there is a wealth of information now
on the brain, and the potentials of creativity that will steer in a good
direction, if you do choose to pursue this path.  Does this help you in
your understanding?  (Yes! Thank you.)

Student:  Welmek, I would like to talk about an experience that I had
today where I felt called upon by Michael to help one of my brothers, but
I feel that I did not perform up to the standards that I would have liked
to in the situation, out of shyness, or whatever.  But I feel there is no
failure when you are trying to work for Michael.  Can you talk about this
subject a little bit?  

Welmek:  Well, my brother this is exactly what I wished to discuss with
all of you this evening, for it strikes at the heart of the idea of
rehearsing your life.  

When you try any new approach, whether or not you feel you are
spiritually connected, there is a sense in your mind of the best way to
undertake something, is there not? And so when you are in discussion with
an individual, sometimes the words that you choose may or may not fit
that person to a “T”.  This is because you may not have gained all of the
spiritual sensitivity that you need to recognize what it is that persons’
soul yearns to hear and know.  

So you try your best and you offer the words of encouragement that you
think will help that individual.  And so you can see from the response
how much, to a certain degree, your words may have impacted them.  And
this is not a reflection on whether or not you failed.  You have made an
honest attempt to help another person.  This I assure is looked on as a
victory and success because you served.  You offered your heart; you
offered yourself, and this, my brother, is never looked upon in the
universe as a failure.  It is looked upon as a love offering.  And what
more could the Father ask of you? 

But the idea that I wish to bring to you in this idea of rehearsing is
now you get to practice how sensitive you are to assessing what another
person needs to know and to hear from you.  And this is where you gain a
greater understanding - a greater level of insight and love.  

For as we used in the exercise of last week, the idea of staying
connected to the light of the Father’s love reflecting upon you, did you
not feel, when you were in this exercise, that the light and love carried
within it a certain ability to reach out and connect with that other
person or persons in the audience?  And so the more you stay connected to
this light, the greater your sensitivity grows to sense the other person,
and to have more of a bond and affinity with that individual.  And the
greater your bond, the greater the love you share, and the greater your
friendship and communion grows. 

So I assure you, when you look to serve, stop for a moment and ask that
the sensitivity that the Master experienced in dealing with His brothers
and sisters, now be made more manifest in you.  And to ask Michael to
give you a greater understanding of what that persons’ needs are, so that
you can minister to that individual more effectively.  Does this help? 
(Yes, very much!)

Let us go into the stillness for our exercise this evening.  Picture in
your mind’s-eye that you are in an office, and this is your first day on
the job.  And the office is very large, and the pace is very busy, and
there are phones ringing, people scurrying about.  And you have just come
down from the personnel office and shown your desk.  And so you are
sitting at your desk with all this activity around you.  Now, in this
place, please share with me what you are experiencing in one or two brief
sentences.  

Student:  Welmek, I feel like I would like to get in with the flow of the
office as soon as possible to go about my job, hoping perhaps the first
phone call will come, so that I can get started.  

Welmek:  Is there any sense within you of insecurity or nervousness?  Or
is it more of anticipation and excitement?  (A little of both.)  Thank
you.

Student:  Welmek, I gave myself a corner office, and I’m feeling
intimidated and a little concerned about my being able to qualify for the
office and fit-in.  That, combined with physical symptoms I’ve been
experiencing this week, I feel a little drained, a little hollow, a
little weakened actually by some process I don’t understand, so it’s
affecting my visualization of being in a busy office.  I’m not sure I
feel up to that?  

Welmek:  I understand, and thank you for your response.

Student:  I once walked out on an enormous construction site, just like
you described – first day; enormous activity, everything happening, but I
had the remarkable discovery, right in the midst of all the anxiety and
uncertainty, of feeling that there was something within me that knew how
to respond, and actually I was just shifting gears; something in me was
just releasing an enormous energy to come up to the situation.  And it
was quite exhilarating! 

Welmek:  Are there any other comments before we continue on with this
exercise? 

Student:  When I came into the office, I didn’t know what was expected of
me.  

Student:  Well I seated myself at a wooden desk with rounded edges, and I
was feeling anxiety and a feeling of being trapped indoors, which I don’t
like.  

Welmek:  Being in a new experience is disorienting, is it not?  And as
you said, your, equilibrium is altered for awhile, and so you must spend
some time in acclimating yourself to the environment you find yourself
in.  And this takes time, and this takes doing your work in order to
understand what it is that you should produce, and gain a greater sense
of what your job is, and how to perform your best in it.  

Now I ask you to go into this state of stillness again, and this time, in
your experience on the job in your first day, you have someone by your
side.  And this is a very experienced person in the company.  And this
person is very warm and friendly, and makes you feel welcome and that you
are part of a team in this company.  And this person is here to answer
any questions you have, and to help you to become oriented in your new
job.  And so you spend a few moments chatting with this person, and
letting this person minister to you.  And you sense their compassion and
their understanding.  

I want you to spend a few moments now in sensing that this person has
great empathy with you, and cares for you.  I want you to experience this
now in your mind’s-eye.  And stay in this state, and please share what
your experience is now, and how you feel about being on this job at this
first day.  

Student:  Welmek, I feel a great relief; I feel a great love for this
friend – for this brother – a warmth, a calmness about having this
brother with me; and of course this is Jesus who I feel, and I’ve called
on Him for help.  This is the feeling that He brings to me.  This is my
brother and my Father – there all the time at my side to help me. 

Student:  Welmek, I feel more warm and solid and grounded.   But having
never really worked in an office, it’s still, and combined with my
physical symptoms lately, I still feel a little out of place, of course,
but it was a great improvement to have that help by my side.  

Student:  Welmek, again having difficulty imagining this office situation
because again I was captured by an actual memory.  I went to the library
and read a book on carpentry and then walked out on a project as a
journeyman carpenter.  And I wouldn’t have lasted even one day except
that an old carpenter took me under his wing.  And he was just amazing,
the tact he had in suggesting things.  Because I had almost a panic of
realizing that he knew almost immediately just how green I was.  And yet
he would just very tactfully suggest I do this or do that.  And we had a
wonderful time.  I had a real sense of humor with that fellow.  And also
it was a kind of reaping a reward of not being racist, because he was
black, and for the next three or four months we were the only salt and
pepper team on that whole crew. 

Student:  Welmek I feel like there are times in our lives when people
enter into our lives to teach us.  And what came to mind was that an
opportunity is presenting itself where the stage is set for me to really
learn and gain knowledge from someone who is experienced and has a lot of
knowledge to share.  And it makes me feel like the sky is the limit, and
the fear and barriers that I felt the first time around kind of went
away.  Because now I’m not pre-occupied with thinking about making a
mistake, or afraid to try something new, or to let my creative mind just
go with whatever comes up.  

Whatever challenges come up, I know that I have someone to go to, and to
help me or to give me the answers.  And so what started out to be a
frightening situation, full of anxiety and thinking the worst – that I
would make mistakes and get found-out that I wasn’t ready for the job,
perhaps, or didn’t know enough to do the job.  That, all of a sudden was
no longer an issue, in that it was like the light turned green for me to
move on, and learn as much as I can.  And then with that, I’m able to get
to a position where I can be like this person, for the next person who
comes along who may need that help.  So I’m preparing myself by learning,
and learning so that I in turn can teach. you.)

Welmek:  There is one more visualization I would like to take you on. 
And that is: You have been on this job now for one year.  And you have
had your friend and mentor with you the whole time.  And you have
developed a very warm and trusting relationship.  And this individual has
offered you many words of wisdom over the course of your year’s
experience in this job.  And while you have had to prove yourself in this
job, you did heed the words of wisdom, and follow what was being advised
in order to perform your job.  

Now I want you to envision what you are experiencing now in relationship
to what you first experienced when you first came upon that job and
thought you were in this all alone.  And while I do not necessarily need
to hear your responses, I want you to sense if have you grown; have you
gained greater confidence; do you have more enjoyment?  And do you
understand more than you did a year ago? 

Student:  Welmek, you know there’s a little miracle about to take place,
because you look over and there’s someone standing in front of their desk
for their very first day.  And now it’s your turn to pass it on.  

Student:  Well, I feel like very rock-solid, and a very valuable resource
for the company.  And it feels good.  

Student:  Welmek I feel like I’m still in that first month.  I can’t
quite make it through a whole year just yet, although I do have great
expectations.  

Student:  I’m kind of excited about meeting the new person, and can’t
wait to make them feel welcome and comfortable, and try as much as
possible to get them to feel that they can come to me whenever they need
me for help or for answers.  Much like the way I was happy to have had my
mentor help me, am now anxious to help the new person.

Student:  I’m experiencing – I’m surprised I think.  I’m beginning to
understand some of the depth of the wisdom, which has been revealed to
me.  And I’m reflecting on it, and I’m in awe.  

Welmek:  You have all given me very deep and insightful answers.  You are
learning.  You are understanding a deeper level of this idea of
rehearsing your life.  For you will always be learning new skills and
mastering new ideas, and showing yourself and other people what you have
learned; what you have incorporated into your being, and how you offer
that in a unique and inspirational way.  

So that when you perform, as it were, for another person – in helping
them to know some of things that you have learned, you show them by your
generosity of self-forgetfulness what it was like to be on that job the
first day.  And the compassion and the empathy and the understanding that
you offer them is deeply and gratefully received.  

This is the mark of the true artist – the true artisan perfecting his
craft, and revealing a deeper level of what you know and who you are and
what you have experienced.  All of your life will be lived in this way. 
You will rehearse, and learn, and perform and share what you have
learned, many, many, many times over.  And your lessons will always
differ, for there will be new spiritual proofs for you to exemplify in
your life that you will polish. (Tape ends.) ..manifestation of the inner
reality of the magnitude of the Fathers’ personality and loving
righteousness, and merciful goodness.

Rehearsing your life is nothing more than practicing over and over until
you have mastered that which you must learn to perfection – to an art
form.  It was so exquisitely portrayed in our Master’s life.  

And I wish to touch upon the earlier idea that I presented in my answer
to R. about this increased spiritual sensitivity that you gain that
allows you to minister to another person with exactly the portion of
wisdom, understanding-compassion that you sense the other person needs -
for it is not so much as showing what you know, as revealing what you
feel for that other person.  And did you not in some way, in the exercise
we practiced earlier, feel how good it was when someone related to you,
and ministered to you to quell your nervousness, and to calm your
apprehension about being in the new job?  This then is your challenge –
to acquire the same spiritual sensitivity to another person that will
make you most highly qualified and desirable employees in this company. 
This is how you become promoted and advanced.  

Your acquirement of information is important.  Your intellectual
understanding of the facts of your job are fundamental, but so is your
ability to get along with others and to minister to them.  And to show
what you have learned in a way that helps that other person and fits
their needs; and this only becomes a work of art in you when you gain
this spiritual sensitivity – to sense what that other person needs and
then to speak those words of encouragement and guidance to them.  

Are there any comments or questions on this idea that we are discussing
this evening?  

Student:  Are you recommending this as a regular practice that we can
engage in before an actual activity takes place?  

Welmek:  If this is an exercise that is fairly easy for you to attune
yourself to, then I would encourage you to use this, for it will set the
tone of the words and the sensitivity that you wish to portray to another
person.   Cultivating this environment within yourself before you enter
an exchange with another person will be very helpful until it becomes
such a natural flow that it will no longer require a mental depiction
beforehand.  

So any visualization that allows this to occur is encouraged and promoted
by us teachers.  This is only one metaphor and illustration that we give.
 And there are others.  And we try to give you as many as possible so you
can find the ones that work for you, that will best suit your personality
and help you stay connected to the spirit as you go about your day-to-day
life.  Does this help?  (Yes. Thank you.)  

Student:  Welmek, I was just thinking there is one further dimension to
this that I encounter very much in my work.  I was talking to another
foreman – that you don’t find – you just don’t stumble across and find
really good carpenters.  You have to make them; you have to create them;
you have to train them.  And I think it goes both ways – those carpenters
don’t find good foremen, but you have to be open to them and let them
train you.  And in this sense the whole society gains.  

Welmek:  You raise an excellent consideration!  For does not your text
indicate that you are both a student and a teacher at the same time, and
you advance by showing what you have learned.  And you teach in many
ways, and the learner and the teacher grow together in a deeper level of
spiritual kinship, for they are learning to trust, to give, to receive,
and to share each others’ personalities.  And this deepens the bond, and
it unifies the souls.  

Too often in the work world interpersonal relationships are not
encouraged, for there are management styles that perceive that this takes
away from the professionalism.  But we do not encourage this in our
universe corporation.  We are one big family, and we are all united in
love.

Student:  Teacher Welmek, if I understand the teaching mission correctly,
you teach our volunteers to come and help us along – teach us about love
and a great understanding of the Master.  And you’re much older than we
are, and my question is, could you say a few words about what the
benefits are for you to go on this volunteer mission to help us?

Welmek:  I would say that I am most moved by your faith, for I lived on a
world long settled in light and life, and I knew not of the deprivations
and the evil that you encounter on a daily basis.  And I grew up knowing
about the Father’s love and experiencing the Father’s love at a very
young age.  I had many, many years of my ancestors experiencing this love
within me that was a strong physical foundation to ground my faith.  

And so when I first came to this planet and saw the abject horror and
poverty of spirit that lingers here, I was amazed at the level of faith
that I witnessed firsthand by you, my brave brothers and sisters carrying
in the midst of, what I would consider to be, extremely trying and
troubling conditions.  

How could faith exist in this environment, I wondered?  Where did it come
from?  And so what I began to see was the deeper level of the Father’s
ministry in your lives.  And it piqued my interest; fueled my desire to
come to know you more intimately, because you had something that I had
not experienced – blind faith.  Seeing with eyes that I did not have.  

And so my respect for you grew.  And my love for you deepened.  And my
commitment to serve you became more pronounced.  And I am here to stand
on that commitment that I have made to help you grow, because I learn
from you, in watching you grow in this environment where it would seem
logical to me, for faith to die and wither, but yet it grows and blooms
in you.  And this is what I leaned and this is what I have come to
cherish in my experience.  You have given me something so wonderful and
unique.  You have given me a greater appreciation of the gift of faith. 
Does this answer your question?  

Student:  Yes, my friend.  It was a most beautiful answer, and I want to
tell you that the love that I have experienced from the teachers, the
constant patience with our little foibles – the acceptance, and the
teachings about surrendering have been most useful to me.  And I
understand a little better that the entire universe is one big
university.  And I thank you for that!  

Welmek:  I cherish your words.  And I would only add that while it is
true that the universe is a university, in and of itself, it is also a
family, and we are your loving brothers and sisters.  What more can I
say?  Words are inadequate to express the love we have for you, and so I
enfold you in our embrace of those of us who are here.  And let us share
this embrace for a few moments before we continue.  

The love of the Father enfolds us.  The protection of the Son overshadows
us.  The ministry of the Spirit guides us and illuminates us.  And all
there is, is within us and we are His.  
On behalf of the teachers, we would be most happy to speak through other
individuals who wish to practice transmitting, after you take a few
moments to connect with them. 

When you feel a nudge or an idea, feel free to speak the words.  There is
no judgement; there is no assessment.  Let your mind relax; let your
teachers draw close to you.  Speak if you feel certain ideas or words
come to mind.  Let your heart open and move into the experience by
verbalizing that which you hear within your mind.  

(Students tried to transmit.  Closing statement by Welmek not recorded on
tape.)