 So earlier I was asked about our communities. We practice, of course, miracles, but we actually have two guidelines in our spiritual communities around the world, and those two guidelines are no people pleasing and no private thoughts because they're designed to encourage getting in touch with unconscious patterns and thoughts, letting them come to the surface and instead of being afraid of them, like Armelle was saying, believing that they're true and stuffing them down back down into the unconscious mind, it's like let them out, you know, just like if you have a wound, let it have sunlight and air let the dark thoughts come up into awareness and hold the space, hold the love and the acceptance and let people move through their emotions like we do when we go through grieving. That's really what a funeral, I think, is about. Why is a funeral helpful? It's a backdrop for healing. It's a time to cry. It's a time to let up those thoughts and feelings that are very intense that have been pushed down and you feel so much better when you've sat with a dear friend and poured out your heart and you've poured out all your emotions and all your thoughts and you feel like you're unburdened. Like somehow you've got to have the burden taken away. We practice that on a daily basis with lunch times and so forth and we use it because it works. It's fantastic. Is that what you call an expression? Session sessions. It's really the purpose and the intention behind it really makes it work. So it's like it's not eventing sessions. These are not projection sessions. This is not blame sessions. What it is is once you start to see the value and the allowance and the permission of letting things up and stuffing them down and repressing them, you can start to see the great value of this and really everyone, it's really good to cultivate that for everyone so there's a sense of spacious non-judgment. Just like if you had a dear friend, someone who you loved and they loved you and you could speak your mind and you knew they would wink at you and they'd give you a hug no matter what you said. Really. Because you see how freeing that is with a dear friend. That's kind of an example of a mini expression session. Someone who's deeply trusted and loved that you could confide in safely and have them not take the error real because they love you so dearly. That's what we're actually having that happen now in larger groups. I was actually doing it in China with large groups of people and people were wailing and screaming and letting up all kinds of emotions and then crying, bursting into tears. One woman came up. I was doing more like Gangaji, the hot seat. I couldn't go around and be with all whatever hundred people so I would say have somebody come up and they would bring them up and I would be there and I would just be looking into their eyes with all the love in my heart and you're perfect. You're a wonderful child of God and then they would emote or whatever that they had been repressing. Sometimes they shouted at me. One woman just screamed at me for like five minutes. Just raged and raged and raged and then she just burst into tears and then at the end of that her face just lit up. It was just very quick, like a thunderstorm that went through and then she invited me to her town to do a gathering and it went from the screamer to come and be with me. We know how that is in relationships. When you have a friction and somebody's got a lot of intensity and friction there if you can just hold them or love them then the storm goes through and they're so grateful. They're like, thank you. Oh my gosh, thank you. This is the greatest thing. They feel the immediate healing. So with these expression sessions it's always important to have the purpose of the intention right out front that you're not really doing this to point the finger at anybody to blame. A lot of times when you're in that presence of truly I want to heal you use more I statements. I feel, I feel, I feel, not you bastard, you backstabber. If it's coming out with a lot of you statements the ego can get drawn in really quick. Me! And we also have no cross talking. So we've done these sessions where we'll do a session and somebody will just start to let the emotions up and they'll start to be shaking and they'll just start to let it out and we've got a psychiatrist in the group or someone who's going to say an advice giver. It's just as they're trembling and they say their first few words now this is what you really need to do here. This is what I would recommend. They're just ready to let the emotion come to the surface and all of a sudden wham! The knife comes in with the advice. There's no cross talking, no advice giving, no teaching. You get a whole group and they're course of miracle students and somebody starts to just get in touch with their emotions and they're trembling and it's like now you know what the course says on page 52 and they're like because they're just getting in touch with their emotions they just want to let it up and out and they don't need to hear that quote at that time so it's a spaciousness. It's like a soft spaciousness to allow it up and out where everybody's in agreement, we're going to hold the love almost like we're going to hold the space and let everybody, whoever needs to speak, speak and I just have watched in our communities over the years how healing it is. It's like an accelerated healing process. One time at the monastery there was a couple that came and they brought their own laptop and everything and they were working on some project or whatever and you know how these browsers are you can set them so if you type a few letters in on the browser if it's a page you've been to before it will just fill it in. It just remembers. It goes into the history and the memory of it. Well, the woman and the couple was in there working on a project at the monastery she was typing in the thing, the browser and what came up was a porn site. I don't know what, you know and how the browsers load real quickly and before she could finish typing in I don't know what was on the site penises, breasts or something she was like, at a monastery just, oh it was a shocking experience it's like going to visit Mother Teresa and go, ah, Jake, what's that? Anyway, she was like, ah, so she was out so she had all these emotions and she was just like, she was so shocked and then she realized it was their computer it was a computer that her husband used which was, that was like, ah, it was like and then, apparently she looked at him and just was like, oh it went from shock to rage so then I was in the monastery at the desk and I was in there and talking to a friend of mine and they came bursting in the door and there was this wailing, wailing sound it was almost like, you know sometimes when somebody's died and the family says, well, well I'm in there talking, having a regular conversation and the monastery goes, ah, ah, ah, ah that was just I saw repeated that was underneath it, yeah and so anyway, we got in there and they both come in there and the first thing I said to my friend she said to me, she said, who died I mean, it literally sounded like the sound that somebody makes when somebody a family close to them, remember, dies so they came in and the wife was just really pouring it out and the husband was sitting kind of with a sheepish look on his face like, ah, you know, okay the bomb was ignited so this was like about 11.30 in the morning and then they came and just there was a huge amount of emoting for like 20 minutes and then they went back to their projects and then at one o'clock I decided to sit in on the lunchtime expression session at the monastery so I went in there and I sat down and the husband was talking about the pornography and all his shame, this is an example letting up all his emotions of shame of guilt, of embarrassment of his thoughts and this and this and it's maybe like 20, 15, 20 people having lunch while he's sitting up on this motion and then interestingly enough it triggered emotion in like two or three other of the men who said, well now you've talked about my issue I didn't know that it would come up in this way but so they started talking about their their attraction to pornography the guilt and shame around it and this and this it became part of the open healing flow of these repressed emotions and thoughts that were still down there that really needed to come up and this was just a backdrop to let all this wonderful healing occur and you could feel the energy of the whole room it went on, it wasn't like an hour lunch it went on for like an hour and a half, two hours it was very, very healing and then afterwards two or three people came up and said oh my god that was profound like I was amazed you see how practical there was no sense of trying to guide the discussion there was no sense to try to facilitate anything it was the Holy Spirit is there it's the presence of love and they were able to do that and then also recently when I was in China a friend of mine who had a lot of what he called sexual issues and inhibitions and so on and so forth he voluntarily came up in front of the whole room and we just joined it turned into a DVD I don't even know if we brought it along with us but it was like healing the shame around sexuality where he just emoted all of his shame that he carried his childhood in a very deep way his face was shaking and bright red and you could see his whole body it was like very traumatic to even let these memories and these self-criticism and judgments up in awareness and then after he did that for some time maybe 35-45 minutes then the Holy Spirit gently came through me in a very light way talking about sexuality and bodies and body positions and fluids and appropriate fluids at appropriate times and inappropriate times it was just a very light humorous talk almost like an angelic talk of the angelic realm going you are taking this sexuality thing way too serious and you've got a lot of shame built up over a lot of judgments and concepts and that you're holding on to about yourself and others what's appropriate, what's inappropriate it was very light and playful almost like just relax what you think you've done you have not done this is part of your hallucination in this world you're innocent it came through very light and innocent and his face just lit up by the end he was big grin ear to ear and he was slowing and then after that he ended up getting into a relationship and he's still in a relationship his inhibitions just cracked and popped open and then the Spirit was like oh good now we'll take it to the next level of we'll have you go into a relationship where you can have beautiful mirroring that goes on where you both help each other free yourself from these unconscious beliefs so it just shows you the power that's available there but I think the most important thing is the presence you have to really let this stuff come up with a willingness to truly heal and release and if the ego gets in there and you get it into a blame session projection all those things the energy of that just spins the whole thing off in another way and that's why it takes a while to really get into the vibe of that for everyone to get into that that vibe for the maximal healing in your groups of the person who holds Spirit so to speak that's a good idea generally the ones holding the Spirit in space don't speak there are exceptions like people they seem to love to have me in the expression sessions no matter how deep and dark it is no matter how dense and tight and friction when I'm there the Spirit just kind of comes ripping through with inspiration and joy and everything like that so occasionally it will come through that way but in general if you have a group of people most of them are just learning to practice holding the presence and watching their own thoughts watching their own mind and their own reactions really praying for the Holy Spirit to use it for healing in their mind and there's not a lot of words other than the one that's letting the emotions up