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When I was 10 years old my mother joined the Religious Society of Friends, or "Quakers". They sat in silence - profound meditation - for an hour. Occasionally a member would rise to speak from the heart.

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I asked mum "What do  I do?" She said "Sit still and wait for the still, small voice of God inside you." Nothing happened. So I prayed. Nothing happened ... that I knew of. 

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Then I learned that God speaks to you through others, through signs - such as a feather or a word that stands out to you from a book that you're reading - through flowers that sing to you, through the warming sun and through rainbows.

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Closer than all that, God speaks to you through Lower Belly Breathing. When you breathe in your lower belly must go out, and when you breathe out your lower belly must go in, and when you breathe in your lower belly must go out. 

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Make a statement, such as "This body needs a water right now". That's probably true, and certainly true if you have had no water for a few hours. So your lower belly will breathe correctly in the next 14 breaths. God approves.

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Now make the statement "This body needs 24D pesticide right now." Your belly will go in when you breathe in and out when you breathe out, and you will be doing shallow, chest-started breathing! God does NOT approve.

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Now you can take any statement from an adviser, a friend, a healer, a priest, a pastor, a drug and dagger dealer, a parent or even a teacher, and check it with your breathing. If it's not true for you God will not approve. If it's true for you God will approve.

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So if you are offered a drug, such as a cup of coffee or an energy drink, or even a bar of chocolate, which is usually two drugs (caffeine and sugar) Breath Test it. Your body may prefer water! Test this!

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Remember that what is true for you is not necessarily true for others. For example, if you test "My name is John" and that is true, it will not be true for Joan. 

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So test all sentences that challenge you. If in doubt, test! For example, some say that "Every word of the Bible is true". Not for me! I have tested the truth of the Bible for me, and it turns out to be 60% true. The Gospel of Thomas turns out to be 80% true, for me. The Book of Mormon turns out to be 80% true, for me. Test them for yourself.

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Imagine a young man translating Egyptian hieroglyphics into English. Did the Egyptian exactly represent what took place? No, just generally. Did the translation do justice to the original Egyptian? No, just approximate.

 

Even contemporaneous notes in a courtroom may be flawed by inaccuracies. So taking things word for word, or phrase for phrase, as being literally true, leads to many untruths in the Bible. But finding the meaning and the lesson from the passage of writing works well. So ask those questions - what is the meaning of this passage, and what is the lesson that I need to learn from it. Test the possible answers and find which ones pertain to you.

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For more on Rainbow Moments in which you hear from God, go to the children's book called "Rainbow Moments" by Nikki Rogers which you can get from Nikki's website called www.createdtobe.com.au