Saturday - 3rd Week of Advent.

The angel Gabriel said to her, “You have found favor with God."

To find favor with God, one's state of self must be surrendered. For this, internal and external state of a person must be coordinated.

I am the handmaid of the Lord is a surrendered state of self. A surrendered state of self, signifying complete humility, trust, and obedience to God's will, even when it's unexpected or challenging, meaning one's life is fully yielded to God's purpose.

Entering God's presence makes life a psalm, like Mary's life.

For Internal state, Soul must be  alive and active. For the external state, we need the coordination of three faculties: an internally focused brain, a meek heart, and virtue-full muscle memory.(habits)

Spiritual sleep, spaghetti brain, selfish heart, and sinful muscle memory will all move one away from the presence of God.

To pray, you have to enter His presence. Prayer is about engaging with God.

When God speaks, a selfish heart grows hard. If we fall into the trap of life's worries, we will not hear God's voice. Negative habits also prevent us from hearing God's voice.

The easiest way to attain a surrendered state of self is 

by chanting four Rosaries daily and meditating on all the mysteries of Christ and Mary.

A surrendered self, abiding in Christ, and alignment with God's will are the keys for prayer to bear fruit.

True imagination(internal) and true thinking(external) should be aligned to execute God's will. 

Virtue full muscle memory : developing good habits (virtues) through repetition until they become automatic, like a skill, using the brain's neuroplasticity for both physical (muscle) and behavioral ("moral") skills, meaning you act "virtuously" without conscious thought,  or in building character through consistent, good choices, akin to building a strong muscle

Sinful muscle memory : refers to the powerful, ingrained habits and automatic negative reactions (thoughts, behaviors) from past sins or worldly ways that persist even after a person tries to change, like an athlete's ingrained bad form; it's the brain's "autopilot" for old, harmful patterns, making it hard to live out new spiritual identities, but can be overcome through consistent, deliberate practice of new, positive actions and thoughts (like meditation, journaling, Rosary) to build new positive neural pathways. 

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