I do not know how other practitioners feel, but here is my situation: When I spent lots of time studying the Fa and practising the exercises, I accomplished more work with efficiency. I required less sleep because my thoughts were more steadfast, persistent and powerful. When I postponed studying the Fa and practising, placing them as my second priority due to lots of Dafa work, I just sat there killing time, feeling weak and depressed. I could not do my work well and wasted lots of time. In other words, I had very poor working efficiency. This is no joke. I have experienced it many times.One more important issue is to send forth righteous thoughts and to clear out our own dimensional fields. A practitioner, who works on construction sites, told me he benefits a great deal from sending forth righteous thoughts every hour, even though he only recites the Fa-rectification formulas once.
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