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A person's avodah in all areas in general and in this area specifically, should be divided into two parts: 1) He must fix a set time every day to contemplate these matters. 2) Throughout the day, he must remember the point of his avodah he is trying to acquire, about every half hour. (Except for while he is learning Torah, when he must be immersed in his learning. Much has been written on this issue, and an intelligent reader understands this.)

With regard to the area of avodah we are now discussing, a person must remember about every half hour that everything is created by Hashem. He should make himself reminders to remind him of his area of avodah. He should contemplate a particular object that is before him, and ask himself in the question and answer method described above, "Who created this object?" He will answer, "You, Hashem, created it." In this way, the matter will become fixed in his heart, both through the time devoted for this each day and through the remembrance at brief intervals throughout the entire day.

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Using this method of avodah, we can advance from one stage to the next. However, you must remember that you cannot advance too quickly. As long as a prior stage is not well-established in the heart, you cannot advance, but rather, you must continue to properly internalize the prior stage. One must work on the topic we have mentioned until the clear awareness that everything is created by Hashem is properly fixed deeply in his heart. At that point, it will be as if the object is crying out and proclaiming, "I am a creation of Hashem!" May Hashem help us all to merit that this emunah shall take root deeply in our hearts and truly sustain us, and may we thereby merit closeness and attachment to the Creator all our lives.

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What objects would you use for this?