Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
You wrote:

"We work pretty hard. Many, many times we feel that the ambience is dull and we push to raise it, to make the Sankirtan ecstatic."

Please, can you kindly tell the details of how you achieve that. How do you push it?

Also, you wrote that you are subjected to emotional attacks. What does that mean and how you deal with them?

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Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - AGTSP.  paoho.   AMBIENCE TO ECSTACY: Just increase the amount, intensity and intellectual quality of the ambient sound. Some Sunday feast lecture, you go on for 20-minutes and ask for questions and there are none. Then you go on with more effort for 20 more minutes, then 20 more and then people begin to hear what you are saying and how it relates to them and they ask questions, make comments, think, feel that they want to do something.

We have to listen to whatever life, enthusiasm, passion people have and then relate to that. That may take years.

Emotional attacks: Usually our stomach is exhausted or our waist. We become "depressed". The energy goes down. Our thoughts follow the Prana. We want to eat for our stomach, not for our heart. Our future (of eating and honor) looks dark. Usually we can just force a smile on our face and immediately we "feel" happy enthusiastic. It is that shallow, our sadness and happiness. .. but the atificial "bump" is supported by good intelligence from the years of Sastric contact and so it isnt dealt with sarcastically by the mind.

Smile... "We can be HAPPY!"

Mind, cynical, "Yeah, sure, give me one good reason".

For the Vikarmis there are no good reasons, but an ISKCON Brahmana has so many reasons from the Krsna book. The biggest depression is death, no? We have to go deeper and deeper in our energy sources.