Sunday, September 30, 2012

Let all things be exactly as they are.



It’s not about looking at the world through rose colored glasses or about candy coating the world.
Thoughts create our reality. And our beliefs tend to guide our thoughts. But what I’ve discovered is some of our beliefs were instilled relatively early in our childhood. That’s not bad. It’s good. Because if we can look back at our belief and think back we can see that our belief was postulated due to our reaction to something that happened. Parents, grandparents or peers, there was some situation that we perceived incorrectly. If I felt I was never accepted by someone was that true. No. It’s how I viewed it. Maybe they did accept me. Do I or did I need be accepted by everyone. No, I’m me. I accept myself the way I am. I change my habits of judgement, worry and guilt and I remember my oneness, ONE-ness. ACIM says ATONEMENT. Cramer and Brooks spelt it at-ONE-ment. We've been programmed from birth to believe it's okay to be guilty.
We are the dreamer of our dream. We are not victims. We created the universe. We created the universe to hide out from God but there is no world. We’ve created a dream of separation and we’ve never left home.
WE ARE AWESOME. The “Busting Loose …” books have a great analogy. WE created that restaurant we love to eat at. WE cleared the land, dug the foundation, designed the building both inside and out, picked the fixings, did the decorating, selected the food and hired the person to cook it. WE ARE AWESOME. And WE get a great meal and WE sit there reflecting after dinner about how AWESOME WE ARE. But the waitress, who doesn’t know all this says something negative and we get thrown for a loop. We always do.
And there’s no reason to feel guilty. We have been conditioned to feel guilty. There isn’t supposed to be any guilt. I had someone on the street ask me for money for a coffee. I said “No, sorry”. And the got a few steps past them and realized what I’d said. We are conditioned to feel guilty.
My brother got mad pushed my face into the carpet when I was little. I ended up with a scab but went on playing. Years later my dad mentioned it and said he was surprised I didn’t hit him back. He had responded according to his "rules of engagement"/"map of the territory"/beliefs, not mine. ACIM teaches us to look at things and see them from a different perspective. And, as we do, we become more peaceful in the process.
Do we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders? Some say yes, but I realized this week it’s on our chest. Where is the heart? In the chest? If we’re supposed to remove the blockages of loves awareness all around us then there is a lot we have to get off our chest.
A part of us starts to get it. And part of us doesn’t want to (the ego). The “Song of Prayer” talks about a ladder. I was reminded today of how people will cycle into our loves and may or may not drag us down a few rungs. It’s not them but it’s our inner turmoil that hasn’t quite grasped the ideas. Our new beliefs haven’t fully rooted. At least, not yet. But we get stronger the more we practice. Old habits die hard? Actually, according to “The Work” that’s a limiting belief. Take it to inquiry.
It helps to heal relationships between you and others people by inviting the into your circle of Atonement., making them part of our circle of light. Some people write letters. One of the steps of the AA program is to make amends. Whether you physically do it or mentally do it depends on circumstances. Would you want someone contacting you or would you rather hear they’d turned their life around. You action should be determined by whether you feel peaceful.

The more we let go the LIGHT-er we become.
As the heart opens there is an inner warmth and inner peace. External vibrations are a belief in something outside of the body.
As long as you remember ALWAYS that you never suffered anything because of anything that anyone ELSE did, past memories are not dangerous.(Urtext,CH1)

Sit in quiet meditation and ask to be shown what belief is weighing heavily on you, whatever it may be. Let it rise slowly to the surface like a sunken ship being raised to the surface of your awareness. Ask to be shown and trust that you will be shown; create the space and willingness to be shown, and you will be. Ask, what is the belief are YOU harboring within YOUR-self that is keeping YOU from YOUR joy and peace?’
As you wait words or images may come to you. Simply notice them without censoring or judgment. Perhaps you will recall long forgotten incidents from an earlier time, or a feeling will arise that is painful or brings with it tears. If tears arise, let them do their cleansing work.
The circumstances of your life will become more friendly and welcoming to you as you become more friendly and welcoming to yourself. Never judge your life or your Self as a failure. Never judge your life at all. Simply welcome and befriend it as it is. Nothing grows nor thrives on under the dark cloud of judgement. Accidents are not accidental. All that happens in your life is for you, not against you. They happen to alter the course of your life. We are to lovingly allow our lives to unfold and know that we are greatly loved.

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.discusses shrinking the gap between cause and effect.
.The journey from mindlessness to mindfulness
There are many paths
Robin Duncan ( www.FreePrayerBook.com ) uses ACIM,
Jane Woodward ( http://www.sigler.org/woodward/ ) and
But only one destination.
If you really want it then LOVE IT.
You are your own worst enemy.
That was a thought I had Friday. I’d listened to a tape from a ACIM practitioner this week. We worry warts will invent something new to worry about when the old ones cease. It’s a mstter of not being judgemental about yourself. When it happens to me I realize I am making progress but at my own pace. When Cady wrote Loose Him and Let Him Go she never really provided a means. That’s where faith comes in. I adopted a couple of prayers from www.FreePrayerBook.com to my needs and I don’t worry about a few people anymore. It’s like a reprieve or breath of fresh air. We’ve been taught to feel guilty and manifest from fear but what if we realize God is our source and start manifesting from Love. Isn’t that more in line with the teachings of the bible and certainly ACIM?
 We’re like the “Lone Ranger”. Donning a black mask, mounting a white horse and shooting silver bullets to make the world a better place. Instead of realizing where we are, discovering our true identity and living up to our full potential of what we Truly are.
How The Idea of Eliminating Beliefs By Video Was Born
Click Eliminate “I’m not capable” to eliminate this belief.
Love happily replaces all fear.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours.Christ remains at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Christ is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. Christ is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. Christ has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. Christ abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God. Stillness is the peace of God and it is Mine.Through this the Truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and We. your children, will know we are as God created us.
ACIM lessons 271,272, 273, 274
In my defencelessness, my safety lies.” (A Course in Miracles.) “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
We are slowly recovering our real power and letting go of fear. When someone says something to you, when you don’t feel the need to defend or justify there is hope. You have brought that on to test yourself. Have your beliefs aligned with your actions? The interrogator/questioner/attacker is mirroring you former or current beliefs.
The Japanese Soldier – A Metaphor
When we are faced with a difficult or traumatic situation — particularly when we are very young and have difficulty understanding the world around us — we respond with the best survival options available to us at the time. As children, we all learn many “emotional habits” and knee-jerk responses in this way. Some of us may have learned to cut off our feelings, as an effort to avoid pain. Or we might have learned to throw a temper tantrum when it appears our needs aren’t being met. Or the habit of seeking approval, of finding fault with others, etc. Most of us recognize that the response patterns we learned in childhood tend to persist into our adult lives, even though the challenges we face are different. This is true even when our automatic responses have serious negative consequences for us.
It’s easy to understand this idea with our conscious minds. Yet this may have little impact on our unconscious behaviors. These tend to be more responsive to narrative — a story that presents the same understandings in a different way.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

I create my day.



"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

"So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Truth



There is only God. There is only the power of God. There is only the presence of God. There is no opposing power. Sin, disease and death are not real and there is nothing to fear. Pain and suffering are never required. In the presence of God, there is only good. In the light of Truth, there is no darkness. In the awareness of joy, happiness, wholeness and abundance, there is no pain, sadness, illness or deprivation. Only the Truth is true. I dedicate this blog to the Truth and peace is inevitable. Thy will be done. Amen
Excerpted from www.FreePrayerBook.com
Feel free to substitute “this situation” (or whatever you have the need for) where I used “blog

I love PVR!

PVR: The Wall
If you really want it then LOVE IT.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Saturday, September 22, 2012

COVENANT

by Emma Curtis Hopkins
Scientific Christian Mental Practice

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my health; and I will do nothing to preserve my health; my health is the health of the Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my strength; and I will do nothing for my strength; my strength is the strength of the Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my support, and I will do nothing for my support; my support is the providence of the Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my defense, and I will do nothing for my defense; my defense is the protection of the Holy Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my mind in its perfect thinking, and I will do nothing for my thoughts; my mind is the mind of the Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my right speech, and I will do nothing for me speech; my speech is the voice of the Spirit.

I will do nothing to fix, or record, or write my Truth unto the earth, for my record is the record of the Holy Spirit. I say, as Job said, my witness is in the heavens and my record is on high.

I covenant for my joyous song of life, and I will do nothing to be joyful; my joy is the joy of the Spirit.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my demonstrations of efficiency and skill in rightly doing all things, and I will do nothing to perfect myself. My efficiency is the working skill of the Holy Spirit, according to the words of Jesus Christ, who said, "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works."

I covenant for my judgment in its beauty, and the beauty of judgment; and I will do nothing to make myself greatly good in judgment, for Spirit is my judgment.

I covenant with the Holy Spirit for my love, and will do nothing to make myself loving or beloved, for all is the Holy Spirit now acting with irresistible goodness through me. This will make it easy for my to say, from the depths of my heart, "I do believe that the True God is now working with me and through me and by me and for me, to make me omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. I have faith in God. I have the faith of God."




Tuesday, September 18, 2012

ACIM, Google+ and social media.



Google+ (GooglePlus) allows you to organize friends, acquaintances and family by circles. That’s how we tend to organize our lives. By inner and outer circles.
How many people in your life love you, support you, forgive you and want the best for you.
There’s no judgement there. You really just need to become aware and do a mental inventory.
The people in your life now, are mirrors of yourself. The mirror your beliefs back at you.
The people that are “in your face”, that push your buttons seem to be persecutors or judging us, making us feel like victims, are the strongest mirrors. Reflecting back our beliefs. I heard a great analogy to the use of bowling balls as beliefs. All that weight and baggage we carry around weighing us down.
People are mirrors of ourselves. And I realized yesterday how true that is. I met a friend for coffee and he metioned different people he;d been talking to, what they said and his reactions. They were mirroring back his beliefs the same as he mirrors back some of mine. I was positive. I just mentioned my current mantra is "I am looking forward to __________". I even told him a story that Seale shared at Unity about Miss Eleanor Mel from the Boston Home of Truth. 

But, these people offer an opportunity to free yourself from that belief.
Look at the people around you. In your inner and outer circles. Look at Google+, Facebook and Linkedin. Have you gone for quality or quantity? How many are allies, that love and support you, forgive you, want the best for you . How many are persecutors or ready to judge? They judge your jewelry, your clothing, your shoes and clothes. You didn’t do it right! How many are victims or deficient in some way? Actually these are people that you are judging.
But we have a choice. Question the belief. What’s going on inside of you. Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, knowing God is your strength.
Byron Katie calls it taking it to inquiry.
I’m not good enough . . . .
You don’t love me.
1. Is it true?
2. Do you absolutely know it’s true?
3. Turn it around
                I am good enough. They aren’t good enough
                I love me. I love them. They don’t love me. They don’t love themselves.
4. And then you find 3 or 4 specific instances of when the turn around were true.

Remember, NOW is the only time. If you are single then you are single. The fact that you are single doesn’t mean anything. I’ve seen 58 and 60 year old women on Christian Mingles who are single. Good for them.

If love is lacking in any of your circles it’s because you have a belief you don’t deserve love. Love yourself. Allow yourself to remember God’s love. We’ve never lost God’s love, only how to remember it.
Tony Robbins, in his book “Personnel Power”, had a great line “Can you remember a time when you felt totally loved”. Try it!

How do we react to what they say? What should you do when someone says something that hurts. ACIM says in our defencelessness lies our strength. Maybe you simple say “Thanks, I hear what you're saying”. And then you go into the silence and see what the words mean and ask the Holy Spirit to see them in a different light or context. What belief needs re-alignment. Your thoughts and beliefs have to be in agreement otherwise when you say an affirmation your inner voice says “Yeah, sure you don’t believe that.”
Do you want to be Right or do you want to be happy?
The idea is to wake up and remember the Love which is our natural state.
Chapter 14 of ACIM talks of the Circle of Atonement.

Each one you see, you place within the holy circle of Atonement, or leave outside, judging him fit for crucifixion or redemption. If you bring him INTO the circle of purity, you will rest there WITH him. If you leave him without, you JOIN him there. Judge not, except in quietness which is NOT of you. Refuse to accept anyone as WITHOUT the blessing of Atonement, and bring him INTO it by blessing him. Holiness MUST be shared, for therein lies everything that makes it holy. Come gladly to the holy circle, and look out in peace on all who think they are outside. Cast no-one out, for this is what HE seeks along with you. Come, let us join him in the holy place of peace, which is for all of us, united as one, within the cause of peace. (ACIM, T, 14,V,11.1-9)

Invite everyone from your inner and outer circles into your circle of atonement. Family (had a rough time settling estates, I know I did which makes this an easy choice). What about brothers and sisters (Family issues, not talking, love is lacking or maybe not talking)? If you know any alcoholics include them, even street people that ask for money. Workers, co-workers and even the companies. People from bowling, golf or any league where someone pushed your button or said something. This is a mental house cleaning or cleansing. Accountants, car dealerships, service advisors and mechanics seem logical. Have you declared bankruptcy or do you have debt. Take your belief about money to inquiry and invite the people you owed money to and everyone involved into your circle of Atonement.We are all one after all.

The body is a dream. Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.
The body is the means by which God's Son returns to sanity. Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy. Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill.
You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. (ACIM, M, Section 5. What is the Body?)



Commitment, the acid test of forgiveness
So, if you've had a relationship that didn't work out examine your thoughts. Did you believe you were worthy of a relationship? Focus on what you did from a state of love rather than what went wrong. Maybe there will be a shift and you realize you can be loving and committed. What did you do out of love. Maybe it was just listen and the feeling of being in their company. A special act or a gift you bought. This is from YOUR perspective not theirs. You don't know what their beliefs were. And then you can accept and realize that when the time is right you will find the relationship you are entitled to.