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)
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 forgivenessSo, 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.
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