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Spiritual healing, Dissolving Your Fears

by Rev. Nancy Miiller

All of us desire a more meaningful, peaceful, joyful and loving life. So why do we see the world filled with chaos, anxiety, and overall fear? We look around and perceive this person doing this to us and we perceive this event doing that to us, and we keep judging, judging and judging until we think we feel better. But do we, really?

If love conquers all fears then why are we not tapping into our inner love and light at each moment? Because we are on autopilot and the ego loves playing this game. If we step back we can see the game at play and in that moment we can be healed with the help of Spirit/Higher Self.

In A Course In Miracles we are taught that we are to seek and find all of the barriers within ourselves that we have built against Love, our true Self. Barriers are fears and they come in all forms, some obvious and some subtle.

These fears are the pieces to the game, which the ego uses to distract us from knowing our true Self. The game board is the perceived world we see with our body’s eyes. Our role is to identify the fears, bring them to Spirit/Higher Self and thus allow in love and peace to see beyond the game to the truth of Oneness.

So how do we do this and what are the benefits?

Let’s talk about the benefits first. We all experience stress in all aspects of life, what if your daily stress were significantly reduced or even eliminated? Would this entice you? What if you had high blood pressure and then one day it became normal? What if your significant other’s complaints, nagging or anger was completely gone? What if you had a boss that was on your back each day and then he began expressing gratitude for your work?

What is really going on here is the healing of the hidden barriers/fears that are held in the ego mind, the unconscious mind. With the help of Spirit/Higher Self light and love is coming forward and we thus experience more peace, joy and love in our life. Our perception has now changed.

You cannot control what is happening, but you can change your perception about what is happening. You are beginning to understand the rules of the game, you are doing your part, and you are turning the tide in your favor, the tide of love.

So why not get started in partnership with Spirit/Higher Self and allow love to shine forth Truth.

Discover your barriers to love.

Let’s talk about conscious fears, those that are easy to identify and good practice to start with. Many times these fears are expressed as a lack of some kind. Begin by writing down these fears in life stages, such as, what were my fears as a young child, adolescent, and young adult.

Here are some idea starters:

• I do not have enough money

• He/she does not love me enough

• I am not confident

• I am not pretty/handsome enough

• It is always my fault or it is always your fault

• I will never be successful

• I am not lovable

Another way to identify your fears is through recognizing that you are not in a peaceful state. Any upset whether it is a concern, headache, anxiety, stress, tension, anger, judgment, stubbed toe, worry, resistance of any kind, or a simple paper cut, you are not in peace and love.

You probably are thinking, you guys are nuts!

Keep in mind there are only two emotions, love and fear. In Truth, we are all love, peace and joy, so if you are not at peace, love and joy, then you are at some conscious or unconscious fear state. The form does not matter, fear will manifest in a numerous variety of ways. Remember, these are the pieces of the ego game to distract us.

Healing your barriers to love.

We cannot heal our fears alone, we need the assistance of Spirit/Higher Self because It remembers our Oneness and removes these fears from our mind, slowly dissolving the ego mind and the illusory game of life. Spirit/Higher Self only sees love and thus teaches us to see with only love, past our fears to our Truth of Oneness with God.

Spirit/Higher Self knows we have never left Oneness, we just do not remember, we think we have separated from Oneness. Healing our fears awakens us and allows us to remember our Oneness; the veil begins to lift. We see with love and our perceptions change.

The process to use in healing our fears is forgiveness. In A Course In Miracles, we are taught that forgiveness recognizes that what you thought another did to you has not occurred. If we are still at home in Oneness then how could another do something to you?

So how do you apply forgiveness when stuff hits the fan?

As hard as it may be, do not react and take a step back to remember, “I am not in peace.”

Here is a simple four-step forgiveness process to work with Spirit/Higher Self.

State the following to yourself:

1. You/this event is really not happening.

2. If I think you/this event is causing this (state your fear) and I made you up then this fear really resides in me.

3. Since the separation from Oneness has not occurred we are all innocent and forgiven.

4. I now align with Spirit/Higher Self to show me Truth.

You can now apply this process to the fears you have written down and at each moment you are not at peace.

So who is in charge?

Your choice each day is to determine who you want to be in charge, the ego mind or the Spirit/Higher Self mind. Do you want fear or love to rule your daily thoughts?

Each day, awaken and put Spirit/Higher Self in charge of your thoughts, actions and words. Continually remind yourself that peace, love and joy are your goals to share with others.

As you use these steps, you will notice your perceptions changing. The steps may appear easy but when things go haywire remembering to forgive may seem difficult. Do not be hard on yourself, when you do remember, forgive and be at peace. Let love shine forth to dissolve all your fears.

Rev. Nancy Miiller is a Pathways of Light minister living in Scottsdale, Arizona.

© 2010, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Illusion or Not Illusion?

by Rev. Jean Weston, O.M.C.

This is the question! Or, to be or not to be… that is the question!

Are we here in the illusion or are we spirits and all of this is over? Which is True? Well, if we want ‘Truth’ in the sense of the ultimate, it is the latter. But as Ken W. says, we need to act like we are here while we still see our reflections in the mirror in the morning.

So the answer to this question is YES! Yes we are in the illusion while we believe we are in bodies and experience form… which is time and space. And there are really no beings on this earth that do not experience themselves as bodies.

Some may try to tell you differently. Watch out and be careful. For if you are a true ACIM student you know ACIM says the closest we can come is to be in the Real World, where we stop experiencing each other as separate beings with separate minds, and live in abundance instead of scarcity. This can come to us all while we are here on the earth, and it is not some ‘magical’ experience that you obtain after you have paid your dues. It can happen in a ‘twinkling’ or in an ‘instant’ as ACIM calls it. It is simply a choice you make in each moment in your lives. Some moments will reach this by choosing with the ‘right’ mind and others will miss it by choosing with the ‘wrong’ mind. With practice and a lot of dedication and undestanding, you can spend more time in the ‘right’ mind, to the point of ‘living’ there… this is the real world.

As we work in this way within the illusion, we are strengthening our Spirit, which is part of our mind. We don’t really know what the creations are that our Spirits extend in eternity but we do know that we help it along with each correct choice we make. Just beware, that it is not quite as simple as it can sometimes be said to be. For example, ACIM says our purpose is ‘to be happy.’ But this does not mean we are supposed to be happy and comical at someone’s funeral, if this would not be helpful to those present. Likewise, if we are in any way causing our brothers to ‘suffer’ by our happiness, we aren’t really choosing ‘love’ which would be the ‘right mind.’

What a glorious time we will all have when we really understand these ideas and know when to apply them and when not to! All it takes is a little ‘willingness’ and remember that choosing love does not mean the happiest idea of the moment… but the idea that will bring more of our separated selves together, ultimately. For, it is still a ‘process’ while we are all still here in time.

Rev. Jean Weston is a Pathways of Light minister living in Salisbury Mills, New York.

© 2010, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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I Am Still, Watching

by Rev. Michael Gardner

I am still, watching

For the thoughts that come unbidden
They are not me
Though they pretend to be
I am the still Presence beyond them,
Watching

I am still, watching

For the pain that rises without warning
It is not me
Though it pretends to be
I am the still Presence beyond it,
Watching

I am still, watching

For the fear that strikes at odd hours
It is not me
Though it pretends to be
I am the still Presence beyond it,
Watching

I am still, watching

For a thought of past that is no more; For a thought of future that
need not make me whole;
For expectations of any kind;

For a need to know beyond my being;
For discontent with anything;

For loveless thoughts
that harden my heart;

For a need to be special,
a need to be more;

For a need to find fault
or to complain;

For a need to play roles
or to play games;

For a need to define myself to anyone;

And when I seem to see
Any of these things
I pause
And remember
It is not me
Though it pretends to be

I am still the Presence beyond it,

Watching

I Am the still Presence
Beyond it all,

Watching

Rev. Michael Gardner is a Pathways of Light minister living in Elgin, Illinois.

© 2010, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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A Prayer to the Holy Spirit on Extending Love and Forgiveness

Deb Cloer

Holy Spirit, I am feeling the need to reach out to others in certain ways… to extend Love in the ways that feels comfortable to me. It is not in a materialist way (i.e., food, clothing…), although I do not deny that this is a wonderful way to reach out to others, but in an energetic way, a way that raises my vibration, and thus raises the vibration of others to experience and exist in peace, acceptance, love, and forgiveness all at the same time.

I know when I am extending Love because it feels good, and I know when I am not truly extending Love, because I feel defensive and irritated. When the latter happens, I think only, “Holy Spirit, take this conflict from me,” and then I remember that after all my daily practice in extending Love, the ego mind still sneaks in and takes control from time to time.

I am reminded that my intentions were innocent, however ego reactive my words may have been and that my next words can be Love responsive instead.

Remembering that I can choose to forgive myself so readily means that I must choose in the same way to forgive others when they too have forgotten to extend Love.

In this practice of extending Love and forgiveness at the same time, I have found peace.

I thank you Holy Spirit for this gentle reminder of how easily peace can be reclaimed!

Deb Cloer is a Pathways of Light ministerial student living in Holly Springs, North Carolina.

© 2010, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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