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Gentle Healing Journal, Lesson 113 3-21-19

Lesson 113
(95) I am one Self, united with my Creator.
(96) Salvation comes from my one Self.

Again, this morning I sat for a while readying my mind to know my Self. At first, I noticed how much I didn’t want to do this and knew that was because I was afraid of failure and what that would mean. I asked the Holy Spirit to remove those thoughts from my mind and He did. I settled into the process. I didn’t have as many distracting thoughts as before and when I did, I turned from them more quickly. I’m going to try again later. I know that it is normal to take time to acquire discipline of the mind.

Just reading today’s review caused a feeling of peace to flow through me. I asked the Holy Spirit to clarify these lessons for me as I began my contemplation. Serenity and perfect peace are mine right now, not when something happens or when I do something deserving or prove my worth through some great effort. I am my Self and one with God is just a fact that does not change. That it does not change is a hallmark of my Self, as only the changeless is my Self. I can trust that I am completely whole and at one with all creation and with God even when that doesn’t appear to be my experience, even if I can’t feel it.

It is this one Self, my true Self from which salvation comes because knowing this Self is my salvation. The knowledge of my one Self is in my mind. It did not disappear because I turned from it and placed my attention on the split mind. It remains with me and as me regardless of any change I imagine. My salvation was fulfilled at the instant it was needed and now I am ready to accept salvation. I want to be at Home in God as my Self and this is done. Come on, self, what are you waiting for? This is the best deal you are ever going to get, the only deal worth having. Let’s do this.

Regina’s Tips
We have to be willing to let ‘pointing’ come to us in whatever form it will as we contemplate, and then it is important to trust what comes. Usually, as we trust the first little bit that comes, more will follow.

My Thoughts
I write what comes to me after I ask for clarification. Then I read what I wrote, correcting grammar and spelling. I also read to see if it is complete. I sometimes get more as I read. I have moments when I doubt and wonder if this could be right or if it is just me writing from the thinking mind. Over the years, I have come to trust my feelings. When it feels right, I trust that it is right. If it feels wrong, I ask for more clarification.

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Gentle Healing Journal, Lesson 112 3-19-19

Lesson 112
(93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.
(94) I am as God created me.

I began my day with meditation in an effort to know my Self. It went better than usual. I think it was because I was sincere about my desire to do this. When I caught myself thinking of something in my life, I would see myself standing before a display window looking in at the story being played out, realize I wasn’t interested and move on toward the light. I reminded myself that knowing my Self is my heart’s desire and that it is both my will and God’s Will so I cannot fail. When I would start to think again, I remembered that I am not interested in thinking. In the past, by this time I would be antsy and jump up, but I didn’t feel that way. I stayed with it for a little longer until it began to feel like a strain. I’m looking forward to doing it again today.

Light and joy and peace abide in me and I am as God created me. Perhaps it would be accurate to say that because I am as God created me, light and joy and peace abide in me. I am the home of peace, the home of joy. Right now, I feel like this is true. I still feel the peace and joy of the meditation. But I am drawn to the idea that I am as God created me.

What God creates is eternally as it was created. I cannot change. I cannot be something God did not create. I cannot change even a tiny little bit. Even as I appear human and feel human, I am as God appearing human and feeling what it is to be human. There is a huge difference in being of God as I show up as human and actually being human. As God, I can experience myself as human but I cannot be human and still be God. God created me as Himself and so I am.

Regina’s Tips
“In order to understand the symbol, one must accept the Love of Christ. One prepares himself to accept that Love BY RECOGNIZING HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND the symbol, and then he ASKS for understanding. By OPENING UP TO RECEIVE UNDERSTANDING WITHOUT JUDGMENT, he opens up to accept the Love of Christ. With that Love comes Christ’s knowledge, for they are the same and inseparable. Then the meaning that is beyond the words is understood as a Light that shines for all who look to see.”

My Thoughts
We don’t all do this the same way. What works for me is to pause and ask for clarity and then to pause again until I feel like writing. I don’t wait too long because I tend to start thinking about it if I do. I just start writing. It might not be clarity at first. It might be what I think I know. But my trust brings clarity.

When I first started this process, I would write for a long time before it was no longer my thinking mind bringing the words. I would delete all that came before. Now, however, after years of doing this, it comes pretty quickly. I contemplate through my writing. The writing keeps me focused and when it comes, I am not aware of anything else. I love this process. It is the best part of my day. I can also write what I think I know. I can write as a writer using my thinking mind. But when I do this it is not as peaceful, and not as joyful or as revealing.

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Gentle Healing Journal ReviewIII, Lesson 111 3-17-19

REVIEW III
Introduction

“But learning will be hampered when you skip a practice period because you are unwilling to devote the time to it that you are asked to give. Do not deceive yourself in this. Unwillingness can be most carefully concealed behind a cloak of situations you cannot control. Learn to distinguish situations that are poorly suited to your practicing from those that you establish to uphold a camouflage for your unwillingness.”

“Place the ideas within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the thoughts to you.”

“In these reviews, we stress the need to let your learning not lie idly by between your longer practice periods.”

“If you are shaken, think of it again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do. Do not repeat the thought and lay it down. Its usefulness is limitless to you.”

“Do not forget how little you have learned.
Do not forget how much you can learn now.
Do not forget your Father’s need of you,
As you review these thoughts He gave to you.”

These are the things I want to remember during this review.

LESSON 111
(91) Miracles are seen in light.
(92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

I am happy to be reminded that while miracles are my right and my responsibility, I must look within to the light of holiness if I want to perform miracles and if I want the gift of miracles. There is only darkness when I look outward at the illusion for my solutions and my understanding.

As I consider my life as Myron and the world in general, it can seem impossible sometimes to even believe in miracles, much less receive and give miracles. But I am not depending on my small self for this, but in the strength of God that is in me.

Regina’s Tips
During meditation we are pay attention to the true Self (awareness).

Contemplation has a different purpose. Contemplation brings clarity to the mind, so that the mind can operate with wisdom instead of through ignorance. Contemplation provides the opportunity to learn from within yourself, to be guided from within yourself and to receive vision from within yourself.

Let’s take advantage of this third review to enhance our contemplation skills. That’s really what the review instructions are pointing to when they say, “Read over the ideas and comments that are written down for each day’s exercise. And then begin to think about them, while LETTING YOUR MIND RELATE THEM to your needs, your seeming problems, and all your concerns. PLACE THE IDEAS WITHIN YOUR MIND, AND LET IT USE THEM AS IT CHOOSES. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the thoughts to you.”

My Thoughts
I understand contemplation. That is what I often do with the lessons. I ask what it is I should learn from this, and then I let it come to me. It is sometimes profound. It is sometimes probably a combination of contemplation and thinking. During this study, particularly, I will start with a strong desire to leave thinking out of it.

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 110 3-15-19

LESSON 110
I am as God created me.

“The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world.”

The reason this lesson is so powerful is that the world we see, the body we believe we inhabit, all the effects of separation are only in our mind. There is no world outside our mind. So, if we remember who we are, we will have no interest in thinking the world into being. Without our desire for the world it will cease to be.

From other things in the Course that we have read, it is clear that this will happen in stages, beginning with awakening to the truth and as more and more awaken, the world we made takes on a different aspect, one without guilt and fear so we have a happy dream, after which, we will return our awareness to the Mind of God.

I focus on my part of this process because the rest is out of my hands. We are told to meditate so that we can discover in our minds, the Self Who is the holy Son of God Himself. I see my part as two-fold. I am still watching my mind for untrue thoughts and letting them be removed for me. There are not so many as before, but they still show up and there are a few that I still believe, though none that I am not willing to give up.

The second part, equally, if not more important, is the meditation and in that part I am still a baby, taking small steps. And, oh yes, there is a third essential part. “We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remember Him.” I awaken through loving and honoring my brother.

Regina’s Tip
1. I recommend practicing Self-inquiry during your 5-minute meditation breaks today. You could practice with different questions during different breaks. Which questions work best for you? Feel free to use other methods of Self-inquiry that you may have heard of. For example Mooji’s question was, “Can the seer be seen?”

2. The lesson points to another type of inquiry when it says, “Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today.” This brings up the question, “What ideas of ‘me’ do I have that are not what I am?’

If you focus on Self-inquiry during meditation, you can use the rest of the day to ponder this second question. Be open to notice what you tell yourself about you. Notice what roles you are heavily identified with. What judgments do you make about who you are? Pay attention to discover who YOU TELL YOURSELF that you are. See how many of these false images you can uncover in your thoughts today. Realize these are images you make, and then remind yourself, “I am as God created me.

My Thoughts
Regina suggests two practices, self-inquiry and noticing the roles we assign ourselves and what we believe about ourselves. I admit that I don’t relate to the self-inquiry practice, but I will do it anyway. I think I could use this one. “~ Listen to a sound in your environment & then ask, “Who hears this?” Turn attention to become aware of you, the awareness that hears.” That one is easier for me to accept and make sense of.

Thinking about my ideas of myself, the roles I play that are important to me are parent (somewhat) and grandmother. Grandmother is a delight but while I play that role and the role of mother, I am not attached to them. I don’t define myself through them. The role that I am somewhat attached to is teacher of God. I think it is part of my purpose and is important. If I think I have failed in this role, I am upset. If something happened where I could not actively participate in this role, I would not cease to be so I am not confused about that part at least. I am glad that this has not happened, and I am learning to love my mistakes and to be happy in those situations that feel challenging so there is less distress when I mess up.

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 109 3-12-19

LESSON 109
I rest in God.

“There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem that it cannot solve. And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.”

Yesterday, I gave peace of mind and happiness. I specifically thought of my son and then I thought of others I love and saw the peace and happiness spreading further and further. Today, I rest in God and I call upon my son and all the others to draw them to their rest along with me.

“You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.”

This is one of the most beautiful lessons and I feel my heart swell with joy at the thought, I feel a longing to take this rest for myself and for all my brothers. It calls to me so strongly. I must be one with everyone, not just those who are here with me, but those who passed and those who have not yet come. I must be connected to them because my efforts are a gift to them. We are all, each of us, a Thought of God and we rest within His Mind where we were born and where we remain.

As I sat in silence trying to sink below my thoughts, I realized that if I rest in God for five minutes, I could be free of these thoughts. There are no such thoughts in God. I would be free of any physical distress or distractions because there are no bodies in God. There would be no writing, no phone calls, no one to help, because nothing in God needs help.

There is no house to clean, no one to visit, no Christmas gifts to buy. There is only rest and in that rest is perfect peace. It is hard for me to imagine, but for five minutes I did my best to experience it. The little I succeeded was lovely. I look forward to the next five minute interval of resting in God.

Regina’s Tips

NTI Luke says, “Sickness must rest and be quiet. This is the way to health. Let your sickness rest.”

This is why we want to rest. When our attention is caught up in our mind’s conditioned thought habits, the neural pathways that are related to those habits are well worn and as slippery as water slides. When we rest from our habitual way of thinking, those same neural pathways begin to dry up. Later, we will experience this as the ability to pause and discern before going into a habitual way of reacting. Or a neural pathway may be completely healed through our rest, and we will notice that our happiness is unaffected by a situation that would have upset us before.

My Thoughts
I am continuing my practice of choosing happiness in the midst of life experiences regardless of what they seem to call for. I am also practicing loving what is, also regardless of what the world thinks is an appropriate response. I am surprised how quickly this became easy and how quickly it began to feel like the best response and to make sense to me.

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