A New Way to See

Fear of Healing

Dear Everyone,

I was led to read T.27.II in the Course… which was perfect, just what I needed to see. “They [damaged bodies] stand firmly in the way of trust and peace, proclaiming that the frail can have no trust and that the damaged have no grounds for peace.”

In applying this to my situation, this simply shows me that I have chosen the wrong teacher. That I am still identifying with a body.
This is a mistake, and I may choose it frequently, but that still does not change my innocence nor what God created as Love. It is always within
my power to choose again. It is in my choice to step back from the egoic perception, to observe the thought, re-actions, drama or whatever
the little mind is making up. Most of my life, I never knew that I had this choice. What a blessing to now have the option to detach from the egoic
mind, to refuse to be sucked into another rage or fear story. Some days I fall off the Holy Spirit wagon, and I learn that I can easily get back on,
that I don’t have to remain sitting in the ditch, waiting for the next “disaster.”

I learn to turn more quickly to my true Teacher, for sincere correction. I do not have to keep the ego perception, which is totally backwards,
or opposite to the truth. I am willing more & more to give up the lie.
I am more willing to listen to His Voice all thru the day, and share the Love that pours through this communication device.  amen.

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ACIM Lesson 41

Dear Everyone, I share a question that I gave to Holy Spirit yesterday. And the response I received today.

me: Holy Spirit, my mind is sick ~ so my perception is sick too. Can you please tell me why I turn away from you, and away from Love?
I say I want to heal my mind, yet I lapse into the ego rituals and thoughts. I despair of ever being free from the ego beliefs and life.

Please show me in a way that is perfectly simple and clear, why I turn away from Love and the true Answer~~ or perfect forgiveness.  T.Y.V.M. amen.

Today’s lesson is: “God goes with me wherever I go.” The sentence that stood out to me: W-41.4. You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. Or in other words, I have not left my Source, I am in my Source.

Spirit: Dear one, you have simply made the wrong choice—and that is all. You chose to think a foolish thought and then believed that it was done.
You forgot to laugh at it’s absurdity. This little mistake did not last, for what is false can not be made true.

Since there came a belief that you had done something “bad” came the feeling of fear (guilt). This feeling was totally alien to you, but you tried to deny it’s presence.
All you need do is to deny what is false. All the layers that the fearful mind has made, are false, without meaning.
All those layers are illusions that merely reflect the fear thought in many fragments. None of it is real for none of it has truth.

You can give up your fear thoughts. You can recognize those thoughts and remind your self that those are not the thoughts you want.
Gently give yourself the idea that there is another way to be. Remind yourself that there is a way “out” of the illusion.
There is a place that you have never left, that is everything you thought was denied you.

We say your holiness goes with you everywhere, because it’s Source is with you.
In fact, you are within the Source and your holiness is natural and undeniable.

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ACIM Lesson 34

These are some thoughts that came to me after WB Lesson 34.

The 2nd application for today’s idea was: “I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.”

In every situation I have a choice, to see chaos or peace, hell or love. They both come from my mind.
It is far from necessary for me to continue with the way of seeing that I have learned.
Now I have learned that my old way is really image making and not sight at all.
The images I “see” are the thoughts of separation in my deluded mind, for separation is not real.

When I make a choice for peace, I am taking one step away from false fear thoughts. I am taking a step to give Holy Spirit charge of my mind.
In choosing peace I am detaching from the meaning that I have given to some image I have made.
I always have the choice to be in peace or to be in turmoil. Peace is always in my mind for me to choose.

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Innocent Victim Role

Dear Everyone, these thoughts surfaced to my awareness today.

My desire and decision to be happy seems to have vanished. It’s easier to play the innocent victim role, then to be mindful of the errant thoughts that are not true.
Why do I choose pain and punishment over peace and joy?

Only because I believe that I am unworthy and guilty of attacking God, so I deserve punishment and attack. This feels very heavy to me, it makes it difficult to breath deeply.
It is my own thoughts that attack me, it is my guilt thoughts that make punisment seem justified. Is it really worth protecting my “story” from the light of Truth?
Do I cherish my story so much that I shun the truth of Love? I am insane indeed!! And I allow the insane mind to run the show, drive the bus, make the choices. This I can change.

I change this direction by choosing for Love. I watch my thoughts and do not attach to them or take them seriously.
I watch the thoughts and remind myself that “these thoughts I do not want.”
I ask the Holy Spirit to replace attack and guilt thoughts with Love’s thoughts. I choose to practice mindfulness over and over again,
till the practice becomes a habit, so ingrained that it is second nature to me.
Doing this practice is better use for time then what the ego made time for. Eventually that “new” habit will be my first nature, which is my only nature.

Holy Spirit, I give this day to you ~~~ Guide me in every instant and do not allow a dark thought to go unobserved.
I give all meaningless thoughts to you.  Thank you very much.  amen.

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More Meaningless Thoughts

Dear Everyone, these thoughts came to mind recently .....

I do not perceive my own best interests.   
While I think that I am a body, I can not perceive my own best interests, for the body has only to do with belief in separation. The body has many goals that perpetuate the idea of separation, while the “goal” of Spirit is to extend love and nothing else.

To know peace is to extend love. The little mind cannot have peace as it pursues many different goals. It will be confused and distracted as it tries to achieve many outcomes to one goal. As it does not perceive it’s own best interests, it does not realize there is only one goal, only one choice that will bring contentment and happiness, peace and love. Being the ego, the little mind never wants peace that leads to love and happiness, as this would lead to it’s undoing.

The thoughts I seem to think without Love, are meaningless. The thoughts I think with Love are true. The meanings that I hate, the beliefs that “make” me guilty, the judging and condemning, all are things that I project because I don’t want them to be of me. I mistakenly think that those thoughts are me, but this is not true. I am not an insane idea, I am not a separated thought floating about aimlessly in an oblivious universe. I am as God/Love created me. I have pushed this memory so far down in my mind, that from my current perspective, I cannot fathom what that is like.

H.S., I asked earlier that my mind be wholly healed today—I would accept your guidance now and always. I would give up every unloving thought and have in its place the extension of Love.
I am willing to release all that is unlike Love, I am willing to be corrected and healed.
I am willing to give up my insane dream of grievances and vengeance.  Thank You very much. amen.

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Notice Unkind Thoughts

When waking this morning, I asked:

Holy Spirit, where do I start?

Spirit: Start where you are now. Any thoughts from your “past” are meaningless. They are brought up to obscure the truth, to delay your now awareness.
They are brought up to be released to Love.
As you learn to release the thoughts that deny the truth, you return to the Love that you are and have always been. The meaningless fear thoughts are laid down.

You begin in this moment, with willingness to let go of thoughts that hurt you. You accept the idea that you do not know your own best interests.
If you do not know what is “best” for you, that there must be some source that does know. You allow this source to be your Guide.
You practice listening to and following the directions of this Guide.

When you notice unkind thoughts that pop up, remember that you have no need of defense of any kind. Remember that an unkind thought is based on fear, and that fear is a false belief. It is not a belief that you want to keep. See yourself giving the thought or belief over to Holy Spirit. Remember that unkind thoughts are not what you want. What was once used as “protection” will be seen as appeals for help and healing. Every unhealed thought is here for your benefit, to undo the false belief that it would hide. Be thankful that you have asked for healing and it is here Now.

Practice as I have directed, and your load will be lightened. Practice each moment and with your willingness you cannot fail.
The huge will be made small, the potholes will be made dimples, the defects will be blessings.
You have many gifts to give, refuse not to give them everywhere. Share all that you are learning and fear not that you will be left comfortless. You are always safe, always loved, always holy, always Home.  All your fears will be uprooted and laid aside. Taking every fear to the light, will release you from your dreams. You will wake. Nothing is withheld from you.

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My Victim Story ~~ Forgiveness Releases the Dreamer of the Evil Dream

My story was that I was unwanted, and unloved.

I made note of the many times that I felt abandoned.…being 4 weeks premature at birth I was put in a incubator, my mother had no chance to hold or bond with her new baby.

I remained at the hospital for 4 weeks, when it was determined that I could go home, my mother was ill so that my great-aunt and father came to take me home.

At a young age, my Grandfather, mother and brother went to an area of hickory trees to pick nuts. After our lunch I fell asleep, and mom, grandpa and brother continued looking for nuts. They were out of sight when I awoke, and I let out a scream, thinking that I was alone.

Another time, my mother was trying to get us ready to attend the wedding of one of her cousins. Through no fault of her own, she was late so she felt pressured. There had not been the invention of hair conditioner, and my long hair was tangled after my bath. I cried as she tried to comb out the snarls. In frustration she cut my hair short. I felt ashamed, and even worse when a friend at the wedding made a joke about my appearance.  Once more I was unloved.

It seemed that whenever I garnered disapproval from parents, that meant I was not wanted and not worthy of love. These misperceptions have been carried with me, so I could keep the victim status. These perceptions were kept safe by the ego mind. Every thing that was “done against me” was carefully cataloged by the ego mind. My judgment became that my mother was not ready for me, she did not want me, she then neglected my emotional needs.

I asked Holy Spirit; Help me to see this differently. I am willing to free my mother of my projections and judgment. I would see her as pure and innocent, simply playing a part that I designed for my learning.

Spirit: You came with intention of learning to believe in yourself. Now you realize that it is your Self that you really want to have faith in. You mistook the egoic agenda of being right, as your need to have approval.
In the dream your mother seemed not to give emotional support, nor communicate with understanding to you. This was to facilitate your lessons in accepting your feelings, but not getting caught in them. To learn to listen clearly and to learn to communicate clearly to others.  She performed exactly as you desired…. can you now see her innocence and perfection?

I then felt a gentle peace enfold me.

A day later, these thoughts came to mind:  Only truth is true.  I cannot reconcile illusions with truth. Attempting to do this, makes me unhappy—- and diverts my attention away from truth.
The guilt I “see” in others is only the guilt I believe is in me. I think all is dark within me and will not look there. But the truth is—all is light within,
because God put it there and it has not changed.
I was led to read in ACIM:
T 13.X.9, 4&5
In the shining peace within you is the perfect purity in which you were created. Fear not to look upon the lovely truth in you.                                                                                      T 13.X.10, 5-7   You who have always loved your Father can have no fear, for any reason, to look within and see your holiness. You cannot be as you believed you were. Your guilt is without reason because it is not in the Mind of God, where you are.  (Italics mine)

T 14.II.5, 5-7   When you teach anyone that truth is true, you learn it with him. And so you learn that what seemed hardest was the easiest. Learn to be a happy learner. You will never learn how to make nothing everything. 5 Yet see that this has been your goal, and recognize how foolish it has been. 6 Be glad it is undone, for when you look at it in simple honesty, it is undone. 7 I said before, “Be not content with nothing,” for you have believed that nothing could content you. 8 It is not so

In giving up my self deceptions, I allow everything to be as it is. I can look on my past and let it be as it was. I can look with truth and see that nothing was “done to me.”
I chose this experience to offer myself another way of being; to forgive what never happened. To see my brother’s (mother’s) guiltlessness. For they remain as God created them, one with me, one with All That Is.

The hidden belief was that I rejected mother (leaving the womb early) and abandoned her. Those thoughts became the “safe way out”—- to reject others before they could abandon me. Nothing can happen to me without my consent. I set up all those “traumas” for the specific lesson to learn that I have choice in how I react or feel about any experience. If I look at my past story—- I can look with Love and see every form of fear and guilt was a call for love or help. I can see that I was not a victim of an antiquated hospital system nor an uncaring mother. I was not a victim of abandonment. These thoughts were chosen by the fearful mind that wanted to project it’s belief in guilt that it abandoned God and did not want God.
And now, I forgive the dream story that I made.  I forgive the actor(s).  I forgive my foolish thoughts of fear. 
I have never been harmed, never rejected, never alone.

LESSON 247.

Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
W-247.1. Sin is the symbol of attack. 2 Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. 3 For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ’s vision comes to me. 4 Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. 5 Brother, come and let me look on you. 6 Your loveliness reflects my own. 7 Your sinlessness is mine. 8 You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.
W-247.2. So would I look on everyone today. 2 My brothers are Your Sons. 3 Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. 4 Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self.

~~~Thank you Holy Spirit, please continue.

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