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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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