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Choosing the Goal In Advance

Recently these thoughts were brought to my awareness.

Stop attacking the body for what it did not do.

The body is a wholly neutral thing—whose purpose do I use it for? Do I use it for love or for illusion? What is in my mind will be extended or projected, it is always one or the other. Am I extending love or projecting fear? What am I choosing right now?

If I am sad, I have chosen fear, the false image that I have made. This is a mistake which only needs correction, yet I must give it to the One whose only function is correction, I cannot correct it myself. In this line of “thinking” I am simply following a pattern that is worn, shabby and not fruitful. This is where I must be willing to choose again. Will I relinquish the meaningless thoughts that I made, so that reality can take their place?

What do I want to come of this day or this lesson? I must set the goal first.

The value of deciding in advance what you want to happen is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it happen. You will therefore make every effort to overlook what interferes with the accomplishment of your objective, and concentrate on everything that helps you meet it. T.17.VI.

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Giving In Any Moment

Looking at insights and messages from my Inner Teacher from other times, I am led to share this.

Spirit: When you feel “miserable enough” then you are willing to listen. Is this not the truth about your willingness? It is when you finally concede that you do not know, that you are willing to drop your wishes and listen to Love.

You said that you felt disconnected from Love, that you lost the sense of carrying out a plan that Spirit has for you. You wondered how and where you could ”give” next? Well, my Child, you can give in any moment. It is not in the physical form of giving that your answer lies. It is in giving compassion and non-judgment that you truly give. In laying down all judgments that you are freed. Give in each moment by letting go of what you think you know.

What you thought you knew (your past) was never true. What you think may come (your future) never will be true. There is this Now moment that you can accept, and that is all there is.

You believe that your experience has “made” you what you are. But it is really your beliefs that have projected outward that “makes” you. It is all beliefs.
Because beliefs are in the mind, that is where you can achieve everything, for you can change your thoughts with H. Spirit’s help, so you can change what you believe.

Your poor beliefs have said that you are: small, weak, shy, helpless, tired, sick, vulnerable. Poor beliefs have said that you are indecisive, insecure, stupid, undisciplined, ignorant, passive, stubborn. Now you have the choice of keeping all these beliefs or letting them go in place of truth. You have always had choice but been totally asleep to the power that your choice entails.

Wherever you search for your answers or your happiness in the world you will simply be disappointed. Learning to look within and to access the wisdom of your True Spirit is all you need to do. You are on the difficult adjustment period of really letting go of all you think is valuable. It will not last, you do come out the “other side,” especially when you experience more of the joy that comes with aligning with Love. You do want to be happy and by allowing Spirit to give you what is true for your happiness, you will relinquish the false images that do not bring happiness.

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WB Lesson 63

Today’s lesson (63) is: The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. I am the means God has appointed for the salvation of the world.

I have the power to bring peace to every mind. My mind is part of God’s, I am very holy. What purpose could I have that would bring me greater happiness?

Forgiving my illusions is my only purpose. As I let go of my false ideas, I accept the truth that I am only as God created me. I accept God’s peace and love without fear.  I accept there is only one Will, one Love, one Life, and those I share with God.

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I am looking this body healing lesson another way, with another outcome. I am looking at alternative ways of “healing” the body. Yet my main adjective is to let Holy Spirit heal my mind of the thoughts that would keep fear going. 

I am willing to take my fear thoughts to Holy Spirit for correction/healing. What I truly give to Him is undone. I am willing to give up the stories I made up, the past that I made about my life. I am willing to see that no one was at fault, no one to blame for circumstances. I can overlook what never happened, for it never was reality. Only Love is real, the only reality is God.

I am willing to lay down my fears. I am willing to follow Spirit’s lead, to see as He sees and hear as He hears. I am willing to accept my sinlessness, and to see the sinlessness of my brothers however they appear to me in my dream.

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Self Hypnosis

This came to mind recently.

I have taught myself to listen to the insane idea that made a thought system of separation or division. Being made from a false premise/concept, it does not mean anything, it has no reality.

How does what seems so solid not be real?

Spirit: Learn about hypnosis. When the mind is focused exclusively on one idea/thought, that is what is real to it. In hypnosis the mind excludes all “outside” data to follow the story told by the hypnotist. You have to agreed to listen and follow the story that the ego (split mind) tells, but you can choose again. You have the power of choice or decision on who you listen to—- and as you learn the falsity of one teacher you learn the truth of the other.

The Teacher of Love will show you the way away from misery, pain and suffering. You will step away from all sense of loss, failure, and imprisonment. Your true Teacher guides you on the path to Home. His way is certain, calm, loving and complete. His way gives everything you imagined that you lacked. He will lead you out out of the hypnosis you have made and gently waken you to the Love that you are.

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A Dream of Guilt

In a dream this morning, I was with mom again; I was younger and still blaming her for every wrong feeling/thought in my mind. I went away from her yelling I’d wished she’d never had me.

This dream showed me that I still hold guilt over my past thoughts and actions around mom. The guilt of not being a “good” daughter or being an unloving daughter. I turned the idea over to H.S.  ~~ H.S., thank you for showing me this belief.

Spirit: If you accept only truth is true, you will realize that only loving thoughts are real. The world wears the mask of pain, horror and tragedy as minds deny the truth.

Your loving spirit agreed to play the part of mother, to help you learn the truth of Love, and to let go of the teaching of the illusory world. As a child you learned the ways of the dream world, you did the best you could with what you knew at that moment. You thought that things “happened” to you, that you were defenseless. This learning you can let go.

Now you have learned another way and everything comes to you as you have asked. And the hidden fear thoughts can be dispelled with interpretation from your true Guide/Teacher. You realize that the mother of your dream was everything she was meant to be, that beyond the form or mask, she is Love and never ceased being Love. Only loving thoughts are true; she holds no grievance over you. She only asks that you be gentle with yourself, to stop beating yourself.

Dear daughter, you have never stopped loving her or your Father. You are guiltless. Accept forgiveness now. All the past is forgotten, learn to forget what never happened. See that it was never real in any way. The sick mind is fraught with guilt, it’s fears show up in many ways. The sick mind cannot hold the truth, and is afraid of the Light that shines within.

Remember, then, that I am with you, and you can depend on me; take my hand, feel the calm of my Presence with you, feel the peace as you open your heart and mind to me. This is the other way. Seek my peace, breath in, let go of tension. Allow me to be with you, abide with me only. Ask for me, and you will not/cannot fail.

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