Journal for Day 71
LESSON 67
Love created me like itself.
This lesson is giving me the opportunity to sink below the ego thoughts so that I can find the Self that I am. Just as it was time for me to do this, I received a call from my son. He had some concerns and wanted to talk about it. When he was done, I started to do the lesson but I could only think about my son’s problems. I was worried with him and about him.
Luckily, I have been listening to Regina Dawn Akers brilliant teaching, The Code.(https://awakening-together.org/the-code/) I used it to help me with my anxiety. I remembered my purpose which is the peace of God. Each thought that came into my mind was measured against my purpose. Did the thought that my son’s job was endangered and this was not good bring me peace? No. Then this was not a thought I had any interest in. It is just code, or as the Course would phrase it, this is just ego.
I did this with all the thoughts that came to me from that conversation. I love the fact that I can change my mind and in so doing, I can change the Consciousness and all of us will benefit from it. So, you’re welcome. ~smile~ I had a student afterward and then it was one thing after another until now. I am going to do this meditation again tomorrow. I am grateful for the opportunity to change the way I saw this situation this morning. This change will benefit me from now on. And, incidentally, the situation was resolved nicely.
Regina’s Tips for this lesson.
For beginning meditators, and on some days for seasoned meditators, step 1 takes some gentle effort. We need to softly work at not being lost in thinking. As today’s lesson recommends, we can repeat the workbook lesson to ourselves to remove attention from thought and to go back to being the inner astronaut. However, sometimes if we use the same idea too much to make this transition, the mind will begin to mindlessly repeat that idea while we are lost in thought at the same time…even while the idea is being repeated by the mind. When we notice this is happening, we can move to related thoughts. This will bring our attention out of being lost in thought, because it will take more attention (focus) to allow the related thoughts to come clearly.
Whether you are repeating the workbook lesson for the day or allowing related thoughts, let the words come slowly with space between them. Also allow as much space as possible between sentences, and move into exploring the inner environment during the space between sentences. This space between sentences may gradually become longer and longer until you are involved in the inner exploration and the sentences are no longer needed to ground your attention in meditation (or they are only needed from time-to-time).
My Thoughts
Perfect! Instructions for the meditation. Just what I need. I will give it another try tomorrow.
Second Day
The Code was helpful this morning. When I sat down to do the meditation, I had the usual distracting thoughts. I remembered that this was just code and that I was not interested in it. It came to me that we made code for the separation story and we also have code through Jesus, who is in charge of the Atonement, that is for awakening. It can be thought of as code for the happy dream.
It is easy to realize, thinking of it this way, that one cannot run two codes at the same time and expect to accomplish anything. It is just chaos to do this. I noticed code that said this is hard and I won’t succeed, that I never have. I noticed code that distracted with possible scenarios. I rejected all of that. I also noticed code that said I will succeed, that Jesus said he would never ask me to do something that I could not do. I noticed code that said it was just a matter of patience and consistent effort. That was helpful code. I stayed with it for as long as I could. I think I will try again later today. This is interesting. I like thinking of it as code because it depersonalizes it and so makes it easier to release what I don’t find useful and also depersonalizing helps me release the beliefs that make up a self.
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