V. The Sane Curriculum, P 2
2 That is why the recognition of your own invulnerability is so important to the restoration of your sanity. For if you accept your invulnerability, you are recognizing that attack has no effect. Although you have attacked yourself, you will be demonstrating that nothing really happened. Therefore, by attacking you have not done anything. Once you realize this you will no longer see any sense in attack, for it manifestly does not work and cannot protect you. Yet the recognition of your invulnerability has more than negative value. If your attacks on yourself have failed to weaken you, you are still strong. You therefore have no need to “equalise” the situation to establish your strength.
Journal
How is it that I know myself as invulnerable? This certainly doesn’t seem the case if I look at my life. I see myself vulnerable to the economy, my body, sickness, other people’s opinion; I even imagine I am vulnerable to my own thoughts over which I seem to have so little control. And yet, at times I have proven to myself that none of this is true. It is a very ingrained belief, though, and I too easily slip back into it.
In today’s lesson, (54) Jesus says this about our thoughts: What I see witnesses to what I think. If I did not think I would not exist, because life is thought. Let me look on the world I see as the representation of my own state of mind. I know that my state of mind can change. And so I also know the world I see can change as well.
It is clear that my thoughts make the world I see and when I change my thoughts, I change my world. So if I want to see myself as invulnerable I must break the cycle of thinking that shows me a dangerous world from which I must be defended. I have too long thought that the world is dangerous and so I am vulnerable, but that is not true. I think I am vulnerable, and so the world feels dangerous to me.
I make this change as I am vigilant for my thoughts and am willing to accept the Atonement for the ones that imagine I could be vulnerable. In this way I undo the idea of vulnerability in my mind and at the same time, I undo it in the Sonship. This is the way I know myself as invulnerable. This is the way I change the world from a dangerous place to one that fully supports and loves me. It doesn’t happen in the world, it happens in my mind. Then I see it reflected in the world.
Another thing that I have been doing lately is this. As I become aware that I feel vulnerable, I stop and notice my thoughts. Then I let myself move beneath those thoughts to silence. From that more centered space, I let myself remember that I am still as God created me, and that means even now I rest in God in complete invulnerability. I let trust carry me to certainty. This is the same thing as my earlier process, but it is more abstract, and it is a more complete surrender. I do nothing and trust that everything is being done for me.
I will mention here, that the ego doesn’t sit still for this. It tries relentlessly to pull me back into the drama of the moment. But if I engage in this process for even the briefest time, I have made a crack in my defenses and the light pours in. I have so much gratitude for that light! Sometimes I can go from distress to peace almost instantly, with so very little effort on my part, just a desire to change and a willingness to allow it.
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