LESSONS 5, 6: persons, situations or events that are distressing you For a minute or so, search your mind for any persons, situations or events that are distressing you. Then apply idea to each distress by saying: "I am not (angry, worried, depressed, etc.) about...
The Holy Spirit is intimately present in our practicing. There are passages which even suggest that while we are repeating the words from the Workbook, He is repeating them right along with us (see W-pI.98.7:3 and W-pI.rV.In.8:2). He is there while we practice, giving...
As you complete the Workbook, you need to be asking yourself: What now? Do I do the Workbook again, or do I enter into post-Workbook practice? The Workbook is not meant to be done continually. It is like training wheels on a bicycle; it is just meant to get you...
Have you ever wondered why we don’t change faster? Why we seem so stuck in our patterns? Why we seem to awaken so slowly? After all, the Course teaches that we are in charge of the dream. We can choose whatever we want. We can choose to awaken right now. So why aren’t...
“Have a nice day.” The urge to have a good day goes very deep in the human psyche. “How was your day?” we ask each other. For those on the spiritual path, this urge becomes the desire for the perfect day, the heavenly day. The Course speaks of it as “a time Heaven has...
We tend to think of meditation as turning inward, clearing away the distractions, and being fully present to something within our own mind. In a sense, then, we view meditation as an act of being present to ourselves. While many of the Course’s meditations fit right...
Morning quiet time is essential for a student of A Course in Miracles. That is when we establish our mental set for the day, so that the day becomes about God rather than just survival. Having this time in the morning is an essential part of doing the Workbook. That...
Much of doing the Workbook is repeating the idea for the day, the sentence at the top of every lesson. Therefore, if this idea falls flat in our mind, chances are that we will not get much out of that day’s practice. We might as well be repeating some phrase in Latin....
Please complete the following statement: “This morning, while doing my Workbook exercise (or having my quiet time with God) I found myself”: Planning my day. Thinking about someone I owe an email to. Anticipating my next meal. Looking forward to some pleasurable...
We in the West, primarily through the influx of Eastern spiritualities, are slowly discovering that meditation is an extremely powerful tool. If one wants to scale the heights of the Divine, attempting this without meditation might be the mountain-climbing equivalent...
The crowning method of the Workbook, taught in: Review V, Lesson 189, Review VI, introduction to Part II, introduction to Final Lessons. Repeat the idea for the day as an invitation to God to come to you. Have a sense of placing the practice period in His Hands....
Meditation is enormously important in A Course in Miracles. Most Course students don't realize this, but it's true. Jesus spoke of meditation in positive terms to Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford during the Course's early days, saying, "Meditation is a collaborative...
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