Workbook and Practice Articles

Review I in the Workbook contains an extremely helpful and effective kind of practice, one that is virtually unknown among Course students. It takes the important practice of letting related thoughts come and uses it as a way to dispel our upsets. In letting related...

Beginning in Lessons 38 and 42, and extending into the 70's, the Workbook trains us in the important practice of “letting related thoughts come,” in which we come up with our own thoughts that are related to the idea for the day. The purpose of this is to make the...

The Text contains a number of highly effective practices, which are nearly indistinguishable from the practices found in the Workbook. These practices often begin with a particular setting, such as "when anything threatens your peace of mind." Then they instruct you...

I have had now a fifteen-year journey [this was written in 1996] with the second volume of A Course in Miracles>, the Workbook for Students. I thought I would relate the story of my journey. What is particularly amazing to me is that Workbook practice has slowly...

For thousands of years, meditation has been considered by seekers all over the world to be perhaps the royal road to God. It has been sanctified by Hindu gurus, Christian mystics, Sufi masters, and by the Buddha himself. Because many of us have come to A Course in...

Every day we do things for which we feel little—and sometimes not so little—pangs of guilt. How do we deal with that guilt? Once we have done something we regret and we feel those pangs, how do we get rid of them? There is a brilliant and unexpected answer to this in...

Lesson 78 in the Workbook is one of those lessons that gives us an exercise for forgiving a particular person in our lives. First the lesson directs us in how to select this person. Then we review at some length our current picture of him, including the things we...

Have you ever noticed how uncomfortable we are with empty spaces? We ache for leisure time, but then we anxiously fill it with a busy itinerary. We keep ourselves frantic with responsibilities, as if a moment alone with ourselves is a frightening prospect. Even when...

Workbook Lesson 303 paints a beautiful picture of the birth of Christ in us. For this reason, I have long enjoyed using this lesson as my practice for Christmas Day. The first paragraph in particular has always been a favorite of mine. Using poetic imagery that evokes...

This is a guided meditation from our 2008 Workbook recordings. Many thanks to Mary Anne Buchowski of Course Oasis in Ottawa, Canada for transcribing this. Begin by repeating to yourself, I am not a body. I am free…. For I am still as God created me…. Then repeat the...

The Practice: "Merely repeat the idea [for the day] as often as possible" Importance: "The exercises to be done throughout the day are equally important, and perhaps of even greater value [than the longer practice periods]....You have been inclined to practice only at...

Have you ever wondered how to forgive someone? How do we sit down, close our eyes, and actually do the job of forgiveness? If so, you may have felt a surge of hope if you came across Lesson 121 in the Workbook, “Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” This lesson asks...