Sunday, October 18, 2009

ACIM Lesson #1

What is A Course in Miracles?
1. Self-study spiritual psychotherapy.
2. It represents the thoughts of God.
3. It speaks from the actuality of truth rather than thought. (WISDOM)
4. It is the “miracle” that undoes the belief system of separation from God.
5. It is the action of love. It doesn’t influences, it awakens. It doesn’t convert, but introduces
us to the reality of who we are.
6. It washes all distorted thinking from our mind, so that we can re-teach ourselves

PURE TRUTH through the Holy Spirit.
7. It is a training that takes us through the steps which enlighten us to the ways of connecting with
the Holy Spirit (the Voice of God).

IT’S PURPOSE:
1. It introduces each one of us to the impeccable beings that we are.
2. It allows us to study our self, to discover where there is fear in our lives and replace it with love.
3. It provides self-sufficiency.
4. It teaches us to be regulated by the internal, not the external (and to recognize the difference).
5. It brings us to God’s state.
6. It lets us live out the process of atonement. (The personal process that ends our own separation from God.)
7. It brings us to stillness, so that wisdom can surround us

8. It offers us the clarity of inner awakening.
9. It undoes our manmade belief system.
10. It creates a different vibration that imparts energy to bring us to application of truth.
11. It reminds us that instead of using thouught and action we should invite miracles.


THE EGO

The ego mind is obsessed with illusion
The ego mind perceives without authentic love.
The ego mind thinks it is just a body which i
s its best argument that you cannot be of God.
The ego does not have relationships, It has entanglements.
The ego looks for partners who will make It feel complete.
The ego mind thinks it is alone.
The ego is bound by the laws of the world. (Time, Illness, scarcity, death & separation from God)
The ego believes that there is a finite amount of everything (Money, love & Resources etc.)
The ego is never satisfied
The ego mind perceives errors in others.
The ego is ready to attack if it feels threatened.
The ego mind cannot forgive or forget.
The ego mind can become depressed,worried, angry, fearful, guilty and sick.
The ego uses projection to transfer these feelings onto others.
The ego mind refuses to be accountable for its actions and behaviors.
The ego mind believes that he must fight for his share. It believes that to give is to deprive itself.

The ego mind seeks for sacrifice and So it finds it.
The ego mind is desperate because it thinks It opposes unthinkable odds.
The ego uses busyness with non-essential things to preoccupy the mind.
The ego will set up problems that seem impossible to solve, thus proving that we a
are weak and vulnerable.
The ego will try to resolve problems without addressing the source of the problem.
The ego mind cannot experience the spirit

THE SPIRIT

The Spirit can always recognize truth
The Spirit perceives only love.
The Spirit knows that it is just housed by the body for the experience of learning.
The Spirit knows that relationships are For teaching purposes and that there are many forms of relationships.
The Spirit is whole by itself and looks for partners who are also whole.
The Spirit knows that it is not alone. The holy spirit is with us always if we will invite it in.
The Spirit is not bound by earthly laws.
The Spirit knows that to give is to receive. The spirit know there is always enough.
The Spirit knows it cannot be attacked. It can always choose peace.
The Spirit forgives so that it can be forgiven.
The Spirit cannot become depressed, worried, guilty, fearful or sick
The Spirit is accountable for all Its actions and behaviors but corrects the behavior without guilt
The Spirit lives in abundance. It asks and it is given.
The Spirit knows that there is a Spiritual solution to every problem.
The Spirit quiets its mind so that it can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit knows that no problems are unsolvable in God.
The Spirit will address problems at the source which usually always is a separation from God.
The Spirit will always try to create Peace
The Spirit recognizes ego every time and lovingly releases it.
The Spirit is in constant search for truth always searching everything that interferes with truth.

OUR BELIEFS CREATE OUR EXPERIENCES

Do our beliefs create our experience? Most of us believe that the opposite is true. We believe that our experiences create our beliefs. But let's explore that possibility that it is the other way around. Suppose that all the beliefs you have embraced all your life blinded you to a new reality, a more joyful reality. If your beliefs DO create your experiences, then you would have to RE-THINK your whole life. Assume just for a moment that the key words here are "I believe". What we believe IS. If you believe that your experiences create your beliefs, they do. BUT if you believe that your beliefs create your experiences, they do. This new awareness is both powerful and frightening because it makes us personally responsible for what we create and what we have already created. If you are responsible, you have the power to do something about your experience and thus your life.

WE ALREADY HAVE EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT AT THIS VERY MOMENT.
We have what we believe is possible and what we believe we DESERVE. What we believe and what we THINK are two completely different things. We have thoughts all day long that would dispute that we already have what we want. Our beliefs are in our sub-conscious mind. These beliefs could have been formed as a toddler or young child based on something someone said or didn't say. We have forgotten these experiences so we have forgotten the belief but the sub-conscious REMEMBERS. It is its function to remember and manifest the experiences that honor our beliefs. When we learn to go back and re-program our beliefs into the sub-conscious, the sub-conscious will provide us with all of our needs.

Our attitudes, feelings, choices and decisions also are creators of our reality, but they do not have the impact that our sub-conscious beliefs have. This is the reason some of our thoughts, such as "This is the beginning of a happy relationship" might not become a reality if our beliefs are "LOVE HURTS" or "I DON'T DESERVE TO BE HAPPY". Our thoughts, choices, feelings and decisions are always overridden by our beliefs.

DISCOVER THE BELIEFS THAT SABOTAGE YOUR LIFE!!

Relationships have a funny way of reflecting us not only to others but back to ourselves as well. Healthy relationships also have a funny way of demanding that we recognize who it is we see in the reflection, that is, who WE REALLY ARE. If we do not want to become better acquainted with ourselves, then it follows that we truly do not want a romantic relationship.

* ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR BELIEFS CONCERNING ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP?

* ARE YOU WILLING TO CHANGE THE BELIEFS THAT NO LONGER SERVE YOU?

* ARE YOU WILING TO EMBRACE NEW BELIEFS AND CREATE A DIFFERENT REALITY?

Growth and change are different processes and should not be confused. Only change can create long-lasting differences in us. We can continue to grow by developing insight and accumulating knowledge. New insight and knowledge does not guarantee a difference in our behavior or in how we feel. Growth prepares us for change.

THE STAGES WE EXPERIENCE WHILE STUDYING A COURSE IN MIRACLES
1. A PERIOD OF UNDOING. (Things feel like they are being taken away.)
2. A PERIOD OF SORTING OUT. (We look back on our learning and try to decide what is of value and what is valueless._
3. A PERIOD OF RELINQUISHMENT. (We give up the valueless.)
4. A PERIOD OF SETTLING DOWN OR REST. (We give up what we do not want and keep what we do.) AT THIS POINT, WE CONTINUE WITH MIGHTY COMPANIONS BESIDE US.
5. A PERIOD OF UNSETTLING. (You don't know what is valuable or valueless, so you learn to ASK in every circumstance.)
6. A PERIOD OF ACHIEVEMENT. (Learning is consolidated, we have consistency of thought and full transfer. We have achieved a state of real peace.)

DEEPAK CHOPRA'S KEYS TO HAPPINESS AND HEALTH
1. Know yourself as the Spirit.
2. Rid your life of all toxins. (Including toxic relationships)
3. Learn self-sufficiency.
4. Shed your need for approval.
5. Keep your attention on "what is."
6. Relinquish your need for judgment, rationalization or defense.
7. Replace guilt and fear with love.
8. Transcend regularly.

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