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Study of the Text Healing and Wholeness, Introduction Paragraph 3 9-20-13

Chapter 5 Introduction, Paragraph 3
9-20-13
3 You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere. You should want to bless them in return, out of gratitude. You need not know them individually, or they you. The light is so strong that it radiates throughout the Sonship and returns thanks to the Father for radiating His joy upon it. Only God’s holy children are worthy channels of His beautiful joy, because only they are beautiful enough to hold it by sharing it. It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself. That is why the healer’s prayer is:
Let me know this brother as I know myself.

Every thought we have and that we believe is doing one of two things. It is adding to the ego, or it is undoing the ego. Those thoughts I think with God are undoing the ego and since there is only one ego, it is undone in all of us. I am so grateful to everyone for doing their part, and we are all doing our part whether it looks like it or not, whether we know it or not.

Even in my BC days (Before the Course) I was doing my part. I was learning what it is that I don’t want. I was showing others what they didn’t want. I was setting up the lessons that would bring me to this very place in my spiritual life. It looked like I was screwing everything up, but that was just how I perceived it. I’m sure that from some else’s story it seemed I was sometimes the bad guy. But every part I have played has been essential to my development and theirs as well.

Now that the light is growing in me, I am helpful in different ways. That light shines throughout the Sonship. To be a real pain in someone’s side I had to be in their life, but to influence the Sonship, I only had to believe my thoughts. Now I believe the thoughts I think with God a lot more than I believe the ego thoughts in my mind and so now I am influencing the Sonship in a different way.

I love sharing through my words, written and spoken, when they are inspired, because it allows the flow of God through me to you, and this flow continues until I impede it with my untrue thoughts. I can be feeling sad or discouraged or angry, but when it is time for me to journal or to teach, all that goes away. I feel energized and positive. I feel love flowing through me and there is nothing better than that. But if I never wrote another word or said another word, the work of undoing the ego in the Sonship would go on, because when my mind is healed so is yours. And visa versa. Thank you.

My most consistent prayer these days is to see the Christ in my brother no matter what the circumstances may be. The only way to know and love God is to know and love my brothers, all of them, not just the ones who reflect my “good” self, but the ones who reflect my confusion as well. If I don’t know and love and appreciate all of God’s creation, I cannot know and love the Creator.

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Study of the Text Healing and Wholeness Introduction, Paragraph 2   9-19-13

Chapter 5 Introduction, Paragraph 2
9-19-13
2 To be wholehearted you must be happy. If fear and love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive, the only possible whole state is that of love. There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the wholly joyous. To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one. That is why it makes no difference to what part or by what part of the Sonship the healing is offered. Every part benefits, and benefits equally.

Oh boy, I love this! First, lack of joy is a marker, a way I can tell if there is mind healing work to be done. My goal always is to return my mind to wholeness and joy is the only completely whole state so it is a good indicator as to what needs to be done next. Or rather the lack of joy is that indicator, and joy is the indicator that I have been doing my healing work, that I have chosen love over fear.

The second thing I enjoyed reading in this paragraph is that it does not matter what part of the Sonship heals or is healed. It is for all, everyone benefits. I knew that but I like seeing it here, reminding me and reassuring me. I am so very grateful every time I hear one of my brothers doing their own work because I know that means I am being lifted up right along with them.

It also means that if I see someone else acting out of their ego, I can heal that belief in my own mind and it is done for both of us. Or as Jesus says, I can accept the Atonement on behalf of my brother. In this way I am completely responsible for everything. If it is in my awareness it is there for me to heal it.  If my friend becomes angry when she sees a homeless person asking for money, maybe my ego wants to judge her for her lack of compassion.

However, the other choice is to recognize the lack of compassion in my own mind and to ask that my mind be healed. There. It is done. As it turns out I didn’t need to school my friend, I just needed to accept the Atonement for myself for this to be healed. As I continue to accept total responsibility and to heal whatever is in my awareness without regard to “ownership” I begin to fully integrate the fact that there is no separation, that we are, indeed, all one, and that all healing benefits all equally.

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Study of the Text Chapter 5: HEALING AND WHOLENESS Introduction 9-18-13

Chapter 5: HEALING AND WHOLENESS
Introduction
1 To heal is to make happy. I have told you to think how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many you have refused. This is the same as telling you that you have refused to heal yourself. The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind’s natural impulse to respond as one. Those who attempt to heal without being wholly joyous themselves call forth different kinds of responses at the same time, and thus deprive others of the joy of responding wholeheartedly.

Yikes, I’m feeling the pressure! ~smile~ My job is to be wholly joyous and to fall short of that goal means I am not the healer I might be otherwise. If I am not joyous it means I have failed to accept healing for myself, and if I am not wholly joyous then when I attempt healing of others the results will vary. I will not be asking for only healing, but for something else as well.

This makes sense. I have noticed that when I pray for someone who is suffering from a confusion that is mine as well, then my prayer lacks conviction. For instance, if someone is asking me to support them as they attempt to release their fear of losing their job, and I suffer from the same fear, my prayer will not be pure. I think of it this way. All thought is prayer. We are praying continuously, praying without ceasing.

So, because I want to support my friend as she heals her mind, my thoughts are like this. My friend has nothing to worry about. God is her Source, not the job she thinks she needs. God loves her and wants only her happiness. She is safe in God. It is never God’s Will that she suffer. But, because I still carry a fear of lack and loss, her fear triggers mine, and so I also have thoughts that reflect my own fears.

Maybe it will trigger a memory of a customer that is not happy with his service and my fear that he will look elsewhere before we can fix his problem. I am thus praying that fear and loss not be true, and at the same time praying that it is true. I am holding two opposing thoughts in my mind and thus two opposing prayers, and a conflicted mind is neither effective nor happy. This is why when I pray for someone it usually takes the form of asking that my mind be healed of the untrue belief my friend is holding. In this way I will be praying the most effective prayer I can at this time.

I can also attest to the fact that the more my mind is healed the happier I am. I become less than happy as I allow the ego mind to run me. I am really focused right now on healing my relationships. I understand that the way Home is through my brother, and that any grievance that stands between me and my brother also stands between me and Heaven.

Because I know this is true, I want all relationships in my life to be healed and so this is what is coming up for me. I am seeing all the places that they are not healed. Seeing the issues can be very uncomfortable and this discomfort is not joyous. However, seeing the issues is only the first step. As I recognize them and decide against them, they are healed and my joy increases. Doing this consistently has taught me that a healed mind is synonymous with joy.

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Study of the Text   VII. Creation and Communication, Paragraph 8 9-17-13

VII. Creation and Communication, Paragraph 8
9-16-13
8 God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful. This is impossible without being wholly harmless, because the two beliefs must coexist. The truly helpful are invulnerable, because they are not protecting their egos and so nothing can hurt them. Their helpfulness is their praise of God, and He will return their praise of Him because they are like Him, and they can rejoice together. God goes out to them and through them, and there is great joy throughout the Kingdom. Every mind that is changed adds to this joy with its individual willingness to share in it. The truly helpful are God’s miracle workers, whom I direct until we are all united in the joy of the Kingdom. I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever can follow my guidance through you.

To be wholly helpful and wholly harmless, what a worthy goal that is! I am often helpful and usually harmless, but I desire to always be helpful and harmless. I know that I cannot do this through changing my behavior and my words. I become wholly helpful and harmless through noticing when I am not that and accepting the Atonement, thus allowing my mind to be healed. A healed mind could be nothing but helpful and harmless.

I imagine what it is like to live from a healed mind. I would never say anything hurtful to someone else. I would never feel guilt or fear. I would never suffer in any way. I would be happy, regardless of what was going on around me. I would see only Christ no matter what story the person is imagining for himself. I would never be confused by appearances. I can imagine this because sometimes I live it now so I can easily envision living it all the time.

Then Jesus says, “Their helpfulness is their praise of God, and He will return their praise of Him because they are like Him, and they can rejoice together.” This is where my imagination fails me. I cannot begin to conceive what that must feel like. I am starting to get a picture, though, of how it must be when we are experiencing life without ego.

I love my brothers unconditionally, seeing nothing but Christ wherever I look. I express that love in whatever way is helpful, allowing spirit to live through this body giving all to all. Because ego is not involved, there is no fear, no doubt or uncertainty. I feel only love flowing through me and to everyone and everything. And because this is like God, He returns love to me. Love flows unobstructed from me to my brother to God and then it flows back from God to us. Endless joy. Imagine.

This is possible. In fact, this is inevitable. Each time I notice a judgmental or angry or hateful or thought in my mind and I realize that I am no longer interested in this, no longer believe in this, I bring that time of blissful communication with God a bit closer. I sometimes feel discouraged because I as I read the paper I see so much unkindness. And when I talk to people, I hear prejudice and fear, guilt and anger, and many of these people have no idea that it should or even could be different. But then I am reminded that they are not my job. It is only my part to see where in my mind I hold the same beliefs and to ask for healing.

Then I notice that my mind seems to be an endless stream of wrong minded thinking, and I wonder how it will ever all be undone. When I feel discouraged about this, I remember what Jesus said in the Course. “My part in the Atonement is the cancelling out of all errors that you could not otherwise correct.” I do my part, do my best, and I know that all else will be done for me.

Teaching as I learn is an essential part of the process. As I give I receive, and as I teach I learn. It is joining in this holy purpose, teacher and student, that much is undone. Sometimes I teach and sometimes I become the student of my student. It doesn’t matter which way it goes. I don’t have to look for either students or teachers because those I need to be with will simply show up at the perfect time.

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Study of the Text VII. Creation and Communication, Paragraph 7 9-13-13

VII. Creation and Communication, Paragraph 7
9-13-13
7 God has kept your Kingdom for you, but He cannot share His joy with you until you know it with your whole mind. Revelation is not enough, because it is only communication from God. God does not need revelation returned to Him, which would clearly be impossible, but He does want it brought to others. This cannot be done with the actual revelation; its content cannot be expressed, because it is intensely personal to the mind that receives it. It can, however, be returned by that mind to other minds, through the attitudes the knowledge from the revelation brings.

At first I was a little uncertain about revelations. I think I confused them with miracles because when miracles first began appearing in my mind and life they seemed so extraordinary. But having experienced revelation, I see it cannot be mistaken for anything else. When I gave a workshop recently, I was so completely in the flow of God’s Love that I was uplifted and inspired. I was joyful in a way that I do not experience normally.

This was miraculous because it was like being without ego for awhile and because it did not come from my mind but through my mind. But as wonderful as it was, it was not revelation. I have had a sudden knowing, not an understanding through the mind, but a knowing that appeared in the mind, from outside the mind. That was miraculous, but it was not revelation.

I have experienced revelation and I wish I could tell you about it, but though I have put words to the experience, they are so inadequate as to be meaningless. So I cannot share this experience with you, but what I can and do share is the conviction that came from it. I know that I am not this body and this story. I know that God is real and that we are meant to experience God. This conviction informs my words and my actions and so are helpful to others.

I am in that interesting and frustrating place of knowing that I am not even really here where I appear to be and yet, I feel like I am here and act like I am here. I forget for long moments at a time that this is an illusion and sometimes get so involved in the story that I suffer. And yet, no matter how confused I become, how emotionally involved I become, I know this is not right. I know I am not what I am temporarily believing. Well, the good that comes from this, and there is always a good use for ego when we give it to Holy Spirit, is that I can speak about ego clearly and can speak about spirit as well.

In the meantime, God keeps my Kingdom safe for me. He keeps my identity safe from my illusions. He keeps my creations safe while my mind wanders. But what He cannot do is share His joy with me while my mind is split. My split mind has shut down much of our channel of communication. I have tasted joy, not the anemic happiness experienced through the illusion, but real joy directly from God and I want more. I am highly motivated to continue to undo the ego. I want to open that channel fully. I know that what I felt was not complete because the channel is not completely open, and though I cannot imagine more love than I felt in that moment, I want it anyway.

Do you think that you cannot experience revelation? That you are not ready? That you are not worthy? God does not make any of His children special. If it is for any one of them it is for all of them. In fact, God wants to reveal Himself to you. He is just waiting for you to open to His love. He wants to experience His love through you and He wants you to take this love to all His children. So it is not God Who is holding back from you, but you who, in your fear, are blocking God.

I understand this. When I think I want this experience again and ask for it, I feel a reluctance to receive. I know; it’s crazy, right? I want it and yet I hesitate, and that hesitation is the split in the mind. The part of my mind that is attached to the story instinctively knows that too much God and I won’t come back. Ego really, really, doesn’t want to go there. That is why I must undo the ego. I am not guilty for this reluctance. God simply waits patiently for me to change my mind as He knows I will.

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