If you thought Lessons 1-4 were difficult to get your head around, then Lesson 5 will not disappoint! This time we’re focusing on specific “negative” emotions, such as anger, fear, worry or depressed. The message from this lesson (thanks Pam for helping me out here!) is that life itself is never painful, but rather it’s […]
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Lesson 4: These thoughts do not mean anything
If you’ve read my previous three posts about what I’m learning from A Course in Miracles, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a bit of a theme going on right now. In fact, I believe we will have a total of 50 lessons assigned to this theme, so you might as well buckle yourself in for […]
Lesson 3: I do not understand anything I see…
Today’s ACIM lesson has been referred to in Pam Grout’s book as “Sneaking past the bouncer of my limited thinking”! The Course itself has this lesson titled as “I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]”. Ok, so this didn’t really make sense to […]
Lesson 2: Giving meaning to things
PHEW! Today’s lesson is an interesting one! It implies that “We humans decide in advance how we’re going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see. Problem is, we all look at the world with a giant chip on our shoulder”! (Thanks Pam Grout for that sentence, which was all I […]
Lesson 1: Nothing I see means anything
Today’s post is the first of 365 posts I’ll be writing over the coming year or so (because life often gets in the way, so this may take a little (or a LOT) longer than a year!), as I work through the Course in Miracles. Lesson 1 did my head in when I first read […]
Being in pain is not normal
Today I came across a post in one of the Facebook groups I’m in, where a person had posted about her treatment for heartburn. A bunch of others began posting their treatments too, before one person decided to play devil’s advocate. She said something like this… “Why have you got heartburn? Fix the why and […]