My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
Today’s lesson is basically the last one that involves cleaning away the cobwebs, pulling up shallow roots and cleaning out the basement, attic, closets, under the bed, etc.
Lesson 1-26 gut out & excavate attack/fear thoughts from your mind. These early lessons are designed to show you your own responsibility for everything you see. They also show you the source of both the problem and the solution: YOUR THINKING.
So these lessons all build upon each other. They are part of a holographic Whole that are designed to remove fear and leave you in a state of love, grace, gratitude and appreciation.
If you have been practicing correctly for the past 25 days (one lesson a day, and following the instructions), then you begun to develop a new way of seeing, thinking, responding and interacting.
It should, by now, be reasonable to you to STOP and PAUSE before reacting to anyone or anything. You have begun to OBSERVE your world instead of mindlessly participating it, oblivious.
By now, Day 26, you should be having some light experiences that leave you slightly breathless that the “guy out there” is you.
You have learned that everything that is happening to you, you caused. All the pain and all the good. You caused it. This should begin to make you happy because you realize that all you have to do to change the world you see is to change your mind.
Simple.
You have learned to look beyond form and appearances and you begin to respond only to the Christ in your brother. You stop being deceived by words and actions. This is what it means to develop Christ vision: you begin to see truly.
You have learned to stop categorizing good vs bad, right vs. wrong. Now you simply categorize things into truth vs. illusion. There are no shades of gray anymore. Either something is true or false. There is no in-between.
That which is changeless and eternal is true, that which is perishable is false.
You’ve learned there are only two emotions: love and fear. And what is not love is a call for love.
Love is real and fear is false.
You have started to listen better. You listen now with a new attentiveness, to both what you are saying to other people and what other people are saying to you because you realize you are looking at a mirror reflection of your own mind.
It’s a very cool thing, placing you in a state of wonder and amazement.
You start to look at the tiniest blade of grass and think: I made that. You look at your kids, your job, your body, your friends, your house, your pets, your meals, your love life (or lack of one) and you say: I made these things.
I thought all this into existence.
I did this.
And hopefully you have started to ask the question: DO I LIKE THE WORLD I SEE?
Because if you do not like the world you see – a world of chaos, confusion, loneliness, depression, fear, jealousy, anger, guilt, and loss – then you simply have to change your mind.
All this … in 25 days.
If you have not started to practice the workbook lessons, I highly suggest it. Get a copy of A Course in Miracles and read the Introduction and start on Lesson 1. Do one lesson a day. You can find corresponding lessons and audio starting back on January 1, 2008. Just scroll down. Do not jump in where we are. Start at the beginning. Lesson 1-26 are ultra important. Coming to Gorgeous for God every day and listening to the audio is NOT enough. You must buy the book and begin to practice on your own. Your active participation is necessary if you want to begin to see results.
Coming to this website without practicing on your own would be like watching an exercise video from the couch while eating popcorn. It would be like getting a book on yoga and then just looking at the photos and diagrams without ever leaving your chair. You need to get up and move. You need to stretch your body in the way the pictures suggest. You need to be active in order to see a change.
So buy A Course in Miracles and begin to practice. Stretch your mind.
These lessons clean out the dust, muck and crap. It’s like taking a hose and blasting you with a huge dose of light. These lessons go right into your memories, your cells, and dissolve what does not belong there in the holy Mind of the Son of God, which is you.
Lesson 26 is awesome. It’s a good one.
Repeat today’s idea – My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability – then close your eyes and review unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject.
I am concerned about ____________
Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one specifically, saying:
I am afraid __________ will happen.
After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself.
That thought is an attack upon myself.
!!!!!!!!!!!
This is amazing. You are not trying to solve your problems. You’re simply realizing that you are attacking yourself … ALL … DAY …. LONG.
No wonder you get sick. No wonder you’re afraid. You attack yourself from morning to night.
I am concerned about (money, my job, my relationship, my kids, my house, my health)
I am afraid the bank will take the house away, my kids will get hurt, I’ll get sick, I’ll lose my job, I won’t have money for retirement, my partner will leave me for someone else … and so on.
Then:
THAT THOUGHT IS AN ATTACK UPON MYSELF.
It’s the opposite of what you’ve thought about attack. Up to now you’ve probably thought of attack as someone yelling or being physically abusive.
But now, you’re realizing your attacking yourself all day long.
I’m concerned about this meeting. I’m afraid I’ll be late for work. I’m afraid I’ll forget what I’m supposed to say and lose my job. I’m afraid I’ll look like a fool. I’m afraid someone with more experience will shine brighter. I’m afraid I’ll never be good enough. I’m afraid I’ll never find my purpose in life. I’m afraid I’ll never get married.
And on and on and on and on and on. All day long. You’re concerned and afraid about something. All day long.
And then you think: That thought is an attack upon myself.
And finally, when you begin to realize you are the HOLY HOME OF GOD HIMSELF, you will make a decision to stop attacking yourself. You will make a conscious decision to stop being concerned and afraid.
Concerned and Afraid is an attack upon yourself.
Just stop it.
If you missed this Bob Newhart Youtube video when I posted it a week ago, here it is again. It’s brilliant:
Oh, the simplicity just smacks you in the face. STOP IT! ACIM is so simple, but we try to make it so hard. It reminds me of an old Quaker prayer: When you pray, move your feet!
stop it! we don’t go there, just STOP IT!!
heehee
i can’t wait to show this to robin and kelly.
thanks.
Hullo, hullo, hullo, I had a day today, unlike any other, no drama, well a little drama until I caught myself by 10 am already floundering around in the world and it hurt.. like hell. What did I do? I got out. What did the lesson say? It said ” my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.” There was the makings of my Cecil B Demille movie starting at the bus station when there was no bus in sight, no driver and it is already 15 min. after I should have departed Vancouver. Can you imagine the nerve of the bus service… 15 mins late… don’t you know who I am? Well as God would have it, He sent me a messanger with all the effects of my old self right in front of me in the line. She is getting madder by the moment and I was “in ” it too. I got on the bus and then I began… doing the lesson .. I did say …doing… the lesson with the whole previous hour. I wanted my life back.. so I used the lesson to undo the anger, the old me. I am tired of that, I am exhausted of that. So begins the bus adventure having to pull over 2 times, and having to use the hazard lights because we were going so slow. All I have been saying it the lesson between naps… and we arrive in this small town to have a new bus and driver arrive to usher us home. YA BUT NOW I AM 1 HOUR AND 40 MINS LATE in Kelowna. On the way in I knew that I did not make arrangements for a pickup and my old mind kept trying to find a solution 30 mins before I arrived,, I would not give in. Do the lesson and DO ” if I defend myself I am attacked” my favorite lesson… says do not plan the future, make a space for something new. I ended up meeting a Program friend after walking to the mall to find all transit ended about an hour ago to get me home. She said ‘ come to the meeting, I am opening up, you’ll find a ride there’. Of course I resist… I have a backup plan B that I can’t find, it was not go to a meeting. I gave up… I just gave up and said yes to the meeting and I loved it.. and I am writing this from home… God rocks. And one other thing, sometime yesterday doing the lesson all day and a thought came to me Oh nothing I see means anything. OH NOTHING I SEE MEANS ANYTHING. OH!!!!!!!! lOVE JAYME
Thanks once again for the examples of the application Lisa and Jayme. I really appreciate it. It shows me just how I DON”T use the lesson and how I can really start upping the anti and really start applying it relentlessly.