I am sitting in Maine outside on a golf cart near an electrical outlet, so I can get internet service. Where there’s a Will, there’s a way!
It’s a beautiful morning. It’s been great for me to “unplug” and not use my computer or cellphone 24/7. I like it a lot, just to get out into nature and back to simplicity.
“I loose the world from all I thought it was!” – A Course in Miracles
I’m at my mom’s camp for 10 days, all by myself, and it’s marvelous. I am doing a whole lot of nothing – sitting near the ocean, reading a lot, sleeping in, eating simply – things that were grown locally here, and relaxing like I’ve never relaxed before.
For a week now I’ve lived in my bathing suit and short shorts and haven’t driven my car once. The ocean is a half a mile away, so I bike. Suddenly there’s no need or necessity to do anything.
There is supposed to be a hurricane today or tomorrow, but it doesn’t look like it from where I sit. It’s blue skies and sunshine and massive amounts of gratitude. The waves are gigantic so maybe something is coming. Whatever happens, it’s all good in the hood.
A couple of days ago I realized there is no more “rising up”, no more ascension, no more “higher,” no more “above the battleground” and no more journey. There’s no levels. There’s no differences. It’s all just one thing – God.
I’m home. I made it. WE MADE IT. All is well. All is accomplished. This is the place I spent my life searching for – here with God, living the message of Jesus in my daily life – love, joy, happiness and freedom. That’s it! There’s nothing more! That’s it
I was searching for something that was inside me the whole time!!! HAHAHA. It’s so funny to me. I’ve traveled the world, studied, and read a million books only to come to the final realization that everything I always wanted and needed was inside me the whole time.
And the excitement for me is that life keeps getting better and better and easier now that I know I have everything and I have no needs. Everything I need is given by God, and was given by God, and is here and now.
My only need IS God, and He’s here. What other need is there?
The search is over.
Can this be taught and learned and accomplished by anyone? I suppose it can because I learned it. I was at the point of total despair with nothing.
SO.
There you have it. If I was led out of the depths of darkness and addiction, then it’s possible for anyone and everyone.
As I try to think back to what I “did” – how it happened for me – how I went from darkness to light – how did it happen? It started with a desire for something new to occur and a willingness to let the past go and my whole story with it.
And to allow every day to be a brand new beginning.
And that was it. The Holy Spirit – the Lover of Life – did the rest.
I did a little. He did a lot.
When I think back, all I did was ask for something new to happen. I ASKED FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE. I asked for happiness because I really wanted it. I really really really wanted it. I wanted to feel happy. I wanted to feel peace. I wanted to have an active happy creative life, doing things I love, and to bring joy to others. I asked for that. And He took care of the details.
So that was my “formula” for success – I found out what I really wanted and I asked for it and He gave it.
I love you a lot. There’s no need to struggle nor be afraid because everything you have ever needed, wanted, wished for, hoped for is within you.
Here’s from Joel Goldsmith:
“We must begin to relax from seeking our happiness in the outside world, seeking it through persons, circumstances, or conditions, and acknowledge, ‘There is a kingdom of God within me, a kingdom I have not yet come to know or experience. There is a capacity of spiritual awareness, spiritual discernment, within me that would let me see this world as it is.’ Then, as we learn to live in this withinness only a few periods a day of a a few minutes each, it expands of itself into more minutes and more periods. But give this inner capacity, this inner power of spiritual discernment, an opportunity to come out. ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ That is the message of the Master: to stop being concerned about the outer affairs of life.”
This is the recording from last Tuesday night of The Max & Lisa Show. I thought I posted it, but apparently I didn’t. So here it is.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa/2010/08/11/the-max-and-lisa-showa-course-in-miracles-radio
This is a good one – Chapter 15 – The Holy Instant.
“Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time?” – A Course in Miracles
We talk about allowing everything to be exactly as it is, without trying to force being happy. If you’re not happy, don’t pretend to be. Just see what comes up for you, and if you don’t like the way you feel, decide if you can”choose again” a different way of responding and seeing.
A Course in Miracles is a systematic way to train your mind to see things differently. That’s all it. It’s about knowing yourself as God created you. It’s not complicated. It’s simple.
Here is last week’s recording.
We are also on tonight at 8pm EST. We’re on every Tuesday night at 8pm EST. You can listen in live, and call in with questions and talk to us in person.
Ask anything you like.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa
Here’s the call-in number for tonight:
1-347-677-1827
I really like this article (below) by Wayne Dyer. It’s about forgiveness.
One of my favorite sentences in A Course in Miracles is “Forgiveness does make lovely, but it does not create.”
HA. Rock the house. You can be a lovely human being who is quick to forgive (and that’s nice), or you can be the Son of God who shares the power of God to heal all thing. You get to decide.
Think about that. Forgiveness DOES make lovely, but it does NOT create. I love that. It means if you want to get to the space of creation, you must go beyond forgiveness.
That’s a pretty radical idea because everyone thinks forgiveness is the highest point you can attain, but it’s not, it’s the lowest. Remember, A Course in Miracles “remains within the ego’s framework, where it is needed”
You must go beyond everything it teaches. A lot of people get stuck in the teachings, which will make you a splendid fine beautiful human being, but you’ll still be trapped in time and space … and this Course is designed to lead you OUT of time and space, out of the world, straight into the heart of God where there is only love. The time you take it is up to you.
This is the point where you take 100% total responsibility in realizing there is nothing outside of you, so there’s nothing to forgive. IT’S ALL GOD. IT’S ALL LOVE. So there is only celebration and rejoicing. What is there to forgive in the Presence of God?
Everything else is illusion – your own nightmare – and does not exist.
I think of forgiveness as the ceiling in time and space. It’s the highest point in the world, but it’s also the lowest point in creation. It’s as high as you can go as a human being in the world – but remember, the mind-training of A Course in Miracles is to LEAVE THE WORLD (beyond this world is a world I really want) and then you go STRAIGHT THROUGH THE CEILING and there is God, there is love, there is creation.
And in that space, there is nothing to forgive. Where is forgiveness if there is no past no future, and no story?
I was having dinner with my friend Ram Dass not long ago and talking about forgiveness, a subject I’m studying for my new book. He leaned over and said to me, “Wayne, I’ve never believed that it’s up to us to forgive anyone. That is not our role.” Let this profound statement sink in and think about how it might apply to your own experience. First, we have to face the notion that in order to consider forgiving someone we must have been blaming them for something. We must have anger, resentment, blame, even hatred going on in order to feel the need to forgive. Forgiveness is really an act of letting go, releasing the anger, the hatred, the bitterness, the thoughts of revenge that we have been carrying around. We can do this letting go without even encountering the person we want to forgive. It was one act of profound forgiveness toward my own father, whom I never saw or talked to, that turned my life around from one of ordinary awareness to one of higher consciousness, achievement, and success beyond anything I had ever dared to imagine.
We forgive by releasing all resentment, anger, and bitterness and thus set ourselves free from the negative feelings that weaken us. First we have to get past blame. Then we have to learn to send love to all. One of the great lessons of forgiveness is the report of Jesus’s words on the cross: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” They really did not know the harm they were doing to themselves and to all of us. Meet hatred with love.
Taking all the anger and hatred that is standing in your way and replacing it with love is the most healing thing you can do. Fill your soul with love, rather than anger and so many things will change in your life. None of us needs revenge, but we all need love. It is all we really have to give away. I advised a recent caller to my radio show to contact the abusive father she hadn’t seen or spoken to in 30 years. Finding the courage to call the show was the signal to her that she needed to heal her painful past. Rather than saying, “I forgive you,” and opening old wounds, all she needs to do is say, “I’m here, I care about you, and I send you love.” She has the power to heal and set both of them free.
This is Day 3 from the 6-week coaching program.
The program for members contains 42 daily topics, 42 audios, plus private one-on-one interaction.
I like this lesson a lot because it shows the immediacy of the miracle – it doesn’t take any time at all – IN GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE – and like the first miracle principle says “There is no order of difficulty in miracles.”
All it takes is willingness, because there’s only ONE ROOT (conflict) and once you get that out, all the problems in your life will disappear because the root has been removed.
“This course is simple.” – A Course in Miracles
Enjoy.
“Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that EACH DECISION THAT YOU MAKE is one between a grievance and a miracle.”
- A Course in Miracles, Lesson 78
“Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead. We will REVERSE THE WAY YOU SEE by not allowing sight to stop before it sees. We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down gently and lift our eyes in silence to behold the Son of God. HE WAITS FOR YOU behind your grievances, and as you lay them down he will appear in shining light where each one stood before you.”
-A Course in Miracles
AMAZING!!!!! You know that guy or girl who pushes all your buttons?? The one you hate?? The one who causes your blood to boil in anger?? Well … THAT’S YOUR SAVIOR – waiting for you on the other side of your grievance. He’s calling you to Heaven. He’s standing in the light – he’s already back home with God – while you’re standing in the dark holding on to a grievance about him!!!!!
Boy, do I love A Course in Miracles!!
You think that “other” person doesn’t get it, and that they’re just denser than dense and meaner than mean, but if you’re standing holding a grievance, THEN YOU’RE THE ONE WHO NEEDS HELP, NOT THEM. They’re totally fine. They’re already home in Heaven, waiting for you to drop your resentment and join them where they stand in the light. They’re whole and perfect, and you’re holding yourself in hell while you think they should be different.
I am not sure if you have yet noticed, but there is an ACTION ELEMENT in every single workbook lesson. Only once or twice in the Course does Jesus say “wait silently” but mostly what he’s asking is for you to shift your thinking to see a situation/person differently. It requires an ACTION, a shift, an active involvement on your part to allow your seeing to be reversed so that you can see what is truly there.
It’s NEVER about trying to change the person or situation – never, never, never – because the person/situation is NOT REAL. But if you see it and it’s causing you a grievance, then you DO have to change your mind to see it clearly. Are you starting to get this? Exciting, right?
Everyone gets to be EXACTLY as they are – they get to be the biggest pain in the asses they want to be. Because they cannot affect you when you have made a decision to see everything through the eyes of Christ. You’ll just be watching them like you’re watching a movie. Thinking, “OH THAT’S NICE.”
You don’t have to react to anything anymore. You don’t react to the characters in a movie as if they are real, do you? You just watch the action and it doesn’t affect your life in any way. You’re not participating in the conflict – you’re just observing it, and you realize it has nothing to do with you. It’s just up there on the screen. You don’t have to solve anything or fix anything because it’s just a movie.
And this is how you want to get thinking about your life. None of it’s real. You don’t have to fix anything or solve anything. But you DO need willingness to see it differently if it’s causing you pain.
But what could possibly bother/upset you if none of it real?
“Would you react at all to figures in a dream you knew you were dreaming? Let them be as hateful and vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize IT IS YOUR DREAM.” -A Course in Miracles
These first two weeks (of this 6-week program) are all about clearing the space so that the Holy Spirit can build a rock solid foundation for the Temple of God… IN YOU.
Today is Day 3 and we’re clearing a space for our Father’s house which has many mansions, and pulling up the roots so it can be built.
“The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than necessary.” -A Course in Miracles
“Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.” – A Course in Miracles
“Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively.” – A Course in Miracles
So this 6-week program is a dedication to use every day to do the work that Jesus is asking and not “wait” for “something” to happen. We’re building it now. We’re doing the work. We’re not “waiting” for a “miracle” to happen.
It’s exactly like building a house. It doesn’t just magically happen. Someone had to get their hands dirty. Someone had to create the plans. Someone had to clear the space and pull out the roots to make room for a house. Someone had to lay the foundation. Someone had to build.
And that’s the work of A Course in Miracles. Your participation is NECESSARY and REQUIRED. Only YOU can do the work. Helpers are sent in who can shine a light, show you where the potholes are so you avoid them and show you where the shortcuts are so you can get to your destination faster, but ultimately, YOU HAVE TO DO THE WORK. No one can do it for you because you’re the only one who knows the way your mind works and “the power of decision is your own” – and that’s a beautiful thing.
You have now located the Source of all your power – in you. I can’t change your mind for you. Only you can do that.
“ALL shallow roots have to be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold is one of the corollaries on which the reversal of the Golden Rule, referred to twice before, is balanced. As these false underpinnings are uprooted (or given up), equilibrium is experienced as unstable. But the fact is that NOTHING is less stable than an orientation which is upside down. Anything that holds it this way is hardly conducive to greater stability.
The whole danger of defenses lies in their propensity to hold misperceptions rigidly in place. This is why rigidity is regarded AS stability by those who are off the mark.”
I want you to see this. You have to literally pull up the ROOT that is causing all your grievances and problems and not just push those problems aside.
MIRACLES ARE EVERYONE’S RIGHT, BUT PURIFICATION IS NECESSARY FIRST.
A Course in Miracles is ALWAYS practical. It’s not some spiritual mumbo-jumbo, it gives clear instruction about what to do to see immediate results. I love it.
Last year I encountered the dandelion flower for the first time in my life. I never really knew what the dandelion was until I actually had a lawn to mow. Not knowing the root of the dandelion, I thought I could just mow my John Deere over them and lop off the yellow flowers. So I did that. It took me a couple of hours, but I did it. And you can guess what happened. I looked out the window, one hour later, and the whole lawn was covered in yellow dandelion flowers again!!!!!!!
WHAT?????????????
So I went out there to look more closely, and that’s when I realized that a dandelion has a DEEP STRONG ROOT with many flowers, so if you cut off one flower, there are many more flowers ready to bud and rear their little yellow heads. The only way to get rid of a dandelion once and for all is to dig out the root.
And so it is with all your problems. You can’t just fix them one by one. Because more will be back by this afternoon. They’re endless!! They’ll just keep popping up until you gut out the root.
A Course in Miracles says “Conflict is the ROOT of all evil.”
That’s why before I had you sign up for this program I asked if you were willing to give up conflict. All of you said YES. That was the requirement for being in this 6-week course – a willingness to give up conflict.
Because until you have done that, nothing can change.
Without pulling up the root, problems can change momentarily, and you will think “there I fixed it, all solved.” But as you may have noticed, just a couple of hours later (or even sooner) there is another problem staring you in the face!!
Until you pull up THE ROOT OF CONFLICT – your mind will make up more images of conflict for you to deal with. It’s never-ending. The way to be done with conflict is to be done with it. It’s like quitting cigarettes or alcohol. You decide you don’t want it anymore, that it’s a terrible habit, and you give it up.
When you pull up the root of conflict, all your grievances will disappear, because grievances are the yellow dandelion flower and when you pull out the root, they’re gone.
Just as the yellow dandelion flower doesn’t exist without its root, all your problems don’t exist when there is no root to support it.
1. Do Workbook Lesson 78: “Let miracles replace all grievances”
This is a continuation of yesterday’s topic about how to turn grievances into gifts. It’s very much like alchemy – you don’t change the starting object by trying to fix it (your problem), it simply transforms. The elements are exactly the same, but the form is now different. It’s a miracle!
2. Now look at your list of grievances. Look at the work you have done for the past 4 days, and instead of trying to fix those problems one-by-one, I want you to realize all those grievances are like dandelion flowers with one root: CONFLICT.
Today, start uprooting that root by taking a close look at it. It might seem deep and strong, but A Course in Miracles says it’s “shallow.” It can easily be pulled up with your willingness to be done with conflict, once and for all.
You might experience fear or resistance as you are making a decision to give up conflict. Don’t fight yourself. We’re still at the beginning.
Today, begin considering if you’re ready to do this. It’s one thing to SAY you’re done with conflict, it’s a whole other ballgame to actually DO IT. Today, simply be honest – look at where all your problems come from – and ask if your ready and willing to let them all go.
Basically today, just keep it simple. You’re just looking out over the plot that is your life with all your stories and a past and a future, you’re wearing your construction hat, your surveying the land, you’re seeing what it looks like, and you’re asking yourself what needs to be done to clear the space before the construction crew comes in to start building the temple.
Hi here,
A couple of weeks ago I went to Boston to visit my friend Vicki Poppe, and she has a really beautiful Wednesday night Course in Miracles group that starts at 6pm EST in Quincy. I was there for it and she does something that I loved a lot – she has the whole group spend about 20-30 minutes just being still and listening. JUST LISTEN.
And to see what comes up for you.
Listening is different than meditating. It’s not about having a still mind. It’s just about being present and listening. Set aside some quiet time, turn off the distractions and just sit quietly and … you got it … listen.
A lot of Course groups that I’ve been to do a lot of talking and I really liked just being with other Teachers of God and just LISTENING. There was no other instruction given. Just be still and listen
Just listen.
So, if you feel like joining from the location where you are – it’s tonight and every Wednesday night at 6pm EST (of course, you can do it any time you like – my favorite time is mornings – but I also really like knowing there are others out there at the same time as me joined in one single purpose)
And if you feel like writing to me about what the experience of Listening was like for you, I welcome that. I’d love to hear from you.
Also, someone else in the group opened up the idea of having “a course buddy” – someone you can talk to on the phone or meet with to talk about A Course in Miracles.
If you’re interested in this, let me know -because there are people in Boston who really want to start connecting with others over the phone. I can pass your name and phone number on to Vicki.
Love, Lisa
Max and I will be on live in 10 minutes – 8pm EST. We’ll be talking about Chapter 15 – The Holy Instant: The Purpose of Time.
You can listen in here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa
You can also call in with questions and comments and talk to us directly in person. Ask anything you like. Here’s the call-in number:
1-347-677-1827
If you have been wanting your life to change (praying for a miracle) this 6-week coaching program is a really good opportunity. I’ll be the first to say it. IT WORKS.
If you show up and do the work, you WILL change. You will fall in love with God and you will fall in love with your life.
How does that sound to you??
It’s 6 weeks of one-on-one coaching – me and you – it’s private, it’s anonymous, it’s intense, it will challenge you – and yes – it will change you.
Based on the letters I have rec’d everyone favorite part is the 42 audios I recorded. They are approximately 30 minutes each. There is also a daily blog article – 42 topics sent to you each day – plus tons of email interaction and three 30-minute private phone calls with me.
The result is JOY – no more waiting for a miracle. No more waiting for life to begin. Can you just imagine????
Plus when you are finished the 6-weeks, you will have access to an online private Community Area where I will be posting new audios, live group conference calls and yes, at last, videos.
This next group starts Monday, June 9th but you must sign up in the next 48 hours because the weekend is PREPARATION PHASE – a chance for me to get to know you.
Here is the recording from last night’s show. I really love this one. It’s got some great practical one liners you can use and apply in your life whenever you are faced with a difficulty.
I hope you enjoy it. Click this link to listen:
August 2, 2010 Recording: The Max & Lisa Show/A Course in Miracles Radio Completion and Wholeness.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa/2010/08/04/the-max-and-lisa-showa-course-in-miracles-radio
Max and I talked about completion and wholeness and, as usual, how simple A Course in Miracles really is. There is no process, no journey, and enlightenment is nothing more than a change of mind. It doesn’t take time. Whatever you really want is given to you in the moment that you ask for it , if that’s all you really want.
It’s all good.
It’s good in the hood.
God is good.
Life is good.
If everything is God and God is with you always, where’s your problem now?
If the past is over (and it is) and the slate is clean (and it is) and it’s a new beginning (and it is) you are standing in this NOW moment (and you are) where is your problem?
The only way you can possibly have a problem is if you pick it up again, drag it in from the past and think it’s real now.
That’s the height of insanity. It’s completely insane to pick up what you don’t want.
If you don’t want pain and suffering, don’t pick it up. Simple, simple, simple.
If you let the past go (your story and history of problems) and KEY IDEA: you don’t pick it up again (ideas of depression, limitation, poverty, sadness, loneliness, confusion, fear), you’ll be in God and you’ll be happy.
Simple.
The next 6-week coaching group begins this Thursday, August 5th.
I’m excited.
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I’ve worked with 2 groups so far and the results have been astonishing.
Here are just a few of the letters I have rec’d in the past couple of days:
Lisa, WOW! today’s Audio was fantastic! The best thing about this program is that what you say is actually TRUE for me. I have indeed accomplished what we set out to do 6 weeks ago. I am happy and I have the self-talk and dawning knowledge to get back when I slip. I will go back to this message when I need a reminder. Thank YOU for showing up and offering this program. I has made a wonderful difference to me.” – Love Nancy
“Lisa, thank you for being my helper when I got lost the other day. I’ve rebounded fantastically, all starting with a moment when I spoke to God’s holy teacher while I dangled my feet into the lake and sighed in the early morning…perfect healing!
I was particularly taken with the audio about being as little children. I never put together just what that could mean, but I got it in such a lovely way after listening to you (and the Holy Spirit, of course). I really, TRULY started to think about what it is my children do, how they respond to me, and how I should be in the world. My kids ask me what to do, come to me if they’re afraid, trust me implicitly, and when they’re not engaged with me they play and play and do whatever it is that makes them the happiest. And when they feel love or fear or joy or confusion or ANYTHING they press right into me and snuggle up, because there is no better place than in the lap of your parent. And that’s all I should be doing! How did I never see it before? That’s it! Funny that the instructions are RIGHT THERE IN PLAIN ENGLISH, but we complicate things, compromise, make exceptions, or put them through our own weird filters, thus completely invalidating them. You put it into words I never had considered! You make it so simple! Anyway, you gorgeous creature, I just wanted to touch base and let you know that I’m well, that my dip into hell was temporary, and that I am truly, beautifully alive. I love this program. Thank you for being here every single day for me.”
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Good Day. Pray all is well. Lisa, you have unlimited potential has a teacher of God. Your program is a revelation. Our willingness just to follow and do is really all is needed. Your topics and ideas are mind opening. I feel the surge of God’s presence in your audios and your writings have Jesus’s love flowing thruogh the script. Alpha Omega there is no beginning and no end so even when this program is over we will still be one with God happy as little children on Xmas morning. Oh! the memories of being a little kid and playing by ourselves so happy with no cares that were we are willing to go now thanks to my love Lisa. Love, Tom”
“Hi Lisa, I was just about to send you a message when I saw your most recent email. So I spent some time writing. I want to be able to recognize and maintain my connection with God and joy absolutely, no matter the external illusions. This morning I was getting frustrated I couldn’t generate the feeling, but then I remembered these lessons. The writing really did help. Thank you. Sometimes I still go off course, but I see now how easy it is to correct myself and see things differently. I go off course less and less now and delay before correction gets shorter and shorter. I am committed to correcting myself as many times as necessary so I can be constant beam of love and joy. Best, Kate”
“Today’s audios is the best!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, these audios are so good!!! This program has changed me more than anything I’ve ever done in my entire life. Lisa, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” – Monique
Dear Lisa, Great stuff. Really great stuff today and yesterday. This program is a miracle. YOU are a miracle. Yesterday I felt a lot of peace, and listening to your thoughts on possible pulling back I thought naaaa that’s not happening to me. Then as I plopped down on my pillow looking forward to a peaceful night.. the fear came on very strong. I didn’t think I’d ever get to sleep. But I thought about your lesson, and remembered your asking that we not give up when the fear seems to increase.. to remember this is normal… I just imagined myself opening up to feelings and allowing them all…allowing space for God… and slowly fell asleep…Thank you so much for leading me to this place. And now I listen to the gentle rain and rest in the Peace that I AM. Love, Paula”
Hi Lisa, It’s a dazzling morning. The rich blue sky is flecked with puffy white clouds and the air is cool and yummy. I slept well last night (which I haven’t done for awhile) although I did wake up a few times with fear– so it aint over yet. And then I woke up (happy to have slept) and felt pain in several parts of my body. (which I hadn’t felt yesterday). My choice is not to dwell upon this… but since I started yesterday telling you what I was most resisting, I felt to be done with that today… just like we chose to be done with our grievances, I choose to be done with my fears. (They might not be done with me but I am done with them). So this is my last core fear sharing with you…. And that fear is that I will do something irreparably wrong and it will ruin my life completely and perhaps the life of others. For today I have chosen this on a physical level: and that is something is wrong with my body and if I don’t go to the doctor and get it fixed it will get worse and worse until it overwhelms me completely.
There… we have it…. Fears, like grievances, can morph into a million forms… each designed to steal our present peace. I choose now to rest and trust in God and allow all feelings, thoughts, sensations to run their course. Let the wild rumpus begin. I choose to rest in God. I choose dance with God. I choose the joy of God instead of pain. I will be still an instant and go home.
So that’s just a few of the letters I have received. MAKE MY DAY!!!! Just beautiful. I am amazed, amazed, amazed. THANK YOU!!!!!!!! The best part for me is talking on the phone with each of you and witnessing first-hand the miracle of going from Week 1 in fear to Week 6 in laughter and joy. What a gift. Thank you.
You think I’m helping you, but truly, you’re helping me. This coaching program has been so much fun for me, and it is an absolute privilege to get to know each of you.
One of my coaching clients upped the ante on me the other when she said her new dedication was to remember God and live each day in joy. !!!!!!!! HA. I love it. Everyone’s bypassing me in the fast lane. THANK YOU LORD. What a perfect plan. 
This 6-week program is one-on-one private coaching with me. It’s a 42 day program and YES, it’s intense, YES, it’s personal, YES, it’s going to challenge you … and YES, it will change you.
YES!!!!!!!!!!
If you have been praying for a miracle, I can tell you, there’s no need to wait.
You can read more and sign up by clicking this link:
The official “Day 1″ is Monday, August 9th but I really like to use the first few days as PREPARATION – a chance for me to get to know you – so if you are interested, I would appreciate if you sign up by this Thursday, August 5th so we can get started and use the weekend to plow through the mountain of grievances and obstacles and problems, so that you can be done with them.
There is absolutely NO need to struggle. None. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness, and there is no need to wait.
If you have been praying for a miracle, this might be just the answer.
Also, I have added a payment plan so you can sign up for $100 installments.
http://www.stopwaitingbehappy.com
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What if??
Have you ever considered this question?
What if it’s really true there is ONLY love. Is this your experience?
Have you really looked at what Jesus is offering?
Or are you still waiting for a miracle?
WHAT IF it’s true that as you extend joy to others your body is healed entirely – not just as a concept – but as a real experience as A Course in Miracles says – that it becomes strong and healthy serviceable instrument? WHAT IF?
WHAT IF it’s true that everything you need to fulfill the Plan of God is given to you?
Can you imagine what it’s like to have everything be easy and effortless, the way Jesus says it should be? Can you imagine life with your Guide doing everything for you – going before you and clearing the path for you so that you don’t trip or stumble?
Jesus says your true condition is one of supreme happiness. It must be true then.
“This course will be believed entirely or not at all.” – A Course in Miracles
Either you are following the instructions of Jesus – to the letter, exactly as he spells it out in A Course in Miracles – and you are seeing that healing is accomplished and that there is only love
OR you’re compromising (still attacking just a little bit, still allowing yourself to feel sad, still believing that outside circumstances can affect you) and you’re getting the results of that.
Do you wake up happy?
Do you stay happy?
Do you feel the constant joy of knowing Who you are?
One of the things that makes me laugh the most is when people say “that’s not what A Course in Miracles says!!” and I just laugh and laugh because that’s EXACTLY what it says.
You should be happy all the time because happiness is what you are – it’s how God created you. He created you perfect.
Everything else is illusion.
God loves you totally. You’re loved and lovable and all you have to do is ask and receive.
The range is all or nothing. There is no in-between. Either you have everything or you have nothing.
Either you’re totally joyous with a healed mind and body knowing who you are – OR – you’re still trapped in the illusion with momentary fleeting glimpses of light. That’s the range. You’re either in Heaven or hell.
WHAT IF it’s really true that depression can be transformed to joy??
WHAT IF there really is world where there is ONLY love?
I love it.
What if all your relationships suddenly become harmonious and happy?
WHAT IF?
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED?
A Course in Miracles is very specific and very uncompromising. It says if you are experiencing anything other than perfect joy, then you are making exceptions. Period.No one is doing anything to you. The body cannot be sick.
I love Jesus. He tells us EXACTLY what sickness is, what depression is, why it happens, and how it is healed. He spells it out – 1, 2, 3. Do this, this, and this and you’ll be happy. He doesn’t hold anything back.
And the way you’ll know if you are following the teachings of Jesus is by looking at your life.
Are you wholly joyous?
You should be.
It’s what you are.
There is NO NEED for depression, sickness or sorrow.
“Depression means you have forsworn God.” – A Course in Miracles
The opposite of joy is depression. When your learning promotes depression instead of joy, you cannot be listening to God’s joyous teacher, and you must be learning amiss. To see a body as anything EXCEPT a means of pure extension is to limit your mind and hurt yourself. Health is therefore nothing more than united purpose. If the body is brought under the purpose of the mind, it becomes whole because mind’s purpose is one.
“The real members of my party are ACTIVE members” – Jesus
Once you know where you’re going, getting there is easy.
It’s the figuring-out-where-you-want-to-go part that is difficult!!!
But once a decision has been made and you know where you’re going (once the goal is set), getting there is easy.
This is a message that I sent to my coaching group on June 8, 2010 on the 37th day of the 6-week program. I was on the road, moving my life from Wisconsin to New Hampshire. I had great revelation while I was driving.
Here it is:
June 8, 2010
I’m in Syracuse, New York now – 6 hours away from my destination.
Yee-haw. It’s been a great trip.
Yesterday while I was driving, I listened to an Abraham-Hicks CD and there was a great analogy that if you are driving from Texas to San Diego (or in my case Wisconsin to New Hampshire) you don’t turn around when you are halfway there just because you’re not there yet.
You keep going.
You don’t do a U-turn in the middle of the route, giving up in frustration.
Instead, you feel EXCITEMENT knowing that you’re getting closer, knowing that you’re heading in the right direction of where you want to go.
Yet, the mass majority of people turn around halfway to their destination, in frustration, complaining that they’re not there yet, and that’s why they never get there.
THEY TURNED AROUND!
But if you keep going – just do what’s IN FRONT of you – you will get to where you want to go. That’s the key. Just do what’s in front of you, and don’t look back (Jesus says, “Follow me. Don’t look back Lest you be turned into a pillar of salt”).
FORWARD AHEAD. STRAIGHT TO GOD.
And I just love that – because I could get to New Hampshire faster if I wanted to (driving through the night) or I can take my time and get there when I want. I could take a month or a year getting there if I wanted.
The speed of “how fast” it takes me is up to me.
But I would never get to New Hampshire if I landed in Ohio and got frustrated that I wasn’t there yet, and turned my car back around to Wisconsin, while thinking “it’s never going to work, I’m never going to get there, I might as well just give up, this is just a waste of time.”
But see, I KNOW I’M GOING TO GET THERE as long as I keep heading in the right direction. As long as I keep consulting the map that I’m on the right road, and that the destination is in sight.
DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR DESTINATION.
Remember, the goal is God. The goal is happiness. The goal is to know thyself. If you’re not there yet, keep going. That’s how simple this gets. Don’t do a U-turn. Don’t despair. Just keep going.
I don’t stall in Ohio in frustration and despair. I don’t throw a temper-tantrum. I don’t sink into depression.
Keep going with your eye on the destination and you’ll get there. And in the meantime: ENJOY THE RIDE! ENJOY THE SCENERY. Getting there is half the fun!
Simple, right?
A Course in Miracles is your map. Your goal is God. Your goal is happiness. You’ll get there if you keep going. The speed in which you arrive is entirely up to you.
Esther Hicks also tells a great white-river story. She and Jerry decided to try white-river rafting and there was a group of 6, and also another group, and not one single person in the group had an idea to turn the boat upstream against the current. NOT ONE! They all put their boats in facing downstream to work with the power of the river. And that’s God. You want to work with the power and current of God, and NOT struggle against it. You want to allow yourself to flow.
In fact, the CD is called “The Art of Allowing.”
You want to start allowing yourself to flow.
No more resistance.
No more struggling against life.
She also said that everyone says they want the “outcome” (the manifestation, the money, the house, the finished product, “the stuff” (WHERE’S MY STUFF???? ) but that’s not what anyone really wants. What everyone wants in THE EXPERIENCE – the thrill of living – the excitement of going in the direction you want to go and feeling alive by it.
She said it would be like arriving at the river, and then saying to the river guide, okay, let’s just put the boat on top of the car and drive down to the finish line. And the guide says “but I thought you wanted to ride this river??”
LOL.
I thought you wanted to ride this river?
You want the experience of life. You want to enjoy the ride because it’s ALL good, not just the finish line.
And then she says my all-time favorite sentence by the river guide as they are all facing this very-fast moving river: “FRIENDS, THIS IS NOT DISNEYLAND AND WE CANNOT TURN THIS RIVER OFF.”
HAHA. The river guide is giving them an idea of the POWER of the river – it’s not Disneyland and you can’t turn it off – and Jesus is giving you an idea of the POWER of God.
Today’s instruction is about KNOWING YOUR GOAL and heading in that direction, using the map to get there, and not doubting just because you’re not there yet.
If you’re not yet where you want to go, you’re almost there. Keep going. Whatever you do, don’t turn back.
KEEP GOING.
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there, and that’s the difficulty with most people. They say they want to go somewhere (for things to change) but they don’t know where they want to go.
Today I want you to look over your intentions that you wrote last week.
Look over the goals you set.
See where you are on the map.
Know where you’re going.
Just like with a road trip, sometimes there are obstacles and delays and road blocks. But it’s all part of the journey, and that’s what makes it so great.
The unknown is scary and there can be a great temptation to turn around to your life of safety, routine and habit as you start moving further away from it. You’re not sure what awaits you. I’M NOT SURE WHAT AWAITS ME. But I still keep heading forward because I’ve set the goal and I know where I’m going.
Do you know where you’re going? Do you know what you want?
Once you know where you’re going, getting there is easy.
You won’t go down other roads because that doesn’t make any sense. I know I’m heading east and it wouldn’t make any sense to head south or west. And that’s how it with A Course in Miracles. When happiness is your goal, you wouldn’t dream of heading down a road of conflict because that takes you off in a whole other direction.
Here is the recording from last night’s show. A Course in Miracles Radio. ENJOY! Max and I talk about the body. You’re perfect right now. Click this link to listen:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa/2010/07/28/the-max-and-lisa-showa-course-in-miracles-radio
