Extending Miracles - ACIM's Workbook Lesson 8
Extending Miracles
with Adrienne Dumas
These writings are my own personal perspectives that I am sharing with you regarding A Course in Miracles daily workbook lessons. It is my intention to receive and extend Miracles daily. To read more articles and blogs by Adrienne Dumas please visit her sites at www.freewebs.com/faeriesandangelsmagazine and www.myspace.com/princessecstacy
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Lesson 8: My Mind is Preoccupied with Past Thoughts
What does this lesson mean to me?
"No one really sees anything. He sees only his thoughts projected outward." -ACIM's-
Even when I am looking at a flower, I am not really seeing it. I am thinking about - unconsciously - my past experiences with flowers. I am thinking about how it felt to touch this type of flower, how it smelt, who once picked these flowers for me, my favorite artists that draw images of these flowers, or my experiences with flower Faeries (all from the past). Wow. Where did the flower go? I am not really seeing it. Even the act of naming something is to believe that it is separate from me and to name something also has everything to do with our past. On my own I cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. I was thinking about my daughter and the moment she first "appeared" in this world. Was she fully in the present? I honestly believe that she was probably thinking about being in the womb (her past) and perhaps when she was in the womb she was thinking about a past life or her past experiences on The Other Side. We reincarnate, have different realms and deminsions to go in and out of all because we believe in time. But only the present moment is real. To think about the past is to think about illusions. When I am thinking about the past or anticipating the future my mind is actually BLANK because the mind is not thinking about anything at all. Many people talk about living in the present moment and others say to visualize a better future but in truth there is no future at all. There is only now. Any thoughts about a "future" or a "past" are insane thoughts.
The lesson today is to help me to recognize when I am not really thinking at all. Only the thoughts I think with God are real and any thoughts that are not focused on the PRESENT ETERNAL REALITY are not real. And while all of these sensless thoughts are occupying my mind the Truth is being blocked out. This is why it is so important to still and quiet my mind. This is why it is important to ask Him, the Holy Spirit who is the voice for God, to align my thoughts with Gods thoughts - which are my only true thoughts. No matter how vividly I may picture a thought (with physical eyes or in my mind) I am not really seeing anything. Only the thoughts that are aligned with God are true and it is only then that I am seeing Truly.
Quantum Physics is showing us that the world as we see it is a result of our thoughts - a result of our thinking. The course goes even further into detail as to show you that your thoughts are almost always preoccupied with the past - so everything that you "see" is actually the past. It tells us that only when your thoughts are aligned with Gods thoughts, which are your only real thoughts, are you then seeing truly.
How can I apply this Lesson to my life?
I seem to be thinking about ____________________________.
When I find myself really mind wondering and feeling not in the present moment at all, I can repeat to myself "I only seem to be thinking about _______________." I must be very specific and name every thought so as not to be discriminate. "I only seem to be thinking about my magazine. I seem to be thinking about getting my things back from Matthew. I seem to be thinking about my daughter watching a cartoon. I seem to be thinking about writing this journal entry.I seem to be thinking about my mom. I seem to be thinking about feeling worried. I seem to be thinking that I have so many thoughts.
But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
Message from the Holy Spirit:
If you really want to see a flower, then you will see past thoughts. However, if you want to see God you will see the flower as LOVE and nothing else. A flower, a human-being, an animal, a planet, a galaxy, a universe -- it is all the same. When you name something you are seeing the past. When you perceive anything to be outside of you you are seeing wrongly. All is Love. All has always been Love and will always be Love, existing only in the Eternal Present Moment.
My Message to Holy Spirit: Wow thank you so much for this and for todays lesson.
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Today I awoke and was thinking about getting my things from my ex-boyfriend. He has everything that I own, and stuff for my daughter and I woke up feeling angry and anxious to "get my things back." Then, I read today's lesson. Lesson 8 of A Course in Miracles workbook: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. I also read the following quote: “Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love.” (T-26. V.14:5)
I have been seeing my brother wrongly. I have been looking at him as a separate entity, someone who wants to or "is" hurting me. This is not the truth. He is Gods Holy and Precious Child existing as Love for Eternity. We are One Love in the Mind of God. And because we exist as Love in the Mind of God RIGHT NOW I cannot possibly be hurt and I cannot possibly hurt another. I was also perceiving my "things" as separate from me - but my "things" are really only thoughts about "my past" which doesn't exist. I have also been believing that I am "lacking". But I cannot lack anything because the truth is that I am One with Gods Infinite Abundance. I now choose to let the past go and embrace Gods Vision. I give to him all of my thoughts and feelings associated with these insane thoughts and I ask that I may see this clearly. I pray for a Miracle. I ask for His Guidance and that His Will may be done. I no longer wish to see the world as a place of hurting one another. I desire to see only the True World, which is Gods World of Love. This is my true Home. This is my true Beingness. Amen.
with Adrienne Dumas
These writings are my own personal perspectives that I am sharing with you regarding A Course in Miracles daily workbook lessons. It is my intention to receive and extend Miracles daily. To read more articles and blogs by Adrienne Dumas please visit her sites at www.freewebs.com/faeriesandangelsmagazine and www.myspace.com/princessecstacy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lesson 8: My Mind is Preoccupied with Past Thoughts
What does this lesson mean to me?
"No one really sees anything. He sees only his thoughts projected outward." -ACIM's-
Even when I am looking at a flower, I am not really seeing it. I am thinking about - unconsciously - my past experiences with flowers. I am thinking about how it felt to touch this type of flower, how it smelt, who once picked these flowers for me, my favorite artists that draw images of these flowers, or my experiences with flower Faeries (all from the past). Wow. Where did the flower go? I am not really seeing it. Even the act of naming something is to believe that it is separate from me and to name something also has everything to do with our past. On my own I cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. I was thinking about my daughter and the moment she first "appeared" in this world. Was she fully in the present? I honestly believe that she was probably thinking about being in the womb (her past) and perhaps when she was in the womb she was thinking about a past life or her past experiences on The Other Side. We reincarnate, have different realms and deminsions to go in and out of all because we believe in time. But only the present moment is real. To think about the past is to think about illusions. When I am thinking about the past or anticipating the future my mind is actually BLANK because the mind is not thinking about anything at all. Many people talk about living in the present moment and others say to visualize a better future but in truth there is no future at all. There is only now. Any thoughts about a "future" or a "past" are insane thoughts.
The lesson today is to help me to recognize when I am not really thinking at all. Only the thoughts I think with God are real and any thoughts that are not focused on the PRESENT ETERNAL REALITY are not real. And while all of these sensless thoughts are occupying my mind the Truth is being blocked out. This is why it is so important to still and quiet my mind. This is why it is important to ask Him, the Holy Spirit who is the voice for God, to align my thoughts with Gods thoughts - which are my only true thoughts. No matter how vividly I may picture a thought (with physical eyes or in my mind) I am not really seeing anything. Only the thoughts that are aligned with God are true and it is only then that I am seeing Truly.
Quantum Physics is showing us that the world as we see it is a result of our thoughts - a result of our thinking. The course goes even further into detail as to show you that your thoughts are almost always preoccupied with the past - so everything that you "see" is actually the past. It tells us that only when your thoughts are aligned with Gods thoughts, which are your only real thoughts, are you then seeing truly.
How can I apply this Lesson to my life?
I seem to be thinking about ____________________________.
When I find myself really mind wondering and feeling not in the present moment at all, I can repeat to myself "I only seem to be thinking about _______________." I must be very specific and name every thought so as not to be discriminate. "I only seem to be thinking about my magazine. I seem to be thinking about getting my things back from Matthew. I seem to be thinking about my daughter watching a cartoon. I seem to be thinking about writing this journal entry.I seem to be thinking about my mom. I seem to be thinking about feeling worried. I seem to be thinking that I have so many thoughts.
But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
Message from the Holy Spirit:
If you really want to see a flower, then you will see past thoughts. However, if you want to see God you will see the flower as LOVE and nothing else. A flower, a human-being, an animal, a planet, a galaxy, a universe -- it is all the same. When you name something you are seeing the past. When you perceive anything to be outside of you you are seeing wrongly. All is Love. All has always been Love and will always be Love, existing only in the Eternal Present Moment.
My Message to Holy Spirit: Wow thank you so much for this and for todays lesson.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today I awoke and was thinking about getting my things from my ex-boyfriend. He has everything that I own, and stuff for my daughter and I woke up feeling angry and anxious to "get my things back." Then, I read today's lesson. Lesson 8 of A Course in Miracles workbook: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. I also read the following quote: “Look gently on your brother, and behold the world in which perception of your hate has been transformed into a world of love.” (T-26. V.14:5)
I have been seeing my brother wrongly. I have been looking at him as a separate entity, someone who wants to or "is" hurting me. This is not the truth. He is Gods Holy and Precious Child existing as Love for Eternity. We are One Love in the Mind of God. And because we exist as Love in the Mind of God RIGHT NOW I cannot possibly be hurt and I cannot possibly hurt another. I was also perceiving my "things" as separate from me - but my "things" are really only thoughts about "my past" which doesn't exist. I have also been believing that I am "lacking". But I cannot lack anything because the truth is that I am One with Gods Infinite Abundance. I now choose to let the past go and embrace Gods Vision. I give to him all of my thoughts and feelings associated with these insane thoughts and I ask that I may see this clearly. I pray for a Miracle. I ask for His Guidance and that His Will may be done. I no longer wish to see the world as a place of hurting one another. I desire to see only the True World, which is Gods World of Love. This is my true Home. This is my true Beingness. Amen.
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