A Course in Miracles says “There is no order of difficulty in miracles.”

And yet … it doesn’t always seem that way, does it?

Often we experience problems, sickness, fear, no money, confusion and doubt and it seems like there’s a HUGE order of difficulty!

You probably have noticed that if you have ever been sick or with a health-related issue, suddenly you are completely self-absorbed.

All you can think of is the pain or problem.

During these times, all your thoughts are spent trying to heal – either trying to heal the body or trying to heal the mind if you are on a spiritual path: A totally vicious cycle that goes nowhere!

You spend your time searching to find a solution and you don’t really think about other people too much.

It’s like being in a self-contained bubble, that excludes everyone and everything.

In times of sickness, you can’t think of much else besides the sickness and life gets put on hold.

Jesus says: “Sickness is isolation” and boy is this true! We just mostly want to be left alone!

You think “When I am well and feel better, then I will …”

Then I will go outside and be active.
Then I will connect with people.
Then I will start that creative project I have been thinking about.
Then I will be in service and help people.
Then I will go back to school.
Then I will travel.
Then I will be alive.

This self-isolated bubble also holds true for when you have very little money.

“When I have more money and my bills are paid, I will …”

Almost no one really sees “trying to heal” and “trying to think of ways to improve/change your life” as an ego-trap.

These attempts seem innocent enough, but they are actually an attack on yourself. They keep you isolated in the same stuck place, in the hell of your own thinking.

SO WHAT’S THE solution?

Remember the truth:

God goes with you wherever you go.
You are whole and perfect.
You are not weak, but strong.
You are not helpless, but powerful.
You are not limited, but unlimited.

Most people (myself included for years) do not know how to move out sickness and limitation, because they have given the sickness and limitation power over them. No one does this consciously, but it is precisely what happens.

And yet … right now… You are Spirit.

“Spirt am I, a holy Son of God, free from all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive and free to save the world.” -A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 97

“Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss.” -A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 41

“The separated ones have invented many “cures” for what they believe to be “the ills of the world.” But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take.”

For years, I used to wait, pray, hope, ask, wish, wonder, intend and visualize for change to occur. Not much happened. I would beg, plead, make promises to God, along with promises to myself. I would stare at Jesus’ photo for hours on end. I am not kidding. I tried to bargain. You give me this and I’ll do that. I would meditate, read books, take classes and buy lottery tickets. This was my great formula for success.

Not much changed. No big surprise!

Transformation is inside job that must work within my own thought system, removing the blocks obstacles to the awareness of love’s Presence. I was acting like there was a God or a Jesus outside of me that could help me, and give me a happy life without my involvement.

I wanted my life to change without me needing to change. haha!

A few years ago (in 2012) I made a decision to LIVE A Course in Miracles – to practice and apply – you know like actually “DO” what it says – and I moved out of poverty in less than one day.

It actually happened in an instant because I felt the change occur immediately. I made a decision that I was no longer a victim, no longer a person in lack and that instead I was an active worker for Jesus, the richest, most generous person in the world and it happened in that instant. I literally felt my entire vibration and thought system change.

It felt like walking away from a bad neighborhood and saying “goodbye” to it and never looking back. It was that simple.

Here is the Formula for Freedom. I MADE A DECISION AND MOVED FORWARD.

What’s interesting is that you’re not actually going anyways. It’s a journey inward, to a place you never left.

There are so many great lines in A Course in Miracles that point to MOVEMENT: Ascend to the Christ, Rise Up. Lifted and carried. Look up! Go within.

Here are the simple steps I took:

I acknowledged that God goes with me everywhere I go
This was a big one. Before I was acting like God was separate from me. I thought had to do the right thing, behave properly, be good, be nice, be kind, be generous to get His attention. I didn’t realize that God went with me everywhere. God is one with me. I am one with God. I am one with everyone and everything. This changed my whole life when I “got” this.

I questioned the “reality” of the problem.
I had been living in debt with no money for so many years, that I never questioned the “reality” of the problem. I kept thinking “oh well, I just have to accept that life is a struggle.” It was when I questioned it that everything changed. I realized that I am a child of God, with everything that is perfect is within me, ready to radiate out to the world.

I changed my story.
I did this in an instant once I saw that it was possible. I didn’t ever have to say again “I have no money.” I started feeling like the richest person on the planet, for real. I could feel the light in me that wanted to radiate out to the world. I knew that I wasn’t alone. I felt daring, strong, confident, excited.

I watched my mind like a hawk for limited fear-based thoughts that were keeping me in hell and I was determined to choose true thoughts of love, gratitude, appreciation and joy.
The reason I’m so in love with A Course in Miracles is because it’s a systematic way to “train your mind” to a different perception of everyone and everything. Most people are not aware of the thoughts they have all day long and how these thoughts make the world you seem to live in, and if you wish to change your experience, you must change your thoughts. If you would like to give yourself a big gift of a 40-Day challenge to watch yourself like a hawk, you can sign up for the 40-Day Program which begins on Tuesday September 6, 2016. It’s free. Click here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

I made a daily commitment to ascend to meet the Christ in me.
Another big one. I made it my #1 priority to get still every day to allow myself to be lifted up to the place where I AM abides. I would meet my Self every day, the place in me of joy and love. Don’t know how to do this? Sign up for the 40-Day and and I will show you how: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

Here is Workbook Lesson 41 from A Course in Miracles, in entirety, because there is no need to wait for a cure for even one second longer because you are whole and perfect.

***If you are ready to see changes as soon as today, make sure to do the 3-5 minute practice period that is described in this Workbook Lesson 41 It can bring startling results even the very first time it is attempted and eventually it’s always successful.

Workbook Lesson 41

God goes with me wherever I go.

Today’s idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience. Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. So are anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss.

The separated ones have invented many “cures” for what they believe to be “the ills of the world.” But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take.

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world.

It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go.

We understand that you do not believe all this. How could you, when the truth is hidden deep within, under a heavy cloud of insane thoughts, dense and obscuring, yet representing all you see? Today we will make our first real attempt to get past this dark and heavy cloud, and to go through it to the light beyond.

There will be only one long practice period today. In the morning, as soon as you get up if possible, sit quietly for some three to five minutes, with your eyes closed. At the beginning of the practice period, repeat today’s idea very slowly. Then make no effort to think of anything. Try, instead, to get a sense of turning inward, past all the idle thoughts of the world. Try to enter very deeply into your own mind, keeping it clear of any thoughts that might divert your attention.

From time to time, you may repeat the idea if you find it helpful. But most of all, try to sink down and inward, away from the world and all the foolish thoughts of the world. You are trying to reach past all these things. You are trying to leave appearances and approach reality.

It is quite possible to reach God. In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world. You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. The way will open, if you believe that it is possible. This exercise can bring very startling results even the first time it is attempted, and sooner or later it is always successful. We will go into more detail about this kind of practice as we go along. But it will never fail completely, and instant success is possible.

Throughout the day use today’s idea often, repeating it very slowly, preferably with eyes closed. Think of what you are saying; what the words mean. Concentrate on the holiness that they imply about you; on the unfailing companionship that is yours; on the complete protection that surrounds you.

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go.

If you want more of this kind of practicing and would like to make a 40 Day Commitment to live in gratitude, love and appreciation, make sure to sign up for the 40-Day Program that starts on Tuesday, September 6, 2016. It’s Free! 

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT. I would love to hear from you!! I especially would love to have you do the 3-5 practice period that is described in Workbook Lesson 41 (above) and your experience with it.

As it says in A Course in Miracles, happiness is our birth right.

It’s just more fun to be happy, isn’t it?

Happiness is important to us. We always know when we are not experiencing happiness, when our peace is disturbed.

And we always know when we are in happiness, too.

And, when we are experiencing peace, we share it with those around us, and with all of consciousness.

So how we feel matters. How we experience ourselves matters.

Happiness is God’s will for us.

A Favorite Game Show

There was  a favorite game show popular about 10 years ago called ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. This game was great!

All of us wanted to see others answer these seeming impossible jeopardy type questions or just to see someone win all that money right on national television.

It is the structure of the rules to play this game that struck me as metaphorical to our everyday life when we are stumped  or stuck and what we really want is to be happy. 

How Do We Get Back There?

In the game when you were stumped, you called a lifeline, polled the audience or called a friend.

Often you think if you are on the spiritual path and you’re stumped or you are in the middle of slippage, you must be doing it wrong. This shouldn’t be happening.

We begin looking for answers or trying to change the effects, or we freeze like the contestants in the game show and when you’re in it you can’t find your way out.

This is the time to go to your life line. Go within. Go within, be still and quiet, go within as pure presence.

In this place of quiet awareness, the answer can/will come.

The Course is really good at giving you a practice and a formula for getting unstuck but, unfortunately, when you’re in it you are so committed to the mindset of illusions that you won’t listen and you can’t see until you let go of the attachment of being right or letting go the attachment of victim-hood.

The secret of salvation is this:

I am doing this to myself. There is no other way to look at this and find Freedom.

Anything that is not joy, that is not peace, that doesn’t feel good is required to show itself so we can clean it up.

Like many of you, I’ve been doing the course for a long time, over 10 years, and last week I found myself right in the middle of Hell in the mind over nothing.

This is what I did to get out:

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Going to Your Lifeline

We all have the ability to go to our ‘Lifeline’.

We all have the inner life line, the Holy Spirit, when we are still. We must be still to hear…

• First I became very quiet and went within to the quiet place. Watching the mind. I was reminded of Workbook 125. In quiet I receive God’s word today. This means, When I’m quiet the mind is no longer running the show but it (the mind – passing clouds, the audience) can be seen from this place of quiet awareness.
• From here I intuited to read workbook 44: God is the light in which I see. This one idea invites me to reach the light and I used it as a mantra over and over and over and it worked to bring me back into alignment and experience peace for a time but it came back when I picked the thread back up (not as strong but it was there).

Calling a Friend

• A long time Course in Miracles friend and Lisa (who reminded me of the Truth and invited me to say what I was fearful about or what I was believing that could disturb my peace) reminded me to allow the discomfort in and be vulnerable. She did not ask for or want to talk about the story at all.
• Then I was invited to be quiet like I was on a silent retreat, just watching the mind and being grateful for every thought that comes up for the rest of the night. Gratitude and appreciation became a mantra for the next several hours.

This was an overnight healing for me and in my mind and it came from the Lifeline. A willingness to go to the Holy Spirit in Quiet Awareness. Being told what to do and what to say to whom becomes very natural and easy now and this is how the blocks in my mind that I can’t otherwise see are removed.

Salvation is the only accomplishment that has any meaning, because it the only one that has any real use to you at all. ~ Jesus

If You Find Yourself in Times of Trouble

Here’s what I recommend:

• Have a friend you can call who will remind you of the truth, one who is not going to people please you but instead will hold you to a higher order of seeing without the story and will listen to their own inner Teacher to hold your hand in the discomfort (a miracle worker).
• Go often into Quiet Awareness to your lifeline and watch the mind that wants to fix it or figure things out and let the thoughts just pass by. Let them be passers by…

I recommend reading workbook lessons 44-47.

God is the light in which I see.

God is the mind in which I think.

God is the love in which I forgive.

God is the strength in which I trust.

This is the Great Awakening. This is what we signed up for. 🙂

If this is helpful for you, let me know.

If you would like to share your own practice for getting back to the Truth that has worked for you, please post in the comments and share it here for someone else. 🙂

I Love You,

Bill

p.s. Happiness is a decision. Are you ready for a life of joy?

Sign up here for The 40-Day Program.

It’s free and it starts September 1, 2016!

Are you ready to stop the war within yourself?

Then please join the Movement: Love Matters.

I made that up just now. But I’m curious to see what would happen if we joined together in love, beyond the color of bodies. What would the world be like if we moved above the battleground completely?

What would happen to your life if your stopped the war within yourself? What would your days be like if you made a deliberate decision to rise up out of conflict, and actually did it?

We keep hearing that Black Lives Matters and that All Lives Matter, and yes that’s true – but if you look closely, you’ll notice there is a tremendous amount of controversy and conflict in it. It’s still an us vs. them mentality. It’s still a victim state of mind. It’s still focusing on division.

If you are ready to acknowledge the Love of God in all things at all times, please post a comment so we know you are here at this party, in this celebration called the Great Awakening.

It’s important to remember that any conflict that you think you see outside of you in the world is NOT outside of you. It’s in you. The conflict isn’t out there. It’s within.

I was away from news media for the past 3 weeks and missed the events surrounding Black Lives Matter – until yesterday when I read about it: The shooting of two innocent men (separate incidents) by cops and the resulting situation of a man opening fire with a sniper and killing 5 police officers in Dallas.

Because of the color of the skin of the people involved, it’s turned into a racial issue.

Many people on social media are saying: “We are divided.”

We are not divided, because nothing is divided.

Any focus on division is what division is.

What we’ve got here is a confusion problem, in the hearts and minds of people who have no clue who they are or what they are doing.

Jesus said on the cross 2000 years ago and he’s saying it now: “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”

Jesus says in A Course in Miracles: “What is not love is murder. What is not loving must be an attack.”

What we’ve got is not so much a racial problem, but a hate problem.

What can you personally do?

Get above the battleground and love.

Stop the conflict within you.

If you want to see the conflict out there stop, then you must stop it within you. There is no other way.

Find out where you are still engaging in conflict in your own life, and stop it.

Find out where you are still divided with other people, and make a conscious decision to stop it.

Do you want to see the war “out there” stop? If yes, then stop the war within you.

Stop the struggle within you.

Stop dividing yourself from other people.

If there is hatred in your heart, cut it out.

It’s easy to look to the news and talk about how other people hate. It’s easy to talk about the insanity, the brutality, and about the unkind & unloving things that “other people” do.

But look in your mind today and see if there are any areas where you are being insane, brutal, unkind or unloving. Are there areas in your life where you kill?

You might not kill with a gun, but do kill anyone with your thoughts?

“What is not love is murder.” -A Course in Miracles

Is there hatred in your heart?

Is there a war in your mind? If  yes, then stop it.

There’s a lot of talk about stopping the wars in the world – which is nothing more than a distraction to keep you from seeing the war in your own mind – which you have the power to stop.

Is there cruelty in you? A wish to do harm on someone? A wish for revenge? A wish for punishment?

If you want to help and be part of the solution instead of being part of the problem, then end the war within yourself.

I love the section from A Course in Miracles “Above the Battleground”. It says to be lifted up and see all things from this place. Rise up out of the conflict. From here – from this new place – your perspective will be quite different and from this place you will see no bodies, from here there is only the Love of God.

Chapter 23 – IV. Above the Battleground
A Course in Miracles

Do not remain in conflict, for there is no war without attack. The fear of God is fear of life, and not of death. Yet He remains the only place of safety. In Him is no attack, and no illusion in any form stalks Heaven. Heaven is wholly true. No difference enters, and what is all the same cannot conflict. You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize the form it takes conceals the same intent. And it is this you fear, and not the form. What is not love is murder. What is not loving must be an attack. Every illusion is an assault on truth, and every one does violence to the idea of love because it seems to be of equal truth.

What can be equal to the truth, yet different? Murder and love are incompatible. Yet if they both are true, then must they be the same, and indistinguishable from one another. So will they be to those who see God’s Son a body. For it is not the body that is like the Son’s Creator. And what is lifeless cannot be the Son of Life. How can a body be extended to hold the universe? Can it create, and be what it creates? And can it offer its creations all that it is and never suffer loss?

God does not share His function with a body. He gave the function to create unto His Son because it is His Own. It is not sinful to believe the function of the Son is murder, but it is insanity. What is the same can have no different function. Creation is the means for God’s extension, and what is His must be His Son’s as well. Either the Father and the Son are murderers, or neither is. Life makes not death, creating like itself.

The lovely light of your relationship is like the Love of God. It cannot yet assume the holy function God gave His Son, for your forgiveness of your brother is not complete as yet, and so it cannot be extended to all creation. Each form of murder and attack that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is, limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all. Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part; to realize that murder in any form is not your will. The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.

Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? How can the truth of miracles be recognized if murder is your choice?

When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. Even in forms you do not recognize, the signs you know. There is a stab of pain, a twinge of guilt, and above all, a loss of peace. This you know well. When they occur leave not your place on high, but quickly choose a miracle instead of murder. And God Himself and all the lights of Heaven will gently lean to you, and hold you up. For you have chosen to remain where He would have you, and no illusion can attack the peace of God together with His Son.

See no one from the battleground, for there you look on him from nowhere. You have no reference point from where to look, where meaning can be given what you see. For only bodies could attack and murder, and if this is your purpose, then you must be one with them. Only a purpose unifies, and those who share a purpose have a mind as one. The body has no purpose of itself, and must be solitary. From below, it cannot be surmounted. From above, the limits it exerts on those in battle still are gone, and not perceived. The body stands between the Father and the Heaven He created for His Son because it has no purpose.

Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. It is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever?

Those with the strength of God in their awareness could never think of battle. What could they gain but loss of their perfection? For everything fought for on the battleground is of the body; something it seems to offer or to own. No one who knows that he has everything could seek for limitation, nor could he value the body’s offerings. The senselessness of conquest is quite apparent from the quiet sphere above the battleground. What can conflict with everything? And what is there that offers less, yet could be wanted more? Who with the Love of God upholding him could find the choice of miracles or murder hard to make?

I love a good story. I especially love a true story that inspires people for years and years!

An awesome story was told to me a couple of days ago and I can’t wait to share it with you. This story is a total game changer and it’s 100% true. As soon as I heard it I knew I was supposed to share it with you.

I was having one of those days. Total chaos actually. Boxes everywhere (I’m moving) and 2 college kids home with some nasty virus. I had work deadlines and a “to do” list a mile long.

Then my phone rang.

It was my very wise and gorgeous friend Kimberly Cartwright. (I was so busy I almost didn’t answer). After respectfully hearing my rambling, Kimberly felt called to read me a story by the late Earl Nightingale.

Thank God she did because it totally set me straight.

The Acres of Diamonds story is told of an African farmer who heard tales about other farmers who had made millions by discovering diamond mines. These tales so excited the farmer that he could hardly wait to sell his farm and go prospecting for diamonds himself.

He sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent searching unsuccessfully for the gleaming gems that brought such high prices on the markets of the world. Finally, worn out and in a fit of despondency, he threw himself into a river and drowned.

Meanwhile, the man who had bought his farm happened to be crossing the small stream on the property one day, when suddenly there was a bright flash of blue and red light from the stream bottom. He bent down and picked up a stone. It was a good-sized stone, and admiring it, he brought it home and put it on his fireplace mantel as an interesting curiosity.

Several weeks later a visitor picked up the stone, looked closely at it, hefted it in his hand, and nearly fainted. He asked the farmer if he knew what he’d found. When the farmer said, no, that he thought it was a piece of crystal, the visitor told him he had found one of the largest diamonds ever discovered. The farmer had trouble believing that. He told the man that his creek was full of such stones, not all as large as the one on the mantel, but sprinkled generously throughout the creek bottom.

The farm the first farmer had sold, so that he might find a diamond mine, turned out to be one of the most productive diamond mines on the entire African continent. (Now known as the Kimberly Diamond Mine…the richest the world has ever known.)

The first farmer had owned, free and clear … acres of diamonds. But he had sold them for practically nothing, in order to look for them elsewhere.

The moral is clear: If the first farmer had only taken the time to study and prepare himself to learn what diamonds looked like in their rough state, and to thoroughly explore the property he had before looking elsewhere, all of his wildest dreams would have come true.

The reason this story has profoundly affected millions of people is the idea that each of us, at this very moment, is standing in the middle of our own acres of diamonds. If we could only have enough sense to realize it and develop the ground we’re standing on before we go charging off to look for diamonds every where else.

Remember, the ego’s motto is “seek and do not find”. It is literally designed to send us on one wild goose chase after another.

Jesus says in A Course in Miracles, “For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found.” (Please read this sentence over again because it’s HUGE!)

Can you get that right now? He doesn’t say, some of your pain or a lot of your pain. He says ALL of your pain comes from looking for diamonds in all the wrong places! How many times have we chased that carrot (karat, HA), only to arrive and say, “meh”.

The world has us scrambling about and seeking a replacement for the peace of God.

Never gonna happen.

Don’t worry. If you’re lacking abundance somewhere in your life right now, it’s totally temporary because lack is simply a state of mind.

In Truth, there is NO (NONE, ZIPPO, ZILCHO, NADDA) scarcity anywhere within or around you. It is simply fear and small thinking that are blocking the flow.

If the other guy’s pasture appears to be greener, it’s not that he has a better pasture than you;

it’s just that it’s getting better care.

No one has more than you.

You’re sitting on a diamond mine!

You already are everything and already have everything.

Ultimately you are God, you are the Christ. There is nothing to do, for you already are what you seek. You already have 100% self worth. You are in the process of realizing this ultimate truth. There is nothing to manifest for you already contain what you seek.

You are in the process of realizing God.

You are spiritually good in all of its forms; health, happiness, wealth, peace love, fulfillment and unlimited possibility. Within you is the power to satisfy all of your needs and make your dreams come true.

Are you waiting for a day when God is going to give you more? Guess what? That’s not how it works! God is never going to give you more than you have right now. He has already given you everything. With all of His Love, He has already granted you the entire kingdom and everything in it. (This was a HUGE realization for me!)

Here’s the kicker.

True abundance doesn’t just “come along” as most people think.

It’s there all the time.

If you can’t see it,
that simply means you’re not looking
in the right place.

Make THIS what you seek and nothing else.

Abundance isn’t something you acquire. It is something you tune into.

Every single good thing you desire to have in your life comes from God and is made of God. Things can be made of nothing else.

Yes, yes I know. In this world, your good seems to depend on certain channels, like people, places, things and circumstances. You seem to have little influence over these things. But this is the great illusion of life. In reality, the very people, places, things and circumstances that you depend upon for your good are individualized expressions of the infinite power of God.
Listen and listen well.

In order to cultivate your diamond mine…
you must depend upon the Source and not the channels.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of diamonds lies within you?

Dig for your own diamonds.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem and expect abundance on every level. (Because worry always blocks it.)

This was my #1 take-away from the 6 Month Living In Purpose Mastery Program. I was guided, reminded and given the tools to unearth and cultivate my diamond mine. I committed to 6 months of putting my full attention on all that I AM and all that God has already given to me. For me, it was definitely time to stop the struggle. I was ready to stop my daily digging for diamonds in the salt mine! LOL. I’m telling you, everything changed for me after that. It’s hard to really explain in human words but let me tell you that I have WAY more abundance, experience more peace, more joy and more Love than I thought possible.

Just like Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I shouldn’t look any further than my own back yard.”

I would love to hear from you! Please post in the Comment Area below about the DIAMONDS in your own back yard! 

I love you.

Linda Leland

I am so excited to write about the Vibratory Power of Words.

I came up with an acronym for it: V-POW!

This reminds me of the phrase “Vibratory Power of Words” which comes from a metaphysical writer from 1925, Florence Scovel Shinn.

Whenever I catch myself saying something that is not helpful or not loving, I stop myself and say V-POW!

For me, this is part of the practice of LIVING THE PRINCIPLES of A Course in Miracles. I am training my mind to see things differently, to realize the truth of who I am AND to know just how powerful my thoughts and words truly are.

I have a really funny story to share about the power of our thoughts and our words. About a month ago I decided to surprise my boyfriend Gus, with a trip to watch a beautiful sunset. So we jumped in the car and drove to Laguna Beach.

There is this awesome, awesome community above Pacific Coast Highway that they call the Top of the World in Laguna.

There are hills everywhere. So I thought it would be so fun, to drive all around the hills and look at the views of the Pacific Ocean and the beautiful homes.

Here is a photo of it:

Well as we continued on this adventure, I realized that the hills we were driving on with my Honda CRV were really steep. I started thinking about how scary it would be to have my brakes go out on one of those hills. I kept saying things like, “Oh my God, I hope my breaks are ok” and “Wow, the people who live here must have to keep their brakes in tip top shape” and “How scary would it be to go off of one of these cliffs”. We were just laughing about it, just joking around, but I have to admit, I had this fear creep in, where I kept worrying that my brakes might not work “right”. I kept talking about it, all the while laughing.

You won’t believe what happened! We got down to the bottom of the main hill and we heard this really loud grinding noise when I put on my brakes and we could smell something burning! There was something wrong with my brakes.

I just stopped myself, and said, all that “joking around” about my brakes seemed so innocent and fun, and look what happened. My brakes broke!

It was an amazing wake up call for me, about the vibratory power of our words.

So I wanted to share this story with you because it has now become a great reminder for me to catch myself when I start to say things that are negative, even when I am joking.

But it if we want to look at this very closely we realize that it goes much deeper than any words that we say. It starts at the level of our THOUGHTS and our BELIEFS.

I love this quote:

“It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.” A Course in MIracles, Chapter 2, Section VI, Paragraph 9, Fear and Conflict

Our thoughts really do create form and that’s what happened on that hill.

So you might say, “Well, I cannot control my thoughts, they just happen” and this is where the good new comes in. You CAN learn to control Your thoughts.

That is where the Workbook Lessons of A Course in Miracles come in.

These lessons were actually created so we CAN learn to control our thoughts AND we are also given the tools to forgive ourselves when we have momentarily forgotten this.

This ties so closely to the 40-Day Program where Lisa teaches us how to watch our thoughts like a hawk. I have found that this vigilance is very necessary, because thoughts can literally slip in between the words while we are speaking. I remember Bill Free writing about this recently in one of his blogs and it is such an awesome reminder.

Have you ever had that happen? Where thoughts will slip in right in between your words in the middle of a sentence? YUP! This happens to me and I am so happy to become aware of this.

This is where we can become A Miracle Minded Thinker!

“You are not used to miracle-minded thinking, but you can be trained to think that way. All miracle workers need that kind of training”.-A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, Section VII, Paragraph 1

I don’t know about you, but I am honored to call myself a miracle worker.

That’s what we are really here for, to remind people of the amazing light in this world that they truly are. And we don’t even have to try. We don’t have to try to change someone, or to change a situation, we just need to hold that person in the truth of who they really are.

We can use the vibratory power of our words in a very positive way when we interact with other people and we can also use it when we THINK of other people too.

I use this practice so much in my life now. I get more and more excited about A Course in Miracles every single day!

As you begin to pay attention to the thoughts that you think you’re thinking and to the words you use, you will begin to notice that your words and thoughts match identically to your experience in the world.

Also, we would love to hear from you. Do you have a story of how you had a thought about something or how you spoke about yourself, another person or a situation, and then it showed up exactly in your life? Let us know!

Please post about HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE in the comment area at the end of the blog.

With Love,

Judy

Remembering God …

It takes only one instant and you are back home where you never left. This is The Holy Instant of release.

“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

Yet this is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more.

It’s so simple, we often miss it

Peace and healing is available to us right now in this moment…

I call it THE 15 SECOND GIFT.

You can offer it to friends and family to help them and you to shift into this Beautiful state of Quiet Awareness that brings peace, healing and the remembrance of Beingness.

This is our natural state.

I simply say to someone “ I’m going to Give you a 15 second gift. Are you ready?”

If they say “sure”, I share it with them by closing my eyes. I put my hand on heart and say “Rest here in quiet, rest in God.’

Then I count silently for 15 seconds or I just guess and then say I “Amen” or and “So it is” or anything that is coming to me to express.

What I’ve noticed is people are searching for this inner peace and when you as a practitioner know this you can give this gift to others. It doesn’t feel religious or even too! spiritual for most people. The ones I’ve done it with have all said “Thank you” and then we keep on talking or we’re finished.

You will find that you receive it even deeper when you share it.

This is sharing the Holy Instant.

You can practice the mechanics of the holy instant and learn much from doing so. Yet it’s shining and glittering brilliance, which will literally

Blind you to this world by its own vision, you cannot supply. And here it is, all in this instant, complete, accomplished and given wholly.

This video will show you other ways I practice the holy instant in my life that may be helpful …

I love you.

Bill

I would love to hear from you! I invite you to try this out in your life and then post your comments below on your experience. You can give yourself a 15 Second Gift of peace and healing or you can offer it to someone else.