When Ego Knows Best (Not!)

April 19, 2024

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Sometimes we get such a strong feeling that we know what’s best for ourselves or someone else.  We develop a strong attachment and are convinced we’re right.  It becomes a real challenge and it’s one that’s pretty familiar.  It’s one of the most common things that gets in the way of our living a highly functional spiritual life – believing we know what’s best.

We get attached to what we think others should do and to what we believe will make us happy, even though we’ve had so many experiences in our life that absolutely prove to us behind a shadow of a doubt that we don’t know what will make us happy.  It’s insane.

What about this:  Instead of telling God what we want, what if we decided to just BE happy and let Spirit guide us there?  What if we focused entirely on cultivating the willingness to follow the path of inspiration?

Following the path of inspiration does require us to LET GO of what we think will make us happy.

What I’ve come to understand is that what ACIM teaches about prayer is that our happiness actually comes from giving up what we think will make us happy and opening ourselves to being in the flow of Love which truly is the only thing that is actually fulfilling and happy-making.

If our answered prayer is a thing, a condition, a circumstance then it’s temporary and because of that we’ll ultimately come to see that it cannot fulfill us, it can only temporarily make us feel full.  There’s a big difference between feeling temporarily satiated and a sense of fulfillment.

Our answered prayer is actually a release of false identification and a stepping into a realignment with our true identity.  This is a shift that Spirit will figure out for us and we can be led and guided to it – if we’re willing to accept that the answered prayer is not in this world.  It’s in our mind.

We are not in this world.
We are infinite eternal Spirit.

When our mind is changed/healed,
that’s a miracle,
and that’s what changes the world.

ACIM says, “Seek not to change the world, but to change your mind about the world.”

Prayer is a means for changing our mind.

It is the medium of miracles.

Prayer is an active demonstration of our willingness to be in the flow of Love rather than directing the flow of Love.  Combine that with the willingness to ACCEPT the answered prayer, HOWEVER it may arrive, and then our mind is no longer rejecting our divinity – we’re in alignment with the divine.

It’s extraordinary how simple the most helpful tools can be. Prayer is a power tool to help us accelerate the healing of our mind.

Prayer has changed my life and improved the quality of every day.  I say pray, and pray often.  Let us all live a life of prayer without ceasing.

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE! The most recent episode of my podcast’s topic is True Prayer. A Course in Miracles has very clear and uplifting teachings about the power of prayer. Prayer is a power tool that we can use to lift ourselves UP! In this week’s episode, I share how I used prayer and the correspondence between ACIM teachings on Prayer and the Science of Mind teachings I learned as a Practitioner of Prayer.  Now is the time for us to rise and shine! Prayer works!

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ACIM, daily prayer, Healing, Inspiration, Jennifer Hadley, Living A Course in Miracles, love, miracles, Peace, prayer, Spirituality


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