Sometimes it can be very challenging to see the world differently, to step back and release the attachment to our view, our perspective.

For many of us, even the word “willing” can feel like too much.

Maybe we’re not ready to release the anger, hurt, resentment. Maybe we’re not ready to forgive ourselves. Maybe we can’t yet imagine a life where the old patterns aren’t running the show.

Here’s the good news: A Course in Miracles meets us exactly where we are.

If we can’t say “I’m willing to let this go,” we can say something smaller:

“I am willing to be willing.”

That’s it. That tiny step. That doorway with the lowest possible threshold.

This single phrase has been deeply useful in my own life and in the lives of so many people I’ve worked with.

When the full willingness isn’t there yet, the willingness to BE willing always is.

The Higher Holy Spirit Self can work with that.

Here’s what’s been incredibly helpful for me to understand: the undoing process doesn’t come from us.

We don’t have to figure out how to release the guilt. We don’t have to know how to forgive the world. We don’t have to manufacture spiritual energy out of thin air.

The undoing comes from the Higher Holy Spirit Self that’s already within us.

Our only job is to give permission. To open the door. To say “yes, please undo this.”

This is why trust is the number one characteristic of God’s teachers. Not knowledge. Not technique. Trust.

And here’s the thing about trust: we develop it. We don’t start with it fully formed. We develop it one small surrender at a time. One small “I’m willing to be willing” at a time.

And by surrender, I don’t mean giving up – I’m not giving up on the world, I’m giving it UP to the Higher Holy Spirit Self.

This is the foundation of every program I lead, and the heart of our Change Your Mind About the World Program. We’re not trying to become spiritual. We already are. We’re learning to trust what we already are.  And today, we get to be with Alan Cohen, the master teacher, the great inspirer.

We’re learning to give the Higher Holy Spirit Self the heavy lifting.

If we can do that, even imperfectly, even with hesitation, the healing happens. The guilt dissolves. The suffering eases. The peace we’ve been seeking starts to show up.

Not because we figured it out. Because we got out of the way.

If you’d like to step into this trust-building work, please join us today.  And BTW, class today is at 3:30pm eastern.

We are doing this healing work together – and that’s both beautiful and inspiring!

TODAY – Our Change Your Mind About the World program is built around this very practice – learning to see purpose and meaning where we used to see only chaos.  TODAY we have our first class is with Alan Cohen.  Are you upset by what you see in the world – join with Alan Cohen, James Twyman, Michael Mirdad, Lisa Natoli and me – we’re bringing the darkness to the light together in this 5 week program.  Click here for more info.

Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in July – Registration is OPEN!  If you have an interest in training to be a spiritual counselor or simply doing some dealing work to open up your intuition and improve your relationships, I’ve been offering a professional training intensive for the last 15 years. This year we’re doing the training intensive – open to anyone whether or not you have any interest in becoming a counselor – the Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in Asheville NC Sunday, July 12th to Saturday, July 18th with Jennifer Hadley and Mark Anthony Lord, as well as Guest Teachers Alan Cohen, Jon Mundy and Lisa Natoli joining us online – we’re finalizing the Resort Hotel details, and if you’d like to be notified as soon as registration opens so you can qualify for early-bird bonuses please click here now.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE:  Lisa Natoli: Joy of Being.  For so many years, I lived as if joy was something I’d feel later, once the body cooperated, once the relationships settled, once the world looked safer. Many of us have. My friend Lisa Natoli, who you may know as a teacher of A Course in Miracles, just released a beautiful new book called The Joy of Being, and we sat down this week to talk about what she discovered while she was still very sick. What if we’ve all been waiting for something we already are?