A Course in Miracles Lesson 190 tells us something that takes courage to really sit with:
Pain is a wrong perspective.
When I’m in pain, it’s my perspective that’s not correct. I know this from direct experience. In 2015, I had excruciating back pain. It was so debilitating that tears would run down my face during my very slow walk to the bathroom. I couldn’t help but cry because it hurt so much.
All the way to the bathroom, I’d be saying, “I am the love of God. I am the peace of God.”
It was a tremendous opportunity for me to recognize: I am not a body.
What I noticed was that when I was teaching – because I kept on teaching, from my bed if I had to – I was not really paying attention to the pain. The pain receded when my focus was on extending Love and being truly helpful.
Pain is a wrong perspective.
I have many people in my life who have chronic pain. I also have many people in my life who have healed chronic pain through the true practice of A Course in Miracles. Not just reading it – that’s not the practice. Reading can be a small portion of our practice. Our practice is all day long. That’s what makes for a happy life.
When I’m aligned with the truth, I’m at peace. When I’m in my opinions and judgments and my story of things, I’m not at peace. I really find that peace is my true nature. The disturbance I sometimes feel is of my own making. It’s a false perspective.
This understanding – that we’re never upset for the reason we think, that pain is a wrong perspective – doesn’t mean we deny what’s happening.
It means we’re willing to see it differently. We’re willing to ask the Higher Holy Spirit Self to show us what this is really for.
Harmony and peace go together.
When we’re aligned with truth, we experience both. And in my role as a counselor and teacher I get to experience more of that every day.
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