One morning, instead of choosing a topic, I simply opened A Course in Miracles and read whatever was in front of me. It opened to one of my favorite passages of all.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
What a relief that is.
We don’t have to hunt for Love. Love is what we are. Our only job is to find what we’ve put in its way. And that’s what you and I are looking to find and release.
The very next line makes it even plainer: “It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false.“
It’s possible to hear that and think, Okay, I know that. I know that. The real question is whether we’re actually searching our mind for the barriers, so we can uproot them by giving them to the Higher Holy Spirit Self for healing, or we’re just saying “I already know that.”
That’s why I invite you to keep a notebook.
Every time you notice a barrier to Love in your mind, write it down and give it to the Higher Holy Spirit Self.
Some people keep the list on their phone. Some keep it on paper. Some do both. Whatever it takes.
For many people, that can seem overwhelming at first, but that’s just the ego thought system pushing back – like it ALWAYS does. “All I’d do all day long is write in that notebook, and every time I did, I’d feel like a failure.”
If the approach were simply to make a list without letting the Higher Holy Spirit Self do the heavy lifting, I can see how it would feel crushing. Yet it’s only crushing to the ego identified small self. Instead, celebrate each thing you give to the Higher Holy Spirit Self as a VICTORY.
To the spirit, it’s freedom. It’s liberation.
If it seems too big or too much, that’s a sign we’re identified with the ego. Take a breath. Bring Spirit in. We can switch identification, and it gets a whole lot easier. Are you willing to do that now?
Here’s what I learned doing this work. It’s so much easier than I thought it was. I just wasn’t really willing, and that little willingness makes all the difference in the world.
If you’d like to go deeper into finding and releasing these barriers, join us for the How to Love Freely Deep Dive Workshop, where we’ll look for them together and hand them over.
We don’t have to go looking for Love. We only have to clear the way.
How to Love Freely Deep Dive Workshop this Saturday, October 3 where we’ll practice letting go of the blocks to Love together! Click here now for more info.
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