Have you ever decided to quit something, a habit or an addiction, like smoking, and then felt the craving get very, very intense? You don’t give in, and it gets even more intense.
If you can get through that intensity without caving, then after that it gets easier day by day – sometimes the cravings end completely.
That’s called an “extinction burst.”
It can also happen with emotional triggers. Something triggers you, and the emotion gets bigger and bigger until it seems to explode, as bad as it could possibly get. Then you never go back to that insanity again.
Right now, in the world, there’s a healing happening. It may not look like it. In fact it absolutely does not seem like a healing is happening in our world, it seems as though all heck is breaking loose, but I see it differently.
To me, it feels like an extinction burst.
It’s a bit like a pimple bursting. It’s disgusting, with blood and pus and all of that. But the moment it bursts, you’re in the final stages of healing. Before that, it was getting worse and worse. It needed to explode for the healing to take place.
That’s how things seem right now.
Remember, everything comes from the mind. The emotions we feel are driven by the thoughts we’re choosing to think, and many of us don’t even realize we’re choosing them.
Our beliefs magnetize into our awareness the thoughts that match them, because like attracts like. Next, we choose to believe those thoughts and invest in them, and they upset us, because all beliefs are false – or we can let the thoughts pass on by. If we agree with the thoughts and affirm them, we’re increasing that thought and giving it our power.
This is the teaching of A Course in Miracles:
We’ve given everything all the meaning that it has for us.
When an old fear flares up, and seems to overwhelm us, we don’t have to come to a negative conclusion. We can allow the emotion to be expressed and let it out – let the “pimple” burst. Maybe we’re in an extinction burst – which is healing – rather than in a meltdown, which seems like a failure.
I perceive that humanity is in a global extinction burst.
Things can look like they’re falling apart left and right, and I choose to see it as a great deal of healing is happening. I hope you can feel it in your heart and in your mind. I celebrate it every day.
It doesn’t mean I ignore what’s in front of me or that I have no concerns. It means I know what the intensity might be telling me.
The thing that’s bursting is leaving.
Because all minds are joined, when anyone forgives, everyone has healing. That’s why we can be the salvation of the world.
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Don’t give in. Let it burst, and let the healing begin.
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Whatever still triggers you can be healed. We are entitled to miracles.
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LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: Alan Cohen: A Glitch in the Matrix In this episode, I’m talking with my dear friend Alan Cohen about his latest book, A Glitch in the Matrix. Borrowing from the movie, Alan calls the matrix the collective illusion built on separation, lack, and fear. A glitch is any moment that cracks it open. He says the way out is inner, and when we stop identifying with our personality, the matrix becomes our servant instead of our master. His closing message: “Your greatest contribution to a peaceful world is to be at peace.” Pull up a chair.
