Do you find that you ping pong back and forth between rewarding yourself for hard work and good behavior and then punishing yourself for laziness and bad behavior? Do you know what believing in rewards and punishment and using them as a motivator costs you?

A Course in Miracles tells us that the ego rewards us with pain.

I’ve had a enough of it, how about you?

There are so many patterns of behavior that we engage in without really understanding what they cost us and rewards and punishment is definitely one of them. Many of us are raised with a system of rewards and punishment. It begins in our family, continues, at school, with friends, lovers, employers and seemingly never ends.

Most of us have internalized the rewards and punishment mindset and have no idea what it’s costing us.

Every time we energize the belief in rewards and punishments as a valid way of motivating ourselves then we’re actually affirming that there IS scarcity, when there’s not. Our human experience of scarcity, lack and limitation is the out picturing of our belief in separation.

If we didn’t believe we were separate from God then we wouldn’t experience scarcity.

When we have times of reward and times of punishment that perpetuate an unhappy belief system, then we’re really affirming that there isn’t an abundant source that is always the one and only Source of our Prosperity and Abundance. Get it?

Consider the ways in which you affirm and perpetuate scarcity through rewards and punishment in your day to experience and commit to stopping it!

The Holy Spirit shows us how when we’re willing to allow it.

Power of Love In-Person Retreat Memorial Day Weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina!  May 23 to 26.

Join me TOMORROW Saturday, May 17 for a WORKSHOP Why Can’t I Be Happy?  

My May Deep Dive Workshop topic is Why Can’t I Be Happy?   Joy is our natural state, yet, I’ve talked with countless spiritual students who have been on this path for decades who struggle because they can’t seem to find a true happiness, a fundamental Joy.  In my experience, when we truly live the teachings of A Course in Miracles then Peace is revealed, and happiness is its constant companion.  In this workshop I’ll share tips and tools that really work increase your happiness immediately.  We don’t have to wait until the world lines up the way we’d like it to in order to experience more happiness.  Our happiness does not come from the world and it never will.  Click now to register. 

RETREAT! Let’s get away together and have some fun while we’re having a lift-off!  Power of Love In-Person Retreat Memorial Day Weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina! May 23 to May 26 – Come away with us! From the very first retreat I led back in 1998, people have been telling me that these retreats are life-changing, mind-expanding, heart opening – and OF COURSE THEY ARE! My intention is so strong that we have an amazing experience of transformation while also having fun, remembering to laugh and enjoying ourselves together. Let’s have a wonderful time together up in those glorious Blue Ridge Mountains, doing our spiritual work and playing, having fun, eating delicious food, getting spa treatments and relaxing in spiritual community together. Things are so intense right now – let’s get a way for along weekend and open ourselves to new insight and inspiration. We’ll anchor the Highest Vision for our life and let go of limiting habits and beliefs. The mountains alone are worth the trip! Let’s play!  Click here for more info!

LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Finding the Highest Path of Happiness. Happiness often seems elusive. It feels like no matter how hard and long we study spiritual teachings there’s something preventing us from just being happy. And there is – we just can’t see it. In this week’s episode, I share fundamental truths that so many ACIM students completely miss, but it’s right there in the text, and it’s a beautiful invitation to a life that’s really enjoyable.

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