I used to yearn to feel free – I felt all boxed in and I didn’t know it was something I was doing to myself.
Many people wish for Peace of mind, or a sense of relief. They’re yearning to feel free – free from everything they don’t like and feel imprisoned by because of their perspective.
Freedom is a spiritual quality that’s part of our divine essence. It’s already our nature to experience and express freedom. We have it at the level of mind and then it becomes our experience. Even a prisoner of war in a foreign jail can find the Freedom in his mind, because that’s where it’s located.
A Course in Miracles teaches us, “When you are sad, know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and then decide otherwise.” T-4.IV.3.
When someone has a problem with obsessive, compulsive behavior or avoidance they’ll often use will power to make a change. There’s a sense of loss, and lack, and the will power is used to get control of ourselves.
Will power is part of a plan of behavior modification that can be a helpful start when we’re feeling out of control, but it doesn’t heal the root cause of the behavior. Will power only intensifies the deep craving that is the root cause of the problem.
All healing is at the level of the mind – NOT at the level of behavior.
If Love isn’t part of the plan for healing, there won’t be a healing, only a shift in behavior. That’s not enough.
If we don’t feel worthy of miraculous permanent healing, we might settle for will power.
For true spiritual healing we look to the mind for causation. There’s a false belief at the root cause of every issue. Most problems are an expression of belief in lack.
How can will power heal a belief in lack? It cannot.
The healing we’re looking for comes from opening to giving and receiving the Love that’s restorative and healing.
We resort to will power when we feel spiritually weak. Will power is a function of the personality and is born of a sense of separation and lack. Willingness is the willingness to choose Love, and to follow Spirit’s guidance.
Our willingness is ALL that’s required to have true and lasting transformation.
It seems so simple and, quite frankly, too easy, but neither is accurate.
When we’re craving, needing and wanting to satisfy that compulsion, we’re feeling deprived.
The real craving is for union with Spirit.
In that moment of craving, we don’t have a connection with Spirit that lets us know we’re fully loved and held in perfect wholeness. That knowing of our perfection is missing from our awareness.
Our willingness to Partner UP will heal the illusion of lack.
Only the willingness to see the union of all life brings lasting healing of the split mind.
Even a little bit of willingness is instantaneous joining with Spirit, and that’s where our true and lasting healing is – in remembering our
union with God and making that our top priority.
Let’s make a real change this year. Let’s get out of the prison in our mind and live joy-fully!
Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with us!
SATURDAY: NEW YEAR REBOOT WORKSHOP If you’d like to join with me in the new year, I’ve got my New Year Reboot Workshop on Saturday, January 4, and that’s a FREE BONUS for anyone in Masterful Living Program 2025.
NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Letting Go of Victimization. Let’s be willing to release our attraction to victimhood. Seeing ourselves as a victim in this world is a habit we can break. In this episode, I share my walk with seeing myself as a victim of the world and recognizing that it’s a habit that can be released. Seeing ourselves as a victim can feel really sticky. When we’re disempowered we feel resistance to the very things that will most support our liberation. All of this can be transformed more easily than we can imagine! We can set ourselves free if we’re willing!
In my New Year’s Reboot class SATURDAY January 4, I’ll be inviting you to decide what your focus will be for the year. Pick something that seems impossible, and then put Spirit in charge.
How about picking spiritual awakening as the goal?
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Healing the mental patterns of separation, lack and limitation are a major part of what my year-long Masterful Living Program is all about. It’s about feeling more connected with Spirit ALL of the time and reducing the sense of separation from Spirit means reducing fear, pain and suffering of so many types: physical, emotional and mental. Fear affects our body, emotions and our mental stability – we all know that. If you’d like to live with a sense of trust and faith, Masterful Living might be for you! You’ll get my New Year Reboot Workshop as a bonus!
