Imagine a tree that’s bearing poisonous fruit in your life. Every year the fruit falls and poisons the land. Do you keep picking it up and throwing it away, do you let the poisoning continue? Or do you cut that tree out by the root?
Digging out a tree looks like a bigger job. The wise person gets all the roots and all the remnants, so it can never spring up again. Going to the root means we’re no longer distracted by the surface.
The surface is the momentary upset: rage, frustration, irritation, sadness, shame. Every form of upset traces back to one poisonous root, and that root is unconscious guilt. It’s the motivation behind our sense of unworthiness, resentment, regret, and blame.
Let’s heal things at the root.
This is exactly what we do in our families. We like to put our choices on other people and blame them, and many of us are walking around thinking we’re awake when we’re actually sleepwalking.
We resist awakening when we’re not interested in being fully responsible for our choices.
Blame, resentment, and trying to make someone feel guilty only deepen our commitment to the guilt underneath.
In Chapter 9 of the Manual for Teachers, paragraph 1, A Course in Miracles says:
“Relationships in particular must be properly perceived, and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed. Otherwise the old thought system still has a basis for return.”
That’s healing it back to the root.
Here’s the prayer I return to:
Higher Holy Spirit Self, I place it all on the altar. I give it all to you for healing. Heal it back to the root cause so I never experience it again, and please do the same for everyone else.
If there’s anything I need to review in order to let it go forever, please show it to me. Make it plain so I can’t mistake it.
The highest and best for anyone is the highest and best for everyone.
We can choose healing at the root, for ourselves and for everyone we love.
If you’d like to peacefully hold the vision of the healed relationship, join me this Saturday for my Deep Dive Workshop, When Someone You Love Won’t Speak to You.
If you’d like to truly live what you know, Masterful Living is a full year of guided spiritual practice, grounded in A Course in Miracles.
We’re willing to recognize that we’re already as holy as holy can be, and in gratitude, we recognize everyone else’s holiness too. And so it is. Amen!
SATURDAY WORKSHOP: If someone you love has stopped speaking to you, join me this Saturday for my Deep Dive Workshop, When Someone You Love Won’t Speak to You, where we learn to peacefully hold the vision of the healed relationship. This workshop is a BONUS for anyone who is registered for Masterful Living in 2027.
What would you like to let go of or expand into next year?
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MEN: I’m offering a 5 week class Father Brother Son specifically for men who are challenged by the men in their family. This will be a deeply healing program with homework for those who wish to achieve the greatest benefit. We’ll go deep and we’ll remember to laugh. 5 classes spread out over the next few months. Click here to learn more.
SUNDAY: Family Forgiveness – another FREE Forgiveness Workshop. The holidays are coming. Thanksgiving is only weeks away. Old resentments and family dynamics come up for healing during this last 2 months of the year. Holding onto grievances blocks our faith, trust, and capacity for Love, the only way to have more Love is to be more loving. We’ll do the healing work together.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: The Greatest Help for Your Awakening. In this episode of A Course in Miracles: Walking the Talk, Living the Love, I explore the trap so many of us live in: we ask and ask and ask, and still live with too little health, too little time, too little freedom. Something is standing in the way, and it isn’t what you think. After a workshop left me on fire, I opened The Song of Prayer, the ACIM addendum, and I’m sharing the hidden key in its first lines: “a greatest help that comes as a pair, one half eventually outgrown, the other never ending.” Imagine feeling supported, less triggered, and wide open to the good already being offered.
