So many people are telling me that old ugly patterns of thinking and feeling have been coming up. People are noticing that many are freaking out and melting down.

In this community we know it’s so that we could choose our healing.

For many people freak outs are about feeling extreme self-criticism. We were talking about this in Masterful Living this week. Many felt that negative thought patterns of anxiety and self-criticism were coming up to the surface in a way that felt overwhelming. Almost like a pimple getting ready to pop.

And then comes the full moon today and that really turns up the inner emotional pressure on things. Are you feeling it?

The energy of any full moon is one of releasing that which is no longer helpful, and harvesting the learning from our experience. Today’s full moon offers us that opportunity.

Sometimes I don’t sleep well on a full moon. Fortunately, I’ve learned to take that time to pray and simply be at peace with not sleeping.

I’ve learned that the main thing for me to focus on is blessing my brothers and sisters, knowing the truth about them, and then secondarily, to be grateful for my life and grateful that I can effectively pray – that I have an effective spiritual practice, and so I don’t have to feel worried or afraid and it doesn’t matter whether I sleep or not.

Prayer is restorative even when I’m praying for others.

Why?

Because when I know the truth for anyone, I know the truth for everyone, and that includes me because there is only one. There is only everyone. If I pray for one person, all are included because we’re one, united and inseparable. My prayer for my Self is a prayer for you and vice versa.

Isn’t that beautiful?

I enjoy praying, and I have so many people to pray for, that being in prayer is a sweet way to invest the time when sleep doesn’t come. Although I wasn’t sleeping I was prayerfully resting, which is SO restorative and I woke up feeling refreshed even though I had much less sleep.

Holiday times can be painfully stressful. During these pressured days, old unhealed emotional and mental patterns come up for healing almost daily. And don’t we know it!! We can have a healing if we choose it. Let’s remember any pressure is from ego and we can turn it over to Spirit for healing.

When we partner UP with our Higher Holy Spirit Self and strengthen our spiritual practice we’ll have healing.
When we complain, we’ll feel the pain.

This is true for all of us.
Why sabotage ourselves by self-inflicting pain when we have so much to gain?

Let us turn every painful moment into a transformational healing experience by choosing to deepen our practice of choosing Love and partnering UP.

An effective spiritual practice has transformed my life. I invested a lot of energy chasing spiritual information and stuffing my intellect with it – that has not helped me at all, not one little bit of it.

Instead, I distracted myself by pursuing spiritual information rather than spiritual insight. I distracted myself by training to be more perfect instead of recognizing my inherent perfection.

I’m so glad I finally came to my senses and focused on cultivating a spiritual practice that would help me to liberate from the intellect and free my mind from distractions.

All through the holidays we get to choose heaven or hell with each choice we make. When there are healing opportunities available to us and we don’t choose them, and instead repeat the past, we begin to feel discouraged and downtrodden, but we may not know why.

When our Spirit is working so intently to support us in having the breakthroughs we desire, and we choose to ignore them or let them pass us by, it eats away at our self-esteem. Even if we don’t even consciously know it. And that causes more issues.

So, let’s choose healing and not delay another day.

Let’s stop spiritualizing the ego.

Extending Love is healing.
Reading books is not healing.
Not that reading books is bad – not at all – but it’s not enough.
Forgiveness is healing.
Choosing Love is healing.
Choosing patience, kindness, generosity of heart, and willingness is healing.

A Course in Miracles is crystal clear about how we bring on our healing breakthrough to live a happy and harmonious life. Still, many people study ACIM and other spiritual teachings without actually applying the teachings and so they don’t receive the healing benefits.

Information isn’t healing.

Spiritual practice is healing.

TODAY: Sundays With Spirit – celebration of truth, in community. Please come join me for inspiration today – I’m speaking and I hope to see you later! Click here to register if you’re not already. It’s totally FREE.

Healing the mental patterns of separation, lack and limitation are a major part of what my year-long Masterful Living Program is all about.  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!

NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Erase Fear and Worry with ACIM. Fear can grip us and over take us.  Worry confuses the mind and that causes so many mistakes and produces a stronger belief in problems.  In this episode, I share how to apply the teachings of ACIM to reduce and eliminate fear and worry in practical ways – especially in our relationships.  We’re not victims of the world, we’re the Light of the world!

May your day feel blessed and let’s release the patterns of the past and put that full moon to work for us!