For so many years I resisted the very thing I desired most. Most of us have resistance to follow our heart, our intuition and guidance. We resist following our passion and it’s all due to fear and feeling unworthy.

Consider for a moment the things you’d most like to see made manifest in your life, your body, your relationships, your finances, your career. Pick one thing that you’d really, REALLY like to see made manifest.

Now, can you feel or see that there are some steps you’d need to take toward it that you simply resist doing.

For me, this was true for SO MANY years and that’s the thing that made me feel like a spiritual loser and a failure. I was studying and studying spirituality, but I was still SO AWARE of the blocks that were in my own heart. I kept coming up against my own sense of unwillingness to take the action I needed. I didn’t have the courage.

That for me was the absolute worst.
That awful sense of feeling paralyzed and unable to move forward.
It was as if my heart was wearing cement shoes.
I kept falling back into the swamp of my own self-judgment.
It felt icky and sticky and unconquerable.

I’m amazed that I didn’t give up!

Now, I can see that courage is about choosing FROM Love.
Courage isn’t just overcoming fear.
Courage is finding the strength to make a higher choice.
And that can only come by choosing from Love.

I feel that, deep down in my awareness, behind all my fear thoughts, I just knew that there had to be a way out.

I also feel that I knew, deep down, or high up in my soul, that there was a method to this madness and that once I found my way out of the quagmire of ego madness, I would be able to share that with people and it would be worth whatever it took to get there.

A Course in Miracles, in lesson 158, tells us:
Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written.

My experience is that we can shift out of one version of the script into a higher one by making loving choices.  Obviously, this is not something anyone can do for us.  We must do that part for ourselves – spirit will do the rest.

It is our willingness that makes it possible to see and feel and sense and know the more loving choices that are available to us.  Being grateful for the good we already are aware of raises our vibration so that our perception is more clear.

Gratitude for the good is an expression of Love
It multiplies the good and attracts more
– because like attracts like.

When I was overwhelmed and feeling paralyzed and stuck, knowing I was playing small and suffering from getting in my own way, and probably blaming others too rather than accepting responsibility – that was a really awful feeling of failure.

I found that prayer could lead me out of it.
And that’s why effective prayer is such an important part of what I share in my programs.

There’s so much that is possible when we can come together with others for the purpose of healing.  I’m thinking of the amazing courage that it takes to choose healing.  I never thought of my self as a brave or a courageous person.  I was simply unwilling to be imprisoned by other people’s opinions me.  I couldn’t bear it.  I wouldn’t allow it.  Maybe because I was already trapped by my own.

I had such a strong belief that something was fundamentally wrong with me and that was the under current of everything in my life. It informed every choice and every decision. I was constantly in reaction to my own feelings of “something’s wrong with me.” It was the underlying cause of a near-constant anger.

And underneath that anger was fear.

I didn’t know then that the cause of the anger was that I was so identified with this false belief of my own unworthiness, my own wrongness. And, I didn’t know that I brought this belief with me into this life in order to heal it and demonstrate that this kind of healing is possible.

And because I didn’t know what was going on, and I was so convinced something was fundamentally wrong with me, I would settle for being comfortable in my discomfort. And that really further cemented the belief that I was doomed. I felt a deep sense of doom that I could barely even acknowledge, but it was pervasive and everything in life seemed to mirror it back to me.

Applying these ACIM teachings, living them, that’s what healed my mind. It wasn’t easy, but nevertheless, I persisted.

I no longer feel that something is wrong with me.
I no longer feel doomed.
I no longer believe that something is fundamentally wrong with me or anyone else.
I am willing to see the Christ in all.

I am willing and I’m more and more successful at being loving every day.
And this is why I feel compelled to share.
This is SO MIRACULOUS to me.
I never imagined I could get out from under that doom and gloom!

The great gift of healing that unworthiness is that I no longer take things personally so there’s not much to get angry about it. I do have momentary lapses, but I don’t hang out there, I rise up. I lift my awareness with thoughts of gratitude and Love and I am healed into a higher awareness. I’m lifted and shifted by Love.

This is the practice that I began sharing with my counseling clients and that I now also share in my classes. It’s amazing how much we can accomplish. The folks who come to the trainings, retreats and classes with me accomplish far more than I have – truly, they are amazing!

In fact, because the healing is so amazing and spectacular, so miraculous, I have to say, again and again:

Don’t ever give up. Don’t EVER, EVER give up!

We are entitled to miracles isn’t just a bumper sticker, it’s the truth.

There are so many truth sayings that we’ve become blasé about.
The truth can become a cliché that we don’t even notice.

I know for myself, I thought I believed that miracles were possible – just not for me.

Well, the thing about the truth is that it’s true for everyone.
That’s what makes it the truth.
Truth is eternally true for everyone, without exception, that’s what the truth is.
If it’s not true for everyone, then it’s not true.

How I learned about the truth and about being miracle minded is that I started to measure what I was thinking and see if it was truth, or was it just a belief.

If it’s not true for everyone then it’s a belief.
What else could it be?
If it’s a belief, then it’s not true.
If it’s not true then what do I need it for?
We can do the math – it’s not that complicated.

This approach really helped me.

I started doing everything I could to get some glimpse of truth.
I learned that the truth really does set us free.
Truth is our liberation.
Truth is already available to us – we don’t have to invent it, buy it or get it from somewhere else, it’s already ours!

Remember how I said that my belief that there was something wrong with me was underneath all that anger I had? I couldn’t see it until I was willing to look at the truth. The truth is we’re one with each other. Therefore, no one is unlovable, no one is fundamentally bad or wrong or not good. All are from the same source. That’s the truth. I had to be willing to accept that and stop investing in my false beliefs.

All beliefs are false.
Truth is true and it’s not a belief.

Are you ACTUALLY willing to give up your beliefs in favor of truth?
Are you?
Prove it!

Find a way to join with me or others and PROVE the truth in your life.
You will never regret it.

The truth is free.
It’s yours already!

The only thing to be healed is a false belief.

When we focus on truth, when we become interested in truth, and value the truth more than our stories, then our interest in false beliefs dissolves and resolves because it’s all smoke and mirrors. There’s no substance to false beliefs. All that we’ve convinced ourselves us will fade into nothing if we let it. If we ALLOW Spirit to do the lifting and shifting.

Next Sunday – 1 week from today – Eliminating Reluctance & Resistance. We all have resistance. We all have reluctance. The question is do we give into it and let it drag us down? There are spiritual methods we can use that work. Let’s eliminate all reluctance and resistance and celebrate the gift of life!

TODAY: Sundays With Spirit, our online service is today. I hope to see you on ZOOM! Click here to learn more and register if you’re not already. Of course, there’s no charge and ALL are welcome! Register now to get the zoom link.

If this journey of working at the level of the mind interests you anywhere near as much as it does me, you might be interested in my Quantum Counseling program with 16 other ACIM teachers. I’ve never even heard of something like this! It’s a deep dive into working at the level of the mind.

We’ve got 16 A Course In Miracles teachers who are also counselors and each is offering a 2 hour class about counseling people from an ACIM perspective. This program is open to anyone, but is of particular interest to ACIM students who have an interest in truly working at the level of the mind and experiencing miraculous healing.

Teachers include Alan Cohen, Gary Renard, Lisa Natoli, Jon Mundy, Myron Jones, David Fishman, Maria Felipe, Corinne Zupko, Cindy Lora Renard, Bill Free, Aaron Abke, Mark Anthony Lord, and more. We each have a lot to share!

In late May, I’m offering two events, first, an intensive training near Phoenix, AZ, for those who’d like to learn more about spiritual counseling from an ACIM perspective as well as a training in how to create and lead workshops. This work is so important to me. More details coming soon.

If you feel that you’re interested in this kind of training, but you’re not sure if it’s really the right thing for you this year and you’d like to learn more, you can book an Exploratory Call with one of our spiritual counselors.  They can answer all your questions, and it’s a free call.  Use this link to book an exploratory call now.  

LATEST PODCAST EPISODE! The most recent episode of my podcast’s topic is Quantum Healing with ACIM. ACIM is a program for healing our lives in a miraculous way. It’s a step-by-step system for shifting our thinking so that we can live a loving and peaceful life. In this week’s episode, I share my own experiences of having quantum healing and transformation because of changing my thinking. Quantum healing is the miracle we’re entitled to! Our thinking can be transformed instantly and the healing ripples out to manifest in every area of our life!