One of my very favorite things is the beginning of a new year. I love the starting over. I love unprecedented possibility stretched out before us.
I’ve been in contemplation a lot lately. Marveling at how completely my personality has changed over the years, and how it is that every year for the past 30 years or more I feel more and more like my true self.
In preparation for this new year and my New Year Reboot program that kicks off tomorrow, I’ve been pondering the A Course in Miracles workbook lessons.
Throughout the lessons and the text, and the precious Manual for Teachers, there are a treasure trove of golden keys that unlock the doors of insight and remembrance of the truth.
The beginning of the lessons may seem strange or weird. It may seem too intellectual or hard to fathom. Yet, they are absolutely essential for us to be willing to embrace and accept IF, what we’re truly interested in is liberation.
You see, in my experience of doing this spiritual work for more than half my life, most spiritual students are interested in having a more enjoyable life and getting what they think will make them happy. That was me for the longest time.
I feel blessed because when I was in my 20’s I got some of the key things I thought would make me happy, job, boyfriend, money, etc. and in finding out that they absolutely didn’t make me happy I was forced to begin again and look beyond the surface things in life to a deeper level of fulfillment.
How fortunate I am that I found out early in my life that the things of this world couldn’t really make me happy and that I had to look within, to Spirit within me, to discover the true causes of happiness.
- The very first workbook lessons are:
- Nothing I see in this room means anything.
- I have given everything I see in this room all the meaning that it has for me.
- I do not understand anything I see in this room.
- These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room.
- I am never upset for the reason I think.
The very first thing our teacher is guiding us to is the release of all the mental/emotional attachments that cause our suffering and distraction. So, there’s a big clue for us here.
We begin with the release of attachments – in whatever form they come.
That is the focus of our Masterful Living Program – recognizing that all upsets come from our attachments and all of our attachments to the meaning we’ve made of things will bring our suffering. We can live without suffering if we’re willing to release our attachments.
It’s simple. It’s doable. It’s liberation.
Jesus is leading us out of the wilderness.
We can follow, and find liberation, or we can read the instruction manual.
A Course in Miracles is an instruction manual.
It’s a guidebook.
If we read it without following the instructions and applying them then it’s like reading a travel brochure without taking the trip.
Why wouldn’t we wish to take the trip?
Because the trip requires – yes, it absolutely requires – that we give up our attachments to what we’ve made up about life that simply isn’t true.
The trip – to the Real world of our Awakened Self – absolutely requires that we give up all attachments to the false self we’ve made up and desperately prop up and cling to.
Isn’t it interesting that Jesus promises us heaven and it’s still not enough for most of us be willing to do much more than read the travel brochure?
I was in the place for a long time.
Memorizing sections of the travel brochure didn’t bring me any closer to taking the trip.
Practicing the keys within the lessons, being willing to actually do what I was instructed, changed everything for me. As it does for anyone who chooses it. We are entitled to miracles and we can have a new year like no other.
As we begin this year, let’s get Real with ourselves and go for the bigger picture of liberation and forget trying to manage the journey. Let’s put Spirit in charge and focus on choosing heaven.
Traveling this path of Love together we let go of the painful past and release the compulsive fearful thinking – so many in this Power of Love community are proving it’s possible even when they thought it wasn’t. Dissolving difficult thought patterns is the kind of work we do in my Masterful Living Program.
What could you do or accomplish in the coming year that would be more valuable than letting go of the root causes of fear, pain and all suffering? Why wait? Why delay? You will choose it eventually.
People who do this work with us in the Masterful Living Program are often amazed at how their bodies heal and their families heal, and for some it improves their finances in the most unexpected and remarkable ways. It’s deeply healing to us individually and to those around us, because we share the same mind.
If people didn’t prove it all the time in Masterful Living, we could never believe that the practical application of these principles would heal their marriage, their arthritis, or their body so they’re no longer spending thousands on medications and treatments. Who would imagine that surgeries would no longer be needed or that their income would double, triple, quadruple without doing anything different to improve their business?
Once people prove that changing their mind heals their life and body, they get excited for what else might be possible.
So many relationships are healed, families mended and transformed for the participants of Masterful Living. Come join us this coming year!
If you feel called to join us, follow your intuition. You can book an Exploratory Call with one of the spiritual counselors to discuss any questions you have about Masterful Living and that’s a free call!
It’s deeply healing to us individually and to those around us, because we share the same mind.
And that’s why so many relationships are healed, families mended and transformed for the participants of Masterful Living. Come join us this coming year! Why wait?
If you feel called to joints, follow your intuition. You can book an Exploratory Call with one of the spiritual counselors to discuss any questions you have about Masterful Living and that’s a free call!
Also, I published a new episode of my podcast My topic is A Year of A Course in Miracles. So, if you like this topic, you might take a listen.
Would you like a spiritual mentor to support you in building trust and faith? Are you ready to have a different experience in the new year and stop repeating the same painful patterns? We’re doing the deep work and the healing is revealing itself in our lives! If you’d like to join me in my year-long Masterful Living Program then please click here to learn more now.
Are you SO ready to have a new experience in the new year? We’re doing the deep transformation and the healing is happening in our lives! If you’d like to join me in my year-long Masterful Living Course 2023, then please click here to learn more now.
My next Masterful Living Bonus Class is tomorrow, Monday, January 2nd – New Year Reboot. If you’re willing, I’m willing. If this is right for you, you WILL know it. In my year-long Masterful Living Course a number of people have healed their depression, gone off anti-depressants, let go of old hurts and sadness that has troubled them for many years. They have accomplished what they never believed they could do, because they gave themselves a chance, and they didn’t give up. You can do it too.
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