Here’s an image that’s been helpful in my own learning:
Imagine the world is a video game we’re projecting.
The video game has levels. Some levels are dark and frightening. Some are difficult. Some are full of obstacles and enemies. Some are sweeter, brighter, more loving, more abundant.
If we don’t like the level we’re on, what do we do?
We don’t argue with the level. We don’t try to fix the level. We don’t shout at the screen demanding the level change.
We raise our vibration. And our level shifts accordingly.
How do we raise our vibration?
We focus on being loving. We focus on being kind. We focus on being generous of heart. We take responsibility for the meaning we’ve been making of things.
Instead of complaining about what we’re experiencing, we take responsibility for choosing the feelings we’d like to feel. That’s a deep practice, it’s challenging and it does take practice, but it WORKS. Oh, boy, does it work!
Here’s the part many of us resist: we’re the ones generating our experience.
A Course in Miracles puts it like this:
“The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning.”
ACIM teaches us that everything in the world is neutral. We give everything in the world all the meaning that it has for us. Then we look at the meaning we’ve assigned and we believe it’s real.
This is the part people often resist. They want the level to be objectively bad so they don’t have to take responsibility for raising their vibration.
I get it. I lived that for years. Blame the world. I’m the victim of the world.
What I came to see is that taking responsibility isn’t a burden. It’s a liberation.
Because if I’m the one generating the level, I’m the one who can shift to a higher one.
I don’t have to wait for the world to change. I have to change my mind, and the world changes with me.
The vibrations I’m interested in maintaining now are peace, love, joy, freedom, wholeness, creativity, prosperity, clarity, harmony, and abundance. Those are the levels I’m energizing. That’s what I’m interested in.
If you’d like to practice raising the vibration with us, Monday, May 25 is the doorway. My FREE Forgiveness Workshop is happening that day, and it’s also the last day for early bird pricing on my Change Your Mind About the World series, which begins May 30.
We are SO BLESSED to get to do this together!
If you’d like to practice forgiveness with us, please join my FREE Forgiveness Workshop on Monday, May 25. And if you’d like to go deeper into transforming the way you see the world, my Change Your Mind About the World series begins May 30, with early bird pricing ending Monday, May 25.
If you’d like to do this work with us, my Change Your Mind About the World series begins May 30. Early-bird BONUSES end Monday, May 25. And if you’d like to start right away, my FREE Forgiveness Workshop is happening that same Monday, May 25.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Self-Love Isn’t Selfish with Alan Cohen Spiritual students who who pour themselves out for everyone else, then feel a flicker of guilt the moment they pause to care for themselves. They say yes when they’re already running low. When they finally rest, a quiet voice calls it selfish. For anyone walking a spiritual path, the line between devotion and depletion blurs fast, and most of us were taught to honor the wrong side of it. Joined by author Alan Cohen, Jennifer Hadley turns to A Course in Miracles to question a belief so familiar that ACIM students rarely notice they’re living by it. What if your self-care was never the indulgence you feared?
New Series Starting Soon: Change Your Mind About the World – with Alan Cohen, James Twyman, Michael Mirdad and Lisa Natoli – early-bird BONUSES until May 25th. Click here for more info.
