Here’s something that is incredibly helpful to understand:

We don’t see what’s actually going on. We see what we believe.

The world SEEMS to prove to us what we believe. But it doesn’t prove what we believe. It just proves that we believe it. 

Because our perception is a projection of our beliefs.

I used to have a constant feeling of betrayal. I was looking for things to take offense at all the time because this was my worldview:  this world is going to betray me again and again and again.

And guess what? The world kept proving me right.

Not because the world was actually filled with betrayal.
But because I believed it was.
And I kept seeing what I believed.

Every time there was a new betrayal, it would trigger this whole chain of betrayals in my mind. And the meaning I’d make of it would be: “You see? This is why I can’t trust people. This is why I can’t trust God. This is why I can’t trust life. This is why I can’t trust love.”

Again and again, I was looking to see in the world what I believed.

It’s exhausting. It’s really exhausting.
AND we can retrain our mind to stop doing that.
That’s what my life is dedicated to doing for myself – and for helping those who would also like to remember that it’s NATURAL for us to be joyful regardless of the conditions of our life.

A Course in Miracles tells us that “everything is helpful” and “everything works together for good and there are no exceptions.” Whatever’s being experienced by us is helpful to us. Our upsets are letting us know there’s an opportunity for us to release some belief that’s like a splinter in our mind – some ancient unforgiveness, a false belief.

And we can’t harvest the wisdom, the learning from our experiences and hardships until we move into non-judgment and are willing to accept that EVERYTHING is helpful.

Yes, everything.  This is what true forgiveness is.

In order to cut through all of the upsets, projections and perceptions – which is what I’m all about, stopping the habit of having to process it and relive it endlessly – we do have to forgive ourselves for having made all of this mental and emotional mess and for having judged ourselves for having made it. We have to let ALL of those judgments go.

In my Masterful Living Program, we practice seeing with new eyes instead of through the old lens of betrayal. And my Letting Go of A Person Deep Dive Workshop on March 21 is a sacred opportunity to release the projection and see clearly.

Let’s stop believing our painful beliefs are true. Let’s see what’s really there instead.

Let’s start now!

If you’re struggling with a relationship, and it feels like co-dependency, it feels like you need to release an obsessive-compulsive attachment, I have a workshop for you. In Letting Go of a Person – Saturday, March 21st, (We’re doing this on the equinox to take advantage of that powerful energy!) I’ll support you in tangible clear steps you can follow to release the attachment. You don’t have to end the relationship, but the pain won’t stop until you can release the sense of craving, needing, wanting, hating, andobsessing. Click here for more info.

My next Free Forgiveness Workshop Sunday, March 15 at 11:00 AM Eastern, Please join me and we’ll have a deep and profound healing together. Save My Spot – Free Forgiveness Workshop

TODAY: Sundays with Spirit – join for inspirational music and message. Totally FREE – all are welcome – register to get the zoom details for today. Please remember that in the USA the clocks change today – we’re one hour earlier.

LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE:  Don’t Let the Little Interferers Pull You to Littleness What would happen if you simply refused to let anything pull you into littleness? I just got back from Costa Rica where I broke my laptop on day one, came home with a sinus infection, and almost missed my flight because I forgot I was flying internationally. And yet – I had one of the most peaceful travel experiences of my life. In this episode, I share what happened at that airport and how A Course in Miracles Chapter 23 gave me the exact teaching I needed: “Let not the little interferers pull you to littleness.” With everything happening in the world right now – the wars, the chaos, the things that could so easily upset us – I explore what it really means to be unbotherable. Not through denial, but through knowing who we really are. I share the phrase I kept repeating to myself when nothing was working, and why staying innocent (even when I made a tactical error) changed everything.