One of the main reasons it feels impossible to let go is because we falsely believe that the cause of our upset is in the world.
We’re convinced we’re upset because of what’s going on in the world – or not going on. We’re convinced we’re upset because of what other people are doing – or not doing.
But the cause of our upset is never where we think it is.
A Course in Miracles tells us in the very first week of the Workbook: “I am never upset for the reason I think.” And Lesson 25 gives us the humbling truth: “I do not know what anything is for.”
The thoughts I used to think sounded like this: “You’re really upsetting me when you do that. You should do something different.” Thinking those kinds of thoughts will never bring us Peace and happiness and Joy and freedom and harmony – all the things we say we’d like.
Yet, we still continue to think them, because we don’t really understand or accept the power of our mind.
We say we’d like the Peace of God, but we’re not willing to employ the means necessary to experience it – changing our mind.
This is where the conflict comes from. We say we’d like to be loving, to be at Peace, to be kind and generous and remember the unity of all life. But then we think we need to punish someone so they’ll learn. We think we need to change the world, change the people in it, change the past.
There is NO Peace in that direction. None.
True lasting happiness comes from being of service to the Light – from being Loving and remembering that our true nature IS Love. Choosing to be unloving in our thoughts, choosing to be punishing in our thoughts, will always lead us to a place of distress.
Our compulsive thinking – the feeling that it’s impossible to let go – is letting us know we have a wrong perspective. We’re seeing ourselves incorrectly. We’ve lost track of who we really are and who our brothers and sisters are, once again.
Every trigger is showing us a false belief that’s ripe for healing. We don’t have to figure out how to heal it. Our job is to allow the healing. We give it to the Holy Spirit for healing, and then the healing happens. We must be in connection with that Higher Holy Spirit Self – healing doesn’t happen at the level of the go.
In my Masterful Living Program, we practice turning our upsets over to Spirit instead of trying to change the world.
And my FREE Forgiveness Workshops are a beautiful space to practice this together – come join me on Friday.
Healing IS happening when we’re willing.
