“Little child, you are hiding your head under the cover of heavy blankets that you have laid upon yourself.”
This is what A Course in Miracles tells us.
“You are hiding your nightmares in the darkness of your own false certainty and refusing to open your eyes to look at them.”
Here’s what helped me understand this: I had all this fear of myself as maybe being an evil person, a bad person, dysfunctional, unlovable, unlikable, cruel – all these different things.
And I had evidence. I had convinced myself I was fundamentally flawed.
But I decided to lay that aside and say, “Maybe it’s not true.”
The Course tells us about children who are afraid of the boogeyman under the bed.
There is no boogeyman under the bed.
There is no monster in the closet.
It’s all projection.
It’s all perception.
So we become terrified of not being healthy. We become terrified of being sick. We become terrified of all kinds of things.
Instead of focusing on self-love, being loving, and extending love and instead of recognizing the Christ within our own mind and in the mind of our brothers and sisters.
ACIM says: “If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish.”
“But if they hide their nightmares, they will keep them.”
I stopped hiding from God – which is the higher self, the Holy Spirit.
I stopped hiding and I started being in that direct conversation.
I also became more and more willing to just share with my brothers and sisters what I was going through and to talk about it.
As I began to love myself – which I experienced mostly in self-compassion and not judging myself – I made a deep commitment to stop judging myself.
So the judgments would come up and I’d say: “I am not going to put energy into that. I’m going to put energy into seeing the Christ in myself.”
I didn’t make the Christ in myself. God put it there.
Ready to stop hiding and start healing? Join my Healing with Self-Love workshop TODAY Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14 to learn how to face your fears with compassion.
Your nightmares lose their power when you stop hiding from them.
The light of truth dissolves every shadow.
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NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: In this episode, Are You Afraid of the Light? I dive into A Course in Miracles Chapter 13, Section 6 – “Finding the Present” – exploring why we struggle to see people as they are now instead of through the lens of our past experiences with them. I unpack the Course’s teaching that “the past can cast no shadow to darken the present unless you are afraid of the light,” and I get honest about my own edge: the stickiness I feel when someone hurts the people I love. I make an important distinction – you don’t have to give them access to your bank account to practice seeing their Christ nature. I share how intellectual understanding of spiritual teachings isn’t enough; we must actually live and apply them moment by moment. Come to a free forgiveness workshop at PowerofLoveMinistry.net – because when we see our brothers and sisters without their past, we are released too. We’re doing this together.
