Getting Rid of the Thorn In Your Side

"When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you." -A Course In Miracles

So true.  And, when you focus on the *invisible* you know is True, the *visible thorn in your side* you experience will vanish.

Who or what is pissing you off - treating you wrong - holding you back - holding you down - standing in your way?

Whoever or whatever you think is at fault, is false.  Conflict will dissolve when you re-alize your are interacting with the false/fearful self of the person who does you wrong.  It could go like this in your mind. "Oh. So and So is doing that thing that I can't stand.  This is not the true So and So.  This is the false So and So.  I re-cognize the same or similar defense in myself.  Ah yes.  I know the false self that I re-act from.  Oh, that is what is going on here.  I do it, too.  Maybe I do it differently.  Yep, I tend to attack myself instead of others (or whatever).  I choose not to relate false self to false self.  I choose to be present to my true self and their true self.

What I experience/perceive as wrong is covering up the Truth I don't see right now.  I look past this false experience to the Truth I know is present.

What did I make visible that I don't like?  What Truth became invisible to me as a result?  What Truth is present even if I don't *see* it now?

What Your Experience Is Telling You

"Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within." -A Course In Miracles

So what have you "beheld within"?  (Note the past tense?) You can deduce this by what you are experiencing now.  Allow your experience to be your guide not your "reality."

Are you experiencing harmony or dissension in your relationships?  Answer that and you can discern whether or not you have beheld harmony or dissension within.  Often we are attacking ourselves with very little or no awareness.

Are you experiencing abundant health, abundant wealth, abundant joy?  If not, you are not beholding it within.

Do you experience giving and receiving unconditional love and non-judgement?  Answer that and you can discern whether or not you have beheld unconditional love and non-judgement towards yourself.

Answering these questions is not a way to beat yourself up.  All disharmony without is a call to harmony within. Covering your pain with a coating of "harmony" will not work, rather asking your pain for guidance towards what is out of alignment and bringing it back to Truth will work. Ask with a curious heart.  Inquire as a means to find the place that is blocking you and with the intention of beholding true perspective within.

Are you experiencing light, peace and joy.  If so, you are beholding these things.  Focus there.
 

None of My Business

What you think of me is none of my business.

I thought I was mostly unconcerned with what others think of me. On the surface, I will wear whatever clothes I want, go out in public without make up on all of the time, and do pretty much whatever I feel like at any given moment. Recently I noticed that under the surface I have more concern about what others think of me than I thought.

I find I occasionally check myself against what I think others think of me. I find this interesting since what someone thinks about me is generally based on their outside perception. So, what is it that makes me think they know something about who I am on the inside? Truly, what someone else thinks of me inside or out is none of my business. Truly, their thoughts (or judgements) are outside of me, and what is true about me is right smack dab at the center or me.

Oh ya!

Today's journalling question:

Are there ways I am giving energy to what people think of me that I may have previously been unaware of?

Why the hypen in re-minderz

The question has been posed as to why I use a hypen in re-minderz?

If you spend anytime looking into the origin of words you will find many clues to meaning and as a result....the basis of how we use these words to create our lives. Have you ever really looked at the word reminder?

Re comes from the latin root ri meaning again.....and then there is mind and then -er which I loosely translate to mean one who does. Having looked at it in that way re-minder as I am using it is one who assists others in bringing their mind into alignment again.

I particularly love the again part because it holds the key to what I teach.....which is....I am simply reminding you of the truth that already and always has existed at your core. When you connect with and live from that truth you are very powerfully creative - successful - abundant.

Be-Do-Have...You ARE prosperous

(Be - Do - Have part 2)

You've read "Be-Do-Have" and you have a question about the line that says "you ARE prosperous."

Yes, You ARE prosperous. This is the essence of your BEING. You are created as a whole being. As a whole being you ARE prosperous. You ARE enough. You ARE joy. You ARE love. You ARE creative. You ARE beauty. And MORE!

This is the idea upon which affirmations work. I am.... This is the Truth of who you are. It is unchanging. It is at the center of your being. Some of us are more aware of this Truth than others. If you are new to this idea and you are having difficulty believing this I encourage you to consider it as true just for a short while. Maybe a day, maybe two. What if this were true? Is it possible?

BUT you say. If I am prosperous why do I experience lack, poverty, difficult financial situations?

I invite you to re-read "Be-Do-Have." The piece that you are missing is not the beingness. Your beiness is shining through some "faulty" filters. Some belief that is not in alignment with beingness. The belief may be I am not prosperous, or I don't deserve prosperity. This is the part where you change your thinking!