Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and evening contemplating today’s lesson. Repeat today’s idea at least hourly. Use today’s idea throughout the day.
Today’s review idea:
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
We are learning that our freedom of choice is unlimited. We can choose to suffer by giving the idea of suffering our believing attention. With practice, we can just as easily choose to experience joy.
We will suffer emotional pain if we wish for things to be different than they are. We suffer emotionally when we imagine that we should have something different, that someone should have acted differently, that we should have that thing that we lost, etc. If we were to accept things as they are, we would not suffer emotional pain when things were different than we would prefer them to be. Our suffering comes from resisting what is.
Similarly, physical suffering is experienced when we are resistant to the felt sensations within the body. Our suffering lies in our resistance to experiencing “pain” within the body.
We always have the choice to experience the joy of being rather than believing that some “loss,” upset, or “uncomfortable” sensation should not be and, therefore, demands suffering.
Freedom from suffering comes from the Loving All Method, because when we practice the Loving All Method we are choosing joy with all experiences. Love everything. If you can’t genuinely love it, emotionally accept it. If you can’t accept it, emotionally allow it. These choices lead to freedom from suffering.
