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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 60

March 15, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 46. God is the Love in which I forgive. I am ready for advanced forgiveness now. Advanced forgiveness is letting go of all ego thought, even that which appears benign and necessary, like thinking through a problem that needs to be solved. Letting go of ego can feel like letting go of ‘me.’ However, the spaciousness in which this happens and the spaciousness that remains when it is done, is what I am. Let me prepare myself for this completion by resting deeply in myself frequently, so that I become familiar and the ego feels strange and out-of-place.

Review 47. God is the strength in which I trust. In order to forgive, I cannot rely on the judgment I have trusted in the past. That judgment is thinking. The mind itself is ego; it calls thinking, ‘me.’ It feels safe with itself. But my error is confusing it with the light that I am. Let me know the light as myself by resting deeply in the light frequently. In the light, I am detached from the mind. In the light, I know myself.

Review 48. There is nothing to fear. All fear comes from the belief that I am the body-mind. The body is vulnerable. The mind can suffer. But I am neither. I am the light that imparts reality, because I am reality itself. Reality is invulnerable to anything that comes and goes with time. Let me know myself by placing attention with myself frequently. As I see what I am as myself, I know there is nothing to fear.

Review 49. God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day. All I need to do is listen. Listening is a simple shift of attention. I shift attention from habitual thinking to that which is in the heart now, from past and future to presently guiding. It is not difficult. All it takes is the desire to leave the ego for truth. Desire paired with trust.

Review 50. I am sustained by the Love of God. Fear of God comes from the belief that I am different than God. In seeing myself as the same, there is nothing to fear. There is mystery, but mystery can be trusted. I rest knowing mystery can be trusted, and I am the light.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 59

March 14, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 41. God goes with me wherever I go. The ego does too. This is because both are in my mind. One is my true Self. The other is an imposter, a habit. Am I ready to break this entrenched habit? What do I want for myself?

Review 42. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. The ego’s resistance feels strong, but it is not my strength. If I give into the pull of habit, I am weakened. The ego confuses weakness for strength. However, I know the strength of God, so I am not confused. Let me choose the quiet strength of God over the noisy weakness of ego.

Review 43. God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. I am at home in my heart. I am myself as God’s quiet strength. Let me rest deeply within myself frequently, so that I become familiar and the ego feels strange and out-of-place.

Review 44. God is the light in which I see. The ego confuses thinking with seeing, but thinking is not seeing. Thinking is attention on the box. The box is blindness. Seeing comes through openness, through open awareness. Only openness can see. Decided is blind, and all thinking is full of ‘decided’.

Review 45. God is the Mind with which I think. My real thoughts are a way of being. My real thoughts are all-is-well (peace), open-embracing-acceptance (love), freedom—a sense of soaring from within (joy), intimacy with everything (oneness), and compassion for anyone who suffers from ignorance. I am the heart of God. Thinking is being my Self.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 58

March 13, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 36. My holiness envelops everything I see. When I sing songs of devotion, the heart’s eyes look out on the world. The heart’s eyes are God’s eyes. They are one and the same. I can see the universe with God’s eyes because God is my truth. When I look with God’s eyes, I see God.

Review 37. My holiness blesses the world. Remembrance blesses the world. The only cause of pain is forgetfulness, so remembrance blesses the world. When I make the little bit of effort that it takes to stay in the heart, my mind is filled with remembrance. Remembrance communicates remembrance. The pain of the world is weakened as I abide in remembrance.

Review 38. There is nothing my holiness cannot do. I need not direct my holiness; it knows the way better than I do. I abide in the heart, remain there, dwell there, and the energy of holiness is released through the power of my willing attention. Holiness set free heals the world. Holiness set free reveals truth.

Review 39. My holiness is my salvation. One who has forgotten the truth is lost. One who abides in the heart is remembering. Remembrance is freedom. Be willing to remember. Sing the songs of the heart.

Review 40. I am blessed as a Son of God. There is unlimited power in the heart of God. That power is life-intelligence-love. That power is my gift, and it is with me now. By keeping my attention with the heart, I keep my attention with this gift. Attention is the energy that unwraps the gift. I live the gift by abiding with it. I give it attention, and I know it is what I am.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 57

March 12, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 31. I am not the victim of the world I see: Resistance may arise as I follow this commitment I have made to remain fully immersed in God, but I am not the victim of resistance. I am not the victim of my habits. I am not the victim of the apparent wishes of others. I can know and remember my heart. I can listen to and follow my heart. I can remain in my heart. The choice is mine, and there are no real obstacles.

Review 32. I have invented the world I see: My personal point-of-view is a box on my head. It is as meaningless as that. Give it no power. Forget the box. Live restfully, trusting in the heart with a not-knowing head.

Review 33. There is another way of looking at the world: Focus my attention on the songs of the heart. Let these songs whisper to me throughout the day. Sing with them, and the eyes of devotion will show the way to see.

Review 34. I could see peace instead of this: Stay with this simple practice. Focus attention on the spontaneous songs of the heart. Let them whisper the truth to me. Sing the songs as I work and as I play. Let the eyes of clarity show the way to see.

Review 35. My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy: I can trust the music as bad as the tune may seem to be, ~ha ha~, because the heart of the music is holy. The heart of the music is truth. The heart of the music is what I truly want, what I dearly desire, and what is true for me to know. Immerse myself in these out-of-pitch songs, and I live in harmony with my truth.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 56

March 11, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 26. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability: What business does one who wants to be immersed in God have thinking about the world? Find the way of living that does not require thinking. It is a path that is right here at your feet now, but all that you think must be let go to see it.

Review 27. Above all else I want to see: This is another way of saying, “Above all else I want to be immersed in truth-awareness.” One who wants to be immersed in truth-awareness must keep God on her mind. A loving, devotional attitude is best. Worship God in every experience. Let the false self be lost in the devotional thought of God.

Review 28. Above all else I want to see differently: When what you see does not shine with true awareness, look to see what your thoughts are. Your attention has strayed from your heart. Your sight witnesses to your attention. Be grateful that the world has awakened you, and bring your attention back to God. Sing a silent song of devotion, and reawaken to your heart.

Review 29. God is in everything I see: Life-intelligence-open-awareness is always present. Reflect on it, and it will be reflected to you. Sing of it, and it will sing to you. Dwell on it. Be with it. Stay with it.

Review 30. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind: Close your eyes for a moment and feel your own heart. Notice your presence as open awareness. Be aware of your silent intelligence. See that you are life. Look within, and see yourself.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 55

March 10, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 21. I am determined to see things differently: I do not know how enlightenment sees. It seems to me that if I decide on a belief about what enlightenment sees, I may restrict myself to my belief. I do not want to be restricted by my imagination of truth. I want the genuine experience of truth. Therefore, my strategy for ‘seeing’ is this:

I will continually increase my focus on God, while simultaneously letting go of everything in me that I recognize as not God. As I take care of myself in this way, I trust seeing will take care of itself.

Review 22. What I see is a form of vengeance: What I see has changed, because my mind—my attention—has changed. My seeing is more joyous and more reverent than before.

I spontaneously notice the majestic power of a bird’s flapping wings as it passes overhead, and it takes my breath away. I hear silence amidst the sounds of this world and feel its peace in my heart. I see ‘problems’ as temporary and life as unending.

Where is there room for improvement?

I see life as busy. I see humans creating their own busyness unnecessarily. I realize I am caught in this cycle. Busyness needs to be questioned, because it keeps us centered in the world instead of in God.

What I see is a form of busyness. ~ha ha~ Okay, this tells me what I need to work on, and so I will.

Review 23. I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts: I want to put more focus on God. I can feel this in the core of my being.

I recently had a dream that showed I want to take the solitary trek to God, but I am allowing myself to be pulled back into the world by ‘others.’

Do I want to take the solitary trek that is calling me?

Am I willing to give up what I think others want in order to do this?

Review 24. I do not perceive my own best interests: The ego is willing to hi-jack this calling for aloneness with God. It is eager to plan my escape. I cannot think about how I will take this solitary trek, because ego will be in the thinking. My best guidance is to say ‘yes,’ and then remain present for in-the-moment intuition as it occurs. It knows the way. Thinking does not.

Review 25. I do not know what anything is for. Therefore, I cannot judge. To judge is to invest in ignorance. To be, is to be centered in wisdom

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 54

March 9, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Review 16. I have no neutral thoughts. It is time for maturity. Maturity begins by realizing who I am, what is true and what is false. This is wisdom. Maturity lives from wisdom.

What I am is living-intelligent-open-awareness.
What is true is what I am, life-intelligence-love-presence.
What is false is form. Form is the manifestation of story, changing story.

To live with maturity is to stay in touch with what is true. Allow the false to be. Allow it to be as incidental, while abiding lovingly with the true.

Review 17. I see no neutral things. Everything perceived with the senses is the manifestation of thought. There is no difference between the thoughts in one’s brain and the form sensed with the body. Maturity does not see a difference between these things.

To live with maturity is to stay in touch with what is true. Allow the false to be. Allow it to be without undue emphasis. Interact with it appropriately. Interact with it while abiding lovingly with the true.

Review 18. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. Abide lovingly with the true, and radiate truth. Forget the truth, and radiate confusion. To radiate is natural and uninterruptable, so it is always occurring. Maturity is aware of this fact, so it lovingly abides with the true in order to communicate consistently the compassionate message of truth.

Review 19. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. To wander from my realization of truth is to spread confusion. At this stage, spreading confusion is still a possibility for me. I can get lazy, go back to sleep and forget what I know, but I don’t have to. I don’t have to, and I don’t want to. I am fully capable of remaining awake and aware now. It is time for maturity, and I am ready to be responsibly and lovingly mature. There’s nothing else that I need. My stage of awakening to wisdom is complete.

Review 20. I am determined to see. Seeing is nothing more than a present choice to abide with truth. I can do this now, and so I will.

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lesson 53

March 8, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

 

Review 11. My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. When I see with the mind, I am lost in an individualistic illusion that has no meaning at all. When I see with the heart, I am in communication with my true Self. When I am in communication with my true Self, I know my real thoughts. My real thoughts are meaning.

My real thoughts have a different quality than meaningless thoughts.

Meaningless thoughts are stories—maybe that is why they are so entertaining, but I want to remember that when the quality is story, the thought is not true. Story is individual interpretation, based on the scribbles inside the box. Highly individualized, these stories have no meaning at all.

My real thoughts are more like attitudes or a general environment in which everything is seen. My real thoughts include all-is-well (peace), open-embracing-acceptance (love), an inherent sense freedom—a sense of soaring from within (joy), intimacy with everything (oneness), and compassion for anyone who suffers because of belief in the box.

Review 12. I am upset because I see a meaningless world. Whenever I am not at peace, I am believing the box. Remembering this is enough to shift me from belief in the box to my real thoughts.

My real thoughts include compassion for myself, open-embracing-acceptance of what is, and the realization that all is well. By resting in these realizations, I rest in my real thoughts. As I rest in my real thoughts, I remember what is true, because my real thoughts are true.

Review 13. A meaningless world engenders fear. One idea written inside the box is that its stories are meaning. When I believe this idea, I draw a sense of security from the box. I believe that staying in the box is safety. I believe anything outside of the box is dangerous.

I want to overcome this backwards thought. There isn’t safety in the box. The story that is playing now may seem like a good one, but it is fragile. Good can turn to bad in an instant in the box. Look at the box honestly.

Eternal peace-life-love is realized only by abandoning the box.

This is my prayer:

Let me overcome my attraction to the box and realize all-encompassing love for the truth that is known when the box is removed.

Review 14. God did not create a meaningless world. I can have confidence that if I want it, the box will be removed. I can have confidence in that because the box is not true. It remains on my head only because I am holding it there. If I let go, a wind will come and blow the box away.

My job is to learn not to reach for the box, so that the wind can blow it away. I am ready to learn that lesson now. My readiness is demonstrated by consistently letting go of the box.

Review 15. My thoughts are images I have made. I have drawn what’s inside the box by being interested in the box’s drawings. As I stare at the drawings that are already there, the drawings multiply.

I have two choices. I can continue to be fascinated with the box, and the automatic scribbling will continue. Or I can let go of the box and discover the freedom of the endless world outside of the box.

Which choice do I want? Which choice makes sense?

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Tips From Regina – Regina’s Review, Lessons 51 & 52

March 7, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

When I see the world through my individual point of view, I see an individual world. No one else sees a world exactly like the world I see. It is as if each of us is walking around with a box on our head. Our unique worlds are drawn on the inside of our boxes, and that is all we see. We argue that we are right about our points of view, but we are not right. We are blind. In order to see, we need to take the boxes off of our heads.

Whenever I am upset, it is because I am looking at the inside of my box. There isn’t a single exception to this statement. Some ideas may be drawn inside my box in bold colors, and I mistake them as important because of their boldness, but I am looking at a colored box. The box deceives me.

Some people may have a few ideas written on the inside of their boxes that are similar to some ideas I have written inside mine, and if we get together and compare what we see, we agree that we are right; but that does not change the fact that we are each looking at a limited colored box. Our boxes deceive us.

If we took our boxes off, cut them open and laid them flat on the ground so we could see everything written on them, and then we took all of the boxes on everyone’s heads and did the same, we would be amazed at the ideas and stories that colored the vision of each individual person. Instead of being angry at those who disagreed with us, we would have compassion. “Oh,” we would say, “That is why you felt that way. I see the writing on your box. I understand now.”

The writing inside my box started with a single idea scratched upon its surface. “I.” As I stared at the one idea inside my box, I bumped into someone, and another idea was scrawled inside my box. “Other.” I held something soft and pleasurable in my hands, and then felt the “other” take it from me. “Mine,” “victim” and “defend” appeared on the box. And in this way, the ideas multiplied until a complex web of ideas colored the inside of my box, all birthed out of the original idea, “I”.

This box has become its own little universe. It is filled with so many ideas, that it entertains me all day everyday and all night every night. With so much entertainment coming from the box, I have lost the sense of curiosity about the outside world. I have become so accustomed to the dark that I no longer crave the light.

With the box on my head, I see only what is scrawled upon the box. That is blindness. Because I have accepted the box as my universe, and because I have become comfortable in my own little world, whether I am happy, upset or suffering because of what is written on the box, I feel sheltered by it. I don’t know what is outside of my box, and I don’t really want to peek outside to see. To me, the known is better than the unknown. I have become accustomed to the familiar scribbles inside my box.

Common sense can see that this spell, my fascination with my box, needs to be broken. It isn’t healthy. It isn’t true. … It isn’t true. … That’s the problem. I fooled myself into thinking that the world inside my box is true, but it isn’t true. The box deceives me.

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Tips From Regina – Instructions for Review Lessons 51-60

March 6, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

The instructions for Review 1 are fairly flexible. For example, you are told that “if any one of the five ideas appeals to you more than the others, concentrate on that one.”

The flexibility in the instructions allows you to develop a personal relationship with the review lessons.

When Helen scribed the review lessons, she also wrote a paragraph below each lesson. We do not know if this paragraph was fully scribed or if it is a reflection of her personal relationship with the lesson. In the instructions, you are asked to read these paragraphs, but you are also told that it is “not necessary to cover the comments that follow each idea either literally or thoroughly in the practice periods. Try, rather, to emphasize the central point, and think about it as part of your review of the idea to which it relates.” This might be because the comments are Helen’s personal relationship with each lesson. Rather than emphasizing her personal relationship, it is more helpful for you to develop your own personal relationship.

One way to develop your own personal relationship with the lessons is to contemplate each lesson and then write your own comments, comments that reflect your relationship with the lesson.

My intention for the review period is to spend time each morning contemplating the day’s review lessons and writing my own comments. Throughout the day, I will spend at least two minutes each hour deeply contemplating one lesson and the comments I wrote for that lesson. At the end of the day, I will reread the lessons and comments in the workbook along with my own comments.

If this feels right for you, please feel free to do the same. Developing your own relationship with the lessons as we do the review can be extremely, extremely helpful.

I will post my comments for Lesson 51 as an example.

Regina’s personal comments for Lesson 51:

1. Nothing I see means anything. I do not see with the body’s eyes. I see either with the mind or the heart. It is not what I see, but what I see with that gives meaning. When I see with the mind, I am lost in an individualistic illusion that has no meaning at all. When I see with the heart, I am in communication with my true Self. When I am in communication with my true Self, I know my real thoughts. My real thoughts are meaning.

2. I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me. This is true when I see with the mind. When I see the world through my individual point of view, I see an individual world. No one else sees a world exactly like the world I see when I see through the mind. When I see with the heart, however, it is different. When I see with the heart, meaning is not supplied from the outside or by thoughts. The meaning is my Self. What I am, I see. If I see anything that is not what I am, it is as thin as aging gauze.

3. I do not understand anything I see. When I see with my mind, my seeing is colored by my thoughts. Sometimes my thoughts are so dense, I walk about in the world without seeing the world at all; all I see are the thoughts in my mind. My thoughts are an obstacle; they hide or distort everything I see. Things that are hidden or distorted are not understood. Far from it. They are missed entirely.

4. These thoughts do not mean anything. My unique point of view is 1 out of 7,376,000,000 unique points of view in the world today. It is as if each of us is walking around with a box on our head. Our unique worlds are drawn on the inside of our boxes, and that is all we see. We argue that we are right about our points of view, but we are not right. We are blind. In order to see, we need to take the boxes off of our heads.

5. I am never upset for the reason I think. When I am upset, it is because of the box on my head. I will know peace-life-love if I remove the box, because peace-life-love is what I am.

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