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Audio & Homework – Week 34 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 8/29/17
Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
The reading tonight was In the World But Not of It by Gina Lake, pgs 3-11 (Stop at “Thoughts that Uphold the False Self
Homework for the upcoming week:
Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 222-228. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness, Loving Consciousness or Abandon Release Method meditation for 20-40 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Watch the following videos, which you will find in the Gentle Healing YouTube Playlist:
Aug 29 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 221
Aug 29, 2017 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ ACIM Workbook Lesson 221 ~ Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still
Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.
Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.
Now do we wait in quiet. God is here, because we wait together. I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. Accept my confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son.
Tips from Regina ~ Lesson 221
Workbook Lesson 221 – Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.
Today we begin Part II of A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students. In the Introduction to Part II, we are told, “Words will mean little now. … For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. … For we wait in quiet expectation for our God and Father. He has promised He will take the final step Himself. And we are sure His promises are kept.”
In other words, the workbook lessons prepare us for meditation. They prepare our minds and hearts for sitting in awareness-watching-awareness.
I have always found it helpful to spend time in contemplation (which often includes writing) before going to meditation. Lately, “tip” writing has been that time for me. Previously, it may have been contemplating something from Awakening Together’s Minister Preparation Program (MPP), the Seven Steps to Awakening, or something else. A period of contemplation followed by meditation is the recommendation for all of us now.
The Introduction also says, “We will not consider time a matter of duration now. We will use as much as we will need for the result that we desire.”
Each one must find the time he/she needs for adequate contemplation and meditation.
What is “adequate?” Whatever time it takes to realize genuine wisdom and/or shifts each day.
I contemplate until contemplation feels complete, which means I have received my “daily bread.” And then I meditate for as long as the day will allow, meaning I meditate until I need to move into my workday. For me, the total time spent in contemplation and meditation is typically 3 – 4 hours per day. To do this, I get up at 5am each day. When I was a new student, I typically spent 60-90 minutes per day in focused spiritual time. As you can see, my focused time has increased over time.
Now our format for the workbook lessons is this:
1 – Each day read and contemplate the “special theme” that we are currently working with. The first one is, “What is Forgiveness?”
2 – Contemplate the day’s workbook lesson.
3 – Spend time in meditation.
4 – Recall the day’s workbook lesson hourly.
5 – Spend at least a brief time with the workbook lesson and/or meditation before going to bed at night.
Instead of writing a tip for our first special theme, “What is Forgiveness,” I invite you to listen to an audio on that theme. If you cannot listen this morning, listen later in the day, in the evening before going to bed or within the next day or two.
Please take time this morning to read, “What is Forgiveness,” to contemplate Lesson 221, and to spend time in meditation. If you have 30-minutes for meditation and would like a gentle audio to guide you, I recommend this meditation by Michael Langford and Karen Worth:
Aug 28 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 220
Aug 28, 2017 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ ACIM Workbook Lesson 220 ~ Review of Lesson (200) There is no peace except the peace of God.
I am not a body. I am free,
For I am still as God created me.
(200) There is no peace except the peace of God.
Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on
other roads than this. But let me follow Him Who leads me
home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
Tips from Regina ~ Review Lesson 220
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.
There is no peace except the peace of God.
There is great peace in knowing you are eternal presence, witness to appearance and experience, but forever unaffected by them. Knowing yourself as This is the peace of God. It is the only answer that answers all problems immediately. It is the only truth, and it is already true now. All that needs to happen for the peace of God to be your genuine experience forever is to let go of identifying with anything that is temporary, and return identification to the only thing (non-thing) that is always here as yourself.
Common Ground MiniSeries: Craig Holliday – Part 4 of 4
FULLY HUMAN FULLY DIVINE SATSANG
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Week 4. Suffering the Grand Gate of Integrated Awakening. The places where we suffer are doorways into integration. Without integration, awakening will never stabilize.
8/27/17 – Experience Your Perfect Soul ~ pages 90-94
Kathy Smith explores the quotes from Experience Your Perfect Soul and shares from her contemplation of them.
8-27-17 Weekly Gathering: “Focusing In On Forgiveness”
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Topic: “Focusing In On Forgiveness”
Rev. Regina Dawn Akers discussed focusing attention on forgiveness so we can become clear on what forgiveness is, how to practice forgiveness and how to notice the opportunity for forgiveness.
Rev. Share Murphy read What is Forgiveness? from A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students .
Aug 27 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 219
Aug 27, 2017 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ ACIM Workbook Lesson 219 ~ Review of Lesson (199) I am not a body. I am free.
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
(199) I am not a body. I am free.
I am God’s Son. Be still, my mind, and think a moment
upon this. And then return to earth, without confusion
as to what my Father loves forever as His Son.
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
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