Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. Also, repeat today’s idea to yourself at least once hourly. In addition, use today’s idea as much as needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
Salvation of the world depends on me.

So far during this review period, we have asked for guidance after noticing that we were caught in the ego perspective. Today, let’s put spiritual intuition up front.

Instead of waiting to get caught in the ego perspective before asking for guidance, let’s ask for guidance all through the day. In other words, instead of getting caught and then asking for help, let’s allow guidance to lead us through the day so that we don’t get caught in ego snares. Let’s stay in the heart today, with spiritual intuition in the lead.

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Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. Also, repeat today’s idea to yourself at least once hourly.

In addition, use today’s idea as much as is needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition. For example, you can say, “This thought I do not want. I choose instead ______. And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.” Next, ask spiritual intuition for guidance that suits the moment.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I want the peace of God.

What is it that your mind thinks you want? What are your dreams? Why do you want those dreams? Spend time inquiring into your dreams to find what they represent for you. Do you really want that thing or circumstance, the object of your dream, or do you actually seek the peace of God?

Today is a good day to review the teaching from a previous Weekly Gathering entitled, “Wanting.” If you would like to listen, you can skip to 33:10 in this audio.

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Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. To keep your mind focused on today’s idea and to help absorb the idea fully, repeat it to yourself at least once hourly.

In addition, use today’s idea as much as is needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition. For example, you can say, “This thought I do not want. I choose instead ______. And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.” Next, ask spiritual intuition for guidance that suits the moment.

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
The Name of God is my inheritance.

The ego-perspective focuses on differences. The spirit-perspective focuses on sameness, awareness-life-presence. Today, we will use the idea for the day along with a Name of God mantra to repeatedly turn our attention away from the ego-perspective to contemplation on awareness-life-presence.

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Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. (You might use that time to review the original lesson in the Course, to review the original tip, to write in your journal or to move into awareness-watching-awareness meditation using the idea for the day as your ‘anchor thought,’ a thought that helps you transition from attention on thinking to attention on awareness.)

To keep your mind focused on today’s idea and to help absorb the idea fully, repeat it to yourself at least once hourly.

In addition, use today’s idea as much as is needed as a transition from ego thinking to spiritual intuition. For example, you can say, “This thought I do not want. I choose instead ______. And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought.” Next, ask spiritual intuition for guidance that suits the moment. 

Today’s review idea:

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I call upon God’s Name and on my own.

The instructions to this review period said, “Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.”

Today we use the idea for the day followed by a Name of God mantra to gently replace all frivolous mind wandering. Use any Name of God mantra that opens your heart, quiets your mind, and places attention on awareness.

Click here to review “Instructions for Using the Mantra” from The Teachings of Inner Ramana 

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