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. I want the peace of God”
“Today devote your practice periods to careful searching of your mind, to find the dreams you cherish still. What do you ask for in the heart?….Consider but what you believe will comfort you, and bring you happiness.”
In Michael Singer’s book, The Untethered Soul, Chapter 12 Taking down the walls, he tell a story about a person who is so enamored with this sun filled field that he builds the home of his dreams there. The home is built sturdy to protect him and keep him safe for a long time. Trying to make himself safe, he battons his home down. He stopped going out into the world and choose instead to stay in the fortress that he has built. He forgets about his orginal dream of enjoying the sun light, and the joy he feels bathing in the sun. In fact he ends up in just the oppose space that he had orginally longed for because his home in the sunny field becomes a dark fortress.
What is it that we really want? Are we looking for financial security? Do we want to see our kids get a college education? Do we want our home paid for? Would these wants and desires bring us peace? Maybe, but it is a shallow peace. It is like giving a hungry guy a fish sandwich, as a opposed to teaching him to fish.
The limited mind knows not how limited this thinking really is. There is a place in the mind where you experience that which we cannot speak of, but that is yours for the asking. Choose the peace of God and take your walls down.
Experience this. It is there available to you. What is the source of this peace? It doesn’t come from the world. This comes from the abstact, the eternal, and the changeless. If you are feeling upset, it is only because you are choosing the ego. You are choosing separation. How one is feeling is the result of a decision, a choice. That, and only that choice brings peace or upset. Decide for God and you decide for peace.
