Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 2

Regina’s Tip for Lesson 2

Theory supports spiritual practice. Theory alone is not enough to undo the ego filter that has built up in your subconscious mind over this lifetime. To undo the ego and realize true perception, you must engage in properly structured spiritual practice. Reading Gentle Healing is not enough. It’s important that you practice the daily Workbook exercises in the way the Workbook asks you to practice them.

The mind has the ability to repeat the Workbook exercises without paying attention to the exercises. You can do the exercises while simultaneously being distracted from them. For example, you can say, “I have given that TV all the meaning it has for me,” while thinking about an email you need to write later in the day.

Distracted practice is an ego preservation technique. The ego will not be undone through distracted practice. Be sure to bring awareness to the practice by giving it your full attention. You don’t have to understand how the practice works. Mental understanding is completely unnecessary. You simply need to do the practice willingly while giving it undistracted, unhurried attention.

Homework for the week:

1. Homework Assignment A: ACIM Workbook Lessons 1-7
   1. First, read the lesson all the way through and then practice the lesson according to its instructions
   2. If you have done the ACIM workbook before, you may add what you hear and feel to the exercises for Lessons 1-3
   3. As you do exercises 1-3, you may notice the meaning you have given to things. Just notice and continue with the exercise
   4. Tip for Lesson 4: Sometimes people have trouble remembering to do the workbook lesson when it is to be done more than twice per day. They get on with their day and forget all about the lesson. Here’s a tip: When you finish the workbook lesson 4 in the morning, make a decision about when you will do it next. After you do the lesson the second time, make a decision about when to do it again. After the third time, make a decision about when to do it for the fourth time. If you make a conscious decision about when you will do the exercise next, you are less likely to forget to do it.
2. Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Luke, Chapters 12 (p151-155), and Chapters 16-17 (p161-167).
   1. Do not read all at once. Read a little each day contemplatively.
   2. Explore the reading through journaling. Journal clarity, questions, confusion, resistance, willingness, etc.
   3. If there is a Bible icon before a verse reference, read those verses from the Bible before reading that interpretation from NTI
   4. Listen to Adyashanti video in Gentle Healing Playlist: Click Here to Watch