Gentle Healing Year 1 Tip For Lesson 6

Regina’s Tip for Lesson 6

In Chapter 4, The Happy Learner section, ACIM says:

“The truth is true. Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there.”

That statement from the text is highly related to today’s workbook lesson:

“I am upset because I see something that is not there.”

Looking at these two statements together can help us see just how severely perception is distorted through egoic self-referencing. Egoic self-referencing leads us to see “something that is not there,” and then it leads us to get upset about it. We literally throw away our peace because of something that does not exist.

This may be hard for you to believe. That is to be expected. The Introduction to the Workbook said:

“Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.

Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.”

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