Messages & Miracles~Lesson Seven~ACIM

Calm of breath, I begin today♡ Yesterday I was grateful for my tools. I used yesterdays awareness only once and it really helped me to balance my thoughts of worry. Simply saying, 'this thought has no meaning to me,' provided me a mindfulness that stopped it dead in its tracks. New reflection♡ That make me happy♡

A Course in Miracles, Lesson Seven, 'I see only the past.'

This idea may be difficult to believe, if it is a new one to you, yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones....

It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.
It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.
It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.
It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see.
It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.
It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.

It begins to make complete sense.
Old ideas about time can be difficult to change, because everything we have been taught to believe is rooted in time. It's survival in your reality depends on you not learning these new ideas about it; believing or knowing that you can learn or create a different memory... continually♡throughout your entire lifetime!

This is precisely why we need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really as strange as it may sound at first.

Look at a cup, for example. What

thoughts come to mind? Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is, except for your past learning. Do you, then, really see it? Conscious Awareness.

Look around.... this is equally true of everythung you see/look at. Acknowledge this with everything you look at by applying the idea for today; indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example:

I see only the past in this pencil.
I see only the past in this shoe.
I see only the past in this hand.
I see only the past in that body.
I see only the past in that face.

Do not linger over any one thing in particular and remember to omit nothing specifically. Glance briefly at each subject, and then move on to the next. Three or four practice periods, each to last a minute or so, will be enough.

Take delight in your ♡Journey♡ Be Kind, beginning with self♡ Lori-Lynnxxxxx)))

Life Loves Me♡
Life Blesses me♡
Abundance♡Joy♡Happiness♡Prosperity♡