A Prayer for today♡ 'Thank you for helping me open my heart & awareness to true happiness, joy, and bliss. I am grateful for, see, and allow into my love all the goodness before me.'
A Course in Miracles♡ Workbook Lesson 26
My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
It seems obvious that if you can be attacked, then you are not invulnerable (impossible to harm or damage). We have been taught fear throughout most of our life, rather than power. We see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. What would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that is being widely misused, yet it will ultimately transform our awareness.
We must learn how this law can be used for our own best interests, rather than against them. Because our attack thoughts will be projected, we fear attack. And if we fear attack, then we must believe that we are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts exist.
Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. (Eyes open wide!)
The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.
Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.
Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further.
The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions which outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, apprehension, anxiety, a feeling that something bad will happen, or suspicion. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one.
This idea should be applied as follows:
First, name the situation: 'I am concerned about ______.'
Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:
'I am afraid ______ will happen.'
If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can.
After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:
That thought is an attack upon myself.
Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once
more. 'My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.'
Change begins within as we learn to love ourselves fully and accept who we are, at our core, and in
spirit. Find Peace Within. Make your best & strongest relationship be with Self.
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