Allow yourself to be exactly where you are at

Anxiety, Important Course Concepts

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) meets you where you are at. Getting caught in thinking that you should be somewhere OTHER than where you are right now is a sticky ego trap. Instead, allowing yourself to be where you are creates an opportunity to be present to whatever is...

Working ACIM in your Sleeping Dreams

Important Course Concepts

I recently had a powerful experience in my sleep demonstrating this teaching. In my sleeping dream I was experiencing fear. It felt difficult to look away from the fear because it was so compelling and strong. Yet in this dream, I remembered that it is my task to turn...

Helpful quotes for stepping out of your comfort zone

Anxiety, Important Course Concepts

Stepping outside of your comfort zone can be scary. For instance, I used to have knee-knocking fears of public speaking. I remember one of my first presentations during my freshman year of college where I was so nervous that I was gulping for air, trembling, and...

How we are like two-dimensional worms with ACIM

Important Course Concepts

Do you ever struggle with trying to understand the concepts in A Course in Miracles? Maybe you read something and get hooked with feeling you need to figure it out to progress with your study. In this vlog, I remind us that we’re like two-dimensional worms when...

Undoing Anxiety with A Course in Miracles

Anxiety

It was an absolute JOY to be a guest on Craig Villarrubia’s Awakening with A Course in Miracles Google Hangout series. In this hour-long interview, we cover a variety of anxiety-busting ACIM-related thoughts and ideas. Good stuff. Here is a sample of what you...

Peace Pilgrim: 25,000 miles on foot for peace

Anxiety

In my journey to recovery from life-long anxiety issues, there have been several teachers and stories that have had a profound impact on my healing. One such story is the story of Peace Pilgrim. Peace Pilgrim was a woman who “vowed to remain a wanderer until...

It doesn’t matter whether you judge right or wrong

Important Course Concepts

“It does not matter in the end whether you judge right or wrong. Either way, you are placing your belief in the unreal.” – A Course in Miracles Original Edition Love. This. Quote. If I’m looking to the outer world of form for peace or a certain...

How Anxiety About Surgery Created Miracles – Part II

A Course in Miracles editions, Anxiety

  As we allow blocks of fear to be undone in our own mind, it brings our mind closer to it’s natural state, which is a state of pure Love. Because we are not separate from one another, as we allow our own mind to be healed, it produces changes in others...

How Anxiety About Surgery Created Miracles: Part I

Anxiety

A couple of years ago I needed to go for surgery. Since A Course in Miracles has been my “operating system” since I first began studying it in 1997, I immediately began applying the principles of ACIM to the anxiousness I was experiencing. As a result of...

Instantly restore your peace with this “reset button” in A Course in Miracles

Anxiety, Important Course Concepts

I used to be obsessed with a twisted cartoon from the 1990’s called Ren and Stimpy. In one particular episode, “Space Madness,” Stimpy the cat is told NOT to press a compelling big red button because it will erase time and space. Drawn to the...