The Trump Election, A Course in Miracles, and an Opportunity for Healing
On the night of the Trump election, I awoke at 3:30am and learned of the results. I was flooded with fear and thought I might actually have a panic attack for the first time in seven years. Luckily, this didn’t happen because I turned to Spirit within and asked...
How to choose Love
Have you ever tried to “choose love” and felt that doing so was extremely difficult? This may be a sign that you are trying to choose love from within the ego thought system. For YEARS I would ignore the many prompts in A Course in Miracles that ask us to...
There is no such thing as negative energy
On a recent Course in Miracles Study Group call, one of the participants shared an incredible insight: there is no such thing as negative energy. At first this might sound surprising, as I remember I used to feel very sensitive to other people’s negative energy...
How to use your present circumstances to uncover hidden beliefs
Whatever situation you find yourself in is always an opportunity for healing the belief that we are separate from Love. To do this, we must look at the situation WITH Spirit. In my own experience, I’ve found that this process of healing is accelerated by looking...Eating with Conscious Awareness of Spirit
Whatever we do with ego will be used on behalf of upholding the belief that we’re separate from Source. Whatever we do with Spirit will be used on behalf of our awakening. The thing is, if we’re not consciously aware of Spirit while we’re acting, who...
Undoing the fear of flying
This is one of the ideas from A Course in Miracles that has been enormously helpful to me in overcoming fear of flying. Although the words are comforting, I’ve experienced the truth of this teaching in momentary glimpses. And through these experiences, my trust...Working ACIM in your Sleeping Dreams
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...
How we are like two-dimensional worms with ACIM
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...
How Anxiety About Surgery Created Miracles: Part I
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...
Who is my Inner Teacher and how to I connect with it?
As students of A Course in Miracles, we often fall into a trap of thinking that Holy Spirit (our Inner Teacher) is something outside of and separate from ourselves. I have done this too! I love this quote from the Urtext (the original manuscripts) of the Course....The Link Between Anxiety and Honesty
At first glance, it might seem like honesty has nothing to do with anxiety. But if we look a bit deeper, being hard core honest is how we reclaim the Self we never lost. According to A Course in Miracles, honesty means consistency. Internal consistency calls forth...
