A Course in Miracles Journal (Day 16)
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Today’s ACIM Journal Entry:
A Course in Miracles Day 16 (Dec 11, 2024)
Three things of note before I begin today’s Course in Miracles work:
I had a reaction this morning that caused me into a long series of lucid dreams. So many visuals of animal and human faces flashed across my mind. Too many to recall.
What I do recall is their intensity and clarity. Lucid dreaming is something that is not new to me, but the physical intensity and frequency of these sessions was strong. More powerful than any other lucid dream series I recall.
The only strong image I recall is a male lion - full adult with a mane and what I believe to be a crown.
There was another series where 6-8 portrait images appeared at once, each of a different subject and a solid colored background, yet each image had a different background. Like a modern, yet out of trend, pop culture approach to the backdrops.
I recall these all being animal heads as well with one being a giraffe and the others, I think a lion and a zebra and undetermined.
There were many other powerful messages that popped from my dream state, yet I do not recall them.
Of added note, this is not the first time a crown has appeared in my healing. It's been present, faintly and growing with each practice, in plant medicine. I also saw one on my healer’s necklace after.
What is new, are the mammals. I've always had birds - hummingbirds for the longest time, then eagles. Since moving to the desert I have had spiders and frogs in real life, but not from my mind. Hummingbirds have been present both in my visions and eagles only in my visions.
My energetic state in physical form.
My “worthiness” and “self love” tension points in my body are two areas that have been noticeable there in recent months, yet no matter how much I focus on them they remain firm.
Some dissipation has been occurring, but they seem deeply tied not just in their own existence, but in middle layers of my physical being that range multiple chakra zones, making it difficult to undo the tensions at so many layers in so many places at a rate to less than focus on the tension point I am looking to resolve.
Each time, of course, I get a little further along and the connections become easier - so I know the miracle is coming.
Why I note them today is that as I went inside to connect, my physical body form became almost transparent. I could see, like a heat sensor, the density of the trouble points, but I also saw the individual bones and pieces of my spine, skull, and for a brief moment my hip bones.
The core pieces of me holding my shape together.
I could see (sense) what was between the spinal bones, see the density points of my worthiness and self love in relation to the spine - as they are not on the spine - and see there was a dark spot under the base of my skull just above where the spine connects it. This is not the first time I could sense my inner energies in the form of bodily images, but it is the first time it was translucent. Also, like an X-ray but with blue stones instead of monochrome.
Lastly, I've noticed that as strong as I have become, one of my fear-based counter balances, my weight/body tone, are running awry.
This is also not the first I have noticed that as things get good, or scary, my dietary habits or physical habits give me a reason to lower my self esteem in one form or another. Like a rotating spit of fear-based worthiness.
When one part improves and heals, another part within a day or two shifts that elevation to lower me in another way.
I am happy to be aware of it and observe it yet again, as each time I do, I take note of the deeper belief that energizes the dooming cycle.
Text. VIII. The Meaning of the Last Judgement
The Last Judgement as a way to life, not death. No one who lives in fear is really alive.
Fear = separation.
The first chunks of today’s reading did not make much sense to me, nor did I follow right. I believe this happens when the text works in negative statements - “cannot” and so on.
Where once things are in the affirmative, or positive state, I sense and align to them better.
“Your own last judgement cannot be directed toward yourself, because you are not your own creation.”
As obvious as this conclusion may have been based on previous readings, its simplicity is profound and something I needed to hear.
There is inevitably a point one must let go. No matter how far I have gotten myself, and the tools I know and use, they can only take me so far.
It is not just what I can and cannot control or create, but what I cannot even do. Creation is the loving output of the mind (or it comes out as fear), yet I must stop creating in my mind in order to live.
My mind wants to resist this truly settling in too far. An attempt at self preservation (much like my feelings of unworthiness).
“When everything you retain is lovable, there is no reason for fear to remain with you.”
Lovable is not perfect.
I inwardly feel two things: my back lower jaw tightening and a strong desire to retain a reason to judge things. ‘I’m ok loving 80% of something so that it is “lovable” but retain the right to judge, fear, and separate from the 20% of the thing, item, health system etc.’
My innards are looking for ways to co-exist truth with what it wants to do: protect its fear-based creations.
Workbook. Lesson 16: I have no neutral thoughts.
If I have true thoughts, they will create and perpetuate true thoughts. Fear-based thinking will do the same for its own self.
The derivatives, over time, compile. They compound like going 1° off on a route leading you to an entirely different destination over time.
I am strongly reminded of the book Atomic Habits.
As I practiced and applied today’s Workbook Lesson, I could feel my ability to go deeper inside of me to the core of the thought and snap it out of place with a miracle.
Each layer and moment of breathing into “this is not a neutral thought”, enabled me to realize the harm the thought caused over time - the harm it was doing by thinking it right here right now.
A few were at my worthiness spot and one of those shifts went up my sinuses all the way from my mid abdomen. It no longer lingers in my crown.
This is awesome. This exercise was fun and immediately recognized as a healing process using an obvious truth I had never witnessed until now.
Thank you, Universe!
With Love, Acacia
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