A Course in Miracles Journal (Day 24)

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Today’s ACIM Journal Entry:

Status Update:

Yesterday was an incredibly effective work day. I couldn’t believe it, and with today being the Saturday after a packed week, I decided to let myself sleep in and relax all day except for an afternoon meet-up I had with a client.

I did not one, but two, hypnotherapy sessions back to back starting around noon. The first was enough to ease me in, but the second was profoundly effective. Both were by Michael Sealy, and the second was using a Celtic style.

I followed it very well and rather in alignment (sometimes you veer off course in the beginning), but then, at the water visual, I was gone, truly gone.

When I came to, I was processing energies in the upper front part of my chest, and my throat and third eye chakras were more relaxed and opened than they had been in a while. I must have completed the emotion in my sacral chakra I was connected to when the water portion began, as I no longer felt it.

As I went about my day after, I seemed to have lost all sense of time and, in moments, a sense of space. It was both incredible, particularly as in one moment a line from A Course in Miracles came to mind: “Nothing I see is real”…”everything I see has the meaning I assign to it,” and not a good idea to be driving in.

I had a change of plans suddenly arise, and as I felt into myself to decide which option I should take, I felt space but not a decision. A peace of being on a different, fuzzy wavelength.

Because I couldn’t feel into a decision, I decided to see if I could feel against one. That became apparent and an easy choice to accept, as it was not a good idea to be in a drinking situation should I retain this unique state.

I chose to stay true to my relaxation mode day and now, with my client meeting successfully behind me, complete my daily ACIM work and head to bed with a third hypnosis session that is longer and intended for sleep.

ACIM Text: Chapter 4 The Illusions of the Ego. Introduction.

Paragraph 1, v. 6. “…to be inspired is to be in the spirit.”

I have been called to create a manifestation series with the back work beginning tomorrow. I may use this line as a way to utilize the flow state and trust its workings.

Paragraph 2 is a commentary on what it feels like to push yourself, fight for what you want, and force it via manufactured manifesting - a method that worked well for me in my 20s until it broke me physically and caused continual burnout.

I am grateful to now know and recognize the difference between inspired manifesting and manufactured manifesting as I plan and take action. What required practice for me was recognizing which state I was in before I’d hit the wall.

Catching it sooner and resetting course. I had to undo the habits I created, both in planning, goal setting, acting, and energetically.

Side note: I notice that I feel less inner disturbance when I do the text reading first and then the lesson afterward. When I reverse them, my mind fights back. Thus far, my experience with energetic, chakra, meditation, and healing have enabled me to navigate the stressful moments, but they have not been with ease.

So I return to my "text first, workbook second" approach to retain a mental ease.

Workbook. Lesson 24: I do not perceive my own best interests.

Oh, interesting. This is the first time, I believe, that the workbook has stepped away from focusing on what I see. It is about perception.

It also goes from “thoughts” to “best interests.”

After a couple of repeats, my mind wandered quickly to attack a video of nature on the screen. I realize I find certain types of wild, untouched nature as ugly because it is disorganized. As if I am the expert on what is best for nature - and what ego ever to call nature ugly! I adore nature!!

Then my mind went to recent visitors I had at my home who loved the style and decor and wanted a tour. But that is not what I focused on; instead, I focused on what the ugly parts of the unit are and the conversations we had about them.

Again, calling something that nurtures me ugly. Interesting trend…

I look forward to seeing what the added text explains…

Paragraph 1: Mind-blown!

“In no situation that arises do you realize the outcomes that would make you happy. Therefore, you have no guide to appropriate action and no way of judging the result. What you do is determine your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong.”

As I continued reading, my mind grasped the idea quickly, but it wasn’t until I fully did the exercise, looking at all the desired outcomes from an event, business idea, or even a personal relationship, did I realize how crazy my mind is!

Of course, not all of that is possible from that one thing, but also - that’s not even what we really want.

My mind was packed full of subconscious dislike, commentary, and even some dislike for people and situations.

About the first line of thinking, about money, I somehow ended up at a thought that I wasn’t good enough for the man I have a crush on. What? The lack of worthiness, by the way, had absolutely nothing to do with money or anything related to it.

It was that this was to lead to that, and that line went down a whole series of things into my future where I’d be giving a talk on a certain topic, and that, somehow THAT, was supposed to make me worthy of this man.

That’s literally insane!

Another line of reasoning ended up at a bit of a similar conclusion, though far less harsh and random.

My final focal point went off another course entirely. My mind spewed out a whole commentary - nay, a rant - on my former career and the people involved in it.

No idea how they had anything to do with the topic I began with, but… wow, okay, mind!

What started off as a simple exercise became a blatant exposé of my mind’s insanity!

With Love, Acacia

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