Day 6

Today's Lesson:

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

This is such a great reminder that I add all the meaning to anything that upsets me. It also reminds me of the fear that seems to take hold of many people. We usually are in fear of things that either will never happen or of things that have no bearing on the present, which is when we are in fear. By that I mean that if we are remembering an unpleasant or painful incident from the past, we may be keeping ourselves from participating in our lives because we might recreate that experience. If we are thinking about the possibility of something being unpleasant in the future, even though it's never happened to us before, we are doing the same thing. We are creating our experience, even though there is no present stimulus to cause that except what's in our minds.

Miracles I've noticed:

I got up very early this morning and watched the Larry King episode from November 2 that he called "Positive Thinkers." It was an interview with four of the people from "The Secret" and also JZ Knight, who was one of the interviewees in "What the Bleep Do We Know." Although I'd seen this episode when it aired live, watching it the second time, I learned so much more.

One of the reminders this morning was from Michael Beckwith who said humans are always growing - it is our natural state. And the growing he was talking about was mental and spiritual growth. He said this means simply that we eliminate the filters that we've put up throughout our lives. This type of growth is not about adding anything to us - it's eliminating everything that hinders our growth. I also remember John Assaraf saying that 50% of what we are is from our genetics and the other 50% is environment, but we are raised by the people who gave us our genetics. So we're conditioned to behave and believe a certain way over time - we won't break that cycle overnight. It's a process.

That's why I'm grateful for this study. It's a process in which I can come back to my natural state of openness and love. When I'm upset, it's because of something that isn't even there ... it's something I've put there. This was a great reminder!