Day 137

Today's Lesson:

When I am healed I am not healed alone.

Healing is the opposite of all the world's ideas which dwell on sickness and on separate states. Sickness is a retreat from others, and a shutting off of joining. It becomes a door that closes on a separate self, and keeps it isolated and alone.

Sickness is isolation, for it seems to keep one self apart from all the rest, to suffer what the others do not feel. It gives the body final power to make the separation real, and keep the mind in solitary prison, split apart and held in pieces by a solid wall of sickened flesh, which is can not surmount.

Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never really happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth, and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real.

Healing might thus be called a counter-dream, which cancels out the dream of sickness is the name of truth, but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.

Just as forgiveness shines away all sin and the real world will occupy the place of what you made, so healing must replace the fantasies of sickness which you hold before the simple truth. When sickness has been seen to disappear in spite of all the laws that hold it cannot but be real, then questions have been answered. And the laws can be no longer cherished nor obeyed.

Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.

And as we all let ourselves be healed, we see all those around us, or who cross our minds, or whom we touch or those who seem to have no contact with us, healed along with us. We are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that we receive when we are healed.

Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed, and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposed to God does not exist, and who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.

Today we ask that only truth will occupy our minds; that thoughts of healing will this day go forth from what is healed to what must yet be healed, aware that they will both occur as one.

We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds be healed, that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God.

Yet we must be prepared for such a gift. And so we will begin the day with this, and give ten minutes to these thoughts with which we will conclude today at night as well:

When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness may be banished from the mind of God's one Son, Who is my only Self.

Let healing be with us this very day. And as we rest in quiet, be prepared to give as we receive, to hold but what we give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that were ever imagined. Now we come together to make well all that was sick, and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our purpose with this thought:

When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them, as they are healed with me.

Miracles I'm noticing:

As I think about today's lesson and my experiences here in Chicago, I see many opportunities to reflect on the healing that I sense is taking place in me. Although I got very little business from this conference (and that was certainly my intent), there were many times when people did come to my booth that they felt they had been drawn there. I spoke with almost exclusively women, and most of them were looking for something more for their own careers than they were finding at their current positions. They were attracted to the booth for several reasons - something about the word "Transformational" in our name (Bock's Office Transformational Consulting) or the Bob Proctor materials on the table (which they recognized from The Secret) or maybe just the candy. But whatever drew them in, they knew there was more going on when we started talking.

I was able to give away five or six of my POWER cards (using the acronym: Purpose, Open-Mindedness, Wisdom, Energy, Responsibility) and the four questions from the reality checklist on the back (1) What do you want, 2) What are you doing to get it, 3) How is it working, and 4) What might you do differently?). When I was able to explain our 3-D process (Discovery, Design, Deliver - wrapped in Dialogue) they really got it. They were engaged. They understood. And I got better at giving the overview more quickly and more engagingly. So I know the people who got the story got more than just the story. I got healed in that conversation and so did they. I was able to relay my passion to them and they got it.

I understand that there is more going on in our exchanges than meets the eye - and I realize, too, that there is a need for what we are proposing - I'm just not sure if this is the venue - in among all the fancy packaging and the slick statistics and corporate hoopla. We at Bock's Office are telling the truth, and those who are ready to hear it are hearing it. They want to work with us - they want to use our business model for themselves and become independent consultants and coaches because they can see the passion and ability to heal themselves.

Now to engage a paying client. I think as I continue to heal myself, I will find myself in more situations to share my healing. Maybe that's a better way to think about selling my services - sharing my own healing. Let's see how the Law of Attraction works for that idea!