A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 5

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 5

 

"I am never upset for the reason I think."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi everyone, let's ease on down, ease on down the road, just allowing ourselves to move with the Wholly Spirit and enjoy the process. Wow, lesson 5, how thrilling, we are clearly making headway. Just a little heads up for you, if you miss a day, please don't skip the lesson or try to do two together, just do the lesson you missed on the next day. I do suggest doing a lesson every day and not missing any at all, but I am well aware that we are all human and our lives can become unpredictable, especially when a part of you doesn't wanna do them anyway. There is no right or wrong to ACIM, it's more about self-acceptance of where you are and the willingness to move forward. So, let's strut our stuff and enjoy.

 

 

Prayer: Our gentle teacher, please guide us to discover the truth about who we really are. Please help us to release the confusion and negativity, and to embrace the strength and compassion to reach to the light within. Please help us to be loving with ourselves and others and to remember we are never alone because your Wholly Spirit lives with us allways. Thank you for all you do. We are one. Please help me to get the most out of this lesson.  Thank you for being here, thank you for joining us, thank you.

 

 

Workbook Lesson: "I am never upset for the reason I think." This is a wonderful exercise for showing us that even our reasons have reasons. Also, just how multifaceted and complex the dream really is, especially when you are working on dismantling it. It's like following a string trail in a bamboo forest. I think it goes this way, nope that way, oops maybe it is this direction, or that direction. Sometimes you can follow that feeling of anger, hurt or disappointment back, but many times it just leads deeper and deeper into the woods.

 

 I have been working on a meditation technique lately that I highly recommend, it's called "Centering Prayer". It is through simply setting aside time to be with God, however you believe God to be, and then use a word you view as sacred to start the session and end the session, and if you find yourself getting knocked off track by your thoughts, you just gently use the word to pull yourself back around. If you had asked me before this practice if I had racing thoughts much anymore, I would say no. But OMG, while I am doing my meditation my mind is as busy as a cloverleaf intersection, and so I say my sacred word, and it may stop it for a minute, but then it starts right back up again. I guess my point is when it comes to my head, I have a lot going on in there.

 

So, it shouldn't surprise me that when I get upset it can be for reasons other than I can think of. Also, remember the running theme we have had for a few days, our thoughts are meaningless, the meaning we give it isn't real, and now we learn that if we get upset, we are probably wrong about why we are upset along with everything else. A real good place to breathe, call in the Wholly Spirit, ask Him to help me see this differently, and leave it all in God's hands.

 

 

Tips & Tricks: There is a line to a song that says. "I just stopped in, to see what condition my condition was in." I think of that about every time I get quiet and read the lessons.  I am grateful that the Course has 365 lessons, because it is gonna take me at least that long for me to get out of my own way. I have learned that how I think determines how I feel, and how I act, so as I start staying open to a new way of looking at things, I will think clearer, feel clearer, and act clearer. If your anything like me, when it comes time to do the lessons, my mind can find a billion other things to do at just that second, so I breathe deeply and just do the lesson anyway.

 

Upon Closing: I feel like Alice in Wonderland and her buddies, anyone up for a tea party? Most of all just go easy on yourselves, enjoy the company and the view and realize that the cool part, is nothing is as it seems anyway. Have an insightful rest of your day and know I am with you sending love & light & Hugs, Riki 🌈