ADVICE WHEN IN
DISTRESS
The
presence of fear is a sure sign that you are
trusting in your own strength. The
awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your
mind,
though not necessarily in a place you recognize as yet, you have
remembered
God, and let His strength take the place of your weakness. The instant
you are
willing to do this there is indeed nothing to fear. A Course in
Miracles Lesson 48
Remind
yourself ÒI am never upset for the reason I thinkÓ. ACIM Lesson 5
(We have
chosen the ego for our teacher instead of Spirit/Jesus.)
When
using
the idea for today for a specific perceived cause of an upset in any
form, use
both the name of the form in which you see the upset, and the cause
which you
ascribe to it. For example:
I am not
angry at ___ for the reason I think.
I am not
afraid of ___ for the reason I think.
Say to
yourself ÓI rejected the love of Jesus again, judged myself for it,
felt guilty
over it, and then rather than smile at such foolishness, I listened to
my ego
and projected the guilt onto X. That is why I am feeling angry.Ó
Kenneth
Wapnick
I must
have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace. I made the decision
myself,
but I can also decide otherwise. I want to decide otherwise, because I
want to
be at peace. I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo
all the
consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him. I choose to let
Him, by
allowing Him to decide for God for me
ACIM T-5.VII.6:7-11
If you
are
willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and
open it to
me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God.
ACIM
T4.I.4:7
I do not
know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to
respond
to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me
now.
By this
refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide
Whom God
has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in
your
awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him. ACIM
T-14.XI.6.
You do
not
know the meaning of anything you perceive. Not
one
thought
you
hold
is wholly true. The recognition of
this is your firm beginning. You are not misguided; you have accepted
no guide
at all. Instruction in perception is your great need, for you
understand
nothing. ACIM T-11.VIII.3.
These
thoughts do not mean anything. The thoughts of which I am aware do not
mean
anything because I am trying to think without God. What I call "my"
thoughts are not my real thoughts.
ACIM Lesson 51/rev4
Whenever
you are distressed, say to yourself Òthis is not as I think it is"
and
open
to Spirit and ask its help to see it as it truly is. (Guidance
received)