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17. Overcoming reactions to people who are sick

Sunday, Apr 09, 2017 807 words 3 mins 35 secs

I have a number of reactions regarding those who are sick.

All of these reactions entail me feeling sorry for the person, or wishing they were well, or being sad that this has happened to them.

I have reactions of guilt that...

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16. Sickness is not truth

Tuesday, Apr 04, 2017 150 words 0 mins 39 secs

Sickness is not truth.

Even if it seems to be true that someone is sick, even if there is evidence for it, or explanations that describe why it is occurring. It is still not the truth.

Even if there are trained medical...

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15. Overcoming a pain in the hand

Wednesday, Mar 29, 2017 1083 words 4 mins 48 secs

If there is a pain in my hand, and if I believe there is a pain in my hand, I will begin to experience reactions about the pain.

This is simply because I see there being some kind of causality coming...

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14. Overcoming the temptation to diagnose a thumb pain

Thursday, Dec 15, 2016 604 words 2 mins 41 secs

Recently I've seen how it is detrimental to spend a lot of time trying to diagnose problems or to even understand what is happening. But this was mainly in the realm of what's happening with other people. Now I've come...

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13. Let's get really honest about mental illness

Wednesday, Nov 30, 2016 1156 words 5 mins 8 secs

When you perceive that something is 'wrong' with someone else, and that this wrongness does not apply to you, you are SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL.

When you perceive that what applies to another person, due to their apparent separate free will and...

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12. Seeking outside yourself produces sickness

Wednesday, Nov 02, 2016 314 words 1 mins 23 secs

When Jesus speaks of 'sickness' in ACIM, he doesn't just refer to what we think of as sickness.

You see, to Him, sickness occurs because of some very very fundamental things happening. e.g. "seeking outside yourself" produces sickness". e.g. "confusing the...

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11. The only disease is fear

Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 329 words 1 mins 27 secs

Fear is the opposite of love.

Fear isn't just what it feels like when you are typically afraid or scared or worried or doubting or anxious or nervous. Fear can be subtle.

Fear is any belief whatsoever that anything other than God's...

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10. Stop trying to analyze and diagnose sickness, just heal it

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2016 721 words 3 mins 12 secs

What is more important?

To spend huge amounts of time studying and analyzing sickness to try to describe all the ways that it is behaving and all the possible causes and all the remedies that may or may not work, only...

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9. The body being a cause is a belief in sickness

Thursday, Oct 06, 2016 599 words 2 mins 39 secs

"The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic"

Interesting huh. Jesus isn't saying that some illnesses are caused by a belief in the body having...

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8. A model for a healthy existence

Monday, Aug 01, 2016 277 words 1 mins 13 secs

You are harmless and cannot be harmed.

You walk around completely safe and invulnerable, impenetrable, immune, immortal.

All of your needs are met. You are whole and complete. You need nothing from outside of you at all. You have everything because you...

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7. It's not normal or healthy to be angry

Saturday, Jul 23, 2016 489 words 2 mins 10 secs

ACIM says "anger is never justified". This is big news for anyone who is used to feeling justified in being angry about anything.

There is a culture in this world is believing it is 'normal' and 'healthy' to be angry. When...

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6. True healing is realizing you were never sick

Thursday, May 26, 2016 592 words 2 mins 37 secs

"True healing is the realization you were never sick" - ACIM

The implication of this is that in order to heal or be healed, you do NOT need to find the 'cause of the sickness'. You need to go BEYOND the...

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5. Receiving God when you're sick

Tuesday, May 03, 2016 1166 words 5 mins 10 secs

Over the weekend I came down with what seems to be 'a cold'. Actually it is more likely just a strong 'release', and I find that pretty much every time I have a 'cold' it is accompanied by strong emotional...

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4. Sickness is an attempt to prove God does not love you

Sunday, May 01, 2016 637 words 2 mins 49 secs

Sickness in all its forms includes not just physical sickness but mental, emotional, financial, perceptual, sickness in relationships, vocational, etc.

Sickness in all its forms is an attempt to PROVE that God does not love you.

You're holding the sickness out there...

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3. Learning about seeing pain differently

Tuesday, Apr 26, 2016 1863 words 8 mins 16 secs

The ego has built some very terrible things which we regard as extremely real. These include pain, disease/sickness, fear, death, emergency, intensity, attack, and separation. When these things seems to be happening, the ego is sending out a very strong...

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2. The idea of having healthy boundaries

Thursday, Mar 31, 2016 903 words 4 mins 0 secs

Healthy boundaries.. it's a concept thrown around as something to strive for. But what are boundaries and how do you make them and do they even exist?

You can only theoretically have boundaries between separate people. It's as though, if you...

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1. Trying to wake up from the ego with the ego is painful

Sunday, Mar 20, 2016 1182 words 5 mins 15 secs

Trying to wake up from the ego while still having the ego is PAINFUL. We have identified ourselves AS the very ego that we're apparently trying to undo. And even as we take some small steps to undo it, we...

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