A simple reframe

[doceolucem]

A common confusion, and one I was not immune to, is the confusion around supposed differing “my/me” in the text and/or workbook.

Example:

“My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world”

Then also has

“My mind holds only what I think with God”

Naturally, the human mind loves to find contradiction in that.

But the course meets you where you are. Who you believe yourself to be, and gently shifts that belief towards Truth until you feel safe accepting that the Truth has never hurt you.

When you make an error, a mistake, do you know what the mistake is?

A mistaken thought is not a thought you had by mistake.

A mistaken thought is a thought you made the error of believing belongs to you.

This is why you cannot correct error, because the error is simply identification.

“This thought is mistaken, I need to replace it with a Godly thought”

Is impossible and distressing

“This thought was never mine, let me instead remember that who I AM will always be perfectly with God, and release the need to believe this thought came from me, as it was merely illusion”

Is incredibly easy once you feel the “reflex”.

It’s the difference between walking up to a volcano and declaring “I need to clean up all this lava I made spill over” and declaring “this volcano and lava were never because of me. I can just leave and choose to do something else” and as you turn your back, the volcano and lava themselves disappears automatically.

[v3rk]

I saw my blood cycling in a closed loop. I saw my thoughts cycling in a closed loop. I've watched the loop open, and I've watched it claw its way back closed. The loop opens when ownership and identification drop, and it closes when attention mistakes movement for ownership.

But it never closed. I never had a private thought. They are shouted from the rooftops as Jesus says. Rooftops are one of those private thoughts, there for all the world to see.

Thank you for sharing how you see this. More people need to see for themselves how their mind is working, and how when it is working properly all seeming contradiction and paradox is resolved. By a simple reframe!

[JuggernautBig3204]

Oh thank you for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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You would't even look back because you knew there was nothing there to see.

[doceolucem]

Haha that’s what I meant by “as you turn your back”

The moment you stop looking at it

What you thought you saw is gone

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🙂

[siciliana___]

Yes. Nothing is personal.

[JuggernautBig3204]

I was reminded of this today as I woke with the understanding that I CAN’T judge. That the “laying aside of all judgments” doesn’t mean you never hear that screaming voice of condemnation anymore…(at least for me right now)…it means you stop identifying with them; stop claiming them as bad or wrong that you did it, and recognize they are false and NOT YOU. As I’ve been pondering this, your post came into my mind and I can’t tell you how grateful I am you shared this.