WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.639 Hi, good morning, and welcome to this morning's episode of 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:12.759 the work book Lesson of Across the Miracles. And for 3 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.560 those of you who've been following the lessons starting on 4 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.280 the first of January, you will be aware that we 5 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:23.320 are right at lesson twenty six today, and what an 6 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.239 extraordinary lesson it is. And I know that you'll tell 7 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.239 me that I say this about every lesson, but that 8 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.840 is true. Every lesson is extraordinary. It's completely out of 9 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:37.240 the ordinary. And the purpose of it, obviously is to 10 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.640 raise your awareness to the level of your recognition of 11 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:47.039 your own extraordinariness. You are not an ordinary human being. 12 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.439 You are the divine perfect son of a divine perfect 13 00:00:52.640 --> 00:01:00.280 creator m And clearly hearing those words have had no 14 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:05.280 effect on you as you continue to labor under the 15 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:09.159 misapprehension that you are a human being. So what you 16 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:14.680 need is an experience of your own reality, a remembrance, 17 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.760 if you like, of what you truly are. This is 18 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.920 what the Course of Miracles means. In the beginning where 19 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:24.480 it says that the course does not aim at teaching 20 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.439 the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can 21 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.040 be taught. It's already what you are. It's what everything is, 22 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:35.040 but it does aim at removing the blocks to the 23 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:40.719 awareness of Love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. So clearly, 24 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:45.239 all you suffer from is a block in your own 25 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.560 awareness to the truth of what you are. The purpose 26 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.879 of the work book of a Course of Miracles, obviously, 27 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:59.040 is to assist you and coax you, and gradually lead 28 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.200 you by the hand to the point where you are 29 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.920 absolutely ready to let those blocks go and to begin 30 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.719 to recognize a that you're not that, and that you 31 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.000 would not wanna be that, and that you really do 32 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:18.879 want the piece and joy and laughter and love that 33 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.879 is your entitlement as a perfect creation of a perfect creator. 34 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:29.840 So with that preamble, why don't we just begin by 35 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:37.400 taking a moment and taking a breath, taking several breaths 36 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.240 in fact, and just relax. Let's play a little bit 37 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.919 of music, Let's just let everything go as we really 38 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.360 in a way get ready for an extraordinary experience. And 39 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:56.840 I use the phrase get ready very loosely, so please 40 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.000 don't write to me and tell me how no preparation 41 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:03.840 is required. Very well aware of that, let's become aware 42 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.840 that we've come here, We've come together in this moment 43 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.280 for a reason. We want to practice the workbook lesson 44 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:14.439 of a course of miracles. We want to experience the 45 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:18.879 liberation that is promised in the steadfast, in the steadfast 46 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:22.919 practice of this. So let's play a little music here, 47 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.759 and I think we might begin with a beautiful song 48 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:31.520 by Mitch. And why don't we go with Come to peace, 49 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:51.759 Here we go, Come. 50 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:57.159 To the table, come to the feet. 51 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.840 Come be the giarver of the green. 52 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.800 Come as a lover, Come as a friend. 53 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.120 Come join the joy that will lo. 54 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:24.399 As you so. 55 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:27.800 You shall be. 56 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:43.560 If it's love you would, If it's love for which 57 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:55.000 you live, and love you must give, Come join the liberty. 58 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.680 Come as you are. 59 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:00.920 Mm hmmm. 60 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:12.199 Come for a moment, come to stand. Some come by fire. 61 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:21.519 Some by fly, but to love it's all the same. 62 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:41.279 Come be free, come see, come. 63 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:50.120 With me to a past, to green. 64 00:05:54.959 --> 00:06:03.959 Are a quiet stream with a heart. 65 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:52.000 So oh h h wow. Thank you so much much 66 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.519 for that beautiful song. And let me turn off the music. 67 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:02.079 It's not continue to play. Sorry about that. Yes, if 68 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.759 it's love for which you live, then love you must give. 69 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.759 That's an extraordinary idea, isn't it. And that's that's what 70 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:14.959 we're here. For Uh, we are here to give love, 71 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.639 for we are love, and we have forgotten over the millennia, 72 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.279 over the millions of years that we think that we 73 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.920 live here, we've really kind of forgotten how to do that. 74 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.000 And so now we must be reminded. And you know, 75 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:35.800 the extent to which we are individually reminded really is, 76 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:40.279 you know, to the extent that we want to be reminded. 77 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:45.160 It's the extent that we really do want a different 78 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:50.480 experience from that of separation and attack and hate and 79 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.560 all of the stuff that characterizes a meaningless existence in 80 00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:00.040 the meaningless place. And so the truth is offered, the 81 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.360 experience is offered. It's right here, it's right now, and uh, 82 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.040 we've come together for that purpose. So let's take a 83 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:13.240 look at today's lesson, and let's again remember that Jesus, 84 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.600 the author of a Course of Miracles, is very clear 85 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:21.480 about how these lessons should be practiced. He says that 86 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:26.639 they should be practiced very specifically, with great specificity, I 87 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.040 think is what he says. And so he lays out 88 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:34.240 the instructions as to exactly what you're expected to do 89 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.279 in every moment, or what you're directed to do, or 90 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.240 what you are required to do for you to really 91 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:47.600 begin to derive the benefits of what's being offered here, 92 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.159 to derive the benefit of the change of mind that 93 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:58.480 inevitably occurs if you practice what you're told to practice. Okay, 94 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.879 so let's look at today these lesson, which is Lesson 95 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:11.480 twenty six. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. My 96 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:18.039 attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. And we immediately remember 97 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:23.639 when we first came across this idea of attack thoughts. 98 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:27.720 Does anybody remember three days ago I three days ago 99 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:33.159 m Lesson twenty three, which says I can escape the 100 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.720 world I see by giving up a my attack thoughts, 101 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.440 and that lesson did really go into the necessity for 102 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.039 the relinquishment of your attack thoughts. And now we see 103 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:50.639 again that charity really does begin at home, that everything 104 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:53.879 I do, I'm really doing to myself. And we've come 105 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.840 across this over the days that we've been doing, uh, 106 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:02.360 the lessons, and now we're seeing what these attack thoughts 107 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:08.559 are actually doing to me individually. My attack thoughts are 108 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:14.519 attacking my invulnerability. Wow, So I am invulnerable as I 109 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:18.679 am created, and I am actually attacking my own invulnerability, 110 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.799 my own innocence is not an amazing idea. So let's 111 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.399 take a look, because he's going to ex explain to 112 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:29.279 us why this is so, this is this is so exciting. Okay, 113 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:33.759 my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It is surely 114 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:39.399 obvious that if you can be attacked, you are not invulnerable. 115 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:45.000 You see attack as a real threat. That is because 116 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:51.879 you believe that you can really attack. Wow, and what 117 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:59.480 would have effects through you must also have effects on you. Aha. 118 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:05.240 It is this law. It's a law. It's immutable, it's 119 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.159 not open to a discussion. And we'll look at this in 120 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:12.519 greater detail in a minute. It is this law that 121 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:17.440 will ultimately save you. But you are misusing it now, 122 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.320 al right. There's no equivocation there cause I say, ah, 123 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.720 you may be sometimes misusing it. No, you're misusing it now. 124 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:30.360 That's okay. That's why you need the wind training of 125 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.840 a course in miracles. So don't immediately get into a 126 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.519 defense or an argument about how far you've come and 127 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.320 therefore you're not misusing it. You're misusing it now, Okay. 128 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.799 You need all the help you can get, alright. You 129 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.200 must therefore learn how it can be used for your 130 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:54.519 own best interests rather than against them. So we see 131 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.159 a whole bunch of ideas that we've looked at in 132 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.879 the last three days literally in capsure related in that 133 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:08.080 one paragraph. Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you 134 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:18.279 will fear attack. Hm. We have an interesting word there, projected. Okay. 135 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:24.559 Have we come across that word before in the lessons? 136 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:29.360 Do we do? We know? See? This is it's so great. Okay, 137 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.960 let's let's continue because this is we can really kind of, 138 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.120 you know, unravel this. I love to look at the 139 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.759 lessons and how they're put together and what's actually working 140 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.759 and what I am being told because I'm being given 141 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:47.519 a lot in very few lines, very few paragraphs. They're huge. 142 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:52.799 Just clear, well say they're loaded. Okay. And if you 143 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.600 fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. 144 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:03.159 Attack thoughts therefore make you invulnerable, make you vulnerable in 145 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.679 your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. 146 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:16.200 Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict 147 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:22.879 to each other. Wow, split mind. The idea for today 148 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:30.000 introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. Woo. 149 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:36.360 If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, 150 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:43.080 their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. 151 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:49.480 So you're really now beginning to see the premise from 152 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:55.120 which you depart as a human being. But you really 153 00:13:55.240 --> 00:14:01.279 do operate on the premise that you are vulnerable, that 154 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:04.759 you can be attacked. What is an What is the 155 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:09.799 result of that? You defend yourself. You must defend yourself 156 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.440 if you believe that you can be attacked. What you 157 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.480 do not see is that you are the attack or 158 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.519 and the attacke isn't that an amazing idea? This is 159 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.240 what you're now very beginning to learn. And if we've 160 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.519 rewind a moment, we'll go back to number eleven where 161 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:35.039 he mentions the word forgiveness. Oh, now we're beginning to 162 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:40.960 see a connection between my meaningless thoughts are showing me 163 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.159 a meaningless world, and my attack thoughts are attacking my 164 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.440 in vulnerability. Amazing, But let me let me try to 165 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.720 do this. I'm gonna I'm gonna come back and read 166 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.879 this without comment, but I do like to kind of 167 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.360 unravel it first and then read, So please forgive me. 168 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:02.120 If you find it irritated, you might want to practice 169 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:08.039 the idea that your tack thoughts are attacking your own vulnerability. Okay, 170 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.519 attack thoughts and vulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict 171 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.440 each other. The idea for today introduces the thought that 172 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:23.960 you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail 173 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.799 the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to 174 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:33.279 weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked 175 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:40.039 your perception of yourself, and because you believe in them, 176 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:45.720 you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image 177 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:50.200 of yourself has come to take the place of what 178 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:57.840 you are. Wow. Now we have to realize that this 179 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.159 lesson is not speaking about how you were five hundred 180 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:05.159 years ago. This lesson is about right here and right now, 181 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:09.559 and so that the image that you have of yourself 182 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:16.759 in this moment is weakened by the idea that you 183 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.559 can be attacked. And that's what you believe as you 184 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.480 sit or stand or lie or however position, whatever position 185 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.279 you're in, as you listen to this, or as you 186 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:31.559 read this, that you really think of yourself as a 187 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.720 human being, as something that is vulnerable, something that can 188 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.879 be attacked. And that's actually how you perceive yourself, that's 189 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.879 how you see yourself. Wow, that's an amazing idea. Okay, 190 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.840 let's continue practice with today's idea will help you to 191 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:57.519 understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your 192 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:04.039 own thoughts. Period. You're the captain of that ship. That's 193 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:11.720 an amazing idea. You are literally deciding and making up 194 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.640 what you want to be. So for you. We've come 195 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.880 across this idea repeatedly through the l UH the last 196 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:27.079 twenty six days. Okay, nothing except your thoughts can attack you, period, 197 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:35.519 end of story. Whether it's Kim Jong un or Isis 198 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:41.799 or whomever, where is it to your own mind? They're 199 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:50.920 your own thoughts. Wow, interesting, isn't it. Nothing except your 200 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.640 thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make 201 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.920 you think you are vulnerable, and nothing except your thoughts 202 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.000 can prove to you you this is not so. This 203 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.920 is why the change has to occur in your own mind. 204 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:11.319 Is by your practice that you begin to see the 205 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.279 truth of what you are. There is no other way. 206 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:21.119 You cannot theoretically grasp this. It is your mind that 207 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:25.680 has to change. This is so cool because you can 208 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:33.039 literally let everything go and apply this to yourself always. 209 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:39.319 There is no power that can prevent you from applying 210 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:44.880 the truth to yourself, from literally taking this and getting 211 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:52.880 free that's amazing. I'm so grateful. I'm so heavy. The key, 212 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.680 you know, we came across that word key. The key 213 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.680 to forgiveness lies in it. The key is in your 214 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.480 own hands. You have the key, and I will give 215 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:05.240 on to you, Jesus says to Simon Peter, you, I 216 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.839 will give onto you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. 217 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:13.599 Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. 218 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:17.359 Whatsoever you shall lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 219 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.279 It's in your own hands, it's in your own mind, 220 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:25.079 it's in your own thoughts. How simple is salvation? Wow? Okay. 221 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:34.400 Six practice periods are required. They're not optional. They're required 222 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:37.559 if you want to start to get the results. You're 223 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:41.359 gonna do what you're told to do. Six practice periods 224 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:47.480 are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes 225 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.920 should be attempted for each of them, although the time 226 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:58.200 may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is 227 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:03.440 too great. The discomfort will be huge if you persist 228 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:07.400 in defending yourself against the idea. That's the only thing. 229 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.200 We've just been told that only your thoughts can attack you. 230 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:16.160 So if you're experiencing discomfort. Guess where that's coming from 231 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:21.319 and why it's not amazing. You can reduce it to 232 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:23.880 a minute. If the discomfort is too great, do not 233 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:31.759 reduce it further. Okay. Guys, set your alarms for six 234 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.680 times today. When you're gonna set aside two minutes for 235 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:40.000 practicing this, you're asked to do that. The forgetting is 236 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.839 not an option, they say, oh well, I forgot, don't forget. 237 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.039 Set an alarm, mark your calendar, tie a knot in 238 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:53.079 your shield. Whatever it is you have to do, do 239 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:58.720 it why because you want this? Okay? So these six 240 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:04.240 practice periers are required in applying today's idea. A full 241 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.400 two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although 242 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.720 the time may be reduced to a minute. If the 243 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:15.519 discomfort is too great, do not reduce it further. Okay. 244 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:22.880 The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today. 245 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.519 What's the idea for today? My attack thoughts are attacking 246 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:38.680 my invulnerability? Wow, then closing your eyes and reviewing the 247 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:47.440 unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. So my 248 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.519 attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. I then close my 249 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:57.000 eyes and I begin to review ideas that you know 250 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:01.079 whose outcome or situations or whatever, who's out come you 251 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:06.680 know are causing me concern, all right. The concern may 252 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:13.319 take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of 253 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:23.880 imposition haha, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem as yet 254 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:29.960 unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the 255 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:35.839 day is a suitable subject. You will not be able 256 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:41.079 to use very many for any one practice period because 257 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:44.759 a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. 258 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:47.920 You should really go through it, so it's not like 259 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.279 a cursory glance. No, you take each thought and you 260 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:56.319 really look at it. Today's idea should be applied as follows. Okay, 261 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:05.319 first name the situation. Okay, I am concerned about I 262 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:12.960 am concerned about my cousin Timothy. Let's say okay. Then 263 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:17.000 go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you 264 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:22.400 in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring 265 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:28.000 to each one quite specifically saying I'm afraid blank will happen. 266 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:33.720 For example, I'm concerned about my cousin Timothy. I'm afraid 267 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:42.640 that I'm afraid that he will overdose on heroin and die. 268 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:46.400 If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have 269 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:53.640 some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation 270 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:59.240 you use. So my cousin Timothy is gonna go steal 271 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:03.720 to by drugs, attack his mother, do all kinds of 272 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:08.079 stuff that will finally result in his imprisonment or death. 273 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:11.240 But what he's saying here is that if you're doing 274 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.599 the exercises properly, you should have some five or six 275 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:21.640 distressing possibilities available for each situation you use. If you're 276 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:24.640 doing it properly, you should have five or six. So 277 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:26.039 it doesn't really do you any good to say, well, 278 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:27.359 I have only one, so I have to move on. 279 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:30.720 I do you see? So there has to be some 280 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:36.799 willingness on your part to actually do the lessons properly. Okay, 281 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:45.039 it is much more helpful to cover a few situations 282 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:51.000 thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As a 283 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:55.759 list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will 284 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.559 probably find some of them, especially those that occur to 285 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:03.599 you to what the end less acceptable to you. This 286 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.519 is a mind that really knows you. This is one 287 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:09.960 thing that was very clear to me, and of course 288 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:15.599 a miracle. Ah, I am exposed here, I'm revealed, I 289 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:21.640 am like I'm known. Okay, so you might find you 290 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.599 will find towards the end some of the outcomes less 291 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:29.599 acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike 292 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:35.200 to whatever extent you can. After you have named each 293 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:41.599 outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself that thought 294 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:49.240 is an attack upon myself. That thought, whatever the thought is, 295 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:53.279 whatever the thought seems to be about, it is an 296 00:25:53.319 --> 00:26:01.119 attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period by repeating today's 297 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:06.200 idea to yourself once more. My attack thoughts are attacking 298 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:12.799 my invulnerability. What an extraordinary, extraordinary idea. So what I'm 299 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:17.160 going to do, because of my inclination to commentating, and 300 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:20.640 you know my vivacity, I am going to read this 301 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:25.680 again without comment. And then I'm going to play a 302 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:29.480 piece of music instrumental so that you don't get distracted 303 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:35.359 by the lyrics. And we will actually spend a minimum 304 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.319 of two minutes or well, he says a minimum of 305 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:41.160 a minute, but I will play that the music will 306 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:43.480 probably last longer than two minutes. That's why I'm saying it. 307 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:49.599 So we will practice, okay, and we will really practice, 308 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:52.720 and it doesn't matter that we did it before, because 309 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:57.359 we need six practice periods today. Okay, so I'm going 310 00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.799 to read it through and you're gonna hear things in 311 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:01.680 the completely new way from how you heard it ten 312 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.000 minutes ago. So let's just, you know, get together, pay 313 00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:10.440 attention and listen and go. Okay, thank you so much 314 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.559 all for being here. I love you with all my heart. 315 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:15.720 I this is this is just for me, and I 316 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:20.759 just appreciate so much your love and attention and your 317 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:26.200 support in this. Okay, so let's start less than twenty 318 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.400 six workbook of a Course of miracles. If you've just 319 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:34.519 joined us, my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. It 320 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:37.559 is surely obvious that if you can be attacked, you 321 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.519 are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. 322 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:47.000 That is because you believe that you can really attack, 323 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.720 and what would have effects through you must also have 324 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.680 effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately 325 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:01.240 save you, but you are misusing it now. You must 326 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.240 therefore learn how it can be used for your own 327 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:10.759 best interests rather than against them. Because your attack thoughts 328 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.240 will be projected, you will fear attack, and if you 329 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:19.200 fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. 330 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:25.359 Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, 331 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:31.480 which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and 332 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:39.400 invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. The 333 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:44.680 idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack 334 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:50.799 yourself first. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. If 335 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:54.519 attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, 336 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:59.440 their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. 337 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:06.720 Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself, and because 338 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:10.519 you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. 339 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:16.200 A false image of yourself has come to take the 340 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:22.880 place of what you are. The practice with today's idea 341 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:28.440 will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is 342 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:33.039 the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts 343 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:36.759 can attack you, Nothing except your thoughts can make you 344 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.720 think you are vulnerable, and nothing except your thoughts can 345 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:46.920 prove to you this is not so. Six practice periods 346 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:52.279 are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes 347 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.039 should be attempted for each of them, although the time 348 00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:59.440 may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is 349 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:07.039 too grit do not reduce it further. The practice period 350 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:13.400 should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing 351 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:20.559 your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are 352 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:29.640 causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, 353 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:39.240 a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem, 354 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:44.400 as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts 355 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:49.759 during the day is a suitable subject. You will not 356 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.279 be able to use very many for any one practice period, 357 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.319 because a longer time than usual should be spent with 358 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:04.960 each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows. First 359 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:15.319 name the situation I am concerned about blank. Then go 360 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:19.799 over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in 361 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:25.240 that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to 362 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:31.480 each one quite specifically saying I am afraid blank will happen. 363 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.000 If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have 364 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:42.960 some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation 365 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:48.839 you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more 366 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:53.279 helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch 367 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:58.960 on a large number. As the list of anticipated outcomes 368 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.119 for each situation continues, you will probably find some of 369 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.359 them especially those that occur to you toward the end 370 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:13.640 less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all 371 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:18.400 alike to whatever extent you can. After you have named 372 00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:23.799 each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself that 373 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:31.000 thought is an attack upon myself. Conclude each practice period 374 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:36.039 by repeating today's idea to yourself once more. My attack 375 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:41.400 thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. So we're going to spend 376 00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:43.759 some time now and we're going to do this lesson. 377 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:49.559 We're gonna practice. We're going to exercise, and the exercises 378 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:53.920 are not like some remote dress rehearsal. They are real, 379 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:58.279 they're for you. They are now use things that are 380 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:03.319 really bothering you. This is your opportunity. This is the 381 00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:07.680 Miracles Healing Center. The whole purpose of this is healing. 382 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:14.200 This is your opportunity for this transformation to occur in 383 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:18.839 your mind. This is a learning So let's do it. 384 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.440 So I'm gonna play a piece of music. You're gonna 385 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.480 begin with my attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability. You're 386 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.200 gonna close your eyes, and then you're gonna begin to 387 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:32.480 think of the stuff that really distress you. You pick 388 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:37.240 up each one and you'll say, I am concerned about 389 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:42.160 my bank account. I am afraid that I will be destitute. 390 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:44.119 I'm not saying that. You say that, but you whatever 391 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:47.920 things are bothering you, and you do it exactly as 392 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.359 we have been told. And after each situation that concerns you, 393 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:56.799 and you've gone through all the possible eventualities, you say, 394 00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:00.279 this thought is an attack upon myself, and then you 395 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:03.960 go on to the next thought. Okay, so we're going 396 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.199 to do this with a piece of music, and I 397 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:13.559 think we're going to choose the nock turn. Here, here 398 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:13.920 we go. 399 00:34:15.599 --> 00:37:42.280 My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability an. 400 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:00.400 Cock? 401 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:24.679