You are
blessed beings indeed, I am that one that you know as Jesus.
And as you
wind down today, it is important to give yourself credit for everything that
you have done so far in our 40 days and 40 nights together. These are
challenging times, and we are challenging you further by asking you to look
inside your hearts and minds, to figure out what makes you tick. But it is a
long job to figure out what makes you tick. Most of you have thousands of
beliefs and ideas and principles that you have been taught. You have all been
through a tremendous training program, several trading programs in fact. Your
cultural training program whatever country you're living in, your family
training program, your religious training program, your educational training
program, the values of the TV shows that you watch which may be different than
your culture for example, your financial training program, so many. And within
each of those programs there are a multiplicity of beliefs and ideas and
principles that you have been taught overtime.
So, when you are studying A Course in Miracles or any spiritual practice do not
get frustrated with yourself because you find yourself going back to old habits.
We want you to understand that those old habits have been put into you, time
and time and time again.
If you have habits that you would like to break, you can use the 40 days and 40
nights to put specifically focus on a habit that you have or a belief, a value
system that you have, and that you see no longer works for you but is still
dogging you, is still showing up time and time again.
You can begin the 40 days and nights with a prayer of focus and intention to
shift and change one particular habit.
Now some of
you will say: ‘why didn't you tell us that at the beginning?’ Well we wanted
you to go through the 40 days and 40 nights openly, without having any kind of
agenda. The 40 days and nights gives you a sort of general tune up of your
frequency, a general tune up of awareness if you will.
But if you have a specific issue that you want to deal with, you can go through
the 40 days and nights. Again, we say do it as a 40 day practice, not 20 day
practice, then shove them all in there together, do it as a proper 40 day
practice, with your intention of giving up that bad habit at each lesson and
with each practice that you are doing.
So for example, when we have set you assignments, bring the habit up that you
are particularly interested in breaking or relinquishing and focus the lesson
around that habit. Let's say you have some eating disorders or eating issues,
when we talk to you about what you value you can talk about the foods that you
value or the events around which foods are eaten, Christmas for example or
Thanksgiving, you can write down: ‘oh I really value family food time, I feel
really bad if I can't have Thanksgiving with my family.’ That's a belief that
you hold that is not an universal belief, other people in other cultures don't
have that belief, and as soon as you bring that up you realize: ‘oh people in
North America have that belief because they have been programmed to have that
belief, people in Brazil may not have that belief, that means it's optional’. That
means it Is optional for you. So that's what we want to bring into your mind this
evening, this idea that you can use the 40 days and 40 nights as a therapy to
help you focus and heal one particular part of your life.
I am that one
that you know as Jesus and I'll speak to you again tomorrow.
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