I started again, on January 1, 2011.
My memory from last year was pretty good, but I've put in more time this year, in some ways.
Here are the first fifty lessons from memory:
[Start 16:09]
Nothing I see in this room means anything.
I have given everything I see in this room all the meaning that it has for me.
I do not understand anything I see in this room.
These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room.
I am never upset for the reason I think.
I am upset because I see something that is not there.
I see only the past.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I see nothing as it is now.
My thoughts do not mean anything. This idea will help to release me from all that I now believe.
My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.
God did not create a meaningless world.
My thoughts are images that I have made.
I have no neutral thoughts.
I see no neutral things.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
I am determined to see.
I am determined to see things differently.
I only see the perishable. I see nothing that will last. What I see is not real. What I see is form of vengeance.
I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
I do not perceive my own best interests.
I do not know what anything is for.
My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
Above all else I want to see.
Above all else I want to see things differently.
God is in everything I see.
God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
I am not the victim of the world I see.
I have invented the world I see.
There is another way of looking at the world.
I could see peace instead of this.
My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.
My holiness envelops everything I see.
My holiness blesses the world.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
My holiness is my salvation.
I am blessed as a Son of God.
God goes with me wherever I go.
God is my strength. Vision is His Gift.
God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
God is the light in which I see.
God is the Mind with which I think.
God is the Love in which I forgive.
God is the strength in which I trust.
There is nothing to fear.
God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.
I am sustained by the Love of God.
[16:17:37]
whew!! You'll notice that for about two or three of them, I wrote down the applied idea of the day, than just the Lesson title of the day.
I made more a commitment this year to type out the lessons each day, and add the lesson of the current day. It helped. A few times, I tried doing it backwards, which was much harder, since the lessons are in a logical order. Going forward, you can almost deduce the next lesson (or tease it out of memory). Going backwards, you have to induce it, and I felt it just took too much time.
Given the lessons are to save time, I stopped anything that was taking more time that asked.
As I may have mentioned before, I fairly new to practicing mind training, and being quiet and in the Now. Up to lesson 50, I found having a quiet mind difficult. If I waited too long into the night, I was too tired.
But yesterday, day fifty, I had a breakthrough. I got into a very conscious zone, where I was both very awake, very quiet, and very much at peace. The exercise was for ten minutes. I easily went for 20, and could have gone longer, but felt I had to emerge to be with my wife.
If I could recommend anything, try to get regular sleeping habits. It make the evening/before sleeping exercises easier, as you're not exhausted.
Over the next ten review days, I'll decide whether to keep reciting all the lessons from Lesson 1, or just start from Lesson 60 to the next review period. As you can see, it took 8 minutes to type out the first 50. That's 8 minutes out of the day that could be applied to the current batch of lessons, which are as logical a set as the first 50.
I'll make you aware.
Take courage,
Aaron
No comments:
Post a Comment