Welcome to active meditation.
A course in miracles.
Lesson 2.
I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.
We prepare for this exercise by placing our body in a comfortable position so that we won't have to move it for several minutes.
We close our eyes.
We will be opening them up again for this exercise.
We take three deep breaths to relax our mind and body.
The out-breath longer than the in-breath.
And to help relax,
We remove all expression from our face.
Do this now.
Place your body in a comfortable position.
Take three deep breaths.
And remove all expression from your face.
And to help relax,
We remove all expression from our face.
This is a course in miracles.
It is a required course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.
It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love,
For that is beyond what can be taught.
It does aim,
However,
At removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence,
Which is your natural inheritance.
The opposite of love is fear,
But what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.
The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one.
Begin with the things that are near you and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on.
Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting the subjects for its application.
Do not concentrate on anything in particular and do not attempt to include everything you see in a given area or you will introduce strain.
Open your eyes.
Locate an object.
Say to yourself,
Recite in your mind,
I have given this object,
Then name the object.
All the meaning it has for me.
Do this now.
Close your eyes.
Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you,
Trying to avoid selection by size,
Brightness,
Color,
Material,
Or relative importance to you.
Take the subjects simply as you see them.
Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body.
Or a button.
A fly.
Or a floor.
An arm.
Or an apple.
Open your eyes.
Increase the range outward.
Turn your head.
So that you include whatever is on either side.
Locate an object.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
I have given that object,
Then name the object.
All the meaning it has for me.
Do this now.
Close your eyes.
The sole criteria for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it.
Make no attempt to include anything particular.
But be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.
Open your eyes.
If possible,
Turn around.
And apply the idea to what is behind you.
Locate an object.
Say to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
I have given this object,
Then name the object.
All the meaning it has for me.
Do this now.
Close your eyes.
This lesson should not be done more than twice a day.
Preferably morning and evening.
Nor should it be attempted for more than a minute or so.
Unless that entails a sense of hurry for you.
A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.
I have given everything I see,
All the meaning that it has for me.
I have given everything I see,
All the meaning that it has for me.
Let's return to our regular waking state of thoughts,
Feelings,
And actions,
To time and space.
And as we do this,
We know that our personality has made progress in developing a working relationship with our higher self,
The conscious presence.
Take a few deep breaths to help establish the waking state.
And return,
Fully alert,
Comfortable in all instruments of awareness.
With a heightened awareness of our environment.
And the knowledge,
I am aware.
I am.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
