Welcome to Active Meditation A Course in Miracles Lesson 35 My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Take a few moments to prepare for meditation.
I'll be silent while you do this.
I do not know the thing I am,
And therefore do not know what I am doing,
Where I am,
Or how to look upon the world,
Or on myself.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Today's idea does not describe the way you see yourself now.
It does,
However,
Describe what vision will show you.
It is difficult for anyone who thinks they are in this world to believe this of themselves.
Yet,
The reason they think they are in this world is because they do not believe it.
You will believe that you are part of where you think you are.
That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want,
And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made.
The image is part of this environment.
What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image.
This is not vision.
Images cannot see.
The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself by establishing your source.
It establishes your identity,
And it describes you as you must really be in truth.
We will use a somewhat different kind of application for today's idea because the emphasis for today is on the perceiver rather than on what is perceived.
For each of the three five-minute practice periods today,
Begin by repeating today's idea to yourself,
And then close your eyes and search your mind for the various kinds of descriptive terms in which you see yourself.
Include all the ego-based attributes which you ascribe to yourself,
Sensitive or negative,
Desirable or undesirable,
Grandiose or debased.
All of them are equally unreal because you do not look upon yourself through the eyes of holiness.
In the earlier part of the mind-searching period,
You will probably emphasize what you consider to be the more negative aspects of your perception of yourself.
Toward the latter part of the exercise period,
However,
More self-inflating descriptive terms may well cross your mind.
Try to recognize that the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter.
Illusions have no direction in reality.
They are merely not true.
A suitable,
Unselected list for applying the idea for today might be as follows.
I see myself as imposed on.
I see myself as depressed.
I see myself as failing.
I see myself as endangered.
I see myself as helpless.
I see myself as victorious.
I see myself as losing out.
I see myself as charitable.
I see myself as virtuous.
You should not think of these terms in an abstract way.
They will occur to you as various situations,
Personalities and events in which you figure cross your mind.
Let's practice.
Pick up any specific situation that occurs to you.
Identify the descriptive term or terms you feel are applicable to your reactions to that situation.
Do this now.
When you have identified the situation and your reaction to it,
Add,
But my mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Do this now.
During the longer exercise periods,
There will probably be intervals in which nothing specific occurs to you.
Do not strain to think up specific things to fill the interval.
But merely relax and repeat today's idea slowly until something occurs to you.
Although nothing that does occur should be omitted from the exercises,
Nothing should be dug out with effort.
Neither force nor discrimination should be used.
As often as possible during the day,
Pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them,
Adding the idea and the forms stated above to each of them.
If nothing particular occurs to you,
Merely repeat the idea to yourself with closed eyes.
Do this now.
Repeat the idea until something occurs to you.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Do this now.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Do this now.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
Remember only this.
You need not believe the ideas.
You need not accept them.
And you need not even welcome them.
Some of them you may actively resist.
None of this will matter or decrease their efficacy.
But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains.
And whatever your reactions to the ideas may be,
Use them.
Nothing more than that is required.
The inner is the cause of the outer.
The inner is the cause of the outer.
Take a few deep breaths.
And as we return to time and space,
We acknowledge,
I am aware.
I am.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
And therein lies the peace of God.
