A Course In Miracles Lesson 8: Exercise (My Mind is Preoccupied With Past Thoughts)

Listen to the contemplation first. Then use this exercise several times a day. Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give their mean­ing to you, and will show you that they are true.

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Welcome to Active Meditation.

A Course in Miracles,

Lesson 8.

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

Search your mind,

Merely noting the thoughts that you find there.

Name each one by the central figure or theme it contains.

Either the name of a person,

The name of an object,

Or the name of an emotion.

After each thought,

Say to yourself,

Say in your mind,

What my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts,

And pass on to the next.

Practice this now.

The one holy true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here.

To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

Let's practice again.

You are the silent witness,

The observer of your thoughts.

Say to yourself,

Say in your mind,

I seem to be thinking about.

.

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Name your thoughts.

As you name your thoughts,

One by one,

Observe.

But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

I'll be quiet.

Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past,

Or in anticipating the future.

The mind is actually blank when it does this,

Because it is not really thinking about anything.

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.

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