Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 37 My Holiness Blesses the World This is a Course in Miracles.
It is a required Course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
Some of the ideas the exercises present you will find hard to believe and others may seem to be 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.
It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they are true.
The The The My Holiness Blesses the World This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world or why you are here.
Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness.
Thus are you and the world blessed together.
No one loses.
Nothing is taken away from anyone.
Everyone gains through your holy vision.
It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone their full due and we are entitled to everything because it is our birthright as a child of God.
There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world's thinking.
Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand the payment of someone or something.
As a result,
The perceiver will lose nor will we have any idea why we are losing.
Yet,
Is our wholeness restored to our awareness through our vision.
Our holiness blesses others by asking nothing of them.
Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.
Today's four longer exercise periods,
Each to involve three to five minutes of practice,
Begin with the repetition of the idea for today.
Followed by a minute or so of looking about you as you apply the idea to whatever you see.
My holiness blesses this chair.
My holiness blesses that window.
My holiness blesses this body.
Then close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you using their name.
And saying,
My holiness blesses you,
And then say their name.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
My holiness blesses the world.
Now open your eyes.
Look about you.
Identify random objects and say to yourself,
My holiness blesses this object.
And name the object.
Or,
My holiness blesses that object.
Name the object.
Now be silent while you do this.
Close your eyes.
Or any person that occurs to you,
Say,
My holiness blesses you.
Name the person.
Now be quiet while you bless some people.
Now,
Say to yourself,
My holiness blesses the world.
Open your eyes.
Look around.
Say,
My holiness blesses the world.
Close your eyes.
You may continue the practice period with your eyes closed.
You may open your eyes again and apply the idea for today to your outer world.
If you so desire,
You may alternate between applying the idea to what you see around you and to those who are in your thoughts.
Or,
You may use any combination of these two phases of application that you prefer.
The practice period should conclude with a repetition of the idea with your eyes closed.
And another following immediately with your eyes open.
Let's practice again.
Use any combination of the two phases.
Eyes open,
Blessing the objects.
Eyes closed,
Blessing people.
Do this now.
Open your eyes.
Say in your mind,
My holiness blesses the world.
Close your eyes.
Say to yourself,
My holiness blesses the world.
The shorter exercises consist of repeating the idea as often as you can.
It is particularly helpful to apply it silently to anyone you meet,
Using their name as you do so.
It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you.
Offer them the blessing of your holiness immediately,
That you may learn to keep it in your own awareness.
Your holiness is the salvation of the world.
It lets you teach the world that it is one with you.
Not by preaching to it.
Not by telling it anything.
But merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness all things are blessed,
Along with you.
My holiness blesses the world.
The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world.
The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lessons so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see.
My holiness blesses the world.
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.
My holiness blesses the world.
Let's return our awareness to our physical body.
Start this process by taking a few deep breaths.
And as we return to time and space,
We acknowledge,
I am aware.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing real exists.
And therein lies the peace of God.
