Fear

At the moment, the area in which I'm experiencing the greatest challenges is the Money Game. Most of the other games in my Earth Amusement Park are bringing me joy.

One of the things that I find difficult to do is to maintain a boundary between the catastrophic thinking of the Phase 1 players around me and myself.

My choice in the handling of "my" money is:

(1) to do what I would love to do even if it looks risky from a conventional point of view; or

(2) hold myself back from doing what I would love to do in order to follow what most people would consider a safer strategy.

I find it requires discipline to avoid succumbing to fear. I am doing Robert Scheinfeld's suggested "Process" over and over.

I also find it helpful to remind myself of Robert's Transformative Vocabulary Tool. For example, when I'm in a situation in which, in the past, I would have "paid" for something, I now think in terms of "expressing appreciation" for it.

A Return to Love

A friend recently lent me his copy of A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. Half way into it, I can say this book is a gem.

The subtitle is, "Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles." I read part of A Course in Miracles about five years ago. It had what I thought were good ideas, but I found it long winded and boring. Part way through, I stopped reading thoroughly and started skimming.

I don't know if A Course in Miracles really was all that poorly written or if I didn't want to listen to what it had to say.

In any event, here I am today, getting the succinct version from Marianne Williamson. My reaction this time around is, "Wow! This is dynamite."

I once heard someone asking Robert Scheinfeld if his body of work was similar to A Course in Miracles. He responded that it was not.

Interestingly enough, I find the opposite to be true for me. I see many parallels between Scheinfeld's Busting Loose Model and Williamson's message. Both of them invite you to drop Judgement and Fear. What Scheinfeld refers to as True Joy seems identical to what Williamson calls Love.

Williamson says:

Love is real. It's an eternal creation and nothing can destroy it.

Anything that isn't love is an illusion.

Remember this, and you'll be at peace.

It is the simplest of concepts and the most challenging of accomplishments.