Sun gratefulness... Hawkins on "Healing & Faith" ch 19
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I am grateful that I started watching Hawkins’ videos again on Power vs Force. Seems like his information goes in and then just sets…until I’m jerked back in time to watch or read it again and then WHAMO!…perhaps I got it? But it does appear that I may be closer to understanding his message this time around:
“I am an Infinite Being. I am not subject to the false thoughts that I’ve held in my mind. I have the power to cancel those thought from my Belief System. I am only subject to what I hold in my mind.”
I am grateful that I can equate to Hawkins’ statement in that I have been holding that my physical body (or was it my mind?)was not subject to aging. I have held that it is subject to youthing. (Unaware of Hawkins statement.)
Example, Here I am on a very close side of 76; very little gray hair; have all of my teeth; no bone loss; no loss of energy walking hills or stairs; and I play tennis at least twice a week or more. I am grateful that I can be on the base line and run to the net and get a drop shot over the net for a point. My partner 62 does not do this.
Why did I have faith to hold this?
I am grateful that many years ago I read about a study where 65 +/- age group went to a 2 week conference where “EVERYTHING” was based on the 50s: cars, clothes, music, foods, everything was geared to the fifties. All were told that they could leave the conference with a change in attitude re: aging/youthing. There were a few who still maintain youthing, as I continue to do, but the study follow-up showed many went right back into their B S messages of having to act old. (Holding youthing in mind?)
So don’t tell me the mind is powerless! Oh, I guess there could possibly be some other mitigating factors for me…LOL?
Perhaps you, too, could recall some of your thoughts that came true for you…there must be many…we are all still surviving peacefully. Remember! Sharing is not gloating. I have thought of several for me.
Opening ACIM chap 19… THE ATTAINMENT OF PEACE
which I will post the first segment “Healing and Faith.” on the ACIM site…
Me? I want to think that it is uncanny that I open the course to this segment, which Dr. Hawkins utilized to teach me that I am subject only to what I hold in mind.
Yes, it has been difficult for me to grasp that my faithlessness is the "perception" of a brother as a body, and the body cannot be used for purposes of union. (The miracle: "changed perception!")
Yes, I have encouraged those who studied with me that this is a given, but I was not bringing it home explicitly to me. I am grateful that Hawkins has the faith and how to…to do just that for me…I am grateful for this cyberfamily that encourages “Healing and Faith”…rell
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