‘I will not value what is valueless’…ACIM workbook, Lesson 133
Many live this life surrounded by the archives of their past. The archives hold the memories of all of our past thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attributes to each of them a mark of success or failure. Of course for every failure you will find a success in your archives, which makes you believe that if you keep searching you will find the combination that will only bring you success. Surrounded by your archives of the past, you are never present. Instead you search the past looking for something that will guarantee a better future for yourself. You are either in your past or looking towards your future but are never present for the moment.
So what do you value?
Do you value joy, peace, love and abundance? Or do you value the fear of not having them? In your past archives you will find, brightly highlighted, all of the fears you hold. You will also find there the reason that it is important to hold on to your fears. What you hold on to you cherish and value because you believe that they (it) will eventually bring you all that you want. So your archive of the past states that you can never be more than the sum of your past! What can it offer you when it is the witness to your helplessnes, your victimhood, your lack of love, your sadness, your sorrow, and your pain. What can you desire that is not wrapped up, no matter how attractive the package is, in your past fears of not having enough and not being enough.
ACIM states,’You do not ask too much of life, but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily
concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow not for happiness’. In searching through our past archives we have forgotten who were are, in truth…we are Spirit. We are the created extenstions of God…we are all sons’ and divine inheritors of all that God has and is! What we are is eternal, unchanging yet ever evolving into the moreness of our being. We can not be evaluated or judged by our past. The past has only one main significance…when it is gone it no longer exists! So the same holds true of fear, it is no more than a momentary event that can last no longer than we are willing to cherish and value its passing. The past is an egoic attempt to make you less than you were created as…to keep you imprisoned in a belief system that can not satisfy, comfort or empower you to be that extension of the Creator. The past is a place of fear and in the present moment there is no fear. In the present moment you begin to realize who and what you are for all eternity throughout all dimensional experiences. You are more than any event, any circumstance, any preceived failure or success. You are not alone because you were not created to be alone, but always joined with your Creator. In the awareness of your joined place with the Creator, what can you ask for that will not be given…what can you desire that will not be satisfied? Your Creator is not in some distance place or far off country. If you don’t see It (creator) it will be because you fail to realize where It will be found…cushioned along your back…supporting you…loving you. God has got your back, surrounding you in love, filling you with peace, affirming for your abundance…how can you fail!
As long as we hold on to our past archives we will exclude ourselves from all that the Universe has to offer. When relinquish our past we make a conscious statement that we are not what we appeared to be before; sad, ill, unloved, lacking of anything that would reap the benefits of love. When we let go of the past, shut the book of our past archives, we are affirming that we are willing to receive the love that will nuture, fertilize and support our becoming what we were created to be. In letting go of the fear we welcome the state of love, not an emotion, but the love that heralds the reality beyond what we can now see. But you will see it! You will know it! And ultimately you will become what you have always been in creation.
When your mind holds fear thoughts there are several things that can change your experience.
1. Stop and breathe
2. Try to clear you mind of the thoughts and bring your awareness and focus on the present moment. Then ask yourself…”Is there anything to fear in this moment?”
3. Tell yourself, ” I am unwilling to be controlled by my fears. Instead, _____this is what I want!”
4. Your egoic thoughts hold the past and fear in place, instead, call upon your divine Self, the Holy Spirit to be your teacher and guide through whatever you feel that you are facing. It will not fail to bring you to a new awareness and gift you the peace that you desire.
5. Be willing to forgive. Forgiveness is not just about a person, an event, or circuumstance that you have experienced in your past. Forgiveness is the willingness to let go of everything that you have believed. In giving up everything, your mind will be filled with thoughts that only reflect the truth!
6. Give thanks…not just for what you have but also for those things that you are willing to receive.
Not only will these suggestions, if practiced, diminish your fears but they will also began to bring you a quality of living that you have desired. Just know that, ‘There is a Presence and Power within you now. It is all loving, all caring and all knowing. It is the completeness of the Universe individualized as you! It is who you are. It is what you are. It is God as you now! You have the power within you to bring forth all that you desire through the power of your super mind (Holy Spirit) it is given to you as you have asked. Remember…God has your back!
Blessings,
Danielle Jackson MScD
