Lesson 011: ”My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.”
AI Reframe: Random thoughts lead me to interpret the world in unclear ways.
Suggested Exercise: Three to five times, apply this lesson by first closing your eyes and saying today’s idea to yourself: “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.” Then open your eyes and for about a minute, quickly and indiscriminately look about, near and far, up and down, without landing on any particular thing for any length of time. While doing so, slowly repeat the idea to yourself. After about a minute, close your eyes again and repeat the idea one more time.
My take on it: This idea is so obvious and yet we tend to forget it or we are utterly oblivious to its truth. For instance, if I think that all I ever see are red cars, then guess what, all I’ll see are instances where that is true. If I think that money is evil, then all I’ll see are instances where that is true. If I think that people who look and/or act a certain way always do mean things, then all I’ll see are instances where that is true.
So, with today’s lesson we begin the process of reversing our thinking about how we see/experience the world. It would appear, to our ego mind, that the world determines what we perceive. However, The Course presents the opposite concept: how we think determines how we perceive the world.
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But fear not! This idea is actually great news because now we can begin to see where we no longer have to feel like victims OF this world. Instead, as we go through The Course, [spoiler alert] we will gain the power to change the world by changing how we perceive it.
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For now, all we need do to start the process is to apply today’s lesson.
“Lesson 11…sounds kinda bleak at first. But all it means is I’m still using industrial age thinking. I’m still investing my thoughts—my power, if you will—in victimhood, in this idea that life happens to me.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
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