Lesson 031: ”I am not the victim of the world I see.”
AI Reframe: My experience isn’t controlled by outside circumstances.
Suggested Practice:
Two longer sessions, 3-5 minutes each, one in the morning and one at night. First apply today’s idea.
“I am not the victim of the world I see.”
Then while slowly and indiscriminately looking around you, repeat the idea. After a minute or two, close your eyes and repeat the idea as thoughts come and go, without attaching to any of them.
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Message
Today we dip our toes into the releasing portion of the program. We’re invited to let go of the idea that we are the victims of the world we see. “But…but…but…have you watched the news lately ?” I know, I know. Hear me out.
Key point: the world does not control our mind, our peace, or our perception.
We do.
(For some of us, this may be breaking news.)
To be fair, in one sense we did “create” the world we see—not deliberately or maliciously, but through our thoughts, judgments, and interpretations. We are the ones coloring what shows up as reality for us, giving us the illusion that we’re trapped in the story of our own victimhood. The simple fix ? Shift our perception…yet another key point from The Course.
Years ago, as a patient of an amazing, ahead-of-his-time, functional medicine doctor, he picked up on my victimhood mindset. He gave me a mantra—that I still use these many decades later—that changed my life.
I choose power
I knew by power he meant the power of my inner truth, my soul self, the essence of our being-ness. I had a chance to try it out with a co-worker who always gave me a hard time and generally triggered me every time I interacted with her—which I now understand puts me in victim mode.
Well, this one day while heading to her office for yet another issue she had with my work, I repeated the power mantra in my head all the way her office. As she’s telling me her “problems”, I noticed that I felt relaxed. I also noticed that instead of being in victim mode, I was in observer mode.
In Course terms, I had stepped out of the role of victim and remembered that my mind—not her behavior—was determining my experience. After I calmly explained the solution, which she graciously received, I chuckled to myself all the way back to my office with thoughts like: “Wow…what just happened ?”, “That was amazing”, “That really worked!”
That’s not even the best part. Within two weeks, I was assigned to a new project and never had to interact with her again.
Today, we’re invited to open our minds just a little bit more to the idea that we have the power to change how we experience our world.
Which begs the question: do I want to choose victimhood—or personal power?
“As we let go of the creaky, has-been thought system that’s currently playing out on our planet, we move…from fear to love. from problem state to possibility state…from limitations to absolutely anything can happen.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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