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Lesson 145: Review of Lessons 129 and 130

AI Reframe: My awareness retains only what aligns with truth: I choose reality over illusion.

Suggested Practice:
Two five-minute sessions: morning and evening. Start each session by opening your mind and clearing it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage your mind fully, and remove the rest:

My mind holds only what I think with God*.

Then read each of today’s review ideas:

129: Beyond this world there is a world I want.
130: It is impossible to see two worlds.

Close your eyes and say them slowly to yourself. Let each idea give you the gift that He* has laid in it for you. Then close the practice with the first idea.

Throughout the day, each hour, bring to mind today’s main idea and two review ideas. Spend a quiet moment with them without adding any other thoughts. 

*God: an impersonal, formless, and infinite principle of pure Love. Substitute whatever term that resonates best and allows you to receive the message. The Will of God is our happiness.

Message

I did the first practice session in my studio. As I sat with my eyes closed, I thought about the two review ideas. Nothing really came to mind at first. I wasn’t making any connection with them. Then my Inner Voice said, “Open your eyes.” I looked around and noticed two things: the Archangel Mandala #3 painting—in progress but stalled—and all my art supplies, much of which I barely use.

I felt sad looking at them. Why? Because I’ve let fear and limiting beliefs get in the way of my full potential. With the Archangel painting, thoughts like these stop me: “I’m afraid I’ll ruin it if I do anything more,” “It doesn’t look good and I don’t know how to fix it,” and “I don’t know what I’m doing, so why bother.”

As for my art supplies: years ago, I dreamed of having a studio full of them. I imagined making amazing art and just playing. Now that I have it, I let thoughts like these get in the way: “I’m afraid to use my supplies—what if I run out?” “I should be making art to sell, not to play with,” “What’s the point if no one cares or buys it?” “Even if I don’t sell it, where will I put it all?”

Writing this out helps me realize this is not the world I want. Most of the time when I walk into my studio, I feel guilty for not playing with these materials or I’m reminded of all the unfinished projects. Some days I don’t even go in, just to avoid facing it.

Looking around my studio, I understand on a deeper level the concept from Lesson 130 that you cannot see two worlds. So how can I be truly creative and fearful at the same time? And Lesson 129: the world I want is one where I free myself from these fears and beliefs—where I play, explore, and experiment. Where I let the creative juices fly.

I have a choice: keep going into my studio as I have—filled with guilt, doubt, and procrastination—or come charging in, excited and ready to play, leaving my fears and limiting beliefs at the door.

“…criteria for deciding what’s real…what purpose does it serve ? If it’s related to bodily concerns, has a price tag, has eminence as valued by the world, it’s a perceptual problem.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

transforming soul whispers
into mandalas & channeled messages
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