January 15, 2013
All fear is produced at the level of our minds. And, we think our fear thoughts when our minds are in conflict between what we want and what we do. The mind can only be in conflict when it is split. Our minds can only be split when we are thinking in a state separate from God or Spirit. We are responsible for our fear thoughts, for they originate from the thoughts of our separated mind. We always have a choice no matter what we are facing or in the midst of. It is the choice of how we think. How and what we think is reflected in our lives in some way, but it always boils down to whether we are experiencing peace or something other than peace.
We have become so accustomed to thinking with a split mind, a mind separated from Spirit, that it seems automatic to us and we aren’t even aware that what we want and what we do are in conflict. The “what we want” is embedded in our right-mindedness and is a part of our higher self, the Mind of God, or Oneness. We have become so unaware of our true nature that we think and therefore act from the separated mind, the mind we made up by thinking we are not One with God, that we are not who we really are. We have had so much practice thinking in this separated manner that we think it’s the only way we can think and therefore must be right. Our “want” from our higher mind is to be in communication with Spirit and thinking with the Mind of God. But our “doing” is coming from the thoughts of our separated mind, which is in the habit of ignoring and discounting the higher thoughts from our real mind, the Mind of God. It is important to understand these two levels of thinking; the separated mind and the higher mind, the Mind of God tp begin letting go of fear.
The correction we need to make is the correction of how we think. We cannot make any real changes at the level of doing because doing so doesn’t make changes at the level at which we are thinking. So, we therefore must make the correction at the level of tour minds. Once we are willing to make a change at the level of our minds, and we are willing to change from thinking with the separated mind to thinking with the right mind or the Mind of God we become available to Spirit and can rely on Spirit’s help. Spirit is there within us to guide us in thinking more correctly. Before we do anything, we have the opportunity to stop a moment and ask Spirit for guidance in whatever we are about to do. We can also use the feeling of fear, when we become aware that we are experiencing it, to think, “Wait a minute. My mind is in conflict, so I must be thinking from separation.” Then we can take a moment, step back, and ask Sprit for guidance in whatever situation we are in.
The Course first teaches us how we are thinking from a separated or split state of mind and that we have thus misperceived all we think we see. It then teaches us how to change our thinking to align with and come from the One Mind of God which we all share in its entirety. Inner peace, already within us, comes to our awareness as we allow Sprit to guide us in making this simple shift in our thinking. Let it be so.
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