“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
-Albert Einstein
And the first step to changing our thinking… is to begin to recognize the nature of it in the first place.
If you have been following these exercises from A Course in Miracles… then you know from experience that our perception is more of an ‘internal’ process than and ‘external’ one.
If you haven’t yet started to follow this series of posts… you can start at A Course in Miracles: Day 1
Today we journey another step further…
As you move about the world, thinking whatever thought you are thinking, do you ever notice the tendency of your perception to bend the ‘facts’ as you are perceiving them?
In a way, much of the world we see is optical illusion…
Now that you can start to notice this process… are you willing to let go of the old perceptions?
A Course in Miracles: Day 7
The game for Day 7 is:
I see only the past.
Before you start practicing this one, you will want to take some time to watch the thoughts that are arising in your mind for a minute or two.
Once you are calmly aware of your thoughts… apply this idea to them and the objects around you.
- I see only the past in this chair
- I see only the past in these hands
- I see only the past in these thoughts arising
Again, apply this game as evenly as possible.
My Experience:
I don’t know why it never occurred to me before to use brainwave entrainment with the exercises from A Course in Miracles.
Today, I tried it!
I used the Shaman track which I purchased from The Unexplainable Store… The Shaman track is low theta waves… which I like a lot.
(If you want to read more about brainwave entrainment, binaural beats, and The Unexplainable Store, check out my post The Unexplainable Binaural Beats…Do They Really Work)
Taking a few moments of deep breathing and allowing myself to become entrained to a deeper state of mind definitely had a different effect than just the exercise by itself.
I could feel the internal shift a little bit more clearly…
It isn’t easy to accept that the world we look at is the one we invented based off past programming and previous perceptions.
To make it a little bit easier…
In addition to keeping up with all previous suggestions, I encourage you to play with brainwave entrainment a little bit throughout this as well.
A few deep breaths while listening to your your favorite brainwave entrainment track can give you the extra mental flexibility required to accept the wisdom that arises with the workbook exercises from A Course in Miracles.
There is no need to go further yet… we are just recognizing that what we see now is based off perceptions/programming of the past.
See you tomorrow for Day 8!
keep smiling,
Ben
