Decision Maker

Decision maker: 

so I never decide alone, I'm always partnered with an aspect of the mind that is either choosing peace and extending love, or continuously allowing ego to reign free. There is a decision maker here too, a presence of mind that can mindfully choose between the two. I begin my morning with the reminder that today, I will make no decisions by myself, noting that even now, decades into my practice of A Course in Miracles, I will still opt for the ego many times throughout the day. There's something very subtle at play here though, as both ego and the Holy Spirit have my happiness in mind, a wish for their fulfillment to manifest through my day. My role each morning is to remember which vision of happiness has truly brought me peace of mind, and then to allow that presence to make my decisions for the day - or as often as I'm able to at least. What's magical is how often now I'm able to surrender to this presence, not solely, nor every time, but those few moments that I am able to relinquish my default decision maker for it's true and holier version...  make all the difference in the world.

quite literally so.

~

I love you, Eric

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Upset

Upset: 

lesson 4 of A Course in Miracles is the first true challenge to the ego, it reminds us that we're never truly upset for the reason we thing we are, and that though the lens of our peace of mind every outrage is equal in its disturbance. What we're asked to see is that being upset is the ego's reaction to every situation that even slightly makes us mad. We're moved away from a peaceful response within an instant, our equanimity thrown, and then the energy of these encounters lingers in the mind for hours or days.

sometimes for years.

what the Course is insisting is that there's no hierarchy of disturbance within the context of our peace of mind, as the smallest upset is as equally able to sway us towards resent as the largest, and that a true creative solution to any situation is found through equanimity. It's a very yogic response that's offered here, worthy of Patanjali himself who stated in his sutras that yoga is the cessation of the fluctuation of the mind. Lesson 4 of the Course is simply asking us to be aware of the motion caused by every upset. 

large or small. 

the Course and yoga are aligned in this regard, that we're not manipulating the mind to gain any special state of equanimity, but that we're just bring an easy awareness to the motion of the mind, witnessing how it's disturbed by the thoughts that judge this present moment.

and through awareness along our mind begins to change.

settles.

and we more easily respond.

it's just a kinder way for us to move through the world.

~

Peace, Eric 

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