A Course in Miracles

I've been listening to Oprah's Super Soul Sunday and several of the guests have discussed a book called, A Course in Miracles.  Soooo....I bought it on Amazon for 10 bucks for the Kindle Version.

It's full of empowering and inspiring dialogue.  I've started the first chapter, where it discusses the "projector theory."  It speaks of our thoughts being the film for a movie, our mind being the projector, and the external world as being the screen.

It has sparked a lot of thought for me already!  It's another way of explaining that the outside world has no value, except for the value that we assign to it.  While driving to work a car cuts you off, an external event.  The bridge between the external world and the internal world are your senses, your emotional responses, and your physical responses.  You SEE this occur with your vision.  You FEEL this with your heart beating faster and a large gasp of air.  You feel fear, anger, shock.

Then, the programming of your brain interprets the sight, emotion, and physical response that you are internally experiencing and creates the "film."  You think, "That guy is such an asshole.  You can't just cut people off!"  Or, you may think, "That was close, thankfully I saw him and braked.  That person must be in a hurry to get somewhere.  I hope they make it on time safely."

I can see how genuinely responding in these two very different ways can change your emotional and spiritual position for that moment, a few minutes, an hour, or the rest of the day.

Maybe, you complain about it at work when you get there to a co-worker.  Continuing the emotional experience of anger and fear.  Or, maybe you think the latter thought.  Then, you have wished the person well and moved on, grateful that you did not get in an accident this morning.

I hope this course teaches me to respond in the healthier, more positive way of thinking.  My thoughts are automatic sometimes, and going to therapy for nearly a decade has allowed me to understand where my thought patterns were wired in childhood.

My purpose as an adult, is learning to change the wiring of my brain.  I want to be able to either genuinely react more positively and gratefully.  Or, I want to be able to accept my "negative" reactions and be able to calm myself down and come back to a place of positivity.