Releasing the Belief in Private Thoughts. By: David Hoffmeister

[Asad shaikh]

One of many biggest secrets we try to keep is just a sense of autonomy and pride. The concept or feeling that you will be important in some special way, that you will be loved by a special person, that somebody is providing you special attention, they're a number of the ego's very subtle secrets. We want to hide our Divine Self and are playing every one of these different games, which appear to be very upsetting. It's pretty depressing and it really doesn't go anywhere, so we try to get scraps of special love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.

We work so hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We desire to be liked more and become more popular. The whole self-help industry is focused on improving the self to help you turn into a better you. acim audio That's another trick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we've to keep spinning our wheels wanting to become better. This self-improvement game is another secret we could to learn to release of. It's very relaxing when you start to realize that you may not need to become much better than you already are. You were created perfect. It's not through self-improvement that you find peace but through self-acceptance.

As I caused A Course in Miracles, I possibly could see that there was a fear of divine love in my mind. I realized this was the ego's anxiety about losing itself. The ego is afraid to be exposed and being seen as a puff of nothingness. That's the fear of intimacy. We speak about this fear in relationships, which may also be projected as anxiety about sexual intimacy, but it's really a fear of dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It's the fear of having swept away by a glorious love, a love so powerful that none folks can even imagine something as glorious and powerful!

For me, those are the big secrets, since it doesn't begin with this particular great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you've done something very wrong, whether you've masturbated, stolen something, mistreated somebody, or there is something in your mind that you've judged as so hideous that you don't even want to face it, you just want to forget about any of it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath those memories and thoughts, is the belief that we are separated. This is the “secret” we hide. It is actually an impossible belief, but we believe that it is true; We have judged it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt arises from this belief in separation. And as you truly give yourself over to the miracle, you're feeling those hidden beliefs and secrets are being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!

A Course In Miracles is a book which brings you tools to reverse all fearful thoughts and beliefs. Using these tools afford them the ability to find the complete sense of freedom and peace you've been yearning for.