RecentlyI’ve been inspired about a project I’m feeling guided to do. In variousways I have been receiving the message to take my focus off the world,and instead to recognize that I need do nothing. And so I wondered,“Just how is this project going to get done, if I’m to do nothing!?”
I was prompted to a section in A Course in Miracleson: I need do nothing. The section begins with a discussion on howfocused we are on the body and body preoccupations. When we think ofdoing something, we think of doing something as a body. We are urgedhere to recognize that “I need do nothing” is a state of mind.
The voices in the world tell us that we are to be bigger, Better, BEST! Spirit Within whispers: be still. As I rest in that quiet place within, there, I do nothing.
“Thisquiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving yourest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent.”
Whenwe rest in truth, then we are guided as to how we are to be “busydoing” in the world. We readily experience the difference between thisguidance versus when we are so busy doing things in the world that wedon’t have time to rest in the silence.
“I need do nothing” is a practice, one that is far more productive than focusing on what I think I should be doing in the world.
Recently,a friend had emailed to me a quote by Joel Goldsmith that I had printedout and taped on my computer. The next day, I was thinking about thisproject I’m inspired by, and I became confused about how to go about it.I wrote in my journal, “I am confused.” Then I felt to tape that quotein my journal under that sentence:
“Manyfail to realize their desire because their thought is held to getting,achieving, accomplishing, rather than the unfoldment of good fromwithin. When we bring to the search a heart full of Love for God, fortruth, for Reality, all things are added to us.”
Ah…asI read the quote again, all was clarified. I am confused when I focuson anything other than my truest desire, which is to know myself as Lovecreated me, to be healed and to know myself as free. I was able to seein that moment that I was confused because my mind was split between thedesire to know myself, and the desire to achieve and accomplish in theworld.
Weare hypnotized and mesmerized by the world of form, and healing isabout returning to the truth that we are in this world but not of thisworld. We are spiritual beings first.
Haven’twe all experienced getting something in the world that we desired, onlyto find that it didn't carry with it the fulfillment we were seeking?And so the question becomes:
What do you really want?
When our truest desire, that of healing, finds first place in our thoughts, then everythingthat flows from that desire will lead us to knowing how we can bestserve in the world. No matter what sort of work we are called to do, itwill take on a whole new meaning, even if it’s the same thing we've beendoing for years.
Ihave experienced so much peace, healing and miracles throughout twentyplus years of inner work, but this past year as I taught a class onfreedom, I have been guided week by week to go deeper into myself.Throughout the year it didn’t feel like much was happening, inside oroutside. And then suddenly, I feel changed. With an increased innerfocus on healing, I am now seeing changes take place in my life withseemingly no effort on my part. Especially in a couple areas of chronicfrustration, I have been experiencing new levels of freedom.
NowI know this sounds mundane, but a few weeks ago, spontaneously, I beganto get up at 5 AM and go to the gym. While for most of my life I havebeen avidly into exercise, I have fallen off that this past year afteran ankle injury – But I have never in my entire life gotten up thatearly to go to the gym. In fact, the only place I’ve ever gone to thatearly is the airport!
What’sfunny is that I’ve been struggling with lack and body issues for years,trying to fix them myself. Or more accurately, I see why healing is aprocess as I had one foot in trying to fix everything myself, and onefoot in letting go and letting God.
As I consistently rest in my true desire to do nothing but focus on my healing, change is occurring.
WhatI also see now more than ever is that, the areas in my life that haveleft me feeling frustrated are also the ones that have kept me on thepath to healing. Just imagine what life would be like if you began tosee any area of frustration and struggle as what it really is – a giftto yourself to bring you home to Love. What a liberating thought, eh?
Today I will remember that I need do nothing
but rest, and let all good
extend through me.
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