Speaker 1: You found your way here to waking up with Ryan.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you pushed play. This is the
Speaker 1: place you and I come to wake up together. So
Speaker 1: let's take a deep breath and begin Good morning, my love.
Speaker 1: About seventeen or eighteen years ago, there was a book
Speaker 1: that landed on my lap that changed my life forever.
Speaker 1: It was the thing that cracked me open to this
Speaker 1: spiritual journey. And that text is called The Course in Miracles,
Speaker 1: and the Course.
Speaker 2: In the very beginning, there's an intro.
Speaker 1: And it says that this course doesn't aim to teach
Speaker 1: you the meaning of love, because that is beyond what
Speaker 1: can be taught. It does, however, seek to remove the
Speaker 1: blocks that you hold against the awareness of love's presence.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that the course is not here to teach
Speaker 1: you what love is. Love is beyond what can be taught,
Speaker 1: because it just is. It is the miraculous, unknowable, ununderstandable,
Speaker 1: unconceivable to the mind. The mind is always wanting to
Speaker 1: categorize things and put them in a box and understand
Speaker 1: things in ways that it can use words to describe.
Speaker 2: But love, another word for love.
Speaker 1: Is God, life, existence, the miraculous is beyond what can
Speaker 1: be put into a box and understood, So it can't
Speaker 1: be taught because it's ust is so the course says
Speaker 1: love it doesn't aim to teach you the meaning of
Speaker 1: love because essentially, instead what it does it seeks to
Speaker 1: help you become aware of where you and I.
Speaker 2: And people hold blocks.
Speaker 1: Against the awareness of love's presence. It helps us become
Speaker 1: aware of where we have internalized beliefs that are setting
Speaker 1: us up with these blocks, so that those are the
Speaker 1: places where we can't see that love is here, that
Speaker 1: miracles are here, that life is here for us. And
Speaker 1: so it sets you on a journey to become aware
Speaker 1: of those blocks, remove those blocks, and as you remove
Speaker 1: those blocks, you become increasingly aware of the miraculous and
Speaker 1: that has absolutely happen and in my life, not by
Speaker 1: trying to become a better person, not by trying to
Speaker 1: reach for love or reach for miracles, but rather by
Speaker 1: simply becoming aware of what are the things that are
Speaker 1: blocking Where am I holding beliefs that are coming from
Speaker 1: a pastive pain that I no longer want to bring
Speaker 1: with me into the future. And A Course in Miracles
Speaker 1: says it's as if We're standing in a super bright
Speaker 1: room with our hands in front of our eyes, complaining
Speaker 1: that it's dark. So what the Course is asking for
Speaker 1: us to do, and what any serious spiritual personal development,
Speaker 1: real psychology journey is trying to get us to do
Speaker 1: is to become aware of the hands in front of
Speaker 1: our eyes so that we can see. Ah, there's blocks
Speaker 1: that I'm holding against the awareness.
Speaker 2: Of Love's presence. Wow. Where I want to go today
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Is to prayer, because what I've also found in my
Speaker 1: experience is that this universe has given us a tremendous gift.
Speaker 2: The Course of Miracles calls it the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really comfortable with that term when I first
Speaker 1: saw it, just because of its connection to doctrine and religion.
Speaker 1: I've come to be more connected to it as I
Speaker 1: have my own relationship with it now. But you could
Speaker 1: call it whatever you want, but it talks about how
Speaker 1: this universe gifted us a bridge.
Speaker 2: God gifted us a bridge.
Speaker 1: That can completely understand our human thought system, which is
Speaker 1: rooted in really the thought forms of fear that come
Speaker 1: from being in a body needing to survive, believing that
Speaker 1: we are just this person that only lives for a
Speaker 1: certain number of years, and we need to kind of
Speaker 1: get a lot of stuff in in those years, and
Speaker 1: we have to compete with the other billions of people,
Speaker 1: right so that this holy spirit completely understands that whole
Speaker 1: fear based psychology that we have and absorb.
Speaker 2: Like a sponge as humans.
Speaker 1: But it also understands the thought system of love, the
Speaker 1: thought system of miracles, the thought system of divinity of God.
Speaker 1: Beyond our understanding, this beingness that it refers to as
Speaker 1: a Holy Spirit, but you can use whatever term you want.
Speaker 1: Is to be seen like a bridge, like a guide
Speaker 1: that can hold your hand and walk you through the
Speaker 1: dark clouds of dark and scary thoughts, duckness, resentments, judgments
Speaker 1: against yourself and others. It can walk you through that.
Speaker 1: It can take you by the hand and walk you
Speaker 1: on a journey out of the dark clouds and into
Speaker 1: the remembrance that the sun is always shining even when
Speaker 1: the dark clouds are really dark. Another way to say
Speaker 1: this is kind of it can walk us out of
Speaker 1: the compulsive nature or the addictive nature of our very
Speaker 1: human thoughts or thought system to a thought system of love,
Speaker 1: of forgiveness, of kindness, for ourself and others, a way
Speaker 1: to be in the world and see all that's happening
Speaker 1: in our life through a different lens. Another word way
Speaker 1: of saying this is this spirit can guide us to
Speaker 1: become aware of the blocks that we hold against the
Speaker 1: awareness of Love's presence and can help us to alleviate
Speaker 1: remove those blocks so that we can become more aware.
Speaker 2: The miracle that it is to be alive.
Speaker 1: Another way of saying that is so that we can
Speaker 1: remember who we are. Okay, So I'd like for us
Speaker 1: to go into a little practice where we call on
Speaker 1: that presence.
Speaker 2: I will probably use the word holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Please remember this is not a religious practice or a
Speaker 1: dogmatic practice unless you want it to be.
Speaker 2: But this is a personal practice.
Speaker 1: No one owns the word God, no religion owns the
Speaker 1: word spirit.
Speaker 2: It's for you, okay.
Speaker 1: So we need to take a moment to rest in
Speaker 1: like always and if you can close your eyes, if
Speaker 1: you're somewhere that you can, and just take a moment to.
Speaker 2: Become aware.
Speaker 1: Of the rubs in your life, things that feel like
Speaker 1: the dark clouds that feel stuck or not going the
Speaker 1: way you want them to.
Speaker 2: You know what those are.
Speaker 1: See yourself in those situations, anyone else involved in those situations,
Speaker 1: and remembering that there is this gift if we call
Speaker 1: on it, we must express our willingness for this Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: for this universe to show up for us, that this gift,
Speaker 1: this presence exists.
Speaker 2: And so right now.
Speaker 1: We call on that Holy Spirit, that wisdom, that spirit,
Speaker 1: that love, that bridge to take us by the hand,
Speaker 1: to help us see and move the blocks, the thoughts,
Speaker 1: the beliefs they keep us stuck. Dear Spirit, we welcome
Speaker 1: you into our mind to see this situation or these
Speaker 1: situations through our eyes and to heal our own thinking
Speaker 1: about them, To dive into our thoughts where we are
Speaker 1: holding on to any fear, any judgment, any resentment, and
Speaker 1: to heal our thinking from fear to love, from resentment
Speaker 1: to forgiveness, from lack to trust. Let's take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: and to this universe we offer our gratitude in the
Speaker 1: knowing that once we express our willingness to be joined,
Speaker 1: once we write that invitation for the universe to be
Speaker 1: this honored guest in our mind, in our heart and
Speaker 1: our body, and in our life, that spirit this universe
Speaker 1: always RSVPs yes, always shows up, is on it Let's
Speaker 1: take a breath, and to this genius, healing, loving spirit,
Speaker 1: we say, together, thank you, thank you for showing up,
Speaker 1: thank you for your power to heal my thoughts. Thank
Speaker 1: you for taking my hand now and guiding me on
Speaker 1: this journey. That all the blocks that I hold against
Speaker 1: the awareness of love presence may fall now, and that
Speaker 1: I may remember who I am completely. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Together we say, and
Speaker 1: so it is. Let's take a deep breath and letting
Speaker 1: it go when you're ready, blinking your eyes open, loving
Speaker 1: you from right here.
Speaker 2: Have a beautiful day. Hi.
Speaker 1: I hope you're feeling even just a little bit more
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