Peaceful Heart Center

03/23/2025

THE POWER OF YOUR MIND CREATES WHAT HAPPENS ❤

Your mind is very powerful and it chooses what to create. Your thoughts enact real influence. You can change the contents of the world using your mind.

There is a huge amount of scientific evidence for this, from scientists and medical science experiments to psychology experiments. All showing that mind has great influence over matter.

There is the placebo effect which has been shown in some cases to cause people to have the same effect of medications just by believing in it. That a person could have the same pain relief of morphine just by believing they had been given it when they hadn't.

People's cancerous tumors have appeared and disappeared on the basis of whether they believed they were getting a treatment. Some have experienced telekinetic activity where objects in the room move around in different ways depending on their mood. While others have materialized objects out of thin air.

Jesus indeed demonstrated the power of the mind over matter in many ways, including defying gravity, transforming objects into other objects, healing sickness, generating body parts, multiplying food, calming storms and so on.

The problem we have is that we generally DO NOT believe that our minds have ANY power. We believe our thoughts have NO influence over the world or the body or each other. We seem rarely to notice or recognize any changes in our lives that we attribute to some thought or feeling we had. We just don't seem to see the connection between what we think and what happens.

But this is something ACIM is training us to be able to do. It requires a recognition of the mind's power, and it also therefore requires taking RESPONSIBILITY for having that power. The simple fact that what's going to show up and happen is based on what's going on in your mind, and that therefore, you are making stuff up as you go along.

It's YOU that is making sickness show up. It is YOU that is making healing show up. It is YOU that is influencing the weather and adjusting the environment. It's YOU that is orchestrating events and making stuff happen. If you could recognize this you would realize you have to be careful about WHAT you think and where your mind is at, because it produces EFFECTS.

This is the recognition that you are a CAUSE, and not an effect. That you are a CREATOR and not merely a perceiver or victim. That stuff is coming out of you with causal power and influence. And therefore it's your responsibility to carefully and mindfully and constructively use that power for good.

When you realize that "you are doing this to yourself", per the secret of salvation, you also should realize that this means you are CAUSING all of your own suffering and by the POWER OF DECISION you can choose something else.

"Very few people appreciate the real power of the mind. Nobody remains fully aware of it all the time. This is inevitable in this world, because the human being has many things he must do, and cannot engage in constant thought-watching. However, if he hopes to spare himself from fear, there are some things he must realize, and realize them fully, at least some of the time. ... The mind is a very powerful creator, and it never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating, and ALWAYS as you will." UrT2E8

"People prefer to believe that their thoughts cannot exert real control because they are literally AFRAID of them." UrT2E12

"Learning must lead BEYOND the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind IN it." UrT8G14

"I demonstrated both the powerlessness of the body AND the power of the mind, by uniting MY will with that of my Creator, which naturally remembered the Soul and its own real purpose." UrT3F21

"While expressions like "think big" give some recognition to the power of thought, they still come nowhere near the truth. You do not expect to grow when you say it, because you don't really believe it. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power-surge that can literally move mountains." UrT2E10

"Why is it strange to you that faith can move mountains? This is indeed a little feat for such a power. For faith can keep the Son of God in chains, as long as he believes he IS in chains. And, when he is RELEASED from them, it will be simply because he no longer BELIEVES in them, WITHDRAWING faith that they can hold him, and placing it in his freedom INSTEAD." UrT21D3

"All miracle-workers HAVE to be trained that way. I have to be able to count on them. This means that I cannot allow them to leave their mind unguarded, or they will not be able to help me. Miracle-working entails a full realization of the power of thought, and real avoidance of miscreation." UrT2E18

"There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly." UrW132L4

"You cannot resolve your authority problem by depreciating the power of your minds. It CAN hurt you if you misuse it, because you KNOW its strength." UrT3I3

"The Son of God CAN be mistaken; he CAN deceive himself; he can even turn the power of his mind AGAINST himself." UrT19C3

"I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts." W19

"Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. Through your holiness the power of God is made available. And there is nothing the power of God cannot do." W38

02/14/2025

This is worth sitting with for a bit!

01/18/2025

This…

12/20/2024

”One of the most important steps in the process of coming to the end of suffering is seeing that there is something deep inside of us that actually wants to suffer, that actually indulges in suffering. As I’ve mentioned, there is a piece of us that wants to suffer because it is through suffering that we maintain this wall of separation around us. It is through our suffering that we can continue to hold onto everything we think is true.”
~ Adyashanti

”When these Velcro thoughts and emotions arise, the key is to face and investigate whatever belief structures underlie them. In that moment, inquiry is your spiritual practice".
~ Adyashanti

”Coming to the end of suffering is really about beginning to see all of the ways that our mind maintains suffering through habitual patterns of thinking.”
~ Adyashanti

”Even in this moment, there may be some suffering, there may be some unhappiness, but even if there is, is it possible to no longer push against it, to try to get rid of it, to try to get somewhere else?"
~ Adyashanti

”All that’s required is that you begin to notice that place within you that’s not struggling.”
~ Adyashanti

"When you welcome all of experience into your awareness, a certain type of stillness starts to emerge organically.”
~ Adyashanti

11/17/2024

07/20/2024

"Life is so beautiful, especially when I'm absent from it. Don't get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character, and I was lucky to get the part, but I don't think of that as me anymore. I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world and now I feel like the world and universe experiencing a guy. So there's kind of been a shift."
“That peace that we’re after lies beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
“You will only ever have two choices – love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”

Jim Carrey

06/12/2024

✨SURRENDER EVERYTHING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT✨

“I am struggling with the concept of surrendering - my pain, my worries, my fear, my sadness, my shame.”

Thank you for your post! It has sent me on a quest which is proving to be extremely valuable for me!! 😂

Johanna Van Zwet taught me a method which has been increasingly useful as I apply it. She and I communicated about it in relation to this post.

Johanna wanted to make sure I acknowledge the Course sources for the technique I learned from her.

1. The technique:

The acronym is LASDAT

L - look at what is upsetting you

A - Acknowledge it and what you are feeling about it

S & D - Stop and Drop your thoughts and feelings about it if only for one or two seconds

A - Ask the Holy Spirit for help

T - Trust that the help has already been given

The Course Sources:

RULES FOR DECISION

(The shorter version is the prayer in the final paragraph. In chapter 5. I included it after this complete section.)

Decisions are continuous. ²You do not always know when you are making them. ³But with a little practice with the ones you recognize, a set begins to form which sees you through the rest. ⁴It is not wise to let yourself become preoccupied with every step you take. ⁵The proper set, adopted consciously each time you wake, will put you well ahead. ⁶And if you find resistance strong and dedication weak, you are not ready. ⁷Do not fight yourself. ⁸But think about the kind of day you want, and tell yourself there is a way in which this very day can happen just like that. ⁹Then try again to have the day you want.

(1) The outlook starts with this:

²Today I will make no decisions by myself.

³This means that you are choosing not to be the judge of what to do. ⁴But it must also mean you will not judge the situations where you will be called upon to make response. ⁵For if you judge them, you have set the rules for how you should react to them. ⁶And then another answer cannot but produce confusion and uncertainty and fear.

This is your major problem now. ²You still make up your mind, and then decide to ask what you should do. ³And what you hear may not resolve the problem as you saw it first. ⁴This leads to fear, because it contradicts what you perceive and so you feel attacked. ⁵And therefore angry. ⁶There are rules by which this will not happen. ⁷But it does occur at first, while you are learning how to hear. (2)

Throughout the day, at any time you think of it and have a quiet moment for reflection, tell yourself again the kind of day you want; the feelings you would have, the things you want to happen to you, and the things you would experience, and say:

²If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.

³These two procedures, practiced well, will serve to let you be directed without fear, for opposition will not first arise and then become a problem in itself.

But there will still be times when you have judged already. ²Now the answer will provoke attack, unless you quickly straighten out your mind to want an answer that will work. ³Be certain this has happened if you feel yourself unwilling to sit by and ask to have the answer given you.⁴This means you have decided by yourself, and can not see the question. ⁵Now you need a quick restorative before you ask again.

(3) Remember once again the day you want, and recognize that something has occurred that is not part of it.²Then realize that you have asked a question by yourself, and must have set an answer in your terms. ³Then say:

⁴I have no question. ⁵I forgot what to decide.

⁶This cancels out the terms that you have set, and lets the answer show you what the question must have really been.

Try to observe this rule without delay, despite your opposition. ²For you have already gotten angry. ³And your fear of being answered in a different way from what your version of the question asks will gain momentum, until you believe the day you want is one in which you get your answer to your question. ⁴And you will not get it, for it would destroy the day by robbing you of what you really want. ⁵This can be very hard to realize, when once you have decided by yourself the rules that promise you a happy day. ⁶Yet this decision still can be undone, by simple methods that you can accept.

(4) If you are so unwilling to receive you cannot even let your question go, you can begin to change your mind with this:

²At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.

³This much is obvious, and paves the way for the next easy step.

(5) Having decided that you do not like the way you feel, what could be easier than to continue with:

²And so I hope I have been wrong.

³This works against the sense of opposition, and reminds you that help is not being thrust upon you but is something that you want and that you need, because you do not like the way you feel. ⁴This tiny opening will be enough to let you go ahead with just a few more steps you need to let yourself be helped.

Now you have reached the turning point, because it has occurred to you that you will gain if what you have decided is not so. ²Until this point is reached, you will believe your happiness depends on being right. ³But this much reason have you now attained; you would be better off if you were wrong.

(6) This tiny grain of wisdom will suffice to take you further. ²You are not coerced, but merely hope to get a thing you want. ³And you can say in perfect honesty:

⁴I want another way to look at this.

⁵Now you have changed your mind about the day, and have remembered what you really want. ⁶Its purpose has no longer been obscured by the insane belief you want it for the goal of being right when you are wrong. ⁷Thus is the readiness for asking brought to your awareness, for you cannot be in conflict when you ask for what you want, and see that it is this for which you ask.

(7) This final step is but acknowledgment of lack of opposition to be helped. ²It is a statement of an open mind, not certain yet, but willing to be shown:

³Perhaps there is another way to look at this.⁴What can I lose by asking?

⁵Thus you now can ask a question that makes sense, and so the answer will make sense as well. ⁶Nor will you fight against it, for you see that it is you who will be helped by it.

It must be clear that it is easier to have a happy day if you prevent unhappiness from entering at all. ²But this takes practice in the rules that will protect you from the ravages of fear. ³When this has been achieved, the sorry dream of judgment has forever been undone. ⁴But meanwhile, you have need for practicing the rules for its undoing. ⁵Let us, then, consider once again the very first of the decisions which are offered here.

We said you can begin a happy day with the determination not to make decisions by yourself. ²This seems to be a real decision in itself. ³And yet, you cannot make decisions by yourself. ⁴The only question really is with what you choose to make them. ⁵That is really all. ⁶The first rule, then, is not coercion, but a simple statement of a simple fact. ⁷You will not make decisions by yourself whatever you decide. ⁸For they are made with idols or with God. ⁹And you ask help of anti-Christ or Christ, and which you choose will join with you and tell you what to do.

Your day is not at random. ²It is set by what you choose to live it with, and how the friend whose counsel you have sought perceives your happiness. ³You always ask advice before you can decide on anything. ⁴Let this be understood, and you can see there cannot be coercion here, nor grounds for opposition that you may be free. ⁵There is no freedom from what must occur. ⁶And if you think there is, you must be wrong.

The second rule as well is but a fact. ²For you and your adviser must agree on what you want before it can occur. ³It is but this agreement that permits all things to happen. ⁴Nothing can be caused without some form of union, be it with a dream of judgment or the Voice for God. ⁵Decisions cause results because they are not made in isolation. ⁶They are made by you and your adviser, for yourself and for the world as well.⁷The day you want you offer to the world, for it will be what you have asked for, and will reinforce the rule of your adviser in the world. ⁸Whose kingdom is the world for you today? ⁹What kind of day will you decide to have? It needs but two who would have happiness this day to promise it to all the world. ²It needs but two to understand that they cannot decide alone, to guarantee the joy they asked for will be wholly shared. ³For they have understood the basic law that makes decision powerful, and gives it all effects that it will ever have.

⁴It needs but two. ⁵These two are joined before there can be a decision. ⁶Let this be the one reminder that you keep in mind, and you will have the day you want, and give it to the world by having it yourself. ⁷Your judgment has been lifted from the world by your decision for a happy day.⁸And as you have received, so must you give. (ACIM, T-30.I.1:1-9;2:1-6;3:1-7;4:1-3;5:1-5;6:1-6;7:1-6;8:1-3;9:1-4;10:1-3;11:1-7;12:1-6;13:1-5;14:1-9;15:1-6;16:1-9;17:1-8)

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The shorter version is the prayer in the final paragraph in Ch.5:

"⁷I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.

⁸I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.

⁹I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.

¹⁰I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.

¹¹I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me." (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/95 #6:7-11 | T-5.VII.6:7-11)

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✨ A Course in Miracles, read the complete Chapter 5.VII “The Decision for God”: Do you really believe you can make a voice that can drown out God’s? Do you really believe you can devise…

02/25/2024

A message from Lu-ji this morning.
PS- I used a different poster than your original post so you’ll have to forgive me Lu.

WTF Just Happened?

The Dreaming mind was an ethereal lens through which the Dreamer perceived the gazillions of ideas as to Whom He Truly is. He then projected His ideas onto a Holographic Screen which took on the appearance of what we called the Universe.

Please Note: Yes, there's a reason why I am speaking in illusionary past tense - just keep reading!

Each idea in His Dreaming Mind appeared as an In-Formed-Thought (Spirit) which seemed to appear in a Timeless Place (Spirit World). 8-billion insanely silly Thought-Form-Ideas then projected as Thoughts-in-Form (body-mind apparitions) on the little blue Classroom-Planet called Earth (An earlier Thought-Form appearing as a physical “Place” in illusionary space-time).

They incarnated (projected) into physicality (duality) in order to realise what they are, through the experiences of what they are not. The whole process seemed to take billions of years, but since time is an illusion, it happened in One Holy Instant.

As each individual body-mind projection realised its Primordial Essence, it contributed towards the total Self-Remembrance of the Dreamer (Son of God). Thus did all the Thought-Forms seem to gradually increase their collective Remembrance (Atonement), since what was realised by one, was gradually realised by all Thought-Forms (the Larva-Lamp effect). And thus did the Dreamer Awaken to His Essential Nature (Christ Self) knowingly, and henceforth continue extending the Love of God He is.

You are remembering that this is True. Forgiveness seems to increase your realisation of this. Gratitude seems to accelerates the whole process. Abiding in Silent Stillness collapses the illusion of space-time. And Now that You Have no more need to be informed of anything, all that you need do is continuously and vigilantly do your forgiveness Homework!

Now seriously - WTF do you still want to know? What questions do you have that hold any relevance in this illusionary dream of absolutely fork-all? You’ve been given your Go-Directly-Home-Work. Keep practicing forgiveness. Remember that you're still appearing in form because we collectively as the Dreamer, still haven’t fully forgiven ourselves for dreaming a dream of forgetfulness and guilt. You're not just doing forgiveness work for your apparent forked-up fracture – you are doing forgiveness work for the entire collective dreaming Mind!

Remember - You are part of the entire collective, and all of it awakens, or none of it awakens. It’s that simple, so please do your part, or you will keep thinking you are apart from all of it because of your oh’ so special uniqueness - when there is really nothing unique about nothing!

So beloved, say after me;

I am sorry (for thinking I could forget my Christ-Self as an extension of God’s Immortal Love),

Please forgive me (let me forgive myself for thinking that I could forget I am the Love of God),

Thank you (my beloved siblings for rudely showing my stubborn identity, What I Truly Am, as I remembered what I am not)

I Love You (because Love is What we are, and we can never forget the Love we will always be),

We are Healed (because this never happened and we are forever the Immortal Presence of God’s Love, eternally limitless and forever innocent and unchanged).

This Class is Now over! Now return Home to Silence, so you can stop delaying the inevitable Atonement happening to the entire collective dreaming mind.

Blessings,

Lu-ji — with Luis Miguel Falcao.

05/19/2023

ACIM Study Guide - clarifies a lot about Love over Fear, useful to beginners of the Course in Miracles.