We perform so hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining larger intelligence and more skills. We want to be liked more and become more popular. The whole self-help business is centered on improving the home to help you become a better you. That is another strategy we secretly play on ourselves, considering we've to keep spinning our wheels trying to become better. That self-improvement sport is another secret we could to master to let it go of. It's really soothing whenever you start to realize that you do not need to become any benefit than you currently are. You're created perfect. It is perhaps not through self-improvement that you discover peace but through self-acceptance.

As I worked with A Class in Miracles, I really could note that there is an anxiety about heavenly enjoy in my mind. I recognized this was the ego's anxiety about losing itself. The ego is scared of being exposed and a course in miracles seen as a smoke of nothingness. That's the fear of intimacy. We speak about this concern in associations, which may also be expected as fear of sexual closeness, but it is really a fear of losing our personality, our mask of individuality. It's driving a car to getting swept out by a wonderful love, a enjoy therefore strong that none of us can also envision anything as fantastic and strong!

For me personally, these will be the large techniques, because it doesn't start with this specific good awareness. It always begins with feeling like you've performed something very wrong, whether you have masturbated, taken anything, mistreated some one, or there is something in your thoughts that you have evaluated as so hideous that you never actually need to face it, you only want to overlook about any of it and force it out of awareness.

Underneath all those memories and thoughts, is the opinion that people are separated. This is actually the “secret” we hide. It really is an difficult belief, but we believe that it's true; We have judged it as horrifying and have sent it out of awareness. All unconscious shame comes from that opinion in separation. And as you truly provide yourself over to the wonder, you feel those hidden beliefs and strategies are being rinsed out and you ultimately face this hidden belief in separation!