Today’s idea is the beginning of loosening the fixed belief that the cause of any upset,
any emotional upset and any degree of upset is being caused by something in the world
of time and space, images and appearances.
This has been the great addiction of the ego, the belief that there is an external world
that is causing fear, guilt, shame, pain, and hurt.
The sleeping mind has been tricked, duped into believing that the world is the cause
and that the state of mind is the effect.
Its an addiction that all human beings have encountered as their time and space experience.
You can hear it when little children are arguing.
“You hurt my feelings”; “you make me mad.”
The causation is seen to be in the actions, in the behaviors.
The upset is not seen to be in the mind emanating from consciousness.
So this idea, “I am never upset for the reason I think”, is absolutely essential
as a beginning step of giving up the belief in victimization.
It’s loosening the grip in the mind of being a victim of the world.
The belief in victimization and sacrifice runs very, very deep and must be dislodged
from the mind.
This is a lesson that I used for many years, a part of a combination of the lessons that
are to follow to turn my mind around from the upside down thinking of the ego to the
right-minded thinking of the Holy Spirit, of the living Christ.
It is a way of beginning to claim responsibility for the state of mind instead of projecting
out false causes.
This lesson will transfer and work well with any upset.
So today, practice this lesson in very specific forms, as was suggested by Jesus.
Be geared up to notice whenever you seem angry, afraid, irritated annoyed, worried or depressed
to quickly call upon the lesson for the day by saying “I am not angry at you for the
reason I think; I am not afraid of you for the reason I think; I’m not worried about
this for the reason I think; I’m not depressed about this for the reason I think; I’m not
irritated about this for the reason I think; I’m not annoyed about this for the reason
I think.”
Practice this with great specificity for every situation in which you notice upset arise
today.
Don’t overdo it, as Jesus tells us.
Three or four times today is enough.
So, if you have many upsets arising, just pause, and every so often, pick one today
and give it all of your heart.
This is a time of rejoicing that you are coming to now, the end of this seeming upset that
was never about anything in form.
We have the devotion to be free.
Each form that you practice with is a proper subject for using the idea for the day.
It’s really very profound.
There is an escape from all upset, and it is required in order to experience a lasting,
stable, consistent state of mind.
It’s absolutely essential.
This is the remedy for escaping from the ego and seemingly, millennia of darkness and fear.
Tell yourself “Ah, I will you lesson 5 today to free my mind and come to know the happiness
of the love that I am and have always been.”
I am a being created by God to be love and extend love.
But the only way to be aware of my true identity is to face this belief in false causation
of thinking that there is something in this world that can take away my peace of mind.
That is not the truth.
I am responsible for my state of mind.
And so today, we practice with today’s glorious lesson, “I am never upset for the reason
I think.”