I’m turning to A Course in Miracles (ACIM) a lot more these days. As many of you know, ACIM is a spiritual text that calls itself “a course in mind training,” and declares its sole purpose is “to restore awareness of the power of the mind.
I may not be able to control the crazy unfolding of current events. But I can use the power of my mind to control how I react to them.
The only way to make prudent decisions during volatile events, my favorite WSJ columnist, Jason Zweig, recently advised, “Is by creating a circle of calm around yourself,”
To train your mind to “create a circle of calm,” you need to understand what the Course calls “the most important concept that exists in the universe:” The Law of Cause and Effect..
To the world, a cause is an external incident which produces an internal effect.
The market plunges (cause) and you panic (effect). But this view is very disempowering. Blaming something or someone else for ‘making’ you unhappy or fearful turns you into a victim.
According to the Course, nothing ‘out there’ has anything to do with you feeling happy or upset. Your thoughts are always the cause. If you want to change the effect (your experience)—greater abundance, more happiness, increased peace of mind—you must first change the cause (your thoughts).
Mind training is about far more than positive thinking. It requires you to shift the source of your feelings from the world out there to where it belongs—your own mind.
Or as the Course puts it: “Seek not to change the world but choose to change your mind about the world.”
What thoughts do you need to change for greater peace of mind? Leave me a comment below.
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