Don’t sabotage yourself with negativity
By Sally McKirgan
What are you thinking, what is your general outlook on life, work, friends, relatives, etc.? All negative thoughts of condemnation, separation and judgment lock your mind in a prison, and the heavy prison door clanks shut behind you.
You have a beautiful mind. Use it to your advantage. Whenever you have a negative thought, replace it. For example, “Aunt Iris is a whiny old woman.” Change it to “Aunt Iris has problems and needs help.” Would that be so hard? Better yet: “Aunt Iris has the Love of God within her.” That would be a true thought. That statement would also mean: “I have the Love of God within me.” That is a true statement.
Whatever you say or think about someone else, it is within you … or you wouldn’t see it! It is important to watch what you are thinking and be the curator of your thoughts. Is it kind? Is it judgmental? Is it reflecting jealousy? Is it comparing or condemning yourself? Watch and see. Do you want to keep the thought? Can you say: I am open to changing this thought? Or, I do not want to keep this thought? If not, say, “I cancel that thought now.” Accept that you are seeing your own “stuff” projected onto someone else! To forgive, see your projection as aspects of yourself; accept and wait; let it go; drop it. Gradually you are free.
There is so much division in our society and in our personal relationships, and isn’t it really silly? We are all the same beautiful souls connected to the goodness we came with, finding our way through life, learning lessons and forgiving ourselves and others, especially when we realize we need and want peace. Don’t sabotage yourself with a negative thought. Negativity will affect you and arrange your future in the negative! Watch and notice, and immediately reverse any and all with a re-statement of release. Also, if your thoughts have been judgmental about someone, reverse them as well. They probably do not know what you have been thinking. But if you keep them or reverse them, you know! Your Spirit knows and the Higher Self within that is your identity knows.
Here is one statement you might use or make one up for yourself: “Dear friend, please forgive my past judgments. I apologize for them, I was wrong. I love you. Thank you for sharing this life.”
Ahhhhh, now you are free. The prison door is wide open, walk in the sunshine and feel the love within give you the gratitude you always have and deserve. Remember, choose peace!
From: “A Course in Miracles, Lesson 14:” “I have no neutral thoughts. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of ‘idle thoughts.’ What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth (love) or it multiplies illusions (fear).” (“A Course in Miracles,” W-16.2:1-3)
From: “The ‘I Am’ Discourses” (page 3): “The student, endeavoring to understand, must stand guard more strictly over their thoughts, for every time you say ‘I am not; I cannot; I have not,’ you are throttling the Great Presence within you. When you make a declaration using the words ‘I am not’ you set in motion mighty limitless energy that continues to act, unless it is recalled and the imperfection reversed.” (the Ascended Master St. Germain)
Sally McKirgan now lives in Olympia, Washington. Her book, “The Gift of the Great Rays, Inner Peace Essays, A Course In Miracles and its Promise of Freedom,” has been published and is now available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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