Fear

Anger, Full Length Talks, Stress and Worry 30+ mins, Abuse, Blame, Communication, Comparison, Conflict, Dark and Intense Emotions, Denial and Repression, Ego, Embarrassment, Expressing, Fear, Guilt, Hate, Rejection, Shame

Expressing Private Thoughts

We are fearful, even of our thoughts, and we push our fearful judgmental thoughts out of our conscious awareness. But our thoughts don’t have power over us. In the safe environment of an “expression session” we let any feeling, anything that is hidden, come to light. With this practice we learn to allow all of our thoughts into awareness. None of our thoughts are actually true, and we can learn to overlook anything.

This recording took place at A Gift of Happiness Week-Long Retreat (David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu – Morning Session), Wilbetree House, Mudgee, Australia (November 5, 2016)

Full Length Talks, Guidance, Trust 60+ mins, Anger, Communication, Contentment and Happiness, Family, Fear, Guidance, Holy Spirit, Making Decisions, Mind, Parenting, Projection, Purpose, Relationships, True Joy

The Gift of Happiness

The way to receive the gift of happiness is to make a habit of living a Spirit-guided life. To do this we must recognize that the mind, not the body, is the decision maker. Our current perception shows us a fragmented world of fear and rage. So when confronted with a decision it is helpful for us to step back and ask “What is it for?” Then we can choose the Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness or undoing. We can choose to serve something bigger than our self. David and Frances continue on to tell enlightening parables about: opening to love, our one responsibility, Siddhartha and the movie, “Sully.”

Health and Sickness, Suicide, Trust < 5 mins, Cancer, Concern and Worry, Consciousness, Death, Dreaming, Fear, Fear of Loss, Grief and Sadness, Illusion vs Reality, Perception, Self-Concepts, Time and Space

Heal the Sick and Raise the Dead

Part of the spiritual journey is to heal the beliefs in sickness, pain and death. These beliefs can feel very ingrained to a mind that’s identified with the body. It can seem frightening to take a closer look at these thoughts when we’d rather avoid them. When faced with thoughts of death it can seem intensely fearful, our instant reaction can be to distract away from the fear, but these can be used as mind expanding experiences. In handing all of our thoughts over around sickness and death we can let the Holy Spirit interpret and heal our perception around these beliefs to free our mind from suffering.

Family Conflict, Trust < 5 mins, Ego, Family, Fear, Guidance, Jesus, Love, Spirit, Trust, Truth

Family Life and the Spiritual Journey

Nothing can go wrong when we follow the Spirit’s guidance. When we begin the spiritual journey, we may seem to get negative reflections from our family at first; but they are really just calls for love. Keep extending love in these moments and just trust in the great plan for awakening and in the Holy Spirit. Everything always works out in the end. And remember that all things work together for good, you can’t mess this up!

Anger < 5 mins, Anger, Authenticity, Conflict, Dark and Intense Emotions, Fear, Guilt, Jesus, Judgment, Victimhood

Anger – What to Do When You’re Angry

Be authentic with your feelings, and when anger arises, welcome it. Jesus never says you should not be angry, only that it is never justified! In other words, do not try to justify your anger using external causes (i.e. being mistreated, seeing others mistreated, etc.) Attempting to justify why you feel angry will only put you into an unhappy loop. Instead, practice pausing and reminding yourself that, as Lesson 5 says, “I am never upset for the reason I think”. Ask for Help of Him Who knows you truly, and give your anger to Him. Share your mind with Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit, and let your mind be healed for you.

Abuse < 5 mins, Abuse, Accepting Correction, Attack Thoughts, Conflict, Death Wish, Desire to Change the World, Ego, Fear, Grievances, Judgments, Movie-Watching, Non-Judgment, Perceptual Problem, Victimhood, Worldly Issues

Violence in the World

Violence is in the mind, not in the world. The ego belief system opposes oneness, opposes love, opposes God. The ego belief system is what is violent and abusive. Judgment is violent. Egoic perception is violent. Jesus gave us the two most helpful words in all of history: “Judge not.” Therefore, when you have a major upset and are perceiving violence in the world, the most helpful thing you can do for yourself is ask for help in perceiving differently. Only true forgiveness can heal the perception of violence.

Inspiration 5–10 mins, Anxiety, Concern and Worry, Ego, Fear, Fear of Loss, Identity Confusion, Metaphysics, Movie-Watching, Obstacles, Undoing the Ego

From Desperation to Inspiration

To go from desperation to inspiration is allowing yourself to be done through by spirit. In his book “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This certainly applies to the human condition, which is a projection of the ego, or the belief in separation from God. Everyone who believes they are in this world has a deep, unconscious fear of God, which is experienced as a fear of future consequences. In David’s life, he began to recognize how much his life and his behaviors were motivated by this fear of consequences and how this was leading him nowhere.

Stress and Worry < 5 mins, Anxiety, Atonement, Concern and Worry, Contentment and Happiness, Ego, Fear, Fear of Loss, Insurance, Safety, Stress, Undoing the Ego

Our Divine Life Insurance Policy

Accepting the Atonement for ourselves is the ultimate insurance policy. The Atonement is the perfect solution to the belief in separation. It will always bring us to safety. It will always bless us and lead us towards God’s Will for us, which is perfect happiness. Whenever the ego appears to tempt or threaten us, we don’t need to try to change or fix anything in the world. All we can do is change our mind about the world.

Inspiration < 5 mins, Fear, From Darkness to Light, Knowing, Suffering, Time and Space, Undoing the Ego

The Inevitable End of Fear

You don’t even know what you truly fear because it is so pushed out of awareness that, if you were aware of it, you would not be able to hold on to a personal identity that is separate from this truth. Yet, whether you take this leap now or actively choose not to, makes no difference to the inevitable. It stays shining just like the sun, no matter where it is. The end of fear is always waiting for you. But you can choose to delay it if you want to stay in a fearful thought system. The change of mind that you are asked to make is from fear to love.

Stress and Worry < 5 mins, Dedication and Devotion, Ego, Fear, Fear of Loss, Identity Confusion, Personality-Self, Split Mind, Stress

Transcending a Personal Sense of Self

What am I identified with, right here, right now in this present moment? Could it be that there is an identification that has its own thoughts and its own feelings that isn’t me, yet I believe it is? Can I be that insane? No. It is only that I am believing in something that is that insane.

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